TechNerdWizard42 @ TechNerdWizard42 @lemmy.world

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One reason I've stopped using reddit entirely. They require fingerprinting you. If you do a good job and they can't fingerprint you, you get that screen. It is NOT blocked by IP of the VPN as some here have said. You can easily see the content through the same VPN while not logged on as long as you have enough identifiable tracking information to reasonably guess who you are.

It's a great test now. If I'm ever let into view reddit now, I must have seriously screwed up somewhere in my security chain.

npm install everything --force

I love how you're being downvoted because the cavemen Muricans can't comprehend modern banking that doesn't involve cheques.

Blows their mind when you talk about tapping to pay in the early 2000's. No Apple didn't invent it.

I'm not a R but the Democrats seriously need to stop pushing this shitty "economy is awesome" narrative. Because everytime someone hears it who isn't feeling the economy, it makes them hate the Democrats a little more. Staying home and not voting because your candidate has pissed you off, is just as bad.

For anyone who hasn't recieved a 20% pay increase, the economy is not good. In fact you'd need about a 35% to 50% pay increase to be feeling the same as you did pre pandemic. If you job hopped during the super awesome fun times of Covid hiring and got a boost in salary, then yeah you're new salary offset by new higher prices makes the economy feel better than it was.

But if you're the majority of people who did not get 50% adjustments, you are having a bad time. You are factually worse off financially than you were.

The idea of blaming who or what made the bad economy is a lost game. Bush tanked the economy, Obama got the blame. Trump tanked the economy, Biden got the blame. But just because Biden didn't tank it, doesn't mean it isn't tanked.

There is nobody, not a single person, I know of that is doing better today than 2020.

I'm not convinced.

Biden is super pro Israel, has been forever.

Trump is super pro Israel. But also is pro money. And pro being schmoozed. And pro Saudi. Honestly he's pro-himself only.

The American public at large doesn't GAF about Palestine. I bet 90% can't even point out where in the world Israel is on a map even if they are Bible thumping Jerusalem lovers.

If Trump gets into office, you better believe Saudi, Qatar, and the UAE will be whispering sweet nothing's into his ear while donating some sweet money to his corporations to care more about Palestine. Trump Estate's, a new Palestinian village coming soon.

With Biden you know what you're getting. With Trump you don't know. So if this is your single issue... I could see it mattering.

People vote against their interests or irrationally based on a single talking point all the time. It's time to stop giving so much reverance to the US voter. They do not research and carefully weigh their options. Most vote tribally for whoever has the right letter. The rest are too stupid or brave to admit the choice they made up 3 years earlier. Very few are truly swing voters and of you can't pick a side at this point, you're exactly the type of person that would vote for someone giving you a free sandwich or that agrees with your one talking point you love.

Or you mean now that the facade of the US has been eroded and the racist violent cess pool that is truly there is exposed, less people want to dedicate their life there... Wow, what a concept. You find almost anyone who wants to go to the US that comes from a country that functions. The US is literally the last choice or an outright refusal.

It is of course still a fantastically popular destination for those where the soft power propaganda of Hollywood works, or are escaping true poverty and crime. Something is much better than what they have. The rest of the developed world however, has developed much further.

The only, and literally only, things I've ever heard about the US in a positive light in the past few years is the high income potential and beautiful natural parks. The parks is a load of crap. Beauty like that exists all over the world, but it isn't marketed as well as the US or as famous by movies. Fair enough excuse to visit.

High income potential is the only upside. And with remote work anyone who can work for a US company to pocket the paycheque and live outside its borders, that's the new American dream.

100mbps symmetric should be minimum standard. 100mbps down with 10mbps up is worse than remote islands with mud huts. Seriously, I was on a Pacific island that looked like what an after hurricane photo op does, and they had direct access to the fiber cables. So gigabit symmetric internet ONTs glued to the side of huts for a few bucks a month.

I'm not married to social media unlike yourself apparently.

And no. The US should have zero ability to arrest, and capture anyone not on their soil. The US engages in legal and ILLEGAL extradition. It also engages in the weaponization of systems such as Interpol and basic extradition. Claim 1 charge that is just alleged, extradite, then charge with different things that would have never allowed an extradition. The US is the world bully.

If the US wanted to try a cartel leader in abstensia, that's fine. It's like having an imaginary tea party. If that person never sets foot in the US, they should be fine. If the country they are in wants to prosecute them for breaking the laws of where they are, that's up to that country.

The US position is hypocrital. Anyone, everywhere in the world, is subject to US rules. Break any US law, and the US will prosecute you if they want to. Break a law outside the US, and the US can prosecute you in the US. And then the exact opposites, don't count. If the US does something outside the US area, it's not illegal. If the US breaks a local law, they claim it can't be touched.

You bring up Latin America and power vacuums that Cartel leaders have... You really should research WHY those leaders are there. The US purposefully interferes with their governments to keep those in power that are friendly to overall American interests. You know the same thing it's so indignant about because Russia is doing it now to the US... The term Banana Republic is literally describing what the US does to the region you bring up.

And why is the manufacturer the bad guy here? "Bad guy" has a company. He manufactures a product, and exports it. It is sold to customers to freely and openly buy it. The drug is controlled but available if you have the proper documentation. Remember your grandparents could buy fizzy drinks with cocaine in it just for kicks when they were a kid. They could buy medicine like a Nyquil with these opiodes in it too with no regulation at all. The concept of them being bad and needing regulation is very new. The customers today that buy the drug are committing a crime in their local jurisdiction. It is not a crime everywhere in the world.

The US has deemed the company owner a bad guy. And kidnapped him to try him.

A company makes a product. It's illegal where it's made, but due to financial bribery of the local government, it is allowed. This product is sold locally and exported. When it is purchased in an outside market it's black market and illegal and you can go to jail for it. The US says you can issue a warrant for the owner of the company, kidnap them in a paramilitary operation to your country, then throw them in jail for financial crimes because every dollar made from the illegal product is part of a crime. Do you only arrest the CEO? All shareholders? All employees? Distributors? The US says yes yes yes.

In that case, Ramon Laguarta the CEO of Pepsico should be thrown in jail in any European country. As would everyone who works for them or owns a share of the company. That's Vanguard, Black Rock, every KFC employee and hundreds of other brands, every grocery store and gas station owner, etc. Why? Because just pick one product. Captain Crunch. It's made with BHA which is a chemical for shelf stabilization. It is illegal in California. It's illegal in many countries, including many EU countries. It hurts people, it actually harms their health. The manufacturer and pusher of Captain Crunch gets a free ride, why? If France acted like the US he'd be guillatened tomorrow.

Anyways, it's obvious you are fully encapsulated by American propaganda if you can't see if basic hypocrisy. Murica always good. Everyone else always wrong. That's all the energy I'll be giving to this.

Because that's not how the law works. If the law was it's only illegal to kill 50 people, or even 25 people, then sure that's the bar. But in the US you get thrown in prison for 20 years for killing 1 person. You get thrown in jail for 20 years for accidentally killing, or not doing something to prevent a killing, or if you were part of an organized group that did commit such a crime.

To apply US laws equally, a supposed bastion of American democracy and justice, it's a very easy argument to make.

Also many people after the fake WMD scandal called for the US leadership to be tried. And the US very immediately said no, they don't try foreign government leaders and you can't try ours except in the world courts. Oh, and if you do try and convict the US in the Hague, the US has a law on the books now that allows it to invade the Netherlands sovereignty and break out their people. The court is only valid if not used against America!

This authorization led to the act being colloquially nicknamed "The Hague Invasion Act", as the act allows the president to order U.S. military action, such as an invasion of the Netherlands, where The Hague is located, to protect American officials and military personnel from prosecution or rescue them from custody.

The US being one of the most warmongering nations in the history of the world needs to be held accountable.

Nope. And them making it harder and harder to exist without an account just makes me more resilient. I can't view content on Facebook anything or even reddit anything anymore. I take that as a win because I'm not being fingerprinted properly so they assume I'm a robot. Which is a win.

Because it's cheaper. If this is in a country where you or your family can sue because of a liability of the private institution or public one, then they treat everyone as a threat. Doesn't matter why you're there, you have to be treated just like the psycho Hannibal. Because if you turn out to be like that, and they didn't screen you "for your safety and the safety of the staff", it would be lawsuits galore.

Cool, so the US now completely accepts the ability to try foreign leaders and past foreign leaders in a domestic court versus before it having to go to the ICC/Hague.

So let's get Dubya (W Bush) tried for war crimes. And of course Cheney. And Obama for that matter. And Trump. And Biden. Heck most of the US leadership of the past many decades are guilty of breaching international conventions and aiding what are now terrorists. Remember who trained Osama Bin Laden??? Right to jail. Apparently.

Or are we still supposed to pretend that the rules only apply to others and that's not hypocrisy somehow...

You can try but rarely is it successful unless you're a super popular influencer. If Mr. Beast came out with a platform and said use it, he'd get a million users in a day, all of them evangelizing to their friend groups and maybe it would take off. Otherwise you're just going to get ignored unless it's easy enough.

WhatsApp is easy enough and good enough. It is not the best solution, but part of its allure is that it is owned by a big corporation. Governments and billion dollar companies use WhatsApp as their backbone because it is big. They aren't going to roll their own.

And when someone is completely against WhatsApp... Why? If it's because you hate Zuck and Meta, then fine. Personal grudges are fine with me, but not a valid reason to dislike the platform for everyone, just yourself. The data that they get is who you are sending messages to, when, and the overall size. Everything else can be blocked. The content of the messages is secure unless you decrypt and backup elsewhere. One of my WhatsApp numbers is on a number from a VoIP line not even tied to my name or ID in any way. Meta collects information that I am talking to hundreds of delivery drivers arranging my deliveries. I'm ok with that.

They don't have any of my info. I don't have any social media accounts apart from Lemmy and a now retired reddit. Works well enough. And the older people can use it easily enough. Getting my mother to switch to telegram? Isn't happening. But WhatsApp... She's down for that.

I mean... Yay kind of? For profit health care should absolutely be a target for attack.

If enough people die then maybe there can be change. Oh, who are we kidding. If a few congressmen and their families are slightly inconvenienced, there will be hell fire and change. Otherwise thousands can die and nothing will happen.

Democrats can't figure it out. They vote mostly on policies and when their team does something so dispicible they cannot in good conscious vote for them, they don't. The other side however is not voting on morals, but the exact opposite. They are trying to get their team to win just to spite the others and maybe a single issue they care about.

There are many Democrats (and yes I'm ignoring all 3rd party and "independent" because that's a lie in the USA) who at this point dislike many of the things that the government has done under the Biden term and are on the spite train. Remember it's only a few hundred people in some places that matter in the election. The larger swings were a few thousand. You could fit every single difference vote that determines the outcome of the election in a sports stadium. And half the seats would still be empty. You don't need many people to stay F Biden and not vote or vote against for Cheeto to win.

Democrats love to be hopeful. But hope and feels doesn't win an election after 2008 when it got blacks onboard in 2008. That's sort of a one time dealio as noticed in 2012 when the vote just disappeared. A woman candidate, Asian, or whatever other minority will also get some hopefy feely votes out. A decrepit old white man that eats ice cream does not.

I was told Jared Kushner accomplished it easily and it wasn't even the top of his side gigs...

Or smart enough to leave it before hand. It's not about collapsing democracy. That's red herring. It's about collapsing governments of any kind. A falling democracy, theocracy, or cult leader commune all have the same hallmarks.

Not a defense of Meta, just saying what's used. And if the option is completely insecure SMS or RCS vs WhatsApp, WhatsApp is a clear winner. If you could push everyone to a better app like a signal or telegram, sure. But the world is on WhatsApp. And if you look at how hard it is to get Americans off of SMS or iMessage, that's the issue you have with now 2 billion people minimum to get them to use a better more secure platform. And their perceived benefit for that trouble is near zero.

I'm not saying what is good to use. I'm saying what is used. Everyone from grandma to the local store. If you want to survive communicating, you need to use WhatsApp everywhere in the world except the idiotic USA.

I personally use other apps like signal and telegram, but I also have WhatsApp because I have to and it is convenient enough. I'm ok that Meta gets a bit of data showing the amazon delivery driver and I shared a message at a certain time. It's useless data.