SteveV

Friendly neighborhood Sec. Engineer. Husband. Nerd. Maiden Fan.

[Maricopa County Libertarian Party @LPMaricopa]

Chandler PD Chief talks about the Flock contract cancellation.

No amount of "policy" change will make dragnet Mass Surveillance in ANY form compatible with the 4th Amendment.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I’ll soon be introducing a bill to withhold all federal funding for cameras used to track American citizens.

[Tolkien World @TolkienWorldG]

Just a reminder. Always support physical media.

[SteveV @StevenVoth]

@riotgames Don’t even think about it Riot….

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

So that's a yes, you are against funding to things like the Iron Dome?

Abdul El-Sayed: "I am against it, in large part because I just don't understand why anybody thinks it's the right thing to do to send our tax dollars abroad, to fund foreign militaries when our own kids barely get to go to schools that are functional."

[Old Salty Marine @BamaSaltyMarine]

The Constitution does NOT give you rights. You already have them.

The Constitution simply tells the government that it cannot take those s rights away.

I wish more people understood this.

[Erik Warsaw @WarsawErik]

I fact checked this and it's actually true

Our government is so crazy it's hard to believe sometimes.

[august @regularaugust]

Can you please stop treating the Polymarket account like it’s the actual news

[0️⃣BlackBetty ⚓️ @BabyD1111229]

Ok, here’s my corporate greed call-out of the day.

I was dispatched today for a no-cool call. The indoor unit was running, but the outdoor unit wasn’t.

The system was a 10-year-old Bryant Evolution high-end variable-capacity inverter system. After running the factory diagnostics, I found Code 77, indicating the inverter board was detecting excessive compressor startup current.

Following the manufacturer’s diagnostic procedure, I disconnected the compressor leads to determine whether the fault was in the compressor or the inverter board. The results confirmed the inverter board had failed. The system is only 8 months out of warranty.

At that point, I started preparing myself to tell the customer the repair would probably be around $1,500–$1,900. I figured the board would cost somewhere in the $800–$1,000 range. After all, it’s just a printed circuit board.

Before giving the estimate, I called Carrier Enterprise for pricing.

$8,900.

Not for the entire outdoor unit.

Not for a complete system.

Just the inverter board.

That’s not a typo. $8,900.

In my opinion, this is the definition of engineered obsolescence. There is no reasonable justification for a replacement circuit board on a 10-year-old residential HVAC system to cost nearly nine thousand dollars. At that price, you’re essentially forcing the homeowner to replace the entire system instead of repairing it.

This is exactly why I’ll never sell Carrier equipment. They make decent equipment, but pricing replacement parts like this turns a repairable system into a disposable one. Homeowners deserve better than that.

Carrier Carrier Enterprise or anyone that’s sells this shit, care to elaborate why this board is so expensive?

🎩 Patrick Henning

[Jenin Younes @JeninYounesEsq]

May your political career die and never be resurrected

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

seems crazy.

The movie Spider-Man: Brand New Day paid BMW to take over the display of every BMW made after 2020.

When you start a BMW, it shows you an ad for Spider Man. Really cheapens BMW imo.

[SteveV @StevenVoth]

@JustStopTheLy @SallyMayweather lmfao, sure bud

[Neet @neet_sol]

Employment is a humiliation ritual

[⚡️NEVERDOOMPRO⚡️ @NEVERDOOMPRO]

NEVER DOOM.

[Memory @MemoryOffline]

Game 2015 BTW

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

⚠️The most dangerous thing about Flock cameras isn't what they do.

It's what they quietly teach society to accept...

The gradual abandonment of one of the oldest traditions of a free society:

*The presumption of innocence.*

For centuries, free societies began with the premise that the individual is innocent until there is reason to believe otherwise.

Mass surveillance reverses that relationship.

*Guilty until proven innocent.*

Everyone is watched.
Everyone is cataloged.
Everyone is searchable.

Not because they've done something wrong, but because they *might* do something wrong someday.

This shift should concern us.

When the state records the movements of an entire population "just in case," the presumption of innocence is replaced by perpetual suspicion.

Rights become conditional.
Suspicion becomes the default.
Privacy becomes something you justify.

The script is always the same:

"For the greater good."
"If you have nothing to hide."
"It's worth it if it prevents crime."

The ends justify the means.
Collective safety over individual liberty.

Liberty no longer exists as a principle,
it survives only as a temporary permission.

Benjamin Franklin understood this in 1755:

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

Technology changes.
Human nature doesn't.

[SteveV @StevenVoth]

@dustoch @esaagar Why is he a piece of garbage for speaking the obvious truth? The owner of a $5 million dollar home is not middle class. It’s obvious.

[Saagar Enjeti @esaagar]

The current state of America: A boomer sitting in a home worth 5.2 Million that they bought for 100k rigging a system to pay the lowest effective property rate in the tri state area and then getting a reporter to defend him as “middle class”