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		sudosysgen on Oct 4, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How the Police Use AI to Track and Identify You My History teacher once remarked that a hallmark of imperial collapse is the use of the tools of empire at home.

Gibbon1 on Oct 4, 2020 [–]

My iron rule of human relations. If you see someone do something shitty to someone else, stick around long enough and they'll do it to you to.

That's why watching the US's power elites callously using the nations resources to screw smaller hapless nation states scares me. Not to mention they keep grudges.

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