Careful, you’re awfully close to invoking a sentient swarm of spiders.

I think you read my response through a filter. China has tons of Americans there doing just fine. Just don’t go public with any dissent and you’re fine. That’s not the case with the other places I mentioned.

Your initial post acted like there’s nowhere on earth that is just straight up dangerous for westerners and that’s purely fantasy. Yeah there are places Americans consider more dangerous than they are, I’ll give you that very minor point. However, there’s also a real legitimate reason that Americans pretend to be Canadian when traveling. And there’s a legitimate reason that places are hostile to Americans, but not Canadians. You’re just being ignorant with altruistic values, but it’s ignorance all the same.

Edit: or at least, that’s how I’m taking your ignorance, with a whole bunch of benefit of doubt.

Cyclist gets detained in Russia, basketball player detained in russia, tourist gets put into coma before dying for stealing North Korean poster, hikers detained in Iran. There are a lot of people with passports and these glowing ideas that were all the same, and going to places will broker friendships and change things. These may be enlightened ideals, but very, very stupid actions. Going to Mexico is fine but you better fucking be smart about it. Go with a large group and stay where you’re supposed to, you should be fine. My company had at least 2 security guards for anyone taking business trips to Mexico because they’ve had to pay ransoms in the past.

To act like going to dangerous places is enlightening is a very stupid take. Look at how many journalists died in Gaza, and those are a supposedly protected group who generally know what they’re doing. Extreme tourism is absolutely stupid in my opinion. I traveled enough while in the army and don’t currently have a passport, nor am I interested in getting one. If I ever leave this country again, it will be permanent.

Awfully lumpy for something that’s supposed to fly.

Thank the aquatic birds.

I’m being funded by penguins. I don’t know why, I don’t even like mackerel that much but these fuckers swam from Antarctica, up the Mississippi, up a few tributaries, to deliver more fish than I know what to do with. So I can’t tell them to fuck off and that I already am on their side. That’d just be mean. So anyways, anybody want some fish?

God I hope so.

There is literally no benefit this tech brings, that is worth the risk.

That’s a defeatist attitude before its even really big

That’s just straight up not a good future.

Until it’s not. It’s just best to abandon this tech tree altogether.

As long as there’s no camera or recording ability, sure. But my VR screen and headphones are great but they don’t record anything.

Open source and self hosted doesn’t protect others from you recording surreptitiously. You’re totally understanding the problem.

There is NOTHING good from this tech that outweighs the bad.

The park, the pool, parties, government and business areas, these things should never exist anywhere.

No, none of this. It doesn’t matter if there are “good guys” versions. It shouldn’t be a thing at all because it never goes the good way. They’ll be bought out by Google or apple, and add in ads and tracking software. Or they’ll get big and change core values. Remember when googles motto was like, don’t be evil, or something like that? It definitely isn’t that anymore. There is no scenario where this kind of tech doesn’t turn bad.

Even open source, it should not happen. Nobody should have a camera on them that isn’t identifiable as recording them. Phones are bad enough but at least you know where the camera is pointing. It’s why I keep my phone parallel with the ground in public. Cameras on glasses should not exist in any way, shape or form because you can’t know if it’s recording you or not. And honestly I want nothing to do with a cyberpunk future.

Just try this epidermal implant. You’ll love it. But, you’ll need the brain implant to activate it…

I don’t want to think too deeply about it that I consider taste.