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waitwot commented on App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country   404media.co/this-app-lets... · Posted by u/aworks
add-sub-mul-div · a month ago
I was so used to fear of immigrants being used to simply win votes that I overlooked how effective it would be at justifying surveillance that would otherwise be unpopular with the constituents of both parties.
waitwot · a month ago
We also were so afraid of economic irrelevance we let them financially engineer the deflation of the majority's buying power.

Inflation is ~300% since 1980.

Sheer coincidence this aligns neatly with Boomers coming of age and assuming political power, I'm sure.

waitwot commented on Google is killing the open web, part 2   wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia... · Posted by u/akagusu
xmcp123 · a month ago
It’s interesting to see the casual slide of Google towards almost internet explorer 5.1 style behavior, where standards can just be ignored “because market share”.

Having flashbacks of “<!--[if IE 6]> <script src="fix-ie6.js"></script> <![endif]-->”

waitwot · a month ago
Interesting to watch technologists complain rather than engineer alternatives, ignore political activism.

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