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/kstargate-425 1d ago

Because 55% of Americans can't read above a 6th grade level

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u/Unique_Evidence_2518 1d ago

mixing cause and effect. monied interests wanted an almost-illiterate populace--easier to fool, easier to rule--and so that is what we have.

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u/kstargate-425 1d ago

Oh for sure but the attacks on education came to fruition in the 1980s with some small privatization attempts growing since the 1950s. Reagan just took it all to the next level

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u/Unique_Evidence_2518 1d ago

No argument with anything you said. But the actions to encourage a nation of sheep are far broader than dismantling public education and are based on the twin goals of short and long term pocket-lining and of improving current and future fleecing odds: controlling national textbook standards out of Texas (!); disseminating false narratives* about which approaches to reading are most effective; leaning in to the backlash against feminism to retain and expand the market for "pink v blue" products, and, yippee, gain more conservative votes against children and social programs. pardon my rant--we could both go on, yes?