Question answered. No further comments needed. Part of growing up is realizing the “democracy” we live in is just a mask for fascism.

I’m honestly surprised

Because somehow enough people were convinced anything that wasn’t democracy was communism but also that capitalist fascism is actually democracy

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I think the biggest difference is that people had the mental capacity of a drunk toddler back then but now we probably average around a drunk teenager level.

I’m not a lawyer or judge but by my calculations, that’s still 145 life sentences too short

Waste of what

The article itself mentions how it is a loophole in the privacy laws

They don’t use it as admissible evidence, they use it to find out whether someone is worth pursuing in legitimate ways that are more time and effort intensive.

Zero day backdoors without any interaction from the user are proven possible. Look at Pegasus spyware. The majority of data breaches are due to zero day hacks.

Buying what? Like you don’t believe the police can, will, or has done this?

Oh you’re a people person eh? Name every people then!

No, I’m not ok. But that also has nothing to do with this showerthought

Or should little have been lit?

I recall in college about 14 years ago we spoke about the electric impulses in plants and how they change in reaction to stress

And how do you compare the results? Can you say definitively that a cure for one disease is more important than another? What metrics do we use? Number of lives affected? Physical pain avoided? Who decides the final say in value? You need a medium to get an approximate value.

I think it’s more of a way to get a quantitative comparison rather than just being about money. Don’t get me wrong, money has corrupted everything. But in certain cases when you need to compare value between things, the closest thing we have to a common denominator is moolah.