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[lyingheart]

How do you convince government authorities that you're not just feigning ignorance, you're actually computer technology illiterate? This is almost two hours of being told I'm a potential hacker, and while I almost laughed the first time they said it, I'm now wasting my pee break asking for help proving the only way I'll be hacking into a computer is with an axe.

private to knock out, about two hours later;

Knock Out, they're not letting me go home without a sign-off from my legal guardian, and right now you're the only one I have processed. Assistance is appreciated.

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[earnedmystripes]

why do they think youre a hacker

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[lyingheart]

A bunch of bullshit non-reasons. One of my favorites is "you own a non-government issued computer."

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[pacifistaggressive]

It should be within your right to ask for a computer literacy test.

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[xpostate]

Okay, me I get, but not many are as familiar as me.

Did they actually tell you why they suspect you?

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[lyingheart]

I did, though not in those words. I passed... at the minimum required to graduate from a Florida state high school. Which is apparently incriminating, as I could be "dumbing myself down."

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[lyingheart]

Nothing that could hold water for a day of heavy hiking.

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[infomodder]

[what in the hell]

You could offer to take a polygraph test.

[observationalhazard]

I knew you were a fast learner, but that's impressive!

[She is probably just giving Annie shit.

Probably.]

[lyingheart]

You're very unhelpful.

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[lyingheart]

[ a lot of circumstantial, inconclusive "facts" that add up to entirely wrong conclusions, that's what ]

What's involved in a polygraph test?

[observationalhazard]

I forgot how serious you were. Sorry, sorry.

[Not sorry at all.]

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[liverletdie]

Hopefully this isn't because I've been giving you lessons. Did they mention my name?

[lyingheart]

You never knew me, how can you forget anything about me.

[observationalhazard]

We've talked a few times since my arrival. That counts. Right?

[infomodder]

Being asked questions while hooked up to equipment that monitors pulse, blood pressure, respiration, etc. It's commonly called a lie detector test.

[He's not going to get into the controversy behind whether they're always seen as valid, legally. Maybe this world doesn't have the same problems his does when it comes to lie detection. Maybe they've advanced it. Maybe they've not realized they need to advance it. Either way, if Annie doesn't know what one is, she probably hasn't undergone training to pass one whether she has to lie or not.

Not that being a good liar depends on being able to trick a polygraph, of course.]

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[lyingheart]

[ SADLY... THEY DID... ]

Yours in't the only one, but yes, they did. Incrimination by association isn't a new trick, but the series of "facts" they have lined up still rely on some decent leaps in logic to arrive at "you're a legitimate suspect for this idiocy."

[ it's just going to turn bizarre when they start asking other government related questions that ping more to her background and being suspicious of it and her intent here. ]

[lyingheart]

No.

[lyingheart]

[ That may or may not be problematic. Annie doesn't lie so much as tell what's honest, from one perspective. Annie's only concern comes from what they're allowed to ask when hooked up to that sort of equipment. ]

What defines the parameters of what they can ask when you're hooked up to that equipment?

[observationalhazard]

Technically longer if we count the time I spent wondering if you were still alive or not.

[lyingheart]

You are unsettling and I do not like you at all.

[observationalhazard]

Hey, hey, that's not very nice! I've been nothing but friendly!

[lyingheart]

I'm thankful you aren't constantly threatening to experiment on me and Reiner.

And that's it.

not here

[alofts]

because we haven't sound proofed the basement yet

also not here

[lyingheart]

I hate you so much sometimes that I want to scream.

[observationalhazard]

Experiments with a willing subject are easier and more informative then the alternative.

Except when they're normal titans, of course.