> ... a non-password protected database that contained nearly 1.3 million records ... Breach is not the word I would use here.
if you forgot to lock your front door, and your TV was gone, does that count as burglary?
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Because the covid outrage industry has gotten boring. It used to be about how we were going to be forced to stay home forever, then it was about how we'd be forced to wear masks forever, and now that that stuff didn't come to pass it's fizzling out as the people who still have a chip on their shoulder need to find some passive aggressive way to be outraged and oppressed.
Keep in mind that the experiences that people had during 2020, 2021, and 2022 differed a lot based on where they were located.
Across Canada as a whole, for example, there were a lot of harsh, extremely harmful, and blatantly stupid "public health" policies that were forced on the general public pretty much the entire time.
Quebec tended to be far more totalitarian about the restrictions than the other provinces, though. People in Quebec had to endure awful curfews, for example, while that generally wasn't the case elsewhere in the country.
Toronto forced masking months before it was forced across the entire province of Ontario.
The "unvaccinated" people, including those who were perfectly healthy the entire time, also faced significant discrimination and harm into late 2022, well after it was obvious that many people who'd taken numerous shots were still getting sick.
Also, a significant number of people lost jobs, lost their businesses, lost educational opportunities, were prevented from visiting with dying loved ones, were prevented from holding and/or attending funerals, and otherwise suffered other irreparable damage.
Maybe you lucked out and were in an area where the restrictions weren't too bad. That certainly wasn't the case for everybody, though. Lots of people went through prolonged and completely unnecessary suffering, and they will never forget how they were harmed.
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It is possible for people to train themselves to recognize dog whistles like yours.
What am I dog whistling exactly? Do tell.
Generally, the use of the word 'coerced' involves threat of force, which approximately zero employers invoked. When you use it to describe conditions of employment, you're conflating violence with company policy. Most people at this point are going to infer that you have some kind of problem with the pandemic response, whether they agree with you or not. So, that's likely the dogwhistle being referred to here.
Meanwhile, if you are making a good-faith argument that employers have too much control over their employees' health care, feel free to get involved with organizing labor unions.
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I was commenting w.r.t. employer-mandated tests of some/any sort. Things you might have to do as part of your going-to-work daily routine. During the pandemic, I had a few customers who would take temperature when you arrived on-site, and put it in the paper contractor/visitor log. If they'd wanted me to submit the data to some third party and actually associate it with my and/or my business's name, I'd have had a pr…
I think I only once had to take a test to attend an event--and the company that handled the process claimed that records weren't kept. Of course, I had to submit proof of vaccination on many occasions including to my company. I assume required testing was much more common in domains like healthcare.
Yeah I carried my vaccine card for a while, I never had to get a test of any sort for entry, but did have to get my temperature taken a bunch.
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Apple can be hacked like anyone else.
Shared passwords place you at risk if any of serval services are hacked. Password managers provide similar convenience with a smaller attack surface. I’ve defaulted to picking random passwords for most services which I don’t bother to remember instead using password resets. But it’s inconvenient.
I like the approach but some places lockup functionality after resets. Been burned too often.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was commenting w.r.t. employer-mandated tests of some/any sort. Things you might have to do as part of your going-to-work daily routine. During the pandemic, I had a few customers who would take temperature when you arrived on-site, and put it in the paper contractor/visitor log. If they'd wanted me to submit the data to some third party and actually associate it with my and/or my business's name, I'd have had a pr…
How many temperature readers now log the information to the cloud?
Doesn't matter if there's no way to tie it back to the individual; that is, the information on whose temperature is never available to the reader.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
What am I dog whistling exactly? Do tell.
Generally, the use of the word 'coerced' involves threat of force, which approximately zero employers invoked. When you use it to describe conditions of employment, you're conflating violence with company policy. Most people at this point are going to infer that you have some kind of problem with the pandemic response, whether they agree with you or not. So, that's likely the dogwhistle being referred to here. Meanwh…
>Generally, the use of the word 'coerced' involves threat of force, which approximately zero employers invoked
Yes. Forcing someone to choose between losing their job or undergoing unusual and routine mandatory, invasive medical procedures, which can lead to consequences like those mentioned in the above article, constitutes coercion.
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#68> ... a non-password protected database that contained nearly 1.3 million records ... Breach is not the word I would use here.
if you forgot to lock your front door, and your TV was gone, does that count as burglary?
Don't have a front door and an open diary was copied with personal info?
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#69I've gotten myself tested by a lab in Amsterdam a few times. What do I do now?
I'm in the industry and even I don't have an actionable course to take.
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1. Consider the pandemic response an international hysteria specifically engineered by the global elite to move as much real value up the socioeconomic ladder as possible. 2. Don’t consider the Dutch to be any different. 3. Bingo. The Dutch fit into the diatribe. I don’t understand why you think this would somehow be difficult to contend with.
difficult isn't the word as opposed to "hilarious", "waste of energy", "deaf ears", "lack of focus on what can be controlled"
I like to think the Dutch don't fall for conspiracies' as much.
But there was that whole 'Tulip mania' thing that happened.