Barbing
2 days ago
Flock seeks to shed whistleblowers via financially-motivated self selection
> And we just want people to be safe.
We’d all be safer if we were in jail (sorry to give the clown ideas)
ahartmetz
2 days ago
> And we just want people to be safe.
Heh. Real-world occurrence of Silicon Valley "We just want to make the world a better place" (also $billions, mainly that actually)
akokanka
2 days ago
Been to America the other week on IT conference honestly felt like I was in prison since the moment I landed my boots on your soil
Varelion
2 days ago
A disturbing amount of people so not recognize the fact. An even higher percentage willingly supports their own disenfranchisement.
ElProlactin
2 days ago
It's amazing what easy access to meat, processed food and Walmart does to your brain.
cyanydeez
a day ago
AI is now the digital Walmart. It's basically proposing to do exactly what mom & pop found out, except everywhere on the internet.
ParentiSoundSys
2 days ago
It's the phones and the propaganda being streamed through them 24/7. And if your reaction is, "the rest of the Western world has that too," well, they're really not all that far behind us.
hyperlinerapp
2 days ago
What made you feel that way?
piva00
a day ago
For me (not OP) a clear example I can give from a collage of my past three visits: arrive at JFK, get in the immigration queue, heavily armed agents walking around, some ICE agents looking tough surrounding the area, someone is directing the queue like we are cattle.
Get to the immigration officer, answer questions, get a cold stare a few times looking at me and my passport, unpleasantly asked why do I have two passports (I'm a dual citizen), told I don't look Swedish (of course, I'm naturalised), get told to wait, they leave to get someone else to check something, two immigration officers start shuffling my passport, wait while no one talks to me or acknowledge I'm there, passport stamped and I get told to "move".
Get my bags, and out of the terminal, on the walk through the terminal there's another 15-20 officers with rifles strutting around, get out of the terminal and there are two massive armoured cars from NYPD parked up front, more cops looking a bit tough.
It's an overwhelming presence of "security" everywhere, signs plastered with messages about how illegal stuff will be punished (littering, leaving your bags unattended, smoking, every message seems to say something about "under penalty of the law").
I think if you live with that all the time it's easy to filter out the noise but there's an eery feeling of oppression all around, like a boot is just waiting the right moment to stomp on you.
SubmarineClub
a day ago
Maybe Sweden is different from every other country I’ve visited in Europe…but having traveled quite extensively in the EU, most countries I’ve been to don’t feel much different than the US.
Very immigration officer I’ve ever interacted with has been chilly, it’s not some uniquely American thing.
Pretty much every rail station I went through in Europe had extremely (to my eyes) heavily armed guards standing around. I was also asked to present my passport on several occasions. At one Italian station, it happed twice within a few minutes. I’ve been on multiple trains where some flavor of police comes on, checks people’s papers, and then grab some guy and escort him off at the next stop.
piva00
a day ago
I don't mind the stern-looking armed security or immigration officers, it just feels different in the USA. Being chilly is different than being told to "move", I have never experienced such attitude getting into Schengen, at most it's a mostly quiet stern encounter.
It's very hard to express in text the feeling of oppression, it's not about just armed security, it's the attitude of those, it's the attitude of the people representing the State, it feels much more adversarial in the USA than anywhere I've been in Europe.
Also, it's not about being asked to present a passport but presenting a legitimate passport and being met with "you don't look Swedish".
Perhaps you are just too accustomed to the feeling of the USA, as an outsider it does feel different, and way more oppressive.
Phemist
a day ago
Where are you from? It's weird to me that you on the one hand defend the US, but on the other DID notice all these armed guards everywhere you went in Europe. If you don't feel it's different, then I don't think you should have noticed it so much? Or if you do notice it everywhere, why would you equate the US and Europe without raising a critical stance against these kinds of policies on either side of the atlantic?
piva00
a day ago
I think you can get a sense of what kind of person they are by this kind of comments [0][1].
hyperlinerapp
19 hours ago
A person that likes normal non woke stuff and does not like feces on the street?
Seems normal to me.
piva00
15 hours ago
> Why the fuck are we so soft on these gutter trash in this country.
If you think it's normal to call people "gutter trash" I guess you're too far gone in some bullshit and should do some soul-searching to come back to your humanity.
Phemist
15 hours ago
Anything that touches on US geopolitical/immigration policy is bound to bring out the russian troll army.
hyperlinerapp
3 hours ago
True. Communists are the worst, but especially from tech.
Phemist
2 hours ago
Granted, this one is pretty funny.
darksim905
19 hours ago
It must be nerve wracking to live in your shoes day to day. This is, probably due to flying through an airport like JFK. I'm also not sure what you mean by heavily armed agents. Most MPs at airports just have pistols on them.
user
a day ago
hyperlinerapp
a day ago
If we had had those guys on 9/11 maybe they would have put a bullet on each terrorist forehead and we would all be happy these days around September.
But really it’s only like that at borders. Just watch the videos of all the foreigners loving on the USA and tearing up when they had to go back to their countries after the World Cup.
lores
a day ago
Nah. The first thing I saw when I walked out of Anchorage airport is a truck with a bumper sticker saying "my truck is worth more than your life."
Every bad thing in the US is a caricature of what caricatures were 50 years ago.
hyperlinerapp
a day ago
What’s wrong with that bumper sticker?
From my PoV, it seems odd someone would value someone else’s truck more than their own life!
Phemist
a day ago
Nothing wrong indeed with the sticker that says "I value my life more than your truck". Unfortunately that is not the sticker the OP was talking about.
hyperlinerapp
19 hours ago
My point is that the sticker that OP was talking about is perfectly fine, because who in their right mind would think the opposite?
piva00
15 hours ago
It's really hard to tell if you're playing dumb just to provoke a reaction or if you genuinely do not get the point.
Can you clarify?
hyperlinerapp
2 hours ago
Lores said that: bumper sticker saying "my truck is worth more than your life."
My point is that that is a very sensible bumper sticker, because it only applies if someone thinks they want to steal the truck, clearly valuing their life less than the truck, proving the sticker’s point.
It’s a common sticker. People who are shot in a robbery (or their kin if they don’t survive) commonly claim “why would the victim who defended themselves value their stuff more than the thief’s life” without failing to consider the thief themselves valued their own life less than the stuff they were attempting to steal.
It’s a common sentiment in free places, those who values abiding citizens more than law breaking citizens.
pseudohadamard
21 hours ago
Interesting you should say that, friend of mine transited through the US recently (overnight stay before a connecting flight) after having not been there for some years and described the experience as "very unnerving". Since she was messaging from inside the US she didn't want to say any more, but I'm expecting a more detailed report once she lands at the other end.
joinHNtheysaid
a day ago
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