Post B2SSk9AZR0QxFaM0hc by HopperMCS@liberdon.com
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 (DIR) Post #B29hubN5WJD3BZraXA by h4890@alive.bar
       2026-01-10T22:21:41Z
       
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       Back on the ground after a flight back with Ryainair, the most revolting of airlines. As always, if you have any other option, always remember to boycott ryanair. What was surpsigin though, was what I experienced when I was boarding. I always give the gate personnel my usual lecture about how excessive ID controls is not only possibly illegal, it also is authoritarian and kills the free society. I ask them to imagine having to show ID when buying food, and how they then would do it, if their ID was taken away or blocked. I usually get angry looks, tired looks, perhaps a word of abuse or threats that I will be thrown out of the airport, but not tonight! At the gate was this little arabian guy, and he started to smile during my lecture. After I was done he said "I agree! Those f*cking EU bastards will control us with the new EU digital wallet". I didn't know what to say, so I thanked him, said I agreed with him, and wished him well. I now wonder, did he agree or was this a super well designed de-escalation technique? I'm leaning towards it being his opinion, since corporate de-escalation seldom, if ever, is that smooth.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2SSk9AZR0QxFaM0hc by HopperMCS@liberdon.com
       2026-01-19T23:31:11Z
       
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       @h4890 I wish I could disappear from the Internet forever, but modern life makes that hard. Even when you're not online, you're being tracked by cameras everywhere.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2TGrnW6olBK7YGo88 by h4890@alive.bar
       2026-01-20T08:52:52Z
       
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       @HopperMCS This is the truth! Adding up public and private cameras, there's a lot of filming going on. Many countries are hooking up cameras to AI to get the sweet, authoritarians, live identifification of everyone, which is very worrying. The only thing I can think of in the short term to avoid this, is to move to the country side. I guess there are perhaps smaller countries, with a weaker government, where camera surveillance is not that common (yet). Sometimes I also dream about a gadget that automatically tracks cameras and shoots some intense light into them to stop them from working.