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  • Quite a few nations capitulated against the Nazis within days or even without a fight to avoid war. It saved a lot of lives. Does that make it the right choice? Who is to say...

    What's for sure is that Boris shouldn't have vetoed the peace agreement in 2022.

  • Signal app size 165MB. Conversations: 42MB.

    I can't message someone on Signal without installing Signal or Molly which also uses Signal servers, which has to be trusted on good faith (can't run my own). Ergo a walled garden just like Whatsapp.

    I can't register with just a username & password. I have to trust their PR saying they don't store my ph #.

    US has some of the worst legislation when it comes to privacy; when the agencies decide they want your data, Signal will not be allowed to tell you. And don't give me the bs line that they only store 3 pieces of info about you. Unless you've built their server software you don't know what they collect am store.

  • I use Signal. It's the in thing in my circles.

    The desktop version cannot be used independently; you still need to make and maintain an account on a smart phone. Also the desktop version uses crazy memory. It's a pos. I no longer use it. Also you're limited to 2 devices: one phone & one comp. I sync my xmpp chats between 3 or 4, depending.

  • Signal is so bloated compared to Conversations on Android. Also it's a walled garden requiring your ph number to register (edit: and requires owning a smart phone👎). Based in the US so not great for privacy. Marginally better than Whatsapp suppose.

    Edit: and it requires a smart phone.

  • Yea, nah. Say what you want about X, but Meta is in a whole other league than X. In my communities it's monopolising to a large degree:

    • finding housemates/sharehouses,
    • buying/selling second-hand goods online,
    • info on events,
    • news-updates for community groups, and even
    • shift swaps at work

    amongs others. All essential services that Meta took over one by one.

    X on the other hand is just a micro-blogging platform.

    1. The Clinton emails were first released by the State Department under FOIA. (WikiLeaks were first to publish the different archives of the Podesta email leak and the DNC email leak.) Both WL and the Wall Street Journal each made the Clinton emails into a searchable database.
    2. WikiLeaks has never had to retract a single document or story.
  • again, gender-neutral wording like they/them don't say anything about gender or her own identity. 'They' does not refer to a third gender. I'm not demanding anything from her. You're the one who brought up using the correct pronouns. So I expect you to be familiar with English grammar.

    I think your language-policing is ridiculous. You can't expect someone unfamiliar with a situation to be up-to-date with how to affirm someone's gender correctly. Gender-neutral language functions as a safe fall-back in such situations. You can rightfully expect people to not misgender people. You cannot be rightfully offended at people using gender-neutral language. The only person I'm making demands of currently is you, because you're making this discussion unnecessarily hostile.

  • I'm sorry but no. Using gender-neutral language does not describe gender; using 'they' isn't to misgender, it just leaves the gender unspecified.

    You can correctly use 'they' for anyone. If they'd said 'he', now that would've been different...

    (Edit: typo)

  • Australia @aussie.zone

    Whistleblower David McBride pleads guilty - Michael West

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    David McBride writes in his book The Nature of Honour that for the SAS in Afghanistan, ‘leadership encouraged dishonesty’

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    LEFT WITH NO DEFENSE, McBRIDE PLEADS GUILTY

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    Whistleblower David McBride pleads guilty after court rules to withhold evidence over ‘security’ risk

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    Defence whistleblower could plead guilty after appeal rejected

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    Day 1 of McBride Trial: Defence argued a duty to the nation surpassing military discipline.

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    Whistleblower David McBride declares ‘today I serve my country’ as trial starts over alleged leaking of war crime documents

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    "Nothing is out of the hands of the people if the people come together and stand up for what's right" - Lauri Love speaks to Julian Assange extradition protest at the Magistrates Court, 2019

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    PEN Melbourne requests humanitarian repatriation of Julian Assange in meeting with UK Consul.

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    "He's being punished because he did the right thing" - Stella Assange speaking to the Luxembourg Parliament on the persecution of Julian Assange

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    Stella Assange: "If they can do it to someone who has won dozens of prizes, they can do it to anyone"

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    Activist interrupts "Oversight of the Department of Justice Hearing" addressing Attorney General Merrick Garland

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    An Important Message From Roger Waters After Visiting Julian Assange in Belmarsh Prison 02 Oct 2023

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    An Important Message From Roger Waters After Visiting Julian Assange in Belmarsh Prison 02 Oct 2023

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    Sure, Mark, let's just pretend you're not putting a war-crimes whistleblower on trial in 6 weeks...