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Hahaha.

I am of the habit that I block it globally on the browser. Until perhaps a website that I have to use needs it.

Yeah, it seems like a totally unnecessary move.

Don’t want to be that guy, but this is far from new news.

"Less than two weeks ago, the United States conducted a drone strike over central Yemen, killing one al-Qaeda operative. The strike was the last under Obama (that we know of). The 542 drone strikes that Obama authorized killed an estimated 3,797 people, including 324 civilians. As he reportedly told senior aides in 2011: “Turns out I’m really good at killing people. Didn’t know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.”

This is from 2017. You can find even older stuff.

https://www.cfr.org/articles/obamas-final-drone-strike-data

Oh, absolutely. Ironically is just a set of scripts that you can run independently, it is called Phoenix. I run the script on the FF Nightly installed on my phone for the LULZ and for the newer toys.

True, TOR is best in class, but if you have used it, then you will see that it has some caveats for every day normal usage. Tons of sites will actively block it or give you trouble. But of course, it has its niche and tons of use cases, but in my use case it is a bit overkill.

Aside Lemmy, Reddit, and LinkedIn, all of which I use very sporadically, I am not on any other social media, use VPNs which I switch often, Do not use Google/MS services and I host most of the stuff I use myself including my own cloud and search engines.

IronFox barely breaks anything for me, and that is with webrtc and JIT disabled but as I said, most of the stuff I use is hosted by me, so I make those work. In my use case, uBlock Origin, used in Medium mode breaks way, way, way more stuff. But most people do not use it that way, so it does not apply to them.

Again, what National Socialist policies does he push?

You really do not know the whole picture in South Africa, eh? And what is happening there.

If you are American, I do not blame you. It does not get enough coverage there.

Allow me to help:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8pEGA1yhUk

So they aren’t National Socialists. I doubt t most people actually even know want a National Socialists actually even follows in policy outside memes.

Just a label that gets throw around just to antagonize anyone who disagrees with them. No wonder the term seems to be getting watered down. I see people calling everyone right of them a Nazi, these days.

Nationalism on its own is not a Nazi only trait. Everyone who knows history know that is vague. North Korea, China and The Soviet Union/Russia today are highly and extremely Nationalistic, are they National Socialists? In top of this, I do not know if you have travelled but Chinese people are among the most racist people I ever met. Remember when Disney has to hide Flynn’s picture from the Star Wars posters or when they covered the face of Black Panther from their posters too?

Facism comes straight out of Marxism. Literally the father of Facism Giovanni Gentile defined it as Marxism + Nationalism. Where people are white canvases and the State gets to turn them into National Socialists via school and indoctrination. The only differences between National Socialists and “International Socialists” aka: Socialists, is that regard is the Socialists/Communists in practice want to seize the means of production while the NS want to not own it, but to dominate it via policy to the point that they’re essentially one and the same. There is a lot of other overlaping things, too.

If we were to take that last point then the USA has been slowly leaning into Facism for the last quarter of acentury at least, moving forth regardless if the president was on the Left or the Right. So both sides are ever closer to Facism. If we are objective.

Been a Liberal my whole life. Just not a member of the cult mentality that some in the left seem to be part of, these days. We do exist.

For the most part, Canadian Liberals ≠ USA Progressives. For the crazy ones, you have to look at the recent convention of the NDP.

I make as much of my own food as possible. So I mostly buy basic ingredients.

Mayo, ketchup, BBQ sauce, ramen broth, grow my own yeast, bake breads all types, pizza dough for home made pizza, kimchi, grow some herbs and other plants when possible. You eat healthier, and tastes way, way better. Some planning required since you make things in bulk but since there are no preservatives, food will not last months, unless you also make your own preserves, but it gets easier with practice. Pickled stuff is delicious.

Also, will buy meat with bone in, use the bones to make broth and sauces for better for flavour.

It may, if enough people did it. I stopped too.

This is what I been using for years. Works great. But not everyone has, knows or wants to deploy a server with Nextcloud.

Firefox Sync looks fine.

I use Island. Same concept, and does the same, including contact isolation. Which was added a while back.

Depends of where you live and what your definition of what your standards are.

If you compare to the rest of the world, you would be very wealthy in most of the world. In most of Asia or Latin America or Africa you would be laughing.

In some Wester countries you would be well off assuming you are smart with your money. Depending where you live.

In some cities like New York, San Fran or Vancouver you will get by alright. Depends on expectations. I known people who plow through cash because that’s their lifestyle. I do not relate.

It sort of depends, since many people get into the mindset of spending more, the more they earn, sometimes irresponsibly. Personally, I go out of my way to spend well beneath my means, do not throw money on fads and got the party lifestyle out of system a long time ago, so 200k would be plenty which would allow for savings for larger purchases like property or investments. Especially if your partner contributes to the treasury.

No.

I am on the Left, and if I am objective, a lot of very extreme lefty people seem to really like censorship when convinient. X does not censor the way they like, so clearly it is a National Socialist website now. You will notice they will claim anyone who does not think like them is a National Socialist or a Nationalist Socialist sympathizer. Disagreeing with people is not “hate” and people not agreeing with me or saying things I do not like is not hate. Free speech includes dissenting opinions and none of us should pretend to be the morality police since I too see calls of violence from the Left but for some reason that is fine when we do it. Do not like hypocrisy, does not matter what side it comes and all sides are guilty of it at some point. That just reality.

Elon, despite the silly claim that he is one, is not a National Socialist. National socialism is a full on political framework like socialism. Who here, aside a stupid hand gesture can point out the exact National Socialist policies that Elon follows? Endless ad hominems do not make a person a national socialist, at least not among adults and for the record, I do not like Elon.

But it makes sense why hate get brought up a lot since “hate speech” laws were introduced by Stalin.

Objectively speaking it is far more open today than it was before. If anyone actually bothered to read the Twitter files, which I assume most people here have not out of ideological bias they would see how much it censored as per the Biden admin requests.

If people do not like people’s opinions then do not follow them or look them up. This has worked for me for decades or just do not pay attention to them.

No, Apple is just doing the governments’ bidding due to laws.

The real goal down the line is this, to be put in place circa 2030. The goal really is control… with a healthy side of profit for all involved:

To have a Digital IDs that surveillances and montiors everything you are and do, that proxy control you. For your protection and for the children, of course.

The age restriction BS is just the up ramp towards this. Think about, why is it that like 15 countries are pushing this all of the sudden, within the smae window. From the UK, USA, Sweden, Australia, Spain, Brazil, etc. Then, CBDCs and then the scam of UBIs which will be used as means to control too, or did people really think that UBIs actually meant that kind governments are really going to give you some stipend cash for free and for nothing in return? Come on.

Politicians and technocrats are delusional utopian ideologues who think they know better than us on how to live our own lives.

But at least we have the choice. Cows don’t.

Albeit true, not to the extent of cows.

Grass is nutritionally poor. The reason we are smart in many ways is due to our varied diet. Even if we had evolutionary gone in that direction we would be dumber. Eating grass is a specialisation.

Also, we would not look like we do. If you look at the digestive track of a horse or a cow, you will see that they are longer. Carnivores have the shortest and we as omnivores are in between. Being an omnivote is a good thing and in the end, we can get more nutrition by hunting and gathering than by grassing.

Worth noting, while individual cows’ behaviour and preferences vary greatly, the time spent feeding and ruminating usually adds up to 4-7 hours a day. Our society would be were we are today if we spent 7 hours as a species eating grass in order to make ir worthwhile.

Evolution can only evolve so much within an existing animal especies in order to specialise or fit in a survival niche. Hence you do not see sea crabs that can fly or flies that live in the bottom of the sea.