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They can recognize your face as you tap at the turnstile. Maybe they don’t do it now, but if they currently don’t they will in the name of anti-terrorism.


Remember, pedophiles get the train too.

Won't you think of the children?


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> Do people like you....

Your post comes across as an ad-hominem attack. I read the post you're replying to as a warning, nothing more.


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Your comment brings to mind my experience on reddit: no matter how innocuous something I wrote seemed to me, someone attacked me for it. I finally bailed.


I'm sorry to hear it :( That may be what's happened here, an innocuous comment mis-taken by myself.

But before I go finally, tell me please in your view what was a reasonable interpretation of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21823201 I pretty well described how it came across to me, effectively that we're all in a surveillance society and if we aren't we soon will be like it or not. I can salvage nothing worthwhile from that poisonous nihilism.


It does seem a bit harsh, what with a number of signalling words etc.


I read that as realism, not fatalism. And not indicating any level of agreement or support of the prospect.

Your ad hom is utterly uncalled for.




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