Aqivex

Alas. It is not, sadly, relatively easy. At least, not the legal and certain way I would need for my (non-race sharing) family too. I can’t just go “visit” one of a handful of acquaintances I know in the country, and overstay a tourism visa to later hope an asylum claim lands.

A few years ago and if I were $250,000 USD richer than I am, and it indeed would have been trivial to obtain Spanish citizenship.

Now all I got left to hope is the fact that history’s closest turnover of the varied oppressed tapestry that genetically makes me up marks me as Puerto Rican/Mestizo/Other.

Spain was forced to give up their claims on their former colony, whose people still can be disenfranchised with a mere pen stroke because only a ‘law’ grants me my US citizenship, not something as lofty as a “constitutional amendment”.

I’m making a deal with Blahaj. Once I get the power to escape, you’re all going to rue the day!

but it makes both the star wars, and star treck nerds mad.

Indeed.

Considering I’m in the US…yeah. In a heartbeat.

Half hoping Spain gets woke enough to offer asylum to the descendants of their colonizing days, honestly. I got two different flavors to pick from and I can lisp my ‘vosotros’ like a champ.

I don’t know if you’re spreading needed awareness of the lengths and conviction required, or if you’re fear mongering.

Your own link goes over why that approach is full of failings that prevent it from being an effective blanket control tool. A hardware backdoor is not the end all, be all. There’s mitigation and even effective action possible to ensure usability even on a device known to be compromised.

Then there’s the powered off Bluetooth beacons thing. Yes, trying to start the revolution with comms infrastructure reliant on off the shelf capitalist bounty is moronic, and it’s doubly so to attempt to operate it in an improper manner.

That does not make the enemy any more overwhelmingly strong than it makes the hypothetical freedom fighter overwhelmingly weak.

Here’s an easy protip for both concerns by the way: Get in on the old tech renaissance and get good at Tony Starking up your specific scraps up to a minimum level of interface capability with a modern stack that ain’t up yet but will. That will be the surface that the nerd brigades will need those who can connect to it on, to push back.

They can’t supply chain attack backwards through time, there’s too many garage sales to infiltrate and an early 00s flip-phone Frankensteined onto a cyber deck made of solder, glue, and spite doesn’t BT Beacon Snitch.

Why the fuck is the AuDHD drive by audience taking potshot in a sentence equating it with creepiness and unwashed-ness?

Did one of us touch you in a bad spot or something else wrong with you?

Imo, the ladder goes:

Rest of the terrestrial animal kingdom < Bengal Tigers < Polar Bears < Hippos < Rhinos < Elephants < Honey Badger.

That’s as far as the ratio of animal capability to fuck something up divided by willingness to kick something else’s ass goes.

I actually think the Tiger and the Polar Bear are fairly close in terms of power and lethality, and it would all come down to whether the Tiger had the opportunity to stalk, which it probably would avoid doing anyways to something the size of a Polar Bear.

I still do not know where Honey Badger rightfully belongs on Earth’s tourney ladders, so I rather err on the side of caution there in case one reads this.