The side effects of such widespread gun usage in the US are a bummer, but at least that proliferation of guns protected your country from being overrun by a tyrannical facist government.

6d ago

Couple left with $200k bill after baby born in US

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Agent641 @lemmy.world 6d ago

It's advisable not to travel to, over, or near the United States regardless of pregnancy status

6d ago

Always there, just waiting.

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Agent641 @lemmy.world 6d ago

Is that "pear pressure" my teachers warned me about?

6d ago

Always there, just waiting.

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Agent641 @lemmy.world 6d ago

Sometimes both simultaneously, somehow

6d ago

Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage.

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Agent641 @lemmy.world 6d ago

If you're going to use a Faraday bag, use it regularly, like every day at random times.

Imagine you are being accused of a crime. The crime occured at 8pm. The phone records show that your phone went dark at your house 7pm and then reconnected at 9pm at your house. The crime scene is 1 hour away from your home by foot. Records show this is the only time your phone went dark in a very long time.

So if you bag your phone (aluminium foil bags work pretty good too), do it regularly, randomly, and don't bag it and unbag it immediately before leaving or after getting home

6d ago

Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage.

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Agent641 @lemmy.world 6d ago

Leave your phone at home.

Don't drive your own car there, and don't get an uber.

Ride a scooter, bicycle, or walk.

Wear a dust mask, headphones (to prevent ear pattern recognition) and safety glasses.

Wear a high vis vest while working on the camera. The retro reflective strips show up as dazzling white on infrared cameras, washing out the image. It also helps make any witness assume you're a legitimate worker

Wear dark clothing with no logos over the top of something dorky, like a white Ralph Lauren shirt and golf shorts. Ditch the dark clothing if you even sense you might be stopped on the way home.

Put duct tape on the soles of your shoes to make the shoe prints indistinct.

Wear gloves, rigger gloves are fine, latex if you have nothing else.

Work quickly, never run (unless your under disguise is a jogging outfit).

if you see a cop, security, or any person that suspects you, believe in your heart and soul that you haven't committed a crime. Find a way to delete the act from your memory, become an innocent person in your own mind.

Emotional escalation to cop should be indifference, confusion, irritation, indignant, suspicion, and when detained or arrested, lawful but otherwise silent cooperation. That's how innocent people behave when suspected or accused of a crime. Once detained, say nothing except your name, age, DOB, address, license number ect and "I don't know, I need to speak to a lawyer." Even though they will ask you a thousand questions to try to get you to implicate yourself. There is nothing you can say that will talk you out of cuffs.