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The ability to research family history and disease risk shouldn’t carry the risk that our data will be accessible to police and used in ways we never could have foreseen. At a minimum, law enforcement should have to get a warrant to access this data. eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/dist

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i am all in favor of punching nazis, i just don't think that a boring conservative little jewish man like ben shapiro is a nazi. does this make me alt right?

I'm just finding out about the trending hash tag. I recall the headlines when the first lady hadn't made a public appearance for 20 days, she isn't a judge (or an appointed or elected person at all) whereas Ginsburg is.

The only major media reports I can find are about how terrible people are for mentioning that Ruth hasn't appeared for many days.

I'm not proposing this is a conspiracy, just evidence of the overall media bias: when the issue is a non leftist, the story is about how bad the non leftist is. When the issue is a leftist, the story is about how bad the non leftists are for reacting to it.

www-m.cnn.com/2018/05/29/polit

Virginia Del. Kathy Tran Submitted Bill To Save Caterpillars On Same Day As Infanticide-Legalizing Bill

(but Trump campaign hats is the problem in politics)

amp.dailycaller.com/2019/01/31

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After the polarizing presidential election, with members of both major parties wanting their parties to move away from the left, Democrats are intent on chasing people away by partying over legalizing infanticide, eroding states rights, and hiking taxes.

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Woohoo! I was sad because I didn't make the cut for my own instance's profile directory. You have to have 10 followers. I had 7.

I scoured the list of people @SecondJon follows, followed a bunch of them and got a few follows back. Now I'm on the directory!

Thanks to @SecondJon for the list of fascinating folks to follow. Thanks to those who followed back.

And pardon the laziness that has me doing anything to get followers except ... well ... you know ... actually posting something interesting. ;)

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Surveillance across the board 

I don't like the term "surveillance capitalism" that seems to be gaining usage. Google/Facebook and the rest of the privacy-smashing ad industry are only a part of the problem. State surveillance is a MUCH bigger problem.

You can protect yourself against tracking by the ad industry to a great degree by various blocking methods, and by and large they work.

You can not protect yourself against your own government putting up cameras everywhere, with an ever-increasing remit on what they can be used for.

Where I live every single politicial party(*) is pro ANPR cameras, with all the standard lies: they'll catch criminals on the run in their cars! Once they're deployed, it's just a minor decision to allow this or that organization access.

(*) Ok, except one party: the communists. They want the cameras, but employ half the population to watch displays 24/7 for suspicious behavior. Because of course.
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'Companion' comes from 'panis', the Latin word for bread. Originally, the word was used to describe someone with whom you shared a meal.

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WTF is wrong with Democrats

RT @KyleKashuv@twitter.com

The truth is out, and it is undeniable.

This is the Democratic Party’s position: you can kill your baby a minute before its born.

For a party that virtue-signals protecting the powerless, they have done the complete opposite to those most vulnerable.

Disgusting. twitter.com/vahousegop/status/

🐦🔗: twitter.com/KyleKashuv/status/

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Roger Stone raid shows that CNN is no longer covering Robert Mueller. They're working with him

foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-car

"Mueller is the single most powerful person in America, and yet nobody voted for him. He is a living rebuke to the principles of our democratic system. At the same time, our leaders tell us that we need Robert Mueller — an all-powerful, unelected prosecutor, accountable to no one — to protect us from threats to – brace yourselves here – democracy..."

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From now on, I’m calling the “have one fewer kid” carbon footprint advice “Thanos environmentalism”.

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I have to say, as much as I despise trump I have to give him credit for doing one very important thing. He has lowered taxes for everyone. While i may not agree with how he redistributes the money I absolutely agree with lowering taxes on all brackets.

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"Simply put: users need more protection from tracking....In support of this effort, today we are releasing an anti-tracking policy that outlines the tracking practices that #Firefox will block by default." https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2019/01/28/defining-the-tracking-practices-that-will-be-blocked-in-firefox/
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@SecondJon Be proud of yourself and your accomplishments, however silly.

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Perfectly sums up the lesson the vast majority of people on the left end of the political spectrum in english speaking countries desperately need to learn.

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