• DragonNest_Aidit [they/them,use name]
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    3 years ago

    Car drivers be like car gives you freedom

    My brother in christ you spent 25% of your entire lifespan on this green Earth stuck in the traffic

  • The_Jewish_Cuban [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    With cars you literally have to stop and purchase gas. Ooh so anonymous and elusive. What a dumbass

    • trabpukcip [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      And you have to pay high registration costs to the government for the privilege of using govt paved roads

      • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        The UK has tons of CCTV cameras everywhere, not even for just traffic. You're just literally always monitored.

  • CrimsonSage [any]
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    3 years ago

    This us one if the stupidest things I have ever seen. Has this person ever owned a car?!?! Some have built in GPS electronics and wifi now, and even if they dint you are registered and tagged 5 ways to sunday.

      • Ecoleo [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        One thing i recently learned is that a lot of cars also have a data-recorder that saves info about the cats speed, braking, g-forces, etc in the event of an accident and the police can use that data to prosecute the driver.

        Not necessarily against that feature, but if we are on the topic of tracking...

        • buh [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          the cats speed, braking, g-forces, etc in the event of an accident

          :kitty-cri-screm:

          • spectre [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            the auto company or some third party, eg. to extract money from you

            I think it's generally used to give a discount since they will need to assume a "worst [or at least worse] case" if they don't have any way of knowing how you drive. It's also used by people who drive short distances or not very often and have per-mile insurance.

    • PMC_DSA_Karen [any]
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      3 years ago

      The Tire Pressure Monitors on your wheels constantly send individually identifiable radio transmissions. These aren't in any kind of central registry, but you can walk by someone's car, read the TPMs, then set up monitoring stations to read TPMs and find out where a car goes.

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I always wondered how they wired sensors into tires. Guess I'm not surprised that the answer is they didn't.

    • DirtbagVegan [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Thinking about Tesla saying they want their FSD cars to be able to impound themselves.

  • FunnyUsername [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Sitting in my car in traffic for thirty minutes trying to go home, just thinking about how this definitely doesn't limit my personal freedom and mobility

  • KenBonesWildRide [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    My car’s sitting in my garage because I can’t afford gas but yeah I guess a bike would be more authoritarian

    • spectre [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Freedom is when you need like 10 governments to all remain stable so that you can get to the grocery store

  • a_fanonist_hexagon [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Modern cars are full of computers, most have navigation systems, and have to drive on hard mostly flat surfaces (paved roads that are regularly maintained) or they tear themselves apart

  • invo_rt [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    :xicko: :sicko-biker: :sicko-biker: :sicko-biker:

  • Straight_Depth [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    There definitely aren't countless people who do backpacking across Eurasia on bike, no sir!

  • luther7718 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    100% chance this dork is carrying a GPS-enabled radio transmitter in his pocket at all times

    • Wildgrapes [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      People always forget this when talking about freedom and shit in the USA. My dude you are not some bastion of annonimity and freedom. You got a device that can literally at any moment pinpoint your location and hear everything your doing.

    • Bobson_Dugnutt [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      This is why I never understood the qanon conspiracy theory about microchips in the vaccines.

  • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    A good general propaganda idea is to:

    1. find a post about a harmless hobby
    2. contort your brain into finding a diatribe for why that hobby is Chinese and evil (important: try to actually sound like you believe your own shit)
    3. post it in a context where it's totally irrelevant
    4. followers of said hobby will start to see the inanity of anti-China rhetoric. The "socially inept halo" of your diatribe will naturally be associated with all anti-Chinese rhetoric

    You can see in the OP from the -7, that 6 other people agree with our resident hexbear user, and have been slightly conditioned to be exasperated by anti-China rhetoric.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      "In China, beekeeping is mandatory, they force every slum-'house' to host at least two wild colonies. This is because the chinese destroyed their natural populations of bees when Mao banned birds and that's why fruit crops must still be pollinated by hand in China. Of course bees aren't birds, but the chinese peasants were so stupid and eager to comply to their grand master that they killed all the bees along with all the birds, which they boiled in a big comunal broth, feathers included, because they were so hungry"

      • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        okay effort, but it needs to also attack the hobby itself. You're trying to associate the hobby with China. Maybe something like:

        "except in a modern free country, beekeeping isn't even necessary. It's a waste of time, and a dangerous hobby to boot. You know that in China, lots of peasants are actually FORCED to keep bees because Mao literally extinctified the natural population decades ago?"

        I now realize due to your recent edits that your take is satirical

        • RNAi [he/him]
          hexagon
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          3 years ago

          Hmm, you are right.

          It's not intended to be satirical-satirical, I'm want to do as you said and screenshot it as a real reddit comment, and post it in beekeeping subs with the title "the bees understander has logged on" or something.

          • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            I'd say it's way too over the top in the last half, you sound like a China-supporter who's making fun of chuds by overly exaggerating their disdain for the Chinese people.