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When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you know America's changed

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267 points giuliomagnifico | 4 comments | 29 Mar 25 18:45 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mixmastamyk ◴[29 Mar 25 19:21 UTC] No.43517852[source]▶
The sad fact is that everyone needs a “burner” laptop and phone these days for travel. Not limited to the trump administration either.
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assimpleaspossi ◴[29 Mar 25 19:48 UTC] No.43518105[source]▶
I don't have either and travel everywhere. I see no need and have no need.

I don't get bothered and every one is nice to me. But I base my experience on what is in front of me and not what I read online.

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1. Havoc ◴[29 Mar 25 19:59 UTC] No.43518212[source]▶
>But I base my experience on what is in front of me

Problem with that approach is it makes you entirely blind to change right up until the moment you experience it personally.

It's entirely possible to have a dozen good encounters at borders and only the 13th is bad. Or maybe the situation changed in the last week and you just didn't travel in that timespan.

Casting the net a bit wider and considering other people's experience increases the sample size & liveness of data. (at the cost of some reliability ofc)

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2. assimpleaspossi ◴[29 Mar 25 20:06 UTC] No.43518265[source]▶
One shouldn't base their experience on what they read on the internet either. The internet, and other people, is not your reality. If I lived my life based on the internet, I would never leave my house and have all kinds of security systems all over it (I have none now and see no need for them).

I have never been robbed, never broken into, never been shot at, never had my car stolen and don't know anyone who has.

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3. Havoc ◴[29 Mar 25 20:32 UTC] No.43518475[source]▶
>One shouldn't base their experience on what they read on the internet either.

Not saying you should, just that it is a valuable supplement

4. mixmastamyk ◴[29 Mar 25 22:13 UTC] No.43519191[source]▶
Crossing unfriendly borders is not a normal occurrence and therefore modest precautions are warranted.