As He died to make men holy
Let us die to make things cheap
I don’t think it’s because the regime in Iran is evil, but because Germany considers Israel and the US to be their allies, and they don’t want to lose their support. So it’s more like opting not to protect children against paedophiles because you’re best friends with Epstein. Not that that would ever happen…
And every Ubuntu Touch device with support for external monitors for the last ten years or so. Here’s a demonstration running on a Fairphone 4.
I don’t even mind subscribing to 404media, as I feel like their operation makes sense. But there’s no way I’m going to pay to read some sponsored content on a page riddled with trackers.
Yeah. Sites like CNET and TechRadar seems completely uninteresting at this point. Wired and the Verge seem to have done a better job at transitioning into reporting on how tech affects society, which is much more interesting. 404media seems to be doing well in that business.
The leading article of the Verge at the moment is on what is real in the age of deepfakes, relating to war and disinformation. Wired writes about “All the ways big tech fuels ICE and CBP”. 404media runs a story about how “CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements”. Meanwhile, CNET is headlining how “Apple’s new MacBook Air is faster. It also costs $100 more”, and TechRadar tells us about “the seven best gadgets we have seen today”. I cannot even imagine caring. I wouldn’t even have cared back when I did care.
Besides, if a tech site does their job these days their readers will not be using Google any more at all.
Context for those not keeping up with Sweden: It’s run by idiots at the moment, as the billionaire coalition did really well at the previous election.
This guy is a Christan Democrat (KD). His party is in government alongside the “Moderates” and the “Liberals”, which is both liberal conservative parties running on platforms of economic liberalism and lower taxes. They’re in power because of the Swedish Democrats, aka the right wing lunatics, who rode on a wave of xenophobia last election and gained more than 20% of the vote.
So yeah, nothing surprising about this.
The next election in Sweden is in September. Hopefully things will improve then. The Swedish Democrats are still polling at over 20% and it is not looking particularly promising at the moment.
There’s an argument to be made that this is a reasonable price, and that much cheaper phones should be treated with high suspicion.
Oops, obvisouly, was thinking about the Muslim world and getting terms mixed. Fixed.
I think the advantage is that it reads partly as a FAQ, partly as a place to read whatever commentary on the situation people seem to agree with. It’s a place where people can discuss and ask questions more generally. Other threads tend to be more about specific breaking news and developments, maybe missing the bigger picture.
All fascists need a good enemy, obliviate one and you have to move on to the next. The only end game to this bullshit is total apocalypse. Which of course is what the evangelical Christian supporters of Israel has been cheering for all along.
Iran has been a headache for a long time. Much like in America and Israel, violent religious fundamentalists took control over society and installed a reign of terror.
This has of course been bad for the Iranians, but America of course could not care less about that. However, Iran has been a major concern for Israel, as they are an unreliable an aggressive neighbour. Again, don’t let the irony get lost on you. The threat of Iran maybe managing to develop nukes has been a particularly salient issue, and perhaps one of the driving forces behind Israel getting its own nukes decades ago.
In short, Israel just cannot feel safe with the current rule in Iran. Or so the Israeli far right has insisted for decades, anyways. Keeping this fear high on the agenda has been key to winning elections and to get in place the far right genocidal lunatics currently in the Israeli government. Along with the fear of Palestinians of course.
The US is of course loyal allies of Israel as their one true friend in a region full of oil. The Saudis are of course also good friends whenever they are not actively attacking America and killing civilians or journalists, but they are not quite as good at lobbying. So American interests and Israeli interests are pretty much the same, and the Iranian regime has been the face of evil for decades. Conveniently they are also super evil, so it’s easy to make propaganda.
Recently the Iranian regime has murdered a bunch of civilians who protest the regime. The US and Israel wouldn’t usually care about dead civilians in the middle east - they certainly wouldn’t oppose it at least - but right now it provides a convenient excuse to bomb the fuck out of Iran. Trump needs this because he needs support before the upcoming election- a successful impeachment might allow the opposition to grow teeth, and if they do he could end up locked away for life.
Netanyahu is in even deeper ship than Trump, with corruption charges at home and crimes against humanity abroad. Now that his genocide in Palestine is getting old he needs something new to keep him in power.
Iran responds to attack by sending missiles towards American military bases in the area. American military bases are located in the surrounding countries, which is why you see newspaper headlines making out as if Iran is launching a war on every country in the regioun. They’re not, they’re just trying to strike back against America and Israel. Just like the Americans and Israelis they suck at hitting military targets and often end up hitting civilian ones instead.
Gaël Duval, the lead developer behind /e/OS, has been recommending an app called Zettle on his blog. It at least work on degoogled /e/OS, probably GrapheneOS as well. I have no personal experience as I prefer sticking to cards.
It’s nevertheless pretty wild that Mussolinis can have political careers without changing their name. Had it at least been a different Mussolini family it would have made some sense that they didn’t want to change their name, but in this case it’s just insanity.
But yeah, it doesn’t make the current-day Mussolinis the most dangerous people in a political landscape where Mussolinis party is currently in power (though they had the decency to at least change their name).
Norwegian in Denmark here, I mostly understand Danish and they mostly understand me but my impression is that even the Danes appreciate getting a break from Danish now and then.
The most common expression you’ll hear on the streets of Denmark is “hva sier du?” - “what are you saying”. Because they don’t even understand each other.
By allowing users to choose their instance we are giving them that choice though. I chose piefed.social in part because I agree with the moderation policy, and I don’t want to waste my time doing it myself. I want to have reasonable admins who filter away stuff I don’t want to see before it ever gets to me. That is a choice I have as a user, just like the choice you (and users of your instance) have to do this job yourself.
The important thing is transparency, in my opinion.
The official story is amazing.
If he wanted to be caught he wouldn’t have to be snitched on by some random McDonalds employee. If he didn’t want to be caught there’s just no way the official story holds.
At least if you make a mural of him it’ll vaguely resemble someone who made things better for a little while.
It’s an actual government agency, just that it’s not under political leadership. It operates as part of the state.
I just remembered this amazing book:
Why Not Socialism by Gerald A. Cohen.
Super nice and easy read, fantastic introduction. It has been years and years since I read it but I highly recommend it as an introduction.
People want the world to be simple and make sense. The cold war was great for this, as it presented two simplistic idealistic world views in competition.
Some people saw through capitalism and understood that freedom in the west is not all that it’s made up to be. Not wrong. But then they make the fallacy of concluding that the alternative they are presented with is good, which would be Soviet communism.
Of course many people understood that both alternatives are oppressive, but once you discover some “forbidden knowledge” it’s easy to start going a bit insane and to disregard evidence that goes against your world view, because clearly there is a great conspiracy at work. If you make the mistake of arguing with radicalized people they always have some stupid anecdote that they believe serves as solid evidence of any crackpot theory they have. In this sense it’s just like conspiracy theories, and it tends to be the same type of people: lonely men who feel the world has treated them unfairly.
Authoritarian-leaning people need to believe that there is a good authority out there who wants them well and that they can follow. For the authoritarians that lost faith in the west, Stalin provided a strong alternative and remains iconic among these bootlickers. Putin just doesn’t offer an alternative in the same way.
You’d think the misguided appeasement policies of German chancellors reached its extreme with Markel’s foreign policy towards Russia, but Merz is here like “hold my beer”.