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highcountess··on Warrantless FBI searches of American communications drop 50 percent
You do bring up a good point that others seem to be dismissing; I’m the title seems to be using a method of mitigating preconditioning, lean into the topic (gross violation of the most fundamental natural God given, Constitutionally protected right of privacy and the law against warrantless and unreasonable, i.e., unjustified searches.), which the author then proceeds to spin as a positive, i.e., a huge reduction … don’t ‘cha know … which is a good thing; totally sidestepping that the warrantless, secret police searches should be ZERO, not one, not two, not 57,000.

So what people take away is a conditioning to accept some level of illegal and treasonous surveillance.

highcountess··on Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died
He didn’t say that’s what happened, just someone did not understand how it could be done. The response suggested a possible way it could have been done. People are blackmailed and encouraged with carrots to do all kinds of extreme things. I know this for a fact.

I think people massively underestimate what a huge keystone Boeing is in the American empire. The top of the system has rapidly started getting extremely anxious about the stability of the whole system, especially as they are fomenting war with China and Russia and their plans not only becoming unstable, but actions they’ve taken revealing themselves as extreme risks in the light of stalled progression and unaccounted faults like what has been observed at Boeing the last years.

I personally see just the suspicion of what happened to these folks far more is a symptom of a failing system than is the failing system had neutralized them in hopes of snuffing out threats to keystone components if the empire. The people arts loosing confidence in the competence of the system, a far greater threat than even Boeing failing.

highcountess··on Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died
Que the leaked pentagon briefing from … what was it, 12 years ago … about the use of “vaccines” to alter the brain chemistry of people with “extremist” views, so they too may benefit from approved values.
highcountess··on Car manufacturers break promise about sharing location data with police
That has also crossed my mind in the past. The Chinese government being the source of conserving privacy from an acceleratingly authoritarian, western world dominating centralized government is rather ironic.

I could see it happen just for the Chinese to enter the U.S. market. It would also at the same time cause massive rifts in the west’s self-image of openness, equality, non-discrimination, anti-racism, etc (just like the TikTok ban is exposing) and the public will become painfully aware of the false and fake nature of our governments, if they block cars/Chinese companies without a legitimate justification.

If I were the Chinese I would do just that, not only offer cars that are not connected other than if one wants to connect their phone, but even make it a major issue and part of their identify and advertisement campaigns.

highcountess··on The European Union's remarkable growth performance relative to the United States
Germany is being gutted to “equalize” the EU zone in order to form a centralized authoritarian state like was accomplished in the USA following the civil war, when what as a union of sovereign states that were globally and among themselves represented in DC, were brought under an authoritarian centralize power structure through various sticks and carrots over the subsequent decades to the point that even American academia has settled on the fact that the USA is not a “democracy” at all, but rather a Plutocracy (last time I heard), but that may have also shifted more into a kleptocracy at this point.

The overarching goal of the oligarchs is to eventually merge and equalize the whole of the Americas and Europe into a kind of Oceania from 1984 and revitalize a kind of aristocracy, but whose power and control is abstracted and secured through technology. Some call it digital-feudalism, I think cyber-feudalism is more accurate because it evokes the nexus between human interaction with technology more.

Peoples are promised one thing and they always get something way worse from it, the EU that is effectively already an abstracted tyranny, is just one example.

highcountess··on AI-powered cameras installed on Metro buses to ticket illegally parked cars
Don’t worry, that’s probably one of the real reasons for 100 camera systems. As someone else pointed out, you don’t need 100 cameras to act as a policy enforcement and deterrence, but if you wanted to get constant surveillance of vehicles and people movements, recorded in public, you would want 100+ systems.

You can’t (currently) ticket people for crimes like speeding, but you can use it to ticket for other non-criminal violations like other parking violations, i.e., replacing meter maids.

highcountess··on We have 4 days to contest KYC being required by internet services
Geez … those are some long emerging occurrences.
highcountess··on Rents are soaring. Is RealPage to blame?
There is an inundation of foreign nationals holding in various camps and temporary housing that are fueling inflation (gov’t money printing, aka fraud) and will drive price increases soon as they start being interleaved into society.

The other side of the equation is also that the same inundation of foreign nationals into the system will drive down wages.

We are all riding the dragon. We shall see how it unravels.

highcountess··on Rents are soaring. Is RealPage to blame?
That seems localized and also heavily driven by the market manipulations of and through government pushing urbanization and wasteful co-located office work, rather than pushing for distribution and decentralization and remote working.

In the area I am spending some time in it seems to be a different situation. Several large apartment complexes were clearly planned/started a few years and are now approaching completion, while the influx of people has clearly declined. We are taking at the very least many hundreds of not thousands of apartment units. Many of the complexes are struggling to fill and existing complexes that have been sold and over-leveraged over the last several years are being poached with lease-up type deals, e.g., two free months.

I would love to know if these complexes are also outperforming. My anecdotal intuition is that they are not doing well, and will only get worse if the urban lobby will succeed, which is likely as it is closer to and in control of power and more corrupted than the non-urban lobby.

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