Google is trying to keep their own secrets like what their hardware MAC address really is, (because Google themselves are tracking everyone’s radio-enabled devices in every public space with far more sophisticated methods)
or hide/virtualize my credit card details, and protecting the card from crackers who wear hoodies, build EBM playlists, and use Firefox? that is a side-effect at best, especially considering how they are already a crazy non-bank middleman 3rd party with a miasma of shifting TOS and hundreds of advertising partners salivating to know what you paid for 3 milliseconds ago. Sheesh.
Hey pal I don't want to alarm you but the people opposed to STD treatment think you are a disease and want to eradicate you. They think LGBTQIA+ identities are a social contagion that must be protected from. Project 2025 wants to criminalize queerness as obscenity so that existing in public will be a sex crime. Coincidentally, they have a criminal law plan that calls for the execution of sex criminals.
I fully agree with that logic, and further think that the government should also not be subsidizing risky behavior through funding for STD treatment and prevention. People should get private insurance based on a lifestyle questionnaire to ensure that all costs are being appropriately allocated based on one's risk profile. If it turns out that it's significantly cheaper to be in a long-term monogamous relationship, well, then that's just the invisible hand of the market at work!
Risky behavior... of having sex? Do you think anyone getting cancer should just pay for it themselves instead of society working to treat everyone of cancer? Do you think we should have taken premiums on our insurance to get COVID Boosters?\
>If it turns out that it's significantly cheaper to be in a long-term monogamous relationship
1. Why are we applying the invisible market to our bodies? Do you understand how dehumanizing that is?
2. monagamous relationships can still get STDs. Despite the name, some can also be spread by simple skin contact. So don't shake the wrong person's hand, I guess.
> anyone getting cancer should just pay for it themselves instead of society working to treat everyone of cancer?
False dichotomy. Furthermore, “treat” is a creepy term that tends to conjure up images of sticky lollipops and Hallowe’en bandits with loaded diapers.
Some of us prefer not to subsidize immoral behaviors and activity on group health plans.
But in a hypothetical parallel utopia where chemotherapy is 100% out-of-pocket, my people would welcome fewer deaths from chemotherapy, far fewer invasive biopsies & “spelunking” diagnostics, and perhaps increasing incentives to produce cures, rather than Kevorkians.
Do you want to attract talent or people who take anything they can get? People who know what they're worth aren't going to waste investing their time into an employer who can't even guarantee that they'll still have a job next week.
Mundane government employees are some of the most dedicated workers I've met. There's a deep array of jobs that aren't flashy but are foundational and depend on staff who can build up long institutional knowledge.
Thars like saying "the reason the best employees are good is that they are paid the most money". You're putting the cart ahead of the horse here.
They are dedicated partially because they can spend their time focused on doing their job and not grinding leet code looking for the next pay bump in 2 years. Those pay scales are very strict in government, and very predictable.
Society over perceives it in fact (otherwise there wouldn't be such strong stigmatism), but there may well be unknown effects.
I believe many infections both sexually transmitted and otherwise have understudied neurological effects. It wasn't until the widespread wrath of long covid that public discussion really kicked off.
It's a border crossing, required unlocking of devices is common practice including especially by the US. National sovereignty is supreme and countries have the right to implement whatever procedures they deem necessary before permitting entry.
Unlocking of devices is distinctly different than “write your password on a slip of paper”. Even if they shred the paper, the room for sure has CCTV video recordings so they’ll have a copy there as well.
Good thing all of us here are following (and extolling) the advice to never reuse passwords, espcially when ones device is in an evidence locker and subject to controlled access by authorized personnel
The whole idea is that we need a definition that everyone agrees With. The OSD is what the software community at large agreed, so any licences that claim to be open-source are compared to that.
Cloning? Bioweapons? Ever larger nuclear stockpiles? The world has collectively agreed not to do something more than once. AI would be easier to control than any of the above. GPUs can't be dug out of the ground.
Grifter crypto scams aren't necessary when it's possible to fleece taxpayers directly.
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