• Lemminary
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          12 months ago

          Wait, how? Because I only know about statistics and you usually want a comprehensive list to work with either partially or in bulk.

          • @LGTM@discuss.tchncs.de
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            12 months ago

            I think the point of big data is to collect enough information to extrapolate other qualities about whatever you want to know, so if everyone is on the list then you have no patterns to go off of besides “on Earth” or “in X country”.

            Side comment: if 99% of people were on the list, the the govt could just oppress everyone with a 99% accuracy rate. It’s entirely possibly they could pick a proportion drastically lower than 99%

      • Lemminary
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        72 months ago

        Ohh, I wonder what my rank is. I can get very competitive. 😈

    • @edgemaster72@lemmy.world
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      32 months ago

      Area 51 : Naruto run means they can’t catch us all :: List of people that dislike insurance companies : Knowing that gov’t jobs are gonna be cut to the bone for crypto scams and GOP pocket lining means they can’t monitor us all

  • @DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    772 months ago

    Imagine if government resources were spent on applying antitrust laws to stop this abusive situation that literally kills people and ruins lives instead.

  • @Gork@lemm.ee
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    622 months ago

    “Do you have the faintest idea of how little that narrows this down?”

  • vortic
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    982 months ago

    So, they’re finally admitting that they’re monitoring all of us.

    • @IceFoxX@lemm.ee
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      What the fuck… Really? Holy shit and what the actual fuck. As example ever heard about Snowden? Chelsea Manning? Assange? Unbelievable wtf

      • Amon
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        112 months ago

        People forgot about Snowden after a month, it’s been 12 years already, let it come back to the public consciousness

  • AnIndefiniteArticle
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    372 months ago

    In his manifesto, Mangione suggested the health insurance industry had “gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allowed them to get away with it.” He could just as easily have been describing the national security state.

    • Curious Canid
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      402 months ago

      I think it’s probably closer to 99%. Basically, anyone who isn’t a high-level executive in the health insurance industry.

  • @Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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    That’s fun. It does nothing to stop the near-daily in-person conversations with coworkers, friends, and family about this one topic that unites us all. So long as we’re beholden to this health insurance system that screws us over at our most vulnerable of times, those conversations aren’t going to stop.

  • JokeDeity
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    162 months ago

    That’s not news, we knew the NSA was spying on every American a decade ago.