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A saw was spotted in a hospital parking lot in the U.S., located on the dashboard inside, with videos discussing it available on YouTube and other platforms, indicating someone may have mental health concerns.
C
This reminds me of when my aunt tried to convince me COVID vaccines had little microchips in them that the government was using to monitor and track people. I just kinda looked at her and said, “You bragged about having a GPS in your car that tells you exactly where and how far you are from road debris.” Like, let’s be fr here lmao.
H
One of my favourite conspiracy theories. Have these people ever seen a microchip? Have they seen a vaccine syringe? Do they realise that the needle has to be the diameter of your *thumb* in order to be able to inject a *functioning* microchip? Allowing Facebook to track you in real-time, on the other hand, is just fine and dandy…
G
It’s not really about the vaccines, in the same way the flat earth society isn’t really about the earth being flat. It’s about the idea that they’re holders of some secret truth and that the “other” (government, jews, FEMA, FBI/CIA etc) is after them, trying to persecute them for knowing the forbidden knowledge. Like if there’s anything in life that they just can’t understand, then it must mean that no one can understand it and any claim of evidence just means you’re one of “them” now. Stupidity is a vicious cycle.
S
It’s not stupidity. It’s a continuous circle of fear and justification for said fears perpetuated by a disgusting 24/7 feed of television and online media constantly confirming their biases. Blame the rich mfs who own the media groups, the rich politicians that take advantage of insider trading, while at the time constantly acting against their constituencies best interests.
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Nearly everyone willingly carries a tracking device with them for every waking moment of the day. I am not sure why goverments would spend a metric shit-ton of money on a problem that already has a solution.
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This
D
I mean even if there was a microchip that small it isn’t transmitting shit without an antenna, and you can’t micro those meaningfully.
A
You can look around and find real people making injectable circuits they put in their own bodies. It’s a good way to see the current limitations. A passive, RFID style circuit is about the best you can do if you want it to last a while. definitely not GPS or cellular anything.
W
I know! I mean, quantum computing WISHES!
L
The chip is tiny, but the AA battery wired to it is the problem.
J
A small chip has small power needs… But to fit a chip, a battery (or maybe it uses inductive power when the ***man*** activates your chips), and any sort of antenna. Even if the entire package were the size of a 0805, it’s not fitting through anything but a horse needle anytime soon. It’s so stupid. And what is the purpose, how would it interface with a human? It doesn’t even pass the smell test.
D
To be fair, there are some really tiny chips now with surface mount. Open up any electronics device and some of the chips on the board will be like bits of gravel. It’s just that chips that small don’t do very much, and certainly don’t have long distance tracking and monitoring capabilities (yet!) and the needle would still have to be awfully large to fit them through. Not to mention they’re very obviously visible.
T
Microchip sizes are a lot smaller than you think they are. We hit 1nm process.
I
Most people won’t know what that means. The actual chip isn’t 1nm, just the transistor. Don’t get me wrong, we’re able to create “robots” that are half a mm wide (still definitely not syringeable yet). https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/05/tiny-robotic-crab-is-smallest-ever-remote-controlled-walking-robot/ But the problem is, a trip thats tracking you would need GPS, radio, etc. These are not small components. All the current tiny examples of robots need a laser or external source of power and don’t have transmission of data.
T
Radio doesn’t require external power.
I
That’s only true for receiving radio signals.
T
Oh, you’ve never used RFID before?
I
Ok, so I’ll concede that passive RFID chips do in fact trasmit data back to the RFID reader, but only because the radio waves blasted at the chip *are* the external power source giving them power to do so. That still wouldn’t give them nearly enough power to do any meaningful processing, with modern passive RFID chips using only 1 microwatt of power. Also the reader has to be pretty close to the chip for this to work as the radio transmission from the chip is usually weak. That limitation is also why active RFID chips exist, which have batteries or alternative sources of power integrated.
T
Have you ever heard of The Great Seal device? Another foray into passive microwave transmission. The power source is audio in that case.
G
I drew up dozens of them during COVID, my favourite thing to say when flicking the air out (in private, not in front of the recipients, of course) “Yep, no microchips in there!”
W
Slap the syringe and say “you can fit so many microchips in this bad boy!”
L
OK but it is a wild coincidence how much better Google and Apple have gotten at using user data to form targeted ads that spawn this theory. I go golfing for the first time in years and all of a sudden have golfing ads. Or I mention a relative has a rare illness and we start getting pharma ads regarding that treatment. It’s good to be skeptical of the amount of data being constantly farmed from us.
C
Not saying it isn’t weird or concerning, you kidding me? You think I like the fact that my devices are pretty much always listening to me and tracking me just so they can bombard me with crappy ads and sell my data? It’s creepy and dystopian as hell. The point is that it’s incredibly moronic for someone to deny getting life-saving vaccines or to follow obvious cults just so they can appear morally/intellectually superior while they’re holding a device in their hands that proves all of their hypocrisy. I know the cult part can be a bit touchy; people have anxiety and that crap is designed to trick paranoid people who are, well…. a little stupid. But, at least for people like my aunt, it’s literally just so they can point fingers at another group of people and call them the problem without even a second of thought for self-reflection or observation.
R
A couple years ago there was a guy holding a sign in downtown Mesa, AZ that “The White House is using AI to persecute me” or something similarly wild.
M
Not me, on top of a building with a PC monitor from 1998, waiting for this guy to walk by \#getmonitored
S
I’ll wait downstairs with a large lizard of genus Varanus
S
🙄
B
All these people worried about being monitored are goddamn Sheetz cashiers and McDonald’s employees. Like, why is the government so concerned with you, almighty walmart greeter? What secrets do you know? I ask them too. They never have an answer.
B
They say it doesn’t matter because it’s governmental overreach; that’s the new phrase they’ve learned.
B
I hate when a group hivemind’s a word into their collective lexicon. Like how for awhile there everyone decided anyone who disagreed with them were narcissists that were gaslighting them.
T
This is Reddit. There are loads of words and phrases like that here. For example: hivemind.
B
Oh no. Hivemind has been hiveminded 🤣
N
While ignoring the, you know, CONSTANT governmental overreach all around us
B
Tomorrow’s buzzword is “surveillance state”, get ahead of the curve
R
I call it harassment personally /s
B
You should accuse them of watching you. That’ll really mess with em
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How much information could the aliens really get from a bunch of Walmart butter, though?
B
The real reason they won’t tell you is that it’s because they harbor thoughts of hurting others, or worse. The thought of others who could hold them accountable (*especially* the government) having insight into their lives and thus potentially their violent thoughts terrifies them. They hate nothing more than the thought of accountability for their own actions, which is why they seek out cults and other spiritual escapes that offer justifications for them.
T
This is completely wrong, you don’t understand psychosis. They believe they are special and that the government is going to stop them from doing whatever special thing it is, which is absolutely not violence universally. Please don’t demonize those with mental health problems.
H
You should be asking yourself why are you being treated like a criminal when you’ve done nothing wrong? The constitution says they should not be treating us this way yet they violate the constitution/bill of rights and do so. Why are you ok with them violating our rights?
B
If you’ve done nothing wrong, what’s being on CCTV got you worrying about? More importantly, how does walking past a security camera equate to you being treated like a criminal? You’re basically saying there that because criminals on the news or whatever are on CCTV, that everyone on CCTV is being treated like a criminal. Please help me understand this logic. Also please point out the specifics of the constitution that speaks about video surveillance in public places, I’d love to find how they knew about that.
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I mean, if you’re shifting the goalposts like that, you can say anything is/can/will be wrong and you should just, I dunno, live underground in a hole or something. What a weird argument. How often does that happen? Has it ever happened? Has anyone ever been arrested for a law that just randomly appeared? That’s some frankly insane paranoia there. But the fact is there’s laws and if you’re not breaking them, why are you bothered? I mean, are you out stabbing people or buying groceries? Who cares if you’re a dot in a datastream in a cloud, because the government absolutely don’t give a shit unless you give them obvious reason to, like, I dunno, shooting someone in public or robbing a store, then you pretty much deserve it, don’t you? To use your convention strawman for things like conventions or bars, wouldn’t you want somewhere like PedoCon2025’s attendees to be monitored? This “I don’t want the government watching me” reeks of so much self importance and Main Character energy, when the absolute reality is they don’t give a single atom of a fuck about you or what you do. At a stretch, companies might to try and automatically sell you stuff they think you’ll buy with minimal effort on their part – and even they don’t give a shite about you personally, you’re just data – but if that bothers you, log off. I was mostly laughing at the go-to retort of *its in muh constitushion*, too. If everything people like that say was in the constitution actually was, the same blokes would probably still be writing it now several hundreds years later and it’d be on a piece of paper wrapped several times around the Earth.
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You’re just gonna ignore WW2 like that? They literally just decided they don’t like a whole group of people and started rounding them up soon after. Having government overreach like that in our modern day would be so much worse.
B
I’m not even gonna engage with comparing CCTV to the Holocaust. Not even. That’s enough internet for me today.
R
Pretty hilarious to watch you shift the goal post while actively accusing others of it ..
R
You clearly have a fantastic grasp of the flaws in our system, by the “muh constitution” is kinda the reason we have this nation. Of course things have changed since the founding fathers wrote the constitution, and I guarantee they would welcome good and necessary changes as time goes on (hence the many amendments to our constitution). What is abundantly clear is that you have an opinion, just like everyone else. You fall back on the old cop trope of ” if you’re not doing anything wrong, why can’t I just look through your house, phone, car, backpack, cellphone…you’re innocent so you have nothing to hide.” That the world you want to live in? Or do you think that we have constitutional rights in place so wanna be fascists can’t arrest you for disagreeing with them.
B
Do people routinely go through your house, phone, car, backpack, cellphone or is it just when you’re suspected of doing/have done something to break the law? When was the last time? Does it happen often? Is it endemic in America? When last I looked and correct me if I’m wrong, disagreeing with a fascist is not currently an arrestable offence unless you actively do something criminal in the process. The world I want to live in is having people in charge using their powers to fight crime. If I was suspected in something for some reason, then sure, go through all my shit, you’ll find fuck all, because *I haven’t committed a crime.* It’s no more complicated than that. And you know what, the reason they can’t go through your house, phone, backpack, whatever the fuck is because *you’re not suspected in doing anything wrong. That’s why they can’t.* You’re aware of that, right? They need special powers, warrants, and probable cause. You know that, right? You also know there’s a vast gulf between having CCTV around watching you (and everyone else in a public place – as a security measure) and them *actively routing through your shit*, right? You are aware of that. The vast difference.
H
You dont get out much do you? The 4th amendment is being violated. Under the guise of security they are now tracking your activities and are building a profile about you. Where you are at what time, what stores you go to, etc. They are performing warrantless tracking on you. This isn’t a private business watching their property. This is now Ballsosteele was in the area during a protest so he MUST have been part of it! We are all STILL being treated like criminals thanks to the patriot act. Every message and phone call you make is being watched and saved by the government even though you have committed no crimes. Show me your bank account, show me your medical records, show me the inside of your house – you don’t care about privacy so why should you hide anything, afterall, you’ve done nothing wrong!
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