1984 meets the circle meets the NSA

I think you should go back to facebook.

>facebook
>privacy app
>using windows desktop
kill yourself

You mean the same shit they've been selling since the 90s?

http://www.lifealert.com/

The "I've fallen, and I can't get up!" pendant marketed towards seniors?

Is now being marketed towards paranoid ass holes who are terrified of going anywhere?

>>61378013
Sorry haven't been alive that long, it seems like a step forward to market it to travelers who are probably younger than to elders who live alone.

>>61378013
It's worse. Instead of alerting reliable authorities, it sends it out to anybody with one. Criminals are gonna have a heyday with these things

>>61377965
>So I saw this shit on facebook. What does /g/ think?
I doubt that even, you probably just copied this shit from reddit even. Either way fuck off

>>61378049
>It's worse. Instead of alerting reliable authorities, it sends it out to anybody with one. Criminals are gonna have a heyday with these things
So is it a mesh network type thing I literally know nothing about it, the tagline is just what made me laugh, so obviously trying to scare people to give up privacy.

>>61378049
Do they expect Batman to descend from the rooftops? WHAT THE FUCK....

>>61377965
>Empower users to be proactive about their safety
>it's just a "help!" button that requires others nearby to have it too and to be willing to help
Here's what can empower you to be proactive about your safety: a gun

>>61377965
>Easier to send and receive help
Fucking pussies, if something happens to me I am gonna kill someone or die trying.

Faggots, grow a fucking spine.

>>61378114
There are steps before buying a gun that you can do to ensure safety a large percentage of the time.

>>61378114
Are you seriously recommending people to take guns and ammunition with them while traveling abroad?

>>61377965
>facebook
I think you should kill yourself

>>61377965
>facebook

Now that that's out of the way, I find it interesting that they fail to convey what the device actually does in so many words. They've become too good with clickbait.

>>61378230
I think the idea is the tease and then you have to click to get an explanation.

>>61378188
Don't travel to third world shit holes that ban freedom like Yurope or Brazil then faggot.

>>61378049
>it sends it out to anybody with one
>>61378114
>it's just a "help!" button that requires others nearby to have it too and to be willing to help

Holy shit this is gonna encourage white knights to be vigilantes. I'm gonna have to set a google alert for the first time someone gets shot because of these.

>>61377965
get a gun if you want to be safe

>>61377965
They need it voice activated so it'll appeal to trekkies.

>>61378049
>Uber for emergency services.
That just sounds like a terrible idea.

>>61377965
the FBI and CDC and all other major studies have found that the victim possessing a gun blows away any other form of response possible.

Pacifists and non-resistors who hand over their wallet are more likely to be raped and to die.

It will be funny to see the study 10 years from now, most effective counter-measures for armed attackers:
1. a gun
2. a knife, but nowhere near as good as a gun
...
10,387th. a fucking wifi button that tells autists where to come 40 minutes later to find the bloody-buttholed corpse.

This is among the worst ideas in human history.

>WOWZY SOMEONE IS IN DANGE
>I should get into my batman suit
>I hope im not too late
>Fear not m'lady! i will save yo.....
>G-guess i can still send an ambulance

>>61378049
ha ha ha
>police 20 minutes away
>come to help with firearm to stop violent rape
>go to prison for aggravated assault of minority

>>61377965

Looks like a more capable life alert. They're naturally trying to make more money by marketing it towards women, but it does serve a purpose for people with limited abilities.

>>61377965
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Duv0TcDjr0M

Americans are so dumb. The Japanese have invented something that's much more effective.

>>61378049
what the fug

>>61378049
[Citation needed]

>>61378586
>t.Trump

>>61378038
>Sorry haven't been alive that long

You mean you haven't been alive back then. Or are you aging backwards? Like, you were born in 1998 but by next year you'll have been born in 1997?

>>61378049
>>61377965
>Instead of alerting reliable authorities, it sends it out to anybody with one
WHAT
>Be grill in Swedistan or the United Kaliphate
>walking down an alleyway
>All of a sudden a vibrant young man jumps out to culturally enrich me
>Sounds my alarm
>An alert goes out to all around
>Abdul doesn't even need to invite his friends to the party
>I signalled them for him

>>61378013
No, that would require some level of infrastructure. The new hip thing is to only build software hosted on AWS and maybe some trinket. Hire some lawyers to shield you from any and all liability. You don't actually have to make anything, just get someone else to do that.

All those ridesharing apps, airbnb, etc. They don't invest in acting making physical things, they just waste shitloads of VC cash fighting each other.

>empower

Female products
It's so easy to pander to them

>>61377965
"Anon, you have no need to carry a firearm/taser/pepper spray anymore. You now have a digital rape whistle!"

That's what I think of when I see this.

>>61378049
These things are going to be used by homosexual deviant fetish groups to organize spontaneous orgies, screen cap this.

>>61381708
Or, you know, smartphones. These things have no fucking market at all. They could have made a shitty meme android/iOS app and sold 1,000 downloads but instead they opted for a shitty plastic keychain bloat.

>>61378188
>traveling abroad
I never got why people would want to do this...

>>61381733
Its about the novelty for the deviants.

>>61381756
Well it used to be you visited Europe for a culturally enriching experience. Now you visit Europe for a (((culturally enriching))) experience.

>>61380054

>you can just put the pin back in to make it stop

Man I hope those kids can run

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this will probably take off in australia since pepper spray is illegal

>>61381708
you're a closet faggot for even thinking this

>>61378188
If other countries would see the light, and stop trying to tempt their citizens with being fat and content, maybe they would be less obsessed with the imaginary concept of ``safety'', and it wouldn't be such a big deal to bring a gun with you to another country. Maybe not on your person or on a carry-on, but plenty of domestic American flights have guns in the cargo hold.

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>>61377965
>literally three chances to explain what it is in that picture
>it only talks about "feeling safer"
Clickbait at its worstest.

>>61380054
Do these things actually work? I'd imagine the robber/rapist getting even more pissed and punching the kid instead of just running away like a cuck.

>>61382093
>>61377965

Whats this tactic called when a click bait like that uses the first person? Its like high-jacking the readers ego subconsciously

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>>61377965
Eh. I recently interviewed with this company

>>61379527
>the FBI and CDC and all other major studies
>CDC

>The Center for Disease Control is doing work on gun control too huh?

>>61382272
how is that proactive?

buying a gun and carrying is proactive security

>>61382456

I dunno

It's based out of St. Louis Missouri
It gets kind of rapey stabby shooty here

>>61377965
Young people need this shit now?

>I've fallen and I can't get up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQlpDiXPZHQ

>>61382351
The CDC has done studies related to guns, yes.

>>61378114
This thing is going to increase the levels of gun related violence because someone had to be a hero.

>>61381784
Wrong board, frogposter, /b/ is to the left of here.

>>61377965
More "A Brave New World" than "1984", but I never read the latter

>>61382569
Don't you mean /r9k/ rather than /b/?

>kikebook
I think you need to fuck and basically you have to go back. I bet you use Windows 10 and a full botneted smartphone

>>61379527
citation plz

>>61382575
1984 is more about an overbearing nanny state willing to sacrifice the rights of the individual for the sake of the content collective, and use increasingly more imaginative ways to achieve that contentness. From government-sponsored aggression outlets, to constant observation, to removing the concept of discontent from the language, to full-on CIA brainwash and torture.
The state operates in a fashion similar to fascist or communistic states, where policing, spying, and propaganda production are outsourced to the general population. There's also an implication that the state can't really afford all of this, and is eternally rationing everything.

A basic understanding of 1984 is that it is the extreme logical conclusion of the American liberal agenda.

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>>61382569

nah, I'll stay right here. what are you going to do about it

>>61382945
Barbados during the slave/sugar trade is the libertarian paradise.

>inb4 insane women start smashing these every time a man walks by

>>61383105
>See male
>He's below 5'9
>HELP