The purpose of Flock cameras is to destroy a legal concept known as "the reasonable expectation of privacy."
This "reasonable expectation" protects you in places such as a store dressing room, toilet stall, or standing alone in a field.
Flocks are being installed to negate this.
Soon a Judge can say "you had no reasonable expectation of privacy" because that concept does not exist any more, thanks to Flock.
Realizing crime is bad has been my biggest political growth the last 5 years
Even if we spent more on enforcing fair evading than we get on missing fairs, that would be fine. People seeing people regularly jump fares without consequences makes people angry and more conservative
Not only do we not live in cyberpunk, but cyberpunk will never happen for the exact reason it's such an alluring setting: The downtrodden underclass are never going to become super high agency computer wiz genius street samurai warriors, hacking into corpo supercomputers and committing acts of terrorism against THE MAN. They're actually just going to be fat degen gooners and addicts, outsourcing all cognitive function (and gambling action) to machines, eating kool-aid pineapple and sharing AI videos of African kids doing autobody work with brick and mortar. "Oh my God, can you believe this!?” And they'll drink fabric dye elixirs because their penis doesn't work, and shop at Walmart and traffic in novel hybrids of conspiracy theory on the techno-occult app.
The great conceit of cyberpunk is that it assumes most people are transhumanists at heart. That they're incredibly savvy and talented, and they'd all do so well if THE MAN just got out of their way and let them upgrade. As it turns out, people can't even handle the internet. They could barely handle the television. The camera has stricken them in hypnosis, reorienting their gaze to see things for it rather than themselves. Ubiquitous access to food has destroyed their bodies. All communication now routed through a sensory deprivation box, and suddenly they want to end their life. There will be no laser katanas.
The pioneering writers of the genre always assumed, like many people still do today, that technological pessimism relies on a corrupted design. There was nothing essential about it. The revealed dilemma is that man interacting with highly optimized systems doesn't need to be coerced into dysfunction much at all. We can do bad all by ourselves. You merely have to leave too much kibble in the bowl.
A little more than a decade after Texans approved Props 1 and 7 to put more resources into roads and highways, voters can see the difference.
A slight majority now say they’re satisfied with the state’s roads, highways, and bridges.
But Texas has not stopped growing. 68% of voters expect transportation and traffic to get worse over the next decade if investment does not keep pace.
Progress is real. So is the pressure ahead.
@ItsMattsLaw There are already a handful of simulator games like this and they are just biz dev simulators with a new coat of paint. The real game that’s needed is a trial simulator game that isn’t from the 80s and doesn’t just use AI that agrees with every decision you make.
I, like most Americans, think that the average family and young person deserves a better shot at a decent life. I also think that socialism doesn’t work in real life, that America is good and filled with good people, and that it’s okay to work with people who don’t agree with me.
Johnson: The DSA… this is their platform. They put this on paper!
Abolish the electoral college or replace the two-party system with a multi-party democracy, expand the House of Representatives, implement proportional representation and rank choice voting in all elections… End all military and economic aid to Israel, prosecute US and Israeli leaders responsible for the genocide in Gaza
Speaker Johnson on losing Midterms:
“They [Democrats] will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they'll go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors and friends…”
Communist Mayor Zohran Mamdani thanks 'Allah' for more socialists winning in New York.
“I have stood next to Darializa and said ‘Our Next Congresswoman’ and I’ve said these words in the way many of us will say Inshallah."
Tom Holland says that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has a "sizeable" cameo in 'SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY'.
In Theaters on July 31.
(Source: https://t.co/exKr9tuJ3B)