the only time you should hand over your ID like a passport or stuff like that is when you absolutely need to. for example like crossing international borders, opening or operating a bank account or applying for a driver's license. those are all valid cases and highly regulated.

but this for profit corporation will just use your data to target you for profit. they even sold mobile phone numbers used for 2FA to advertisers. can you really trust them now with this nonsense?

People could just make thousands of copies of their secret writings and journals,
personal photos,
maps of every place they go, every place they have been,
license numbers,
social security numbers,
all banking and social accounts, complete contact list of every person ever met,
where they have been employed,
and anything else that makes them who they are.

Box it up and rent a truck.

Take the box of, "what makes you, you", and go the nearest, largest building packed with the most people you have never met and will never see again.

Hand them copies of everything from the box and walk off.

If only we started by just denying them the use of all these data we give.

Why the fucking hell do we accept to have so much accounts?

@Miro_Collas

Yes.

One problem with the analogy is it assumes US so-called "debt" is a burden. As the US cannot run out of USD, the debt is just a bookkeeping figure (ie, not repayable). 1950's Britain's debt was real.

Still, it could be the end of the petrodollar. 🤞

You're right about the debt, I was thinking the same thing. Heck, banks fabricate money out of nothing all the time. How else could they sell debt at pennies on the dollar?

But yes, one can hope. The big concern is what happens within the US in the meantime.

@Miro_Collas

Yes, and on what the US-Israeli fascistic psychopaths might do with their nuclear arsenal.

😱

PS you might already know this, but just in case:

The US federal govt alone, can issue USD (via the Fed, the central bank - & only on govt instruction)

Non-central banks can never issue currency (loans to customers are repayable debts, not new money)

@Miro_Collas

Thanks, yes, have read & seen. Fabulous, fabulous film!

My point was just on how sovereign currency-issuing systems work per se, not all the associated mechanisms, legit or otherwise...

The central advantage is that US can never run out of, & never has to borrow, USD.

Talking about big scary "debt" is just a tactic US fed govt uses to keep workers quiet.

No need to apologise! I just wasn't sure if we were on the same banknote 😁

Not sure what you meant before by "on paper" for sure ( or similar)

@Miro_Collas

Yes, understand the brain ache ☹️

Just in case it helps, there's only one key idea we laypeople need to know, namely, where money comes from (the rest is detail that doesn't matter to most of us).

The US, UK, Canada, Japan, Australia, etc. create their own currency (in the act of buying stuff).

Only the central government (via its government bank) can lawfully do that. No other banks can.

PS nowadays, 99.999% is done by electronic transfer, not by physically printing notes

Yes, but it isn't a cut and dry, across the board answer

There are issues with social media in general with the sheer amount of access that anyone can have to an onslaught of information

But that's also an important part of allowing people to find themselves

It is not that social networks exist, or that they are social that makes them unhealthy, it's algorithmic manipulation by billionaires.

I have just had the unfortunately experience these past few days of what happens when Facebook randomly decides to put my political posts in front of the eyeballs of angry white men.

The only reason why I am here typing is because there were people who liked my tweets at Twitter.

If I didn't have SNS, I would have unalived myself at 10.

Yes.

Most are already unhealthy for adults, and minors have even fewer psychological tools than adults to protect themselves from the harm they cause.

So, they're even more unhealthy for minors.

ah. I now see where the support for the privacy invasion legislation is coming from.

the idea that children should sit silent, isolated, and inert, until their 18th birthday whereupon they magically gain all the skills needed to live well is what's unhealthy for children.

just let them live their lives with unconditional agency, love, and support. I guarantee you it is better. sometimes they might go online! you are just going to have to find a way to deal with that, team.

Conceptually, no. An online social space isnt automatically anything but social

But as created and run currently, by people and corporate entities who design social networks to maximize engagement by outrage and do not design for healthy use?

That's bad for basically everyone, especially kids who are still learning to navigate their physical social spaces.