You clown, hot has been defined as 100°F since 1724. Therefore 50°F = 50% hot.

110°F = 110% hot. It still holds up.

Sorry I stole it from a reddit post, so I don’t know the answers to your questions.

This whole privacy thing is based solely on belief? There’s no practical reason for it unless you’re on a state actor’s list or something?

Inspire me

Here’s my personal answer to that question. I care about privacy. However, maintaining it has become a never ending process that gets more complicated as time goes on. Plus there’s always more one could do. I’m not going to stop using payment cards, I’m not going to get a prepaid phone running graphene, I’m not going to whatever comes next.

I’m starting to think that my personal cost/benefit analysis is leaning towards not caring about privacy. What have I gotten out of trying to maintain privacy? Inconvenience and expense. What have I gained from letting the creepy corpo overlords watch me? A decent map app, autocorrect, 3% cash back at restaurants and groceries, facebook marketplace. It really seems like I get services and discounts for giving up my privacy.

I even signed up for that fucking global entry program so I can have TSA precheck and get through customs fast. I hate that. It feels so wrong but I’m growing increasingly sure it doesn’t matter. I’m not special, the government won’t care about me now or in the future, and the benefits of not caring outweigh the gains of trying to hide.

This is a terrible point of view, I know, but I just don’t care anymore. I like the idea of privacy, but I’m finding the practicality to be too difficult.

This right here is why you don’t have a romantic partner

The missiles aren’t pointed at countries, they’re for shooting down other missiles. They’re also likely quite small with tiny warheads, so wouldn’t matter much to cities on the ground.

Right, but if it’s compromised what’s a faraday cage going to do? As soon as you remove it from the cage it’ll reveal your location.

Here’s a pdf link to a 2020 NSA publication on the subject: https://media.defense.gov/2020/Aug/04/2002469874/-1/-1/0/CSI_LIMITING_LOCATION_DATA_EXPOSURE_FINAL.PDF

It seems that powering the device off is sufficient unless the device is compromised.

Some phones, even if they are turned off, still send telemetry data.

I can’t find anything other than redditors making this claim. Is there a better source I can look into?

Why would one want to put their phone in a faraday cage? I know what the cage does, but don’t understand why you’d want to use one instead of turning the device off.

Edit: According to this, unless your phone is compromised, turning it off is sufficient.

PDF link: https://media.defense.gov/2020/Aug/04/2002469874/-1/-1/0/CSI_LIMITING_LOCATION_DATA_EXPOSURE_FINAL.PDF

If they’re proper student loans then interest doesn’t accumulate while you’re a student.

People typically get paid to earn a PhD, so this person’s debt likely came from elsewhere, unless they grossly overpaid for their undergraduate education.

Why aren’t any raids being reported in Texas?

I’ve noticed this as well, first time was Texas in 2020. I’d lived in other places prior and never noticed it. I’ve sinced moved away from Texas, and the bahavior is a lot less common here. I couldn’t figure out why people did it. My theory is, people initially stop at a reasonable distance from the next car and pull out their phone. The next car moves a bit forward for some reason, and the person on their phone doesn’t notice.

Shhhh! Do you want bears? That’s how you get bears. The name was lost, never type it again.

Go on…?

Water is the nickname. We forgot its real name

Pssh, those are only the humans we know of.