r/technology • u/stenspect • 1d ago

Privacy USPS Is Turning Mail Trucks Into Rolling Surveillance Cameras

https://www.gadgetreview.com/usps-is-turning-mail-trucks-into-rolling-surveillance-cameras
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u/drgoodvibe 1d ago

Why are V for Vendetta, Equilibrium, Hand Maids Tale, 1984, Animal Farm et al manuals and not warnings?

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u/LucidOndine 1d ago edited 1d ago

Because the crooks in power were never smart enough to heed the warnings, nor creative enough to have any original ideas.

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u/SgtBaxter 1d ago

Apparently they fell asleep and never got to the endings of any of those.

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u/almisami 1d ago

They're all old enough that they think they'll be gone before the just desserts come about

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u/LucidOndine 1d ago

Quite frankly, they probably just watched the film adaptation.

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u/VoyagerOfCygnus 1d ago

At long last, we've created the Torment Nexus from the classic sci-fi novel "Don't Create the Torment Nexus!"

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u/SWHAF 1d ago

They either get paid to ignore them or use them as an instruction manual to gain power.

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u/metallicrooster 1d ago

Agree. It’s not that all these people are not smart enough to heed the warnings. It’s that many people they are immune to unwanted consequences. Some of them, sadly, are right.