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@Truthtoopower @codecrackx15 Your spot on. I think I misunderstood your original post. So many people out there actually think that these are a good thing and I made an incorrect assumption.

Thanks for the response I agree. There has been some change with Flock but I think the next company will step up or they will just rebrand and keep going. I dont think its getting better. The big issue is that since the 1980s people have lived under growing surveillance and anyone born after 2001 only knows the Patriot Act era and beyond. It keeps increasing so they become indifferent and dont even think about it. That is what happens when it becomes the normal everyday thing. Scary to think what privacy will look like in another 10 years.

18 miles to work: I pass 17 Flock cameras. 18 miles home: I pass 12 Flock cameras. Total: 29 cameras track me and betray my privacy every work day. 1 month ago, it was 12 Flock cameras total. 2 months ago, it was 3 Flock cameras total. In less than 3 months it has gone from 3 to 29!!!!! Flock Safety is creepy and overstepping the 4th amendment protections we have as US citizens. All of these cameras should be taken down.

I actually agree with you here I don't expect most people to start caring until it's to late. Smart phones didn't start out so malicious and slowly grew into what they are now. People got locked into an ecosystem that slowly changed. Flock seems to have read Orwell and decided it looked like a good idea instead of a warning. Fighting against Flock and its competitors is a war that should be fought. Battles have already been fought and won like LA and numerous other cities either cancelling or lettings their contracts expire. Across the country people are cutting them down. Even flock execs are now doing damage control on X dming larger accounts that are criticising them. You are likely correct that it will stop being a trending topic in the coming days/weeks but I think the people that do care will continue to care. In the mean time why not use the popularity of the topic to advance the fight against them.

I'm against government surveillance but I'm just being realistic, not defeatist. This isn't going to change anything. The average person isn't going to switch to GrapheneOS or whatever, so they're gonna keep getting tracked. My whole point to was that most people simply don't care about being surveilled, and I'm not saying that's right, I'm just saying that's the fact of the matter. Thanks to the third party doctrine, good luck getting courts to kill off Flock cameras. They'll just refine it with shorter data retention windows, stricter access rules, and warrant requirements while the surveillance keeps rolling. People will move on to the next shiny problem in a couple months anyway.

@Truthtoopower @codecrackx15 That wasn't the argument. But atleast we know that ignorance is the excuse for mass surveillance that your going with. How noble.

@red0xd @codecrackx15 Yes because the average person knows what graphene OS is. 60% of the phone market in the United States is owned by Apple...

@Truthtoopower @codecrackx15 A Faraday bag and Graphene OS solve the phone issues. OpenWRT or OPNSense and vlans can stop smart home devices and tvs from phoning home. I can opt out with those and can't with Flock. Just because your willing to accept the spyware doesn't mean everyone else has to.

You have a personal tracking device in your pocket that has the ability to actively listen and you view you in real time. Your TV remote have microphones in it that connect to the Internet through the TV. Through the use of WiFi routers you can map out the interior of the house and how many individuals are in it.

First of all no, we're not doing this. I do not answer DMs from a company that is trying to do damage control AFTER they have ruined the trust of Americans. I do not have "good faith" debates with people who want to enslave me in a fishbowl that they can monitor at all times. Guess what guys: We don't actually have to give anyone the benefit of the doubt, or engage in "good faith" debates with bad actors. I don't have to justify my concerns about Flock to anyone. But since this condescension pissed me off, I will respond publicly, since Flock seems to want to keep our voices in the shadows and out of the public eye. Note the argument: "You see, King George specifically authorized quartering troops among you, I don't know what you're complaining about it's ALL LEGAL". Well, golly gee guys, I guess it's all right then, they made it legal. That's exactly the problem. Notice how nobody has a problem with standard security cameras. Public security cameras are not the problem...directly pumping the feed of every square inch of the country into a centralized federal database is one HELL of a problem and we must do everything within our rights as Americans to push back against efforts like this, if we are to have a future as a nation. Flock, much like Palantir, took the decently good idea of improving security, and implemented it in the most cartoonishly evil way possible at nearly every single step. They are working directly for all levels of government....not the citizenry. They use subterfuge, legal technicalities, and every single trick in the book to put up hundreds of cameras every single day. They constantly mislead the public about what databases their sensors feed into, and who they sell the metadata to. They have so little oversight that it's laughable, and ALL oversight involves the classic case of "we investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing". Flock has been caught lying MANY times, and misleading the public regarding what their cameras actually do. Newsflash...they don't just read license plates. They are also concealing which agencies purchase their data specifically so as to avoid getting warrants, and in doing so they have turned the ENTIRE COUNTRY into an open air prison....where THEY get to provide the intelligence data to those who enforce the laws as selectively as they please. And their defense for doing so? "Aww look at the cute puppy we rescued" or "We arrested one guy using our camera network, we're so AWESOME". You don't get to arrest one genuine criminal, and use that as justification to set up and entire Minority Report-esque surveillance system to surveil the entire country. You don't get to betray trust, and then be sad that people don't trust you. You don't get to cozy up to the boot of tyranny so much that you become the boot yourself, and then pretend to be just "one of the guys". We will not fall for this gaslighting, no matter how hard they try. For some reason, many people think that private companies can't be tyrants, which could not be further from the truth. At a certain point, a private company can be so heavily embedded within government, that they might as well BE the government. Except they are worse, because we don't even have the tiniest way to hold them accountable except for taking the billion-dollar company to court. That's my problem with Flock, Palantir, and pretty much every single other defense contractor in existence. I will NOT accept every single facet of my life being monitored, just in case a criminal commits a crime somewhere near me. I will NOT live in "ze pod", no matter which politician is in power, and I will not accept a future where people like this will dictate to me what my country should be.

@WENDIGO_420x I do something similar but with email addresses. Websitename@domain.com. Can be done with anonaddy, simplelogin or a catchall. Likely other options that I'm unaware of.

If you sign up for anything online, put the website's name as your name. That way, you'll know who sold your info when you recieve spam.

THE VOTE IS TODAY! You go to buy a gun, and your bank quietly flags the transaction. Why? Your purchase gets coded as "firearm," creating a financial paper trail that anti-gun banks and payment processors can use to label you "suspicious," no crime required. Today, the House Rules Committee is voting on the Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act. This bill would prohibit the use of merchant category codes to single out firearm dealers from other retailers, protecting the privacy of gun owners nationwide. Call your representative at 202-225-3121 and urge them to VOTE YES!

@Hsolo275 I feel this. Replace full front and rear suspension with the exception of the steering knuckles in May. Now I have a new pile growing parts for various preventive maintenance tasks and a condenser/dryer to repair my AC.

Me looking at the pile of 4runner parts waiting for me at home to install

God I miss my dogs… And 4Runner

Help save our Brazilian friend from a corrupt government. As many of you know, the Parrot is the designer of the Urutau. A 3D printed, DIY firearm. Despite being in Brazil, he managed to take his design skills and go legit and get work in the Brazilian gun industry. Then, out of nowhere, he was arrested and now faces bogus charges. With international anti-gun figures bragging that they somehow helped facilitate this. Him and his family aren't rich, the legal costs are extreme, and they need help. Some people in the community have set up fundraising for this. Every penny goes to his Mother. His family is getting drained financially trying to keep up with making ends meet and supporting his defense. Link below to a GiveSendGo, and you can reach out to @lopointgoat for other means to send help. We gotta save our boy.

@mtntallpaul @travisakers Disobeying unjust laws and cutting down surveillance tools are acts of patriotism. Your travel habits and schedules deserve to be in a database just as much as your guns, which is to say none. The fact you argue for one and against the other proves your principles are shit.

Answer your own question. What Constitutional right is being violated? Is it "the right to not have your vehicle photographed on a public road"? If you wish to claim violation of the Fourth Amendment, please explain how a photograph of the rear of your vehicle qualifies as a search or seizure.

Flock cameras are going to become the next 80/20 issue of major debate. It is my personal opinion that they violate our constitutional rights and should be banned; however, I am not a constitutional law expert and am open to hearing your thoughts. What do you think? Should flock cameras be banned or do their purpose outweigh our individual and collective rights?

@btcave1 Im happy I haven't had to deal with yellow jackets. I had asain hornets decapitating my bees 2 years ago. Printed some of these up and it helped alot.

Last year yellow jackets tore my honeybee hives larvea a new one. This year I'm not playing around.

You either love this place or you don't.

You say you make the philosophical case. I read the essay. There is no philosophy in it. There is arithmetic, and there is need. The one premise doing all the work is never argued: that one man's need constitutes a claim on another man's property. It doesn't. Need is not a mortgage on the life of the man who fulfilled his. You say the tax "asks" billionaires for 5%. A tax does not ask. If it asked, it would be philanthropy. It compels — and your entire moral posture depends on the reader not noticing the difference. You call it a "social contract." A contract requires consent. A decree written by Congress and imposed on 938 people who never signed it is not a contract. It is force wearing a contract's clothes. And your proudest boast is your most damning admission: Newsom taxes transactions — you tax OWNERSHIP itself. Stock never sold. Value never realized. Not "we tax what you do," but "we tax what you are." You welcomed an argument on the merits. Here it is: a man's success is not a public asset, and no number of people needing his property converts it into theirs. That is the moral test of our time. You are failing it.

@HeavilyRecruitd @ArmedJ0y Turning ammo into brass is therapy!

@ArmedJ0y Do you know how much ammo you can buy for the cost of a therapist!?!?

All of yall desperately need to go to a therapist and learn how to moderate your emotions instead of wildly swinging from mania to depression over and over.

@drsuffy That thread gave me a headache. You know if these people would spend more time having fun with with friends (nog wars and the like) instead of useless multi hour online arguments they wouldn't need their SSRIs.

Anyways we visited my sister in EP. It's a 600 mile drive, about 9 hours following the speed limit with 0 stops. It was 8 hours there with multiple stops to take pics It was 7 hours to get back home with 3 longer stops. Idk if you can count but that's a lot more than 30 seconds saved by driving 100+mph

@RobProvince I torrented it and am seeding it without watching just to enable people to not pay for it.

Why in the absolute fuck would I spend perfectly good money to go to a movie that the lead actress has said things that make it out it’s not a movie I would enjoy? Why would I do that in a world where we have limitless entertainment options? It’s their job to sell me on the movie. Not my job to give them the benefit of the doubt. You have it completely backwards

@uncledoomer Lol but seriously the vq40 is a damn nice engine and will last forever if you treat her with respect.

just got my hands in one of those "frontier models" everybody is talking about but i dont see the hype

@GLAsk1d Correction. We don't know need anymore suburban soccer mom SUVs. We need a more 4.0 Cherokees, diesel K5s and non shitty Broncos properly reborn.

WE. DON'T. NEED. ANY. MORE. SUVS. REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 😡😡😡😭😭😭

@AmericanLictor Sad to hear this. Prayers going out for you and yours. 🙏

Quick update My Father in Law passed away last night (not unexpected hes been very ill for a long time) but taking some time to help the wife navigate everything. Most AL things still on track but a few things are going to slip a day so wanted to give everyone a heads up. Also I am currently out of Black Cards, a few of you hit the 5order mark here in between our restock so I tried to throw extra freebies in there to make up for it (please yell at me in next order and I’ll get you a replacement). Also coming soon we’ll be adding in a 10 order freebie since there’s so many of you now! Thank you, Roy