SecondJon @SecondJon@qoto.org

#China creates app to tell you if you are near someone in #debt and encourages you to report them | #delation #privacy #SocialCreditScore https://www.techspot.com/news/78405-china-creates-app-tell-you-if-you-near.html

Hello world! I am a software developer - some of my interests include: computer science, cyber security (and the right to privacy), space program, futurology, mind-mapping, ethical thinking, brainstorming, minimalism, tiny living, and being respectful with everyone and trying to listen and understand. I'm pretty good at seeing "both sides of an argument" and I enjoy discourse (mostly enjoy listening to intelligent people talking amongst each other) I'm quite keen on privacy and I am passionately in love with this mastadon federated social media concept. I am extremely excited to be here and looking forward to meeting many of you and hearing what you have to say! #introductions

#socialism

The plot of spiderman really kinda had to work out the way it did. The alternative would be kinda boring.

We went from “violence is violence” to “words are violence” to “smiling is violence” distressingly quickly.

#abortion #Leftists

To understand the rage over the high school kids smiling, you must understand that #sjw have replaced religion with their ideology.

As white males those Catholic boys represent demons in #leftist religion. They are literally incarnations of the "white devil"

By smiling they are guilty and any facts are irrelevant. Similar to #Islam their only hope for salvation is submission so leftist ideas. By wearing #MAGA hats, they have clearly not repented for the sin of being born white

@SecondJon @freemo I can assure you that the anonymity of the internet increases the asshat factor considerably. Names and words are as real as story book characters.

They might as well not exist to the human brain. People need to actively remember human beings are there on the other end of that series of toobs.

@Surasanji opinions never upset me, only the actions that often result from it do.. so i am never upset by a persons opinions. I just think their a moron and move on.

@freemo Eh, I think it be safe to say I mean beyond opinions. Like world views, ideas, concepts even. There are a lot of things that I don't like, and make me uncomfortable.

I was just always taught that you can't shy away from those things that make you uncomfortable. You've got to figure out why it makes you uncomfortable, be aware of it.

Eh, I guess I'm just a little disappointed in general at the nature of Social Media now that I've been in it a few months.

But, the forum here is still very young, as far as forums go. Maybe it'll change for the better. Can't abandon it just because it isn't what I thought it might be, right?

“Once we searched Google, but now Google searches us. Once we thought of digital services as free, but now surveillance capitalists think of us as free.” https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/20/shoshana-zuboff-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-google-facebook

@Surasanji No such thing as free healthcare. The only difference is if your forced to pay for it or if its your choice, as well as how much freedom you have in what you buy.