Quacksalber @ Quacksalber @sh.itjust.works

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I know that it is a can of worms politically, but now the man the whole world owes the wake-up call that were his leaks to, is forced to live under Putin.

If Snowden ever did, he hardly did it out of his own volition.

It really is a shame how spineless european politicians are, to not give Edward Snowden protection in europe. I bet a whole bunch of politicians are happy that he faded out of the collective mind, so they don't have defend their indefensible standpoint of not giving Snowden amnesty.

It also sucks that there is no recourse against politicians that are clearly biased in their decisionmaking.

Read my statement again:

an offline version would’ve been easily doable, as in, most online feature of The Crew feel optional to begin with.

I never claimed that it was easy in a technical sense, just in a mechanical sense. But to double down on my point, if Ivory Tower had created The Crew with the possibility of ripping out the online mode entirely in mind, then the structure and the mechanics of the game would've made it very easy to do so.

For The Crew especially, an offline version would've been easily doable, as in, most online feature of The Crew feel optional to begin with. To just drive around the map or race against AI, no online features are required.

I much prefer uMatrix over NoScript, it is way more intuitive. And even though uMatrix is no longer updated, it still works better than NoScript for me. My Firefox Android has gotten soft-locked by NoScript in regular intervals. Since they enabled uMatrix for Firefox Android again, I have had no such issues.

To my knowledge, you don't need to opt out of anything.

It has to be noted that this applies to US citizens. For EU citizens the arbitration rules do not apply (that at least is how I read the ToS). Instead, they get an EU body that handles disputes:

If you reside in the European Union, you may also be entitled to submit your complaint to the European Commission’s Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) Platform or the Out-of-Court Dispute Settlement (“OCDS”) mechanism under DSA Article 21.

'tis from Deca-Dence anime. Pretty cool, but also weird. They have tic-tacs.

I think that is the biggest issue with Mastodon and federation in general: Limited discoverability. I've spoken to a few artists that still post on Twitter. They won't join Mastodon, because it is so hard to develop consistent reach.

While I think that many are ok with 'trying out' Lemmy by joining a random instance at first, I also have seen numerous threads in which users are complaining about not being able to subscribe to communities they are interested in, only to be told that the instance hosting the communities they are interested in is blocked by their instance. I don't think it makes for a good first impression to join a Lemmy instance, only to be immediately told that you need to join another instance to see the content you are interested in.

The goal of the Democrats in the US has been to send much more aid much sooner than the Republicans. It's the Republicans that want to see Ukraine fail and who are dragging out this stalemate.

Why don't you wish for unicorns while you're at it? That's about as likely to happen as Israel, after all this time, suddenly deciding to pull back from Gaza.

There is, give Ukraine the ability to defend itself and push Russia out.

People that died in torture chambers, in civilan houses that got hit by rockets, people that have been deported or incarcerated because they have been deemed to be opposedto russian occupation.
Just onesuch example is written about here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/22/a-murdered-writer-his-secret-diary-of-the-invasion-of-ukraine-and-the-war-crimes-investigator-determined-to-find-it

US could literally tell Israel to open the border and let aid in any time.

But they won't. End of story. What are you going to do about it? Get all the help for the people currently suffering that you can get, or stomp your foot while Gazans starve? I know what you've chosen.

Those terrorist twinks, man. We gotta stop them. ^/s

Putin continues to build up 'western degeneracy' as the national threat that justifies his attempted land-grab in Ukraine.

Ah yes, let's classify calling for aid deliveries to the people of Gaza 'not helping', because not all demands are met. Fuck those starving people, we want all of our points met.