Comment by jeffbee
3 years ago
Well, the motorcycle community is overstocked with privacy lunatics, preppers, gun nuts and other extremists, so this makes sense. Also I can't think of any Honda motorcycle with a GPS aside from the Gold Wing, which stretches the definition of motorcycle in numerous ways. On the other hand every motorcyclist I ride with carries a Garmin inReach, which is the very definition of sharing your GPS with someone.
I like how you consider people with a reasonable expectation of privacy as extremists.
But the difference with handheld devices is that if Garmin misuses the data, the cheap device is tossed aside. One cannot just abandon a motorcycle as one would a handheld device. The day that Garmin starts handing out speeding tickets is the day that every motorcycle rider smashes their devices.
> privacy lunatics, preppers, gun nuts and other extremists [...]
Being a prepper isn't extremist. (Yes, it's expensive, done right, but not necessarily extremist.)
[disclaimer: I live in Los Angeles]
Every person that I've ever met who calls themselves a "prepper" has been what most would call an extremist. (I'm not calling you an extremist -- I've never met you.)
That's a different crowd from someone who is just prepared for emergencies and disasters.
> Every person that I've ever met who calls themselves a "prepper" has been what most would call an extremist.
It seems like you have a cognitive distortion to work out. Amplifying an anecdotal sample to classify all people with a shared interest as having other characteristics of your sample is understandable but also misguided.
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A true prepper wouldn't admit their location.
Neither did AceyMan, I’m guessing.
I think anyone willing to share this data is an extremist.