Enkrod

Surveillance systems are able to differentiate between identical twins. Even if they look the same and have the same genetic code.

Good surveillance software can recognize you by the folds in your jeans and wear patterns on other clothes. It’s not a good forensic method, but it’s just one of many data-points for a stochastic analysis. And if you try to wear anti-surveillance-fashion (it’s a thing) this is just another data-point on your profile. Anti-surveillance fashion honestly makes you more recognizable to the system, because you are “more different” from other people.

Disappearing would also mean that you never carry any identifiable electronics, (like a cellphone, not even a google phone or a smartphone, ANY cellphone).

Also the LACK of identifiable electronics would in and of itself be a VERY identifiable data point. Or, if you gattaca that too, the person you would try to impersonate would have to stop using their devices while you use them.

Lastly the surveillance system doesn’t even need to connect your profile to your or any real ID, the profile it builds will be build on the things you do, wear, say and how you act. It can be connected to your ID post-factum.

Gattaca relies heavily on a lack of technology that we do have today and the in-story over-reliance on genetics (for example there are no security cameras in that NASA-building, because they rely completely on genetic identification for everything security related).

Unsurprisingly, a movie set in a fictional world is not a good guide to today’s very real privacy concerns.

Oh shit, that sounds exactly like Lekvar or Powidl, that might point to a mostly eastern European, maybe German but more likely Slavic origin.

I think the biggest difference is that many european states have parliamentary democracies vs. the US’ presidential democracy.

This, combined with proportional representation voting systems, that more accurately represent the will of the populace in parliament, leads to a need for governmental coalition building, necessitating a more concilliatory and a little more non-partisan politics. While usually allowing for a more effective government, since the head of government represents a legislative majority.

It does have its own challenges and is far from perfect, but I think the current US government is a fitting contrast of a minority elected, non-concilliatory, highly partisan government that might become completely and utterly unable to do any governing by the midterms.

The US is also a good example that the age of a democratic system doesn’t mean it’s a good system. In fact I far prefer the very young post-WW2 german system to the very old american or british systems, though it could stand to learn some from the nordics, especially Finlands open list voting system.

Currently rereading the “Children of Time”-Series by Adrian Tchaikovsky because the fourth book was just released and I really like to experience the first three again.

I’m a sucker for good Sciency Science Fiction and this series ticks practically all boxes of my special interests.

Also listening to the Warhammer 40k Series “Ciaphas Cain” by Sandy Mitchell, because it’s funny and relaxing.

Also listening to “Sourcery” by Terry Pratchett on my way through the Discworld Series (again)

How… how do you know so exactly my activities and thoughts from yesterday evening? (I’m soooo tired)

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt

Just be aware that The Wandering Inn turns into the absolutely longest rambling mess of dozens of viewpount characters.

It’s often lovely, but sometines it just goes on and on and on… It is roughly three times longer than the entire Wheel of Time series, and its word count surpasses War and Peace, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Lord of the Rings, and The Hunger Games combined and it is still unfinished. Pirateaba writes like a mad person.

A local rendition of “Tratsch im Treppenhaus” in our local dialect in 2009.

I couldn’t really concentrate on the wider play though, everybody kept looking at me when I entered the stage and said my lines.

As a German: Hell yes! The Nazis needed putting down and that entire worldview got a thrashing that lastet us a good 70 years before Germany is on the verge of falling to the fash again.

So the war itself, absent the bombings had no power of destruction, killed no one?

WW2

Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!!

No please!!! Don’t let anyone from my instance see this!

I don’t want to go back to sturgeon posts popping up on feddit.org every day!

Fluid bonding should only happen with people you trust and know. Period.

And that’s the minimal requirements, better even to get tested before.

I’ll add that either side going down on the other without proper protection condom/dental dam is also fluid bonding, but wearing a condom during penetrative sex is like, the bare minimum.

Anyone objecting to wearing protection is an instant red flag for me. Because they’ll likely have or have had unprotected sex with others and I really don’t need an STD in my life. This has nothing to do with being filthy or a slut or bad morals, it’s just respecting oneself and the ones we have intercourse with.

Nobody thinks they are a carrier until they find out.

The only reason we’re not stopping you already is the US military.

I absolutely hate the amount of leftist infighting.

I miss polandball.

The problem is the silent majority.

And what counts as silent.

Because if you haven’t actually demonstrated, talked to, or written (with a letter) to a politician, you’re effectively silent.

Talking about it with friends and family and on the internet is tantamount to silence when it comes to influencing politics.

The other side, the raving lunatics who want total surveillance… they are loud as hell.

That’s honestly why I’m torn on Warhammer 40k movies and series, some idiots really do not get it that EVERYONE is horrible in that universe and that the racist, fascist, xenocidal, fanatic, militarist theocracy that has the skull as their main item of decor is evil and a parody on thatcherite conservatism cranked up to 12 (because 11 wasn’t enough).

It is so hard to depict the factions of the empire in a light where you can somewhat identify with the individuals, stuck in the machine to be able to tell a story while at the same time making it look cool AND showing that “this is bad, this is really bad and stupid”. And keeping simpleminded fools from being taken in by that aura of power, toxic masculinity and fascism that oozes through every faction like a purulent infection designed by papa Nurgle himself.

I’m so gay for him to govern me right now. Please! Please! I need to get rid of the Merz, I just want a Sanchez in my Government.

https://jacobin.com/2025/10/germany-die-linke-palestine-genocide

Nope, they don’t and they are extremely under attack by the media for it.

Edit: To clarify, they’re also only coming around to it very slowly and late, so now both sides dislike them. It’s a weird place to be for many german leftist who have defended Israel against far-right antisemitic (inaccurate) propaganda for years, while also continuously sticking up for the Palestinians and leveling accurate allegations at the israeli government.

Non-muslim pro-palestinian movements in Germany have their roots deep inside the left political spectrum but have had a hard time getting anywhere politically because any allegation of antisemitism amounted to political suicide and Germans would tuck tails and run as soon as any israeli rightwinger would use the antisemitism-cudgel. The fear to be called a Nazi is rooted extremely deep in our society, because it’s seen as a stain you can never ever get rid of again once those allegations have been made and it is deeply drilled into each and everyone of us, that being seen as a Nazi is about the worst thing you can be, forever and always.