WhatAmLemmy @ WhatAmLemmy @lemmy.world

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While true, it's not really fair to attribute the march 2020 covid drops to Trump. Every market on earth tanked, and there wasn't much any admin could've done to stop it.

However, this was 100% in Trump's control and is 100% self-inflicted. Has any US admin ever tanked the markets entirely on their own, in all of history... I mean, apart from the Republicans ~100 years ago (hilariously, also with Tariffs)?

This is true for so many countries it's best to apply these steps anytime you pass through customs.

Thanks "war on terror", and everyone who supports the destruction of civil liberties for fake-security.

While better than nothing, you want to avoid using the OS's cloud for backups at all, as that means your data is unencrypted and accessible on Googles/Apples servers (for 99% of smartphone users). There's nothing to stop the American nazi party from using the NSA's privileged access to scan every account for wrong-think.

Ideally you want to perform a fresh encrypted backup on a PC and upload that to multiple cloud services — preferably EU and E2E encrypted — then download and restore it once you pass through customs at your destination.

TIPS:

• This is not just for the US. Almost every customs can image your devices at any time.
• it's best to setup a "travel image" for every device, that is adequate for the entire trip, in case restoring from backup fails.
• just deleting everything is not sufficient. Logs, caches, etc all persist on a device; many of which are completely hidden from the user.
• do everything a few days or more beforehand so you have time to trim the fat, upload the backup, and setup the new travel image with the core apps you need for transit.
• It's best to remove all photos and other large non-essential app data before performing this backup to keep it as small as possible.
• do a screen-recording as you click through all your OS and app settings, pre-backup, so you can setup the clean "travel image" how you like it.
• setup a separate password manager account, and only use it to store credentials for critical accounts while transiting.
• keep 2 separate 2FA and password manager backups in a reputable E2E encrypted cloud provider, accessible by a memorized passphrase you use nowhere else. I do this in general every so often as part of a standard backup routine.

Yes, it is ridiculous for law abiding citizens to have to do any of this to protect their privacy and data sovereignty, but this is the reality of living in corporate oligarchies hostile to civil liberties and human rights.

More like asking the slaves about productivity advances in slavery. "Nothing good will come of this".

You think billionaires care about a rounding error? They're still rich enough to buy most governments, and the mere concept of not being able to afford islands, mansions on every continent, and a private jet to fly between them is still non-existent.

It's the bottom 99% who have to worry.

It's probably like this downfall scene, except with dementia and pants-shitting.

Honestly I'd bet the "too stressed to care" make up only a few % of the middle 33%, and that the middle is more representative of a different kind of ignorance. I'm talking about the people who were born reasonably comfortable and never found history, science, or politics interesting. People who devote most of their time and personality to things like sportsball, video games, or social media. People who choose to watch bottom-barrel reality tv unironically. Basically the "centrists" who don't really know how anything works, ignorant of pretty much everything outside their niche education or profession, whatever's spoon fed to them, and the mainstream media.

It will not be reported. Instead, soundbites about how "nothing could be done to stop this" will be reported ad-nauseam.

The secret ingredient was hundreds of millions of dollars

Yes, but now the shoe's on the other foot!

All this displays is that the abused are likely to become the abuser — a well-known statistically significant reality in psychology — and that religious nationalism and conservatism will always lead to fascism.

Who can't vote 3rd party under a preferential system? Everyone should... I don't think I've ever voted directly for a major party in my life. Labor is always last out of everything left-of-Labor.

The rest of the "free" "democratic" world has supported them the entire time, and is now equating merely voicing support for the victims of genocide with terrorism.

I figured the turning point would come around the time Israels far right committed domestic terrorism, and violently stormed IDF bases demanding the release of a soldier charged with using rape as torture. That changed nothing. Our "ally" is fucking indistinguishable from any Nazi, and our governments continue to whole heartedly support genocidal fascists.

So they can only expel them from Berlin? If they can expel them from Germany, then they act on behalf of Germany.

US patients already pay the price; for tens of thousands with their lives, each year.

Goebbels don't give a fuck.

THIS IS WORSE BECAUSE A DEMONCRAT DID IT!!!

This is the bad place.

You thought you were gonna get star trek? PSYCH! You get fascist dystopia!

They should just skip all this nonsense and make it illegal to be anti-genocide...

But then they couldn't commit genocide, and they really enjoy the suffering.

8 in 10 Israeli's support genocide

42.12 in 70.2

Why do you want a blank screen instead of the display turning off?