Flock cameras popping up like mad/local cops abusing said flock cameras to stalk women
City council changing their meeting times so said flock contracts are easier to ram through for approval (how naive of me to believe that blatant corruption only happens at the federal level)
Wal-mart adding more security cameras but still have the same card readers from 10 years ago that don’t work
Gas reaching nearly 5 bucks a gallon in a town where 3 is the average
My company fully embracing claude (and absolutely jerking itself off over it)
Local ICE raids
Friends’ companies doing layoffs
I’m so ready to 
like my heckin life depends on it to fix all of this!
I’ve almost given up on the concept of anonymity as someone who has spent my life trying to lay low in whatever capacity tbh; It is becoming almost impossible to live a private life.
Part of me wants to desperately believe that the surveillance state I heard so much about online was only in big cities and blue states or whatever, but I don’t know what the fuck to think when all the stuff I’m talking about is happening in a town with <20K people