Encryption. For the poors, that is.
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It still sounds so insane. Imagine it being illegal for us two to share some public keys. It's like banning fundamental maths
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Well okay then, use steganography.
Secure Space Encryptor (https://paranoiaworks.mobi/) is one that I know and they have source code published, although I personally don't understand coding so I can't guarantee how secure it is, but its been out for like a decade and I haven't heard anything bad about it, and its on F-Droid.
They won't know you are secretly sending an encoded "ATTACK AT DAWN" message hidden inside the cute cat photo. (I mean unless they just shut down the entire communications infrastructure and even ban mailing stuff, which is unfeasible because of the economy)
They'll use ai to do pattern matches on available data to assassinate leaders of dissent or those capable of organizing resistance. Knowledge of encryption is uncommon enough of a population to be an acceptable cost.
Liberty and privacy. And it will take way less than 50 years.
Civillian use of Drones.
I'm very certain there's gonna be a 9/11-like terrorist attack involving drones and then governments all around the world are gonna get extremely paranoid and just ban it unless you get a special permit that only big corporations can get.
I'm honestly surprised we haven't seen an assassination by drone from a nonstate actor yet. It's cheap, would subvert many of the protections aimed at stopping shooters, and security likely wouldn't react in time or have the equipment to effectively stop it.
I’m honestly surprised we haven’t seen an assassination by drone from a nonstate actor yet.
There was the 2018 Caracas drone attack. Though that one is somewhat muddy in whether it actually was an assassination attempt or a false-flag attack done by the government itself.
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We don't have the clearance. 🤷🏼♂️
Dissent against the government.
Already illegal here in the uk to protest climate change.
Or to protest against genocide
Free expression, freedom of speech. Privacy. Home ownership.
I don't think americans will have to wait 50 years :(
Unlocking your bootloader
Dumping junk in space
Driving your own car.
But not in a good way. You’re expected to just die.
Disagree on the last part. They want to erode ownership. Driving will be a subscription of some sort.
Poors will be priced out by insurance companies. A large auto manufacturer, probably Tesla will buy one of the enormous insurers and start by offering lower rates for self-driving. Many will sign up and the standard startup playbook will follow. Personal vehicles will become luxury items and then you will be required to subscribe.
I wonder what the poor right will say when they don't own their car anymore?maybe they will have f350 self-driving trucks too and it'll be ok.
I'm hesitant to call what they are doing owning anyway, re: their trucks. Most people who drive those idiotic money pits are so far underwater on their loans I only have pity for them. I know people who have taken out 8 year loans on 70-80 thousand dollar trucks. Loans so high in interest and so long that they probably will never pay it off - to me the bank owns it 100%. I think most of them will gladly hand over their ownership if they can still feel "manly" by pretending their huge truck makes up for their own masculinity issues.
It’s insane how much trucks have skyrocketed in price! My wife’s job occasionally needs a truck so we had considered one as our second vehicle years ago and ended up figuring it was cheaper to own a car counting total cost of ownership unless we used the bed/hitch more than 3 times a week and that was at 40-50k… it’s like they’re allergic to money.
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Leaving your house without your papers and government issued ID.
I don't usually like SovCits, but like maybe we should really start popularizing SovCit movements. 🤔
I always had some sympathy with them. It just seems like they want off this awful capitalistic treadmill we find ourselves on. Everyone always laughs and belittles them, but I'm always rooting for em just a lil bit
If they went and lived in some remote mountain village or something I wouldn't mind.
But they claim all of this while driving without a licence or insurance. Would you be as sympathetic to their cause if they hit your car and cause serious damage?
I sort of understand their point but they've also been unimaginably selfish and entitled and that's the part I can't get behind. Also every single one of them is, without fail, an utter moron.
Or, you know, just being alive without them.
Emulators. There's a crack down that continues to happen as old systems become streaming services.
Certain food additives.
Private ownership.
Why would you even want this, when you can book it as a service without all the hassles and this highly criminal "privacy". What are you? A drug dealer? A pedophile? Both?
fingers crossed for child marriage becoming illegal (and in less than 50 years. the sooner the better)
I would hope being rich, but I'm not counting on it.
Being poor is already pretty illegal with no signs of changing
LGBTQ+
I'm not any of it, but I do support it.
In the US: Not wholly illegal but I predict erosion of the 4th amendment under the guise of keeping the country safe. I predict the definition of a "reasonable" search and seizure will expand.
Across the world: as someone else mentioned, encryption is going to start getting a lot more attention as well.
I also predict erosion of 2nd Amendment for non-whites
A lot of activity on the Internet
Being trans, wait you said 50 years not 0.5? Haha lol we're so fucked
Nah we'll win
We got this, and we got eachother.
Don't be silly. The concept of being trans is a relatively new thing, by historical timelines. Fuck me, older black grandparents lived "Whites only" signs. I've seen them.
F@g bashing was a legit sport when I was a teen. Jump dudes coming out of gay bars? Boys will be boys! And no one objected. What are you, a f@g?
Two steps forwards, one step back. Rinse and repeat.
And we ALL have to fight. Men had to fight to the death for labor rights, now they got a holiday, though we've forgotten what it was about.
Fighting might mean your personal extinction. Pick a fucking side, pick up a rifle, be there when you're needed and train. I train.
That pic of me is not a fucking uniform. It's not a "cool guy" pose. (But you gotta admit, it's a great pic!) It's actually ME, working to learn clothing and weather and arms and tool belts and ammo and whatever fucking works in the field. I strap on my AR and pistol, run and jump and sweat and shoot while shaking like a fucking leaf. It takes hard work and sweat. If anyone is on the fence about getting armed and trained, best time to plant a tree is now.
Gonna let the red hats have a monopoly on violence? Nah. Not me. As for me and my house, we serve John Browning (Gun nerd joke, apologies. TWO WORLD WARS!)
I should note; Had hell finding a pic of "liberal armed protestors". Pic I found, meh, those guys aren't looking too "practical", let alone "tactical". Didn't used to be hard to find such pics. Huh. Make of that what you will.
Final note if one wants to get strapped: PRACTICE IN ALL CONDITIONS. The slightest discomfort gets magnified 10x over a very short period of time when the going gets rough.
(Sorry OP, just venting.)
The concept of being trans is a relatively new thing, by historical timelines.
The historical record for what we would now call transgender people goes back over 4,000 to Ancient Babylon. And that's just the written historical record.
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Owning real estate. Similar to being a “qualified investor” today
Modifying most things (cars, android ROMs, PCs, etc.) It is right now to an extent but it will probably get worse.
Positive: ecocide universally accepted as criminal and backed up with meaningfully disincentivising penalties
Negative: being remotely off grid in any way. Probably a symptom of me being British, but I fully expect there to be a point where we're required to be constantly tracked (location, what you consume, what you see, etc) in real time and it'll become a crime to evade it.
Thinking.
All the above, but probably in 5 years.
Literally anything given that time period
"The year is 2075. Yesterday was the day the last legal thing became illegal. And what was the last legal thing, you ask? The answer is obvious in retrospect. It was law itself."
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Talking about the mortality of the warlord. Dabbing.
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