I was supposed to be going to get medical stuff done today; where’s my ride? Call. Um. I have you scheduled for Friday. I think I told you all that Friday is the one day I kind of wanted to avoid.
Nothing further overnight, so I guess it’ll be whenever they squeeze me in. It’s fine, though I kindasorta was looking forward to this cheap thing on Thursday night.
The short bus trips can wait until something like that afternoon; I’ll leave them in place and see what happens.
Didn’t have card prompts for today, so revisiting this from 2018.
Things with the online censorship (and editorializing because only the government can censor) before the COVID craziness.
The instincts were there, then. Should I have been more disturbed?
From the article I linked in the 2018 piece, “‘Today’s tools seem almost built for Russian disinformation techniques,’ Warner opines. And the ones to come, he assures us, will be even worse.”
Thank you, Senator Nextel. Hunter Biden’s laptop had all the hallmarks of it, after all.
So, what else? The Flock Off stories are circulating with abandon, now. There was something on CBS News last night, and TheFP had this.
I suppose I understand the recalcitrance, but parts of this really are tailing off into Crazytown.
You know how you avoid the license plate readers? Become a Sovereign Citizen, and get yourself one of these puppies. Or just stick to public transportation. Or take taxis where you pay cash. If none of those works for you, you should be fine, too, when autonomous vehicles (think Waymo) are running all over the place.
Wait, you don’t like those, either. I’m going to guess it’s for the same concrete, fundamental, reasons you dislike the cameras.
Technology advances regardless of your concerns.
I seem to have lost my capacity for worrying about things that are impossible to control. Yes, some of it is because of my declining stills, and physical abilities.
*fuzzy memories of NASCAR not allowing electronic ignition because there was worry it could be used for traction control*
Yeah, modern cars use highly-inspected Electronic Control Units. And fuel injection started being permitted in 2012. (And that should tell you how little interest I have in NASCAR…) Could I even run a timing light? Could I set ignition points? How about change the jets in a carburetor? I mean, I have vague memories about how to do these things; I earned the Automotive Maintenance Merit Badge, after all. But why would I do those things today?
Technology progresses no matter how much you might resist it. Your resistance can be a SawzAll and and a can of spray paint for the cameras, or a man with a gun enforcing a law, but it’s not going to work. Sorry to break that to you.
That’s enough for this morning.