And after 26+ years of friendship, my buddy chose this month to be the month where he finally hunkered down and built his first PC. Of all the times to build a budget parts list for a friend…

The “I’m not touching you” harassment in the hopes of getting the fight you want without the blame for starting it. I remember this coward’s tactic from bullies in grade school.

So Protonmail was required to log the IP of the user after being ordered to via the proper international Swiss legal channeks, per Swiss/Europol law. And at some point recently, Protonmail thus removed the copy from their frontpage that advertised never tracking IPs.

What the article doesn’t really explain, is what exactly changed about Swiss or euro law? And when? What rules or acts have sprung up that made this possible? Or, was this always something that was possible that has only just now made precedent?

It’s important to hold accountable the named individuals who are harming individual security, safety, and trust in this manner so that they can be prevented from continuing to do so.

How long did it last this time? Two days?

Seems to me like the wrong way to address the problem. But I guess it’s easier to ban people with no political voice from a vital tool for social connectivity than it is to hold the large companies hosting those tools accountable for socially-damaging practices.

Yeah, it’s the part where the US military is summarily executing civilians right at his country’s doorstep.

Many of these people literally, honestly believe they’re building Roko’s basilisk.

Oh I stand corrected. I still respect Canada, but now respect the British even less than I did previously.

Yeah, Canada is literally the only country that has ever razed our capitol. They literally burned down the white house. I mean technically they were British at the time but they were the great great grandparents of today’s Canadians. As an American it feels really intensely stupid saber rattling at them when they’re friends by default.

People sometimes don’t believe me when I tell them I’ve literally never used Spotify.

Don’t forget to tell them to go to the shows!!

Musicians are real people who very often hold live performances in high-population locations, you can see them directly with your eyeballs, hear them directly with your hearholes, and physically hand them actual cash with your flesh and blood hands!

Edit - To the people complaining about ticket company charges: You need to get into your local music scene and the +95% of bands out there who aren’t big enough to play venues that have ticket company contracts. There is a world of music out there completely free of that system and you’re neglecting it.

I agree, really I should have written “We have to do both.”

Actually the majority of atmospheric oxygen is produced by phytoplankton, which are mostly bacteria and protists. Plants do get us over the finish line though.

We should do both.

Counterpoint, end all meat & dairy subsidies completely.

Just eat plants.

A surefire way to zap a bunch of ideologically-motivated activists into a puddle of fatalistic nihilists.

Laws don’t even have to change if nobody is enforcing them.

Typifying a nation state by to it’s goals, rhetoric, and past actions is not antisemitic, but the government of Israel definitely wants you to conflate it as such.

Counterpoint, civilian gun ownership is the only reason why most marginalized identities in the US aren’t already rounded up into extermination camps en masse. You don’t have the first clue about the history and nature of this country if you think we wouldn’t quickly accelerate organized genocide without that last line of deterrence. Arm every single minority.