This only sorta works for today and if your friends never share images or videos online. The ever-increasing amount of people taking pictures and filming and posting them online means the day is quickly approaching where you could be identified and tracked through other people’s content, security & surveillance cameras, etc.

If stores start adopting the tracking used at Walmart and the Amazon biometric data, social media will be the last of your worries.

I’d bet mastodon saw an increase, but i haven’t seen the numbers.

It’s also hard to get a good count since it’s not centralized. So whatever numbers we do see, could be wildly underreported.

The named email says Abbott’s teams are working to “verify and confirm compatibility”, so it’s unclear if this is an actual issue or just a precaution over what they think could be an issue.

Sadly, not a surprise.

Somewhat recently, there was a drunk driver who hit and killed a cyclist and fled the scene and got 20 months. According to this, that’s at the upper end of what state law allows.

It depends on what you’re trying to do. What exactly are you concerned about?

Most ‘adblocking’ is only in a desktop browser unless you use solutions like pi-hole or some alternative. Pi hole can help block some apps, services, and other devices on your home network from doing certain types of communicating in addition to blocking certain ad-related connections.

Someone in another thread said he has a mastodon account. Dunno if he posts there or not.

Ive used pihole and also just removed the network’s settings.

If you want to stream, i don’t know how useful any of these mitigations are. You’re giving them some data to subscribe and use. Even if you share accounts, who knows what the apps collect.

That’s effectively what I was trying to say, but in a hurry and with much less detail. Re-reading it, I guess I focused more that it’s legal for states to make their own laws (like this one) which wasn’t really the question the person was asking. But you’re right, they can’t punish you for things done in a different state, which I tried to touch on with the dry county & Louisiana topics and just dropped the ball.

Thanks for adding to this.

Sure, but if it’s infinite money, it won’t matter, right? :)

[Edit: Sorry, I was in a hurry and slaughtered this answer. I wanted to just give a reply in case no one else did, but bungled it. There’s detailed replies to the above answer the better spell out that they can’t regulate what someone does in a different state. I suggest reading the other responses to better understand this, and ignoring this one. I’ll leave it just so you can see how not to respond in a hurry.]

In general, it’s not illegal and is the basis behind the states rights movement.

It’s been an ongoing thing in the US, probably forever. I think Louisiana still had a legal drinking age of 18 until the mid-80s when they finally changed it to 21 – only because Reagan was going to withhold federal money from the state. People still have to drive to wet counties/states if they live in a dry one (eg. no alcohol can be sold).

There are some things where crossing the border and doing something can get you in trouble, like trafficking or reselling certain things.

I like the idea of visiting other places and exploring, but I think I’d want to spend longer in each place. For the times I’ve travelled, I enjoyed the extended stays most where I really got to get past the surface and travel to the non-touristy places.

I honestly don’t know what I’d do with the infinite money. Definitely not having problems would be nice. First thing I’d do is probably make sure all my friends were set and comfortable for life and retirement. Then go from there.

Yeah, but then you’d have to live in Texas and deal with 10x the bullshit you have to deal with in other states.

Is it Cartman’s mom? Hey, it is Cartman’s mom!

would be super nice to have, especially if we could aggregate stats around how much time was spent on each of these bills (eg. debate time, etc).

Sadly, I suspect that most people wouldn’t care. They could likely turn these into a badge of honor saying they’re fighting against the deep state or whatever crazy nonsense people believe in now.

It’s a bit of a journey, but she does.

So if money weren’t an issue, where would you most want to travel?

That really sucks that it’s so expensive.

It’s a scifi story about a girl who gets hired to track down who has been posting video clips online. The book’s like 20 years old now, but was his first one set in the present instead of being in the not-so-distant future. It’s a fun read.

Oh wow, that’s expensive. Is it always that expensive or just because of the time of year?

The most recent fiction book I read was pattern recognition which was fun.

Nice! I’ve never been there either but had a friend who lived there for a few years. Well, maybe you’ll get to visit soon and use your Portuguese.

That’s awesome! Are you learning for some travel or just to learn?

Same mate. read. You?