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    Centuries from now, some historian is going to dig up a dusty ass old hard drive, and find this image on it. There will be experts in internet meme history that they will take this meme to, who will be able to identify the exact week that it was posted based on the archaeological record of acorn cop and Taylor Swift jet memes

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      Hopefully they find our comments too.

      ‘Sup future people! Btw all that other shit in the news is really happening! It isn’t some War of the Worlds confusion or running joke or something like that.

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        You really think the future is gonna be less crazy than it is now? I think the future is gonna be fucking insane. Just wait and see what AI does

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          My thought process was that if the future people exist and have the means to read these comments, they could be from one of the timelines where civilized minds won out. Plenty of the bad timelines won’t have anybody there to read these words. :/

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      Recently an acorn fell on a cop car, the cop thought it was gunfire, empied his magazine over it, and then did a fucking barrel roll.

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      Inhale vegetables explained half of it. The other half are two memes about Taylor Swift. One is the right-wing conspiracy that she’s secretly a far left agent (and thus might have an interest in things like “ACAB” and getting cops fired). The other is criticism of her for her environmental impact by virtue of how much she flies everywhere in a private jet (you may have seen a bunch of other memes on your Lemmy front page entitled "TayTay on her way to…” showing her private jet).

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        The other bit of this is that Taylor Swift sent a C&D letter to Jack Sweeney who is the guy who has been publishing flight paths of various celebrities. Sweeney obtains this data publicly because since 2020 all aircraft (with few exceptions) are required to use ADS-B transponders. The ADS-B system has numerous safety benefits compared to previous systems, but a side effect is that every aircraft now constantly broadcasts its position, velocity, and altitude information, and anybody who wants to can build a ground station capable of receiving this information.

        Generally, threatening legal action against somebody who isn’t doing anything wrong or illegal is considered a dick move, and puts Taylor Swift in the same category as Elon Musk (who has also previously threatened legal action against Jack Sweeney). So we are proceeding to make fun of her without remorse, as it was her decision in the first place to fly privately, which is very bad for the environment.

        Instead of threatening to sue the guy who’s breaking no laws and publishing information that is already public, she could just consider another mode of transit if privacy is that important to her. But in the meantime we will enjoy the memes

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          It’s not just about making fun of her. You’re leaving out a very important part.

          It’s also about making fun of the conspiracy nut jobs that think the Superbowl was rigged and that Swift was behind the whole thing, which is the premise behind her plane being the one that dropped the acorn

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          Every motorized form of transportation requires publicly-visible identifying information on the vehicle.

          If she were traveling by car, anyone who had cameras watching roads could report everywhere she went.

          I hope you can see how that would be the same process of collecting and then publishing public information, and how it might still be worthy of a lawsuit given how a record of everywhere someone’s car has driven to is creepy.

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            This take is hot off the press and I haven’t really thought it through, and you can call me an extremist if you want, but billionaires don’t deserve privacy

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          every aircraft now constantly broadcasts its position, velocity, and altitude information, and anybody who wants to can build a ground station capable of receiving this information.

          Isn’t this a pretty serious security concern? What if some armed group gets their hands on these real-time aircraft flight paths?

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            I mean everyone can already get their hands on it: https://www.adsbexchange.com/

            The exceptions to ADS-B requirements include military aircraft. Awhile back a friend and I were in the Nevada desert and some F-35s buzzed past us at only a few hundred feet. I was curious about the flight so I checked ADS-B exchange, and sure enough there was no trace of it. Friend got a cool picture though.

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            Generally speaking we rely on a culture of trustworthiness more than we rely on a culture of security in the US.

            It’s why you can buy things with a credit card without showing ID. You can sign with a slightly squiggled line and it never gets looked at.

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            Ignoring the fact that everyone has their hands on these flight paths because it’s publicly available data, what if they did? Genuinely, what do you think is the worst that can happen?

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                You know militaries don’t need publicly available flight tracking to shoot down planes, right? Like, they have machines that tell them exactly where everything in the air near them is all the time.

                Plus, airlines literally post departure and arrival times on the internet as part of their business model. Even if you didn’t know exactly where the plane was and when, you could make a pretty educated guess based on that information.

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                  That wasn’t a military. It was a separatist group. My concern is that broadcasting your location significantly reduces the difficulty in shooting you down, to the point some armed group can do it.

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            I remember when wanting to end the careers of idiotic cops who shoot at acorns wasn’t a partisan issue.

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              For other former non-partisan topics, see also:

              • Fighting nazis
              • Space exploration
              • Having a planet that can support life
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                  Who even knows. Republicans are always attacking NASA. At various points because it was “woke”, or researching climate change, or an easy target for budget cuts.

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                  They believe leaving space to private companies results in greater success

                  Personally I think if the government taxed all these billionaires the equivalent to what they spent on space then NASA would be ahead of all of them but I don’t make policy