Give them the AI! All of it! And then we just wait.

You mean my civilian public identity data?

Let’s speak about me now: I have no social media presence and I like it like that. I pay my taxes, I drive a 20+ years car. I’m boring and I enjoy it as it is.

Someone telling me I seem suspicious because I have no electronics and no interest in using it would be gold.

Actual event: I was once stopped for speeding. The police pulling me up asked me if I hadn’t seen the FB post warning for the speed radar. And I bluntly put it that I had no account on the network. Their face was priceless. I got fined for speeding, fair, but that was that. Social networks are not official communication channels. They want to be, but they are not.

According to what I’ve been told, an entire page of requirements was forwarded by the travel agency; not something they drafted but just passed on.

The application was also handled by the travel agency and it was the agency taking the photo to process the travel authorization, regardless of the passport info already been made available. As personal note: this entire demand on the looks and garments for the travellers make sense if we factor the heavy use of automated tools being used at border controls nowadays. And how poor they can be is also widely known.

Tourist VISA. Everything I listed came through the travel agency.

Under the current american politics reasoning I’m a radical but I have no predefined approach to ideas and concepts.

Not gay, nor transgender. And I think people are more than labels. Human dignity is howed to all.

But I’m not really white. Give me a few days under a hot sun and I darken enough to pass for something else.

This person is completely oblivious of political strife.

Burn Notice fan? Because I just heard your message in my head in the main character’s voice.

What is a burner phone? A phone with no direct association with your name? A prepaid plan?

I’ve mentioned this in the thread: what would be the reaction if someone arrived there with no electronics on them? And if further stated they did not intended to buy any for their stay? What could happen?

That is grim outlook!

I actively fear that.

you’ll either water

Mind explaining this part, please?

I’m not going anywhere.

You made a pretty grim image. I’ll have nightmares, tonight.

Visiting family of their current partner. And as the tickets were paid for by the family living there, there is an added feeling of obligation, but the main drive is the eagerness to travel abroad, the opportunity. Their words, not mine.

I’m writing from Portugal. Not really a country on the radar for political upheaval.

I had a dog that enjoyed sitting in the driver seat when I was out of the car. Used to mess with pooch, saying he should remember he had his licensed revoked because he had been caught driving drunk. Good times.

Nothing to add on what you said.

Political ties may be of some concern, although the person is not directly active.

I am not going anywhere.

But you made me wonder. What would be the reaction if someone went there and not carried a cellphone nor any other electronic equipment? And now I’m thinking about my own personal use of it. I can survive without internet for long bouts and my most important credentials are commited to memory, along with important numbers.

What could happen if someone just arrived at the gates with two book, a notebook and perhaps a couple of mechanical pencils and a pen?

Inhumane

Enough internet for me today. I’m going to have a stern conversation with my own dogs regarding gun safety.

I can feel this to an uncomfortable level.