I’m convinced Americans have the same level of propagandist ignorance as North Koreans. And they also have no idea. Only a few can see the reality. And they try to escape.

Because Americans like you are too stupid to realize a propagandist article.

Yes it is very important to say America does it too. Because most Americans have no idea.

Either bring along a nanny or go to places that have nanny care available.

Fun fact, but the IRS can take away your right to travel by not issuing a passport as well as cancelling a passport if you owe debts. They really like to do this if you owe tax debt.

They also like to cancel your passport while you’re abroad if your debt stacks up. When your passport is cancelled, any visas in the passport are also cancelled. Meaning of you’re living in India, Thailand, Panama, Mexico, whatever on a US passport and they cancel it, you’ll have to leave your new country immediately. As someone with no legitimate travel documents you will be deported to your country (US) immediately, you can’t go anywhere else. This is a fun tactic the US government likes to use instead of extradition.

Everyone should make sure to have more than 1 passport and ideally for countries that do not cooperate fully.

Keep your hot bean soup, I will drink my boiled landscape baggings.

Many telecom operators have a special code that is used for recording. When you’re making a call, you or the other party may press the record button. This will save both the input via microphone and the output via the speakers as one audio file for future use. When you press this button a special code is sent back to the telecom.

Until recently most places in the USA did not do anything with this code. But now it’s catching up to the rest of the world. Once this is pressed, a voice will tell both parties that they are being recorded in the recording. This is so that you can’t later say “I didn’t know they were recording me!” and if you have every-party consent laws, then that recording is illegal so it cannot be used as evidence and the person recording could actually be charged with a crime.

You can start the recording with an accidental face press, pocket press, keypad entry, or a malicious app. If either of you accidentally started it, then there’s your answer. If neither of you did, then most likely one of you is infected or one of you were connected to a relay tower decrypting your calls and then passing them through to a real tower. Whoever was operating this relay station was a n00b idiot though. Both are concerning.

So same with the people voluntarily visiting the USA right? Because the same laws already exist there.

First, obviously this is not good. Secondly, if anyone is complaining about this from the USA, you don’t get to. CBP has the right to inspect your electronics with no questions asked by you. They have a right to make a copy of all data. They have a right to seize your electronics and decrypt them if you fail to provide the encryption pin. They have the right to compel you to unlock and decrypt your devices if it uses fingerprint or facial unlock. They have the right to revoke your residency status if you aren’t a citizen.

CBP has authority to do this at any sea, land, or air crossing. It also has the authority to do this within 100 miles of any border. That means about 70% of all Americans live their day to day lives within the scope of the exact same legislation. And yes it is used, all the time. If you think it isn’t, you’re just ignorant.

It’s for location services based off of WiFi and such. Pretty much nothing you can do. You can opt out on your devices on a certain network, but even then if your network broadcasts a signal, it’s being scanned and uploaded.

The only thing you can do is prevent your device from connecting to (or even just scanning for) these networks and signals so that it cannot triangulate. My phones battery saver mode and ultra battery modes do this. Otherwise I have to turn off location services, WiFi, Bluetooth, etc. And then why is my phone even on?

Treat your phone like your little spy that you take everywhere with you. Assume it’s always listening and always ratting you out. Operate accordingly.

One of us… One of us… One of us…

Lemmy is just as bad as reddit but with fewer people. Downvotes aren’t tied with the source but just the content.

“Space garbage kills puppy” post will be downvoted to oblivion and “Reddit CFO becomes homeless says BuzzFeed paparazzi” will get 1000 up votes.

Wow I thought I was the only idiot that bought it. Once they started charging for the smart features, it got unbatteried and became just a fancy box.

Always UPS everything. But also always have a simple backdoor. I generally have 1 little desktop like a NUC running some basic Win10 OS and an install of remote software like TeamViewer. It is connected to my hardware router right after the ISP router and a backup connection. Used to be LTE everywhere, now I’m half and half on Starlink. It is then also connected to the router ports needed for management but inactive.

If I have to, remote into the NUC over Starlink. I can then reboot my main ISP box. I can eventually get into my router and enable those ports which are pre-plugged in. From there I can then access all the stack management and all the IPMI ports like iLo. It’s a virtual interface through a virtual interface. It is slow, and painful. But it works.

And it works 99.99% of the time. But even then, I’ve had to do a call of shame and walk one of my friends through which button to press as I’m on the other side of the world. In my case it was also power related but the UPS I had decided to overheat. In reality over the summer, the temps were high. But also it is a super awesome double conversion UPS. The line voltage into the UPS was dropped to below standards from the utility because their grid was overworked with everyone’s AC’s. So the UPS saw this as a line failure, kicked in the double conversion and ran happily. But it did not count as a power failure, so none of my services scaled back. Essentially it was delivering 3KW of juice from the wall through a double conversion making the whole thing super hot. Eventually it shut down for safety automatically, just pulled the plug. My NUC is on a separate little backup along with the modems and an auto transfer switch which did its thing. But there was no way to press the reset button on the UPS for a critical safety shutdown like that. It had to be in person.

If he’s smart, he’ll be on a chartered flight out of the US now.

Yup that’s a good description. The scary part is that the new ones are sooo much better. And even work from the planes and helicopters and now drones.

I have many citizenships, one specifically for banking. They look at your birthplace but really it’s your passport. They are required to report US citizens, which are passport holders (because you’re outside the US). Having a second passport or third or whatever, doesn’t bring it up. You must falsely claim you are not an American in friendly countries and then you’re fine. They are very aware of renunciation and don’t require proof. The proof of a secondary passport as your primary is all that’s needed. For example you entered the country on your other passport, that’s where your visa is tied to etc.

The other way with unfriendly countries is even easier. For example if you open a TBank account in Russia, it takes about a day online and they courier you your debit card and bank documents to your hotel. So it requires 2 days in Russia. Even as a US citizen, on a US passport, they do not comply with FACTA. Your accounts and transactions will never be sent to the USA.

You as an American must still report those assets on your taxes. So again, choose whether you want privacy or being a “white collar criminal”

Next season of Battlebots is looking to be awesome.

Here’s the thing. It’s every bank that is on the SWIFT network because the US is a terroristic state when it comes to financial spying, sorry “transparency”.

Demanding KYC and reporting all your transactions via SARs is the standard thing for all banks. The only ones that get away with not having to do it are the manipulative criminals who schmooze there way in with tellers and do transactions that way. But that’s also stopping with the crackdown at large.

I keep accounts in the US, but I have moved as much as I can out. If you’re in the position where you’ve got high 5 figures or more it may be worth it to setup accounts outside the USA in countries that are hostile to the US banking system. If you are in the position where you can drop $250k on a new citizenship, then get it. Then open accounts under that passport in countries that don’t comply with the US.

Otherwise, you’re screwed. This is why crypto and BRICs are a big thing.

I’ve voted D every time. This question is ridiculous because most people are NOT better off and those that are, are all on the low end of the financial spectrum where the short term income gains have made a difference.

Even the best stats I see from the Democrats show 8% better income adjusted for inflation. That’s awesome! But what inflation? The low fed number. Not the CPI.

This means for anyone who purchases things, or where purchasing things is a larger proportion of their income which is everyone below the top 0.5% or 1% in the USA, your effective wage has gone down 10% to 40% depending on what your personal income raise was. Those that job hopped, are only down a bit. Those that didn’t are screwed.

Everytime this question gets asked, I look around and not a single person I know is better off now from income. Not a damn one. You know what is doing better? Stock portfolios. I have them, I’m up. My friends have them, they’re up. We have traded realized daily losses in living for stock market unrealized gains. The average person doesn’t have stocks. They just get shafted completely.

It’s incomprehensible to me how low Democrats have gone to just blatantly lie and gas light. That’s a Republican move. And every one of the people smart enough to actually think, gets a little more pissed off when they’re gas lit into trying to believe that 20% year over year multiple years in a row of inflation is good. That’s batshit.

Ipv4 is one of those things that works awesome, is simple, and is a victim of its own success. Ipv6 is just complicated bloat of a standard. Cool features, but nobody implements them, so useless.

In 30 years, probably useful. Until then, I’m not giving up Ipv4.