couldn't care less for the downvotes tbh, if anything I'll wear them as a badge of honor.

my problem is getting 30 downvotes in five minutes in a sub that has maybe five active users at any given hour of the day.

doubt. any community with 1000 active users is prime for manipulation.

been that way since I joined.

it's crazy how I can call someone out in a low traffic community and end up with 30 downvotes in five minutes.

it's also funny how when you call different people out on similar topics you get the same word-for-word response back from weeks or months ago.

I'm not saying it's bots, but......

guardrails? what guardrails?

the true retards of our generation, fascists and those that support them.

I use it in my shop when I'm alone and want something to listen to other than my tools.

my problem with people who do this? they're listening to the worst possible music in a public space.

you must have a lot of trust in your government.

giving examples of what it's used for doesn't make it any better that you're forced to install software on your personal device by your government for simply existing and is an invasion of privacy.

in my country my government wanted to use facial recognition for online transactions that were previously accessible via government IDs. it was found that the facial recognition software was provided by a corporate identity provider that was then selling that same data to local police that then tracked people through local government surveillance.

when it comes to technology, I have zero faith in every government in the world to have my best interests in mind. they are all guilty of either being complicit in eroding civil rights or negligent in upholding the protections built for civil liberties.

you don't know the half of it.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/axon-taser-exposures/

Shawn Gorman, a lawyer who worked at Axon until 2019, said the company had a high-pressure culture of loyalty, unlike anything he has seen in nearly two decades of practice.

“It was truly toxic,” he said.

this is an employee and her mother getting tased at one of these events.

Midwest here.

a tornado once broke into my house and raped my cat. this is why when I see one of those sumbitches I shoot at it.

the only good tornado is a dead tornado.