Screw that. Give the government a way to track my vitals 24/7 and sell that information off to their cronies in the private sector? No thanks.

My watch runs for years from a coin cell. There's no way that I'm replacing it with an internet connected spy device that constantly needs to be charged.

No need for vaccines with 5g chips when the wearable will have one right on your wrist.

So the vaccine is the government implanting a tracker into me, but watches that track my vitals and send them God knows where is hunky dory?

These anti government types always have such a hard time when they become the government.

Man, I feel sick, lemme check my health watch.

status: unhealthy

Can I receive healthcare?

no

They lobotomized the wrong Kennedy.

Don't wearables cause autism?

He can fuck right off with all his worm-brained ideas.

RFK jr’s wants, needs, desire to continue breathing move me not at all.

He can fuck off.

If we had a science-backing and non-Nazi government who I had any belief in their ability and will to keep our data safe, this might be really cool. When I first got an Apple Watch and saw all the ways it benefits me I honestly wished everyone had one by default.

Instead, something like this would simply be used to further control people especially women since it can track monthly cycles (to my knowledge at least.)

He reminds me of the 'precious bodily fluids' general from Dr Strangelove.

As a non American, even I can see this is just a scam to further invade privacy and the data used to get increase health insurance costs

Guess we’ll cut food stamps but tell people who can afford to to get a watch

eat shit and go to hell.

As long as the wearable contains open source software and preferably open source hardware, then sure, I'd be willing to do so. Because then I could know that I could control where the data went.

Fuck you RFK my Casio can't and won't connect to the internet, go swim in more sewage you dolt

The only wearable I would ever consider wearing, is something like the thing Zack Friedman of Voidstar Labs made for himself.

to do what with? unless you're going to also increase grants to nih studies for wearable devices to study and improve something involving the health system, what is the benefit besides making apple richer?

https://pine64.org/devices/pinetime/ 🤣 (rare case of a valid usecase for this emoji)

I love how these extremist Christian Republicans always go on about the mark of the beast and how everyone will be forced to wear it but that the righteous man won't wear it....

All of them will do this, mark my words. These fuckers are worshipping Satan as far as they know and they're fine with it.

What about sporting insertables instead?

Something something government tracking with microchips

Anti-science brain worm dumbfuck says what?

And I want RFK, along with the rest of these anti-human ghouls to be dropped into an active volcano, but we don't always get what we want, do we?

I think some org could take the initiative and offer a standard protocol for "that" to communicate to this service.

Then you could wear something FOSS and clearly not spying, but send some information (if you so wish). Maybe no location, but vitals. Maybe no vitals, but location (suppose you want RFK to see a big "FUCK THE GOAULD" on the map).

Cause when you put enough money into a project, it might actually happen.

This is also the mistake everyone made about platforms and social networks.

I'll repeat again my idea that similarly to Usenet, there should be standard protocols and universal services for a global public system replacing those (Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, Google, whatever). You need a service to store data to be always available - have a standard for that service. You need a service to do some computation - have a standard for submitting a task and storing the result (until retrieved or maybe to the previous kind of service). You need a service to search for objects (common task, yes?) - have a standard for that. You need a service for notifications real-time - have a standard for that too, NOSTR does that now. You need some way to financially incentivize people to provide these services - have a "resource market" service, something like MMORPG item markets (where players script their trade with simple constraints, very easily), to buy&sell space&computation, with payments provided with something like GNU Taler, or BTC Lightning if nothing better. Need common identification - well, there's OpenID, but one can also have cryptographic identities and identity caching services. Need to actually aggregate hundreds of those services for every task - if search service is not enough (suppose we want to also make search and other services somehow partitioned, or something like that, to accommodate for amounts of data), then have an aggregation service (similar to torrent trackers) or maybe just use DNS for that. Structured machine-processable results of those services allow you to never depend on one platform and have everything they offer. With the specific "kind" being provided by the client application.

Humanity in our time has all the technologies it needs and none of the will.

Sure Bobby. I went and got myself an open-source "smart" watch that pairs with another FOSS app that doesn't send anything outside of the device.

What? Not like that? Oh, too bad.

You know what else would help? Annual (or more) blood tests during routine wellness checks with your doctor.

Do you know why most people don't get those?

Insurance won't cover them.

Maybe start there? Although I'm guessing he has no buddies who would make money from routine blood tests.

American evangelicals when the government suggests getting a vaccine for a deadly virus- "IT'S THE MARK OF THE BEAST DON'T GET IT OR YOU'LL GO TO HELL"

American evangelicals when people they voted for say you need to wear something on your wrist to participate in society - "This is fine"

A wearable computer is much more similar in form to what is described in the Book of Revelation than a vaccine is, but these dumbasses don't see that because they're not operating on logic but instead are just doing what they're told.

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