I believe it. They disavow that they take any recordings of us before we approach but, while I’m not a suspicious person, I am suspicious of TSA and HLS. Heads up they’re going to start scanning our faces at physical border crossings in cars now too. We have the same right to refuse as citizens but you know how good that is if you’re dealing with a crooked agent.

Masks help when approaching but obviously not a cure all when you have to move it to be identified by card

I hate that this is a conversation we are having.

Correct just citizens

In America you can refuse to have your biometrics scanned still. This is true for coming into and out internationally. Just politely say no. They cannot force you to scan your face. I always refuse.

Yes! SO many people would never ever believe this kind of evil action without hard proof. It absolutely needs to be said and reported on! Any reaction less than this is dismissive and enabling.

I’m so sorry for the loss of your friend. I have a close relative that was just diagnosed with pancreatic cancer AND my friend’s dad was diagnosed too. They both slowly were losing weight and were forced into the doctor.

Anyone reading if you’re losing weight and not doing anything different go to the doctor!

What’s up cousin! I have this gene. Also have EDS and we have a ton of red hair in our family.

I also woke up during a pediatric surgery! Mine was a facial surgery. I was out for a bit and near the close end I woke up and was aware of everything except the pain.

Thanks for letting me know about the vasectomy pain because those are supposed to be easy! Yikes sorry man.

I wish we could add this to our medical files. Like it should be easy to do but for some reason it always comes down to the patient and whether the doctor feels like believing them that day.

Bonus: We also process opioids rapidly. So, those don’t work on us either. But the trade off is we have higher pain thresholds than normal people.

Wow that’s crazy. So is your entire country region IP blocked?

My Blocker writes me a comment every day

I can’t read it cuz the shadowban at play

Yeah I could still comment normally to the chain itself and my comments. Other people in the thread were talking to me directly and normally. They were responding to my comments. I didn’t switch accounts to evade the block though. That’s so ridiculous I’m sorry someone bothered you like that.

I’ve never blocked anyone in the 12 years I was on Reddit. I’ll mock obvious bigoted trolls if they’re being actively terrible to people in my community. But that’s the limit for me engaging in an unhelpful back and forth. Usually they get bored within an hour or so when I stop giving them energy.

I’m sorry about the negative experience you’ve had on the other side of it. I think it’s pretty clear that the ability to block someone and not interact with them is important but the way it’s implemented is a crappy experience for everyone. Not to mention it seems easily exploitable.

I’ve upvoted you a lot on Lemmy so please don’t block me haha

/Jerk: Excuse me the other thing? Wow amazing amazing you fell for Jefferson and Hamilton propaganda 🥲🤣🤣🤣 I can’t believe you fell for a CONSPIRACY THEORY the truth is that Aaron Burr was a normal person who loved his family and was the VICTIM for decades because of Jefferson and Hamilton targeted harassment campaign against this wonderful man! You are Aaron Burr’s descendent and FAMILY and the lies about him were so successful that even his descendants fell for them. Innocent until proven guilty and Burr was DECLARED innocent!!!😇 Why are you so mad and upset and obsessed with Arron Burr what is wrong with you? You are so unhinged for Aaron Burr (blocks unblocks sends another version of the above reblocks, repeat)

/Unjerk: I actually said something way kinder about Burr than you did initially. I said something general like “To be fair, Burr wasn’t that great of a guy. And there’s the whole criminal conspiracy with the bribing Generals thing and trying to recruit soldiers while Vice President thing too.” I didn’t even get into the duel.

Whatever we can be obsessed losers together. Spending every second of every day seething against the memory of precious spineless baby angle Aaron Burr (a man I never think about)

Yeah this policy in practice makes no fucking sense.

I definitely experienced this last month. I had a weirdo block me randomly because I happen to not be a fan of historical figure, Aaron Burr. They apparently really really like Aaron Burr—so they blocked me. Whatever.

I didn’t get a notification or anything. It just looked like they’d deleted their account and never existed on my side. Ok. I shrugged and thought it was a weird UI thing and moved on.

That was until I started talking to other people and the Blocker kept unblocking me to leave me more messages only to immediately Reblock me.

I knew this was happening because I would get an email alert that I had a comment. But when I went to see the comment on Reddit, it was gone.

I don’t even know or understand what the Blocker wanted from me (except maybe falling in love with Aaron Burr-which isn’t on the table —he’s not my type).

In practice, this new policy ended up having the Blocker spam the person they’re Blocking and removing their ability to prevent being spammed.

Dude I’ve never blocked anyone or had any real trouble on any site or forum. The only time I’ve had trouble is on Reddit and only over the last 3-months. Good riddance.

I know about mixing the yellow dots by adding mode. But Erased? Do you have any resources I could learn from?

Do you know anything about printer steganography? That’s what nailed Reality Winner ultimately.

I have been wondering the same thing. It would be useful to have an active docket of the DOJ for all cases against large corporations and how many now lose steam or have the lead attorneys replaced.

I also worry about the whistleblower program. If you are a corporate whistleblower, if the government wins on your tip you get around 15%-ish of the takings. So, whistleblowing on something big enough can net you a few million USD or more. Something else to watch. I assume this will break quickly too under this administration.

I’ve gotten an admin auto ban from a sub recently. That sent me a mail directly. (The sub mobs overturned it.)

The other bans I got from subs were like you say—banned from the sub it’s elf (like for commenting in another sub) depended on whether or not they decided to push mail.

Interesting. Links to a go fund me are theorized to be interlopers or maybe people just using this to try to get money—as it deviates from the original iteration.

Do you happen to know the username? The naming scheme also changed in the past few days when the new asking for money showed up.

If not that’s ok. 👌

Might be because of your instance. I still haven’t gotten one.

There’s been no evidence of this leading to a scam — romance or otherwise. So, now it’s a theory that this poor woman is most likely not aware and possibly being blackmailed.

I was just memeing but the “rare” part more seriously would be a new photo drop that we haven’t had before. The newest photo is her looking down. All of the photos increasingly look like a hacked feed of a real person who is unaware they’re having their photo taken.

The drive behind collecting information is more from a benevolent stance of trying to warn this real person irl that her likeness is being exploited.

Man that is such a painful travesty. I can’t imagine trashing your friend and cofounder into the trash like that after what happened. We will remember Aaron.

I had all my comments admin removed that were criticizing Russia from an academic perspective and academic tone. I even cite and quote well respected interns relations journals that are totally neutral to traditional conservative in leaning. Nope.

What’s so utterly bizarre is that the “conservative” community on Reddit keeps blasting that it’s “ultra-left.” If plainly stating “Russia’s war time economy is something I don’t like” is “ultra-left” then I am fucked and probably already on a list haha

Welcome! Similar story. I upvoted on a long standing account and got warned. Not sure which upvote did it. I’ve got a few hundred thousand karma across accounts. Had a fair share of OC hitall. Pretty typical engaged user.

Then I tried to help someone in a niche sub with buying bedding. And auto admin mod kept removing my comment post. Then the sub mods messaged me and said they tried to make my comment visible multiple times and couldn’t override the admin.

Then I followed mod advice and reposted my helpful comment only to get an auto banned on all accounts from the admin for “spam” (for two comments? Really?). The sub admin were able to override the ban and reinstate me since I did nothing wrong.

It’s way too frustrating to deal with. Out of the past year like 800 normal/helpful comments of mine have been shadow removed or admin removed.

At that point I’m just talking to myself. After 12 years, I never thought I’d leave Reddit but here we are. Happy to be on Lemmy.