lonerangers1

I was thinking about the airport monitor that shows only your flight info because it can detect you and id you. And how many stores now have digital price tags on the shelves they can change remotely. Combine the 2 and you can have custom pricing per individual irl. 2 people standing next to each other in walmart be looking at the same thing and seeing different prices on the same display.

"The contracts, which ranged in size, were for mundane tech like phone services as well as advanced tools from big and small companies. Palantir, the provider of data-analysis tools that was co-founded by the billionaire Peter Thiel, received more than $1 billion over the past four years. Venntel, a provider of location data, had seven contracts with ICE totaling at least $330,000 between 2018 and 2022."

I have been watching these companies. ClearviewAI is contracted by homedepot and walmart. They have 30billion faces from zuckerbergs stash. Thiel is an OG funder. Also, he was there for the start of flock safety, who bought a company called aerodome in october. Flock uses cops as sales teams and pr. They are the license plate reader owners. They also have the cops go to businesses to pressure them to let flock have a backdoor to the cameras (and data, its hardware installed on the network) So flock has a comprehensive surveillance network across the country. Fed ex trucks, cops cars, corporate retail,.... But, aerodome, they are drones as first responder focused. All the drones in NJ were just days after flock bought aerodome.

There is no hiding anymore.

good parent.

walmart rolled this out and call it "dynamic pricing" I have known for half a decade that a VPN can yield me discounts and you get different prices by region for the same product, like an ISP. For the most part it seems simply being unknown provides the desired outcome. I don't think any part of dynamic or surveillance pricing is designed to ever bring a price down over learning about someone.

Do you live in a city? Wheres this danger at? My city keeps getting safer year after year.

90% of crime is indeed not solved by these companies. They are lying and the cops and media parrot the bullshit. No one is in a position to criticize them. The cops are their PR and sales team.

I keep spouting off about how cops use geofencing and a bunch of peter theil tangent companies are contracting with cops. Flock safety is selling cops drones and leasing cameras to cops, they also use the cops to get companies to install backdoor access to their cameras. So clever to use cops as sales and pr. But no one reads about it. They just listen to the capitalist media spew how 90% of crime is now solved thanks to this company, and other erroneous statements. The propaganda is wildly out of control.

Like everything that this goon touches, this neuralink shit is a farce. The leads need to be placed very specifically, then they need to not move with brain growth. They move, and fail, and then musk doctors get to open your head up again to reset them. This shit is never going to be viable. With muskrat involved it is certainly to be a grift.

But, this company synchron has it figured out. No placing leads, no open brain surgery. Outpatient install, and adaptive. Thing becomes part of the vein wall.

Thanksgiving was told to us in grade school as a fable of pilgrims and indians being friends. But what really happened was more like a bunch of colonizers showed up and murdered the indians and took the land they lived on to claim as their own. Thanksgiving is the celebration of whitewashing genocide, some may say.

So that may factor in here

For sure.

Standard oil was pouring gasoline into rivers as waste before Henry Ford and his Model T came along.

The auto industry gutted public transit across the country. GM diesel buses replaced electric urban rail systems.

GM made the EV1 and it was a huge hit, then they destroyed them all after collecting them from their users (they leased them all, no one got a chance to buy any)

And now, Ford just got a bunch of credit for putting a Billion $$ into the Detroit central train station, .... so they can "design" EVs.

They are mocking us, that train station has no trains because the auto industry killed them. The building was unused because of cars. And now they are going to design something that was figured out 125 years ago that they destroyed. It is a monument to their domination of our economy.

Imagine, what kind of public transit we could have if we stopped building infrastructure for car companies and built actual mobility systems?

I moved to Detroit from a HCOL city I was established in. I was renting and the options I had to buy were not hopeful. The taxes alone would have kept me working for more money year over year for the foreseeable future.

I took what would have been a down payment and bought a place outright. I bought a project and it was cheap, only half my down payment fund.

Now I am all set up. I have no mortgage to pay. My house costs me taxes ($1700/yr) and insurance ($1500/yr) plus utilities ($50 internet, $150 gas&electric, $60 water) That is about $550/month.

In michigan, taxable value increases are capped at 5%.

I figure I can work any job and stay ahead of the bills. Yesterday I did a brake job for a friend of a friend for $200 and didn't even need to leave the house. I can do things like this here and there and get by without even having a job.

I have never known this amount of stability in housing as an adult before. It is wild. I own this whole damn house and everything in it. I also made a bunch of equity right out the gate by fixing up an abandoned trap house.

Not trying to lay out a plan for others, just wanted to share how my plan has been a success and that Detroit is a place where home ownership is attainable.

Oh, couple other things. I have no kids and the schools were not a problem for me. Although the neighborhood kids are all wonderful.

I am not interested in living in "the country". I am a city person, I want my resources close. I can walk to a hardware, grocery, and auto parts store from my place. No thanks on 30min drives to dollar general and TSC on the fancy days.