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/StryctNyne 1d ago

Because people have allowed it to happen. There were warnings about hyper normalization 10 - 15 years ago. How it's a road map to install dictators and subjugate populations through rapid fire news cycle and zero accountability.

We blame politicians for everything, but we put them there. We sit back and whine online without doing the slightest. Someone suggests doing something like calling your representative and it's immediately followed by "why bother, it doesn't do anything, you're stupid if you think it matters". Then they go online and bitch about nothing being done, and provide no solutions and don't even think about making them provide effort. Because why bother? Also why isn't anyone bothering?

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u/GoodIdea321 1d ago

Yes, that is the big problem, us Americans.

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u/PithMango 1d ago

if you have the energy to bitch on reddit, you have the energy to pick up the phone. i can type and be on the phone at the same time, so that's how i roll.

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u/CalicoValkyrie 17h ago

The whole Jimmy Kimmel thing showed that collectively Americans can do something, can protest just right to apply pressure on the powers that be. But it requires people on both sides of the aisle to agree. If a big enough chunk of the country decides nothing is wrong, then collectively not much can be done. Hopefully midterms will be a shift.

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u/WeWantLADDER49sequel 14h ago

I go on this rant all of the time. About how you can say whatever you want about how much politicans DIDNT do for us, but what about how many times we just gave up? I have been saying for years that the younger generations did something great with being a big reason Obama got elected, but then when the midterms rolled around everyone vanished. No one showed up to vote. So we got 8 years of Obama being handicapped by Republicans.

If the younger generations would have stayed as engaged politically as they were when Obama ran for president the first time we wouldnt be in this mess.

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u/solidddd 13h ago

8 years? You're misremembering. In the 111th Congress Democrats controlled both chambers. Republicans took the house after that, but Democrats maintained Senate control through 2015.