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Cake day: April 17th, 2019

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  • Was summoned once, and ended up on the jury. It was a really sad case where the cops were trying to put an 80-something year old former convict back in prison, because his son in law had a gun in the house (that they searched because of something the son in law did, but no charges were brought against him), and that was a violation of the 80-year-old’s release conditions from like 40 years ago.

    I really wanted to end up on the jury in order to keep this guy out of prison, which luckily we did. The defense was very smart in making his case sympathetic, even though legally the guy had no leg to stand on. There were a few jurors that wanted to imprison him, but we finally got them to go with the majority to ignore the law and keep him out of prison.

    The easy rule of thumb if you do/don’t want to be on the jury: the less you talk, the more likely you are to end up on the jury. The more annoying you are, especially talking about how busy you are, or asking a lot of pointless questions: the less likely you are to end up on the jury.












  • College / university in many countries.

    In the US at least, its become such a parasitic industry, with tuition fees rising exponentially and far exceeding wage rates and job availability, that it accounts for a large portion of most people’s personal debt.

    With so many applicants for so few jobs, a college degree is the new highschool diploma / “minimum requirement” for nearly every job now. 1 / 4 US adults have student loan debt, with an average of 40k in student loans.. Nothing is putting the brakes on degree inflation, tuition, or the student loan industry.

    The US federal government also makes a killing off of student loan interest fees, most of which is going to the MIC and Israel.

    They’ve made the product they’re selling you (a degree), both required, and extremely expensive; the ultimate goal of any parasitic industry. Its a dream for state and private colleges, the US government and its military, and a nightmare for people either without a job, or chained to their desks for fear of losing their job and getting further behind on loan payments.



  • Dessalines@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.mlSignal in 2026?
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    Signal DOES have my phone number but they can’t tell my government anything other than yes I use Signal yes I connected to it today

    This is incorrect. They also have your full name and address by extension, as well as those of everyone you communicate with.

    They’re also subject to national security letters, meaning the US state can get that info without a warrant.

    Just read the first article I posted, it gets into all this.

    The 2nd article is the signal CEO Meredith Whitaker interviewing with lawfare, which is a US defense industry think-tank.



  • People are not as stupid as these large centralized sites like signal keep telling you they are. Ppl figured out how to make accounts on different services, forums, and platforms since the internet began. It is no more difficult to make a matrix account, or install simpleX than it is anything else. My partner and I figured out simplex within 10 minutes.


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    none of this information ever leaves your client device, so

    The phone number you gave to signal to sign up never left your device? Do you truly believe that?

    When you send a message through signal, do you actually think “nothing” left your device?