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@SaltyVeruca I hear you. You understand this on a different level. Appreciate the dialogue.

@SaltyVeruca you have to assume they are pulling from public registry yes. You dont know if that's the case for sure though.

I understand I am taking a bit of a paranoid and unpopular position here, but I also know that as everyone becomes more siloed online, the easier it becomes to fake data.

@SaltyVeruca this is one of them.

There are dozens of similar apps on Google Play store.

@Klaatu_Veratta_Nectarine @awnaves exactly. And while I hear the groomer thing and I know it's just a weapon in the cultural war I am getting uneasy here.

I think one thing that's making it worse is that when Twitter isn't porn bots or stupidity, it's a bunch of posts that feel like they are meant to desensitize people to death and images of people being killed.

@SaltyVeruca exactly which is great when you go and look it up on a dot gov website.

What happens when you start getting more and more apps that promise to do the record checking for you.

If I say app [insert app name here] has a 30% false rate of identifying people wrong as convicted offenders, do you think people will listen, or will I get shouted down by people saying I am sticking up for the criminals?

If you get listed in an app falsely, do you think you can ever clear your name?

@awnaves well that's why it's so insidious. Like do I really care if something bad happens to someone who caused a lifetime of pain to someone else? Nah.

But I do care that the data validation is right.

I do care that it's a judge and jury exacting judgment instead of Ross from three towns down.

And the worst part is that yes, sex offenders and pedophiles are heinous criminals, but something feels off to me.

I hope I am just being overly paranoid, but what happens when the data sets are replaced with a different group of people after the mob is already primed for violence.

What happens when a data set is "accidentally wrong" and people in the wrong neighborhood are terrorized for no reason?

I'm not the only one getting increasingly worried about the:

-increasing rhetoric about death for sex offenders

-the rise of apps like sneaky links that "show the locations of offenders near you"

-the likelyhood that this is a preclude to coordinated and sustained mob violence

Right? Like I'm not the only one getting really uneasy about all of this?

The last two days of the NFL draft just remind me how fun Twitter *used* to be back in the day.

#NFL

Go home Five Below. You're drunk.

"Face and body massager."

GTFOH 😂

@richieleyland @White_Rabbit spoken like a true Sabres fan. 😂

Three minutes in and there are already like 19 things I want to meme from this week's episode of #XMen97.

@Wbtphdjd exactly. You can make a case that a process is taking too long but you can't compare the time from first day of shovels in the ground to first car to the time to takes to demo, design, and rebuilt a previously existing structure.

You know what all these other new bridges that were "built so much faster" didn't have to include in their construction time?

Demolition and salvaging efforts
Site surveys
Design, planning, and cost estimation
Modification of an already existing transportation system

But sure, go off and complain that 10 years is too long because it took 4-6 years from start to finish to build [insert bridge name here] because that's how long it took to physically build after ground breaking.

@th3j35t3r but will there be a Xenomorph hiding in your apartment.

Only other thing I got to say about #Xmen97 is that the three episodes so far have shown that the the producers understand how X-Men has such a need to fully embrace the surreal.

The MCU was always down right tame in comparison to some of the absolute bonkers things that happened in even mundane X-Men storylines.

If this 10 episode run can stick the landing, we have something very special ladies and gents.