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Remember that whole media firestorm a few years ago that china had this massive camera network that could track everyones movements in the country. Flock is basically that, they are a private US company that is putting up cameras all over USA territory to "track speeding cars". That is their excuse, if i remember correctly. In reality these cameras can be used to track a whole bunch of things like your movements, where you live, what you do day to day, who your friends are, etc... Now flock says they strictly control who gets to access their database, but on the flip side there have been numerous reports of police officers tracking ex wives, finding pretty girls to pull over, and more. There are reports of ICE using them, even though legally they definitely do not have access to the service. Plus flock has been extremely aggressive of critics of them, for example a few days ago there was a journalist who started doing some research into flock and 2 days later there was a camera pointing at his front door. They have been non stop threatening the creator of deflock.com that is a website that just tracks placed the flock cameras. And their security is extremely poor, like MULTIPLE potential databreaches in about 2 years and the ceo has pretty much said "ye dont care", kind of poor. Just imagine some of the massive damage this can cause with something like scams, they now know where you live, know what car you drive, you license plate, etc... its a dream come true for the identity theft people because they can pretty much just ask " i want to be this guy" and then open like 5 credit cards in with your name and address. In short, basically a massive camera spy network over the USA that tracks citizens, bad security and overall just really not something you'd want around

Local troglodyte finds out about this thing called nature

Second that, WTF

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Is this loss?

Where is halo endgame now ey

I feel this: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/42215533 Would be perfect for you But for like a serious answer, get an external hard drive, there is nothing on gods green earth thatll get you the same comfort, user experience and power as a macbook at that price point

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Was a saw shaped knife, forgot the first rule of sawing, away from any body parts

Its not a rug pull, most of these investment companies function just like banks, but instead of giving out loans, they invest most of the money that their clients(people like you and i) put into them into the stock market, and give the clients a cut of the profits. Just like banks, most of the capital these funds manage is not directly available, its in stocks, options, bonds, etc.... Say you want to cut your losses that the from your investment with that fund, thats no problem! They've got some cash reserves, and can immediately give you your money, and sell the shares later, you know run a minimal loss. But if more people start doing it, the fund will gradually become less powerful, less appealing and it will start to turn a loss that can not be recuperated with the profits off selling shares they own. How appealing/powerful they are directly depends on how much money they manage, because who trusts someone that says "yoo i can make you a lotta money man, gimme like a 100 bucks, whilst being broke and homeless.

Then, why invest your money in these funds, well, for one, they are enormous, can make much bigger investments and make much more money, and in turn you get a bigger cut. Secondly ivesting is very risky, but thesr guys have a litteral army of trained professionals that know more about this stuff than you and i will ever. They sell a security guarentee, like yeah we can invest your money, make a tiny bit of profit, but in turn, if something goes wrong you wont lose your life savings. Many even sell a warranty returns of 95 to 100% of the money you invest into them.

So to round things out, its not a rug pull, but its also not good. People do not trust the current economy and think its too volatile and think that whatever stocks their life savings are can at any moment plummet in the coming years. They think its much safer to take the money out and put it in a bank somewhere, thus shrinking the economy and exasturbating the problem. It is the meme, it is a recession indicator.

Edit : explanation was kinda garbadge, updated it to make sense

The finno-korean hyperwar and everything that came from the NOI. both have the most insane plotines and characters to the point they are just fiction at this point. And no i will not pen anything down about these, as it takes about 2 hours per.