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New comment by pesus in "Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting"

pesus — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:57:17 +0000

Maybe you should direct this comment towards the person I responded to and their litany of comments, because this applies far more there. I am far less concerned about hand wringing over being slightly impolite to people advocating for violent violation of people protesting the police state.

Edit: this comment officially got me shadow banned and I can no longer comment. The irony and hypocrisy is off the charts. Don't offend the mods or their friends, people. Only they are allowed to get "emotional" and advocate for violence.

New comment by pesus in "Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting"

pesus — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:53:32 +0000

Those are likely the same people who want to unconsensually force Flock and other mass surveillance on people. Most well socially adjusted people greatly appreciate those protections.

New comment by pesus in "Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting"

pesus — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:47:45 +0000

Please engage in good faith and write comments that contribute, rather than taking away, from the conversation.

New comment by pesus in "Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting"

pesus — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:42:58 +0000

To be clear, you think someone being loud in a public meeting deserves to be violently dragged from the room because you're offended by it? What other speech do you find violent removal worthy?

Edit: I was shadow banned for my comments in this thread. You have been warned - no dissent against Flock (YC17) allowed.

New comment by pesus in "macOS 27: Workaround to avoid downloading AI models and save storage"

pesus — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:53:42 +0000

I get forced to use it While using CarPlay. I don't particularly want it, though, considering it still regularly fails at basic tasks like adding the currently playing song to a playlist.

New comment by pesus in "Missouri governor orders guardrails on Flock cameras and ALPRs"

pesus — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:09:45 +0000

Agreed. I hate the fact that going in public requires accepting that you can be filmed by anyone and broadcast to the world without your consent, and there's nothing you can do to stop it.

I'd also love to move past the inevitable "you have no expectation of privacy whatsoever in public!" comments that get regurgitated every time this topic comes up. Yes, that's the issue in the first place.

New comment by pesus in "25 years of mass surveillance is enough"

pesus — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 22:15:34 +0000

If you go back 15 years or so, you hear the exact same "concerns" about gay people pretty much word for word. Now that they're no longer an acceptable target for most people, they've moved on to regurgitating the same baseless fear mongering but targeted towards trans people. If society manages to progress further, they'll eventually come up with another group to serve as the "other" that they can blame everything on.

New comment by pesus in "America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster"

pesus — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:26:41 +0000

That still prevents it from happening again, no? Still seems like a success.

New comment by pesus in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

pesus — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:29:57 +0000

It's been getting noticeably worse with every update. iOS 26 was a significant step down from whatever version was before that.

New comment by pesus in "Claude is only available to people over 18 years"

pesus — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 23:26:13 +0000

This is a ridiculous and incoherent belief. Ensuring children have enough food to survive isn't making life "too comfortable". Letting millions of children starve and/or never get an education because you don't like the vibes of it is sociopathic and is what will actually break society. We should not tolerate child abuse just because you think intervening makes society too soft.

I'm sure you wouldn't feel the same way if you were that starving child or grew up with imperfect parents or in an environment that had actual hardships. This lack of basic empathy and introspection can only occur from someone who has been completely isolated from much of the real world their entire life. You are not arguing against perfect being the enemy of good, you are arguing against having any sort of good in the world at all, and it's obviously coming from a place of extreme comfort and luxury.

There's no chance you'd be saying anything like this if you had ever experienced anything close to poverty and starvation. Ironically, it appears having an upbringing that is too comfortable is what causes these beliefs in the first place.

New comment by pesus in "Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists"

pesus — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:46:54 +0000

It's baffling how oblivious these people appear to be. I still can't tell if it's an act or not. If it is, what benefit do they get from playing dumb? If not, how did we let people who don't understand basic cause and effect or basic human emotion become in charge of the future of the world?

New comment by pesus in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

pesus — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:28:15 +0000

Fair enough, but I wish the blatantly racist comments got the same response. Maybe they get flagged more quickly.

New comment by pesus in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

pesus — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 23:47:55 +0000

As I am strongly against that as well.

New comment by pesus in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

pesus — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 23:46:51 +0000

Being non-white isn't a bad thing, that's why.

New comment by pesus in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

pesus — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:10:33 +0000

People born in the country are illegal migrants? That's a first.

New comment by pesus in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

pesus — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:46:41 +0000

I have no idea what you're trying to say.

New comment by pesus in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

pesus — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:43:26 +0000

What does this mean? Be specific.

New comment by pesus in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

pesus — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:41:47 +0000

> "They will also be forced to leave, even if they are born in Sweden, because they have no natural connection to Sweden. They are not Swedish."

- Markus Allard

New comment by pesus in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

pesus — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:38:34 +0000

Is that so? Instead of throwing a fit and insulting people, you could've just spent 30 seconds googling to see what the party leader himself says:

> In a podcast segment about immigration and deportations Allard stated his opinion and said that "They will also be forced to leave, even if they are born in Sweden, because they have no natural connection to Sweden. They are not Swedish."

Or is the party leader lying about his own party? How deep does this conspiracy go?

New comment by pesus in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

pesus — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:18:53 +0000

Maybe we can start with not supporting companies that have cofounders that directly financially support ethnic cleansing.