Interesting how these come to be. In this particular case, was it the sound of a revving motor? Or the fact that these circles are male dominated? Or the motion of the hand?

Thank you so much clearing that up! What was complete gibberish to me on their page is now readable at least. 🤣

I'm in a great position to ask a few (criminal) bikers that come to my office as per their parole. I'll either make it out unscathed and wiser than before, or I'll be beaten bloody. 🤣

SHUT UP!!! WHAT IS THIS WITCHCRAFT?! 😍 Immediately bookmarked it. I'll check out the deets later, but it looks awesome! Thanks!

Thank you very much for backing me, for your efforts and for putting all that so eloquently! I completely agree! Which isn't to say that we don't need forums where we share and teach each other the practical implementation of digital privacy, but this fight needs to be fought on both fronts.

Again, just to have it said out loud, I'm not trying to go behind the mods' back or talk badly about them! I appreciate them taking on moderation of this extremely important community on their free time, and that, too, shouldn't be diminished.

Unfortunately (?), I am not a STEM worker myself and as for programming, I just began learning C about six months ago, barely qualifying even as a hobby programmer. Which is to say, I have no insight into how well-versed or not these people are on history. With that said, I do believe that society as a whole - and feel free to call me a doomsayer - is about to face a third world war, because we haven't yet broken the cycle that is tragedy ---> unlearn tragedy ---> tragedy. Society as a whole - not programmers and STEM workers - is forgetting history. As to why, I can only guess. Perhaps we have been made too busy to stay educated, informed and critical. We are stunted and we have been bereft of our tools and motivation to take action. When I say "we", I mean people of the West, because in those parts of the world where Western imperialism has driven entire populations to poverty, there is a fighting spirit that we have all but forgotten... This is getting out of hand and very farfetched. Sorry!

I did not know that about Arendt's partner! Ever since we read the Banality of Evil as part of a German class, I have viewed her - or at least that particular work of hers - as source of inspiration, since, being born to a Jewish family, she also suffered at the hands of the Nazi for researching antisemitism. I do not view her theories as apologetic, but rather as very important messages to future generations: that every single person is capable of doing everything the Nazi did against the Jewish people under the "right" circumstances. That totalitarianism normalizes "evil" - please don't get me started on the definition of that - and that with the right indoctrination, even sending a person to a concentration camp can become a banal task.

Smack me for forcfully tying this together, but that banality is yet another threat to digital privacy, just as inaction (as per my previous post, which I realized now you never saw... shoot...) is. Marx says somewhere - heavily paraphrased - that the ideology of the ruling class trickles down to become the ideology of the people through various institutions and I hate to see just that, just now: the process of normalization of the invasion of privacy that is going on in the world.

Where you the one posting about smacking people in the face for wearing smart glasses the other day? In any case, I am glad you are still with us! I too have an extremely dystopian point of view on the future. While I do have anxiety over the fact that my life someday has to end, I am at the same time overjoyed that I was born in the late 80's, not having to put up with all the bullshit, the enshittification, the fall and decay of humanity and the complete and utter abandonment of what pride is still left in us.

If you'd like inspiration on the design of such signs, check this page out! https://banray.eu/en/A friend of a friend of mine made the site.