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standard portland behavior rule

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How the fuck is it possible to airdrop files to strangers' phones?
That's a massive invasion of privacy. Just imagine getting a notification on your phone while you sit on the bus, and when you click on it, it's a pic of the guy sitting in front of you jerking his cock.
Fun fact: The Chinese government can routinely overcome the encryption used by AirDrop, which allows them to track users and get their phone numbers and email addresses.
- it’s not possible anymore iirc because of a recent update. you can enable universal receiving but it turns off after a few minutes always. OOP is making this story up most likely.
  
  Or they meant Quick Share on Android, but I doubt anyone actually uses that.
- I hate this. I loved always having airdrop for everyone on and I'd sometimes randomly get funny pictures airdropped and would airdrop funny pictures back. Sometimes even having a random conversation with a stranger in the same place.
  This was genuinely a great feature (and something you explicitly disable), so it really sucks that this is not possible anymore (as the setting doesn't exist anymore / turns off automatically after a few minutes).
  
  I've never had airdrop but this sounds like fun. I would have loved this feature too, even if it meant an occasional unsolicited dick pic.
  
  Maybe Briar? It’s P2P chat app.
  https://briarproject.org/how-it-works/
  I never tried that. It sounds like it might have been fun with a burner.
  
  i think what u r describing is pictochat, not airdrop.
- Just imagine getting a notification on your phone while you sit on the bus, and when you click on it, it's a pic of the guy sitting in front of you jerking his cock.
  Unironically this happened to me in middle school. It's not even a hypothetical situation, it's just what people do lol
- Because sometimes you need to transfer something to people not in your contacts list but is physically with you.
  You have to turn it on to accept other people sending and it shuts off automatically after 10 minutes, and you have to accept the file as well.
  Fun fact: China and every other government can track your phone through its connection to the towers and it giving away your IMSI. They don’t need AirDrop to know who is behind what number at what location.
  
  China forced Apple to only allow airdrop to all for a few minutes at a time, as apparently it was a popular way to spread Winnie the Pooh pictures
  
  When they're physically with you and willing to accept files from you, they can give you their number or scan a QR code on your phone.
  In any case, airdrop requests should by default be ignored if the sender isn't in your contacts, with an option to toggle that.
- oh no my chineseeroos!!! xi jingping is going to airdrop his dick pics to my mother!
  
  They're going to lift your bank and house info oh noooo

Twitter, ew
- literally the least disturbing thing abt this post but go off
  
  I'd argue that Twitter is the most disturbing part. Imagine being a furry who still uses Twitter. What the fuck has to have gone wrong in your life to still be using Twitter as a furry?
  
  Twitter is far more disturbing than a bit of weird furry artwork, nazi bar or whatever it is people say.

smh my head, Luigi Pawgione was right there!!

Heh, I didn’t know Luigi liked Breloom. Fine taste in Pokémon. I’m all in for this badass grass type becoming an obscure symbol for class war.
- Thanks for explaining it, that was the only thing I was confused about.
- Bullet seed hit 3 times

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