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Forgive me, you're correct. I stopped using it when it dropped SMS, because I had only ever able to get people on it through SMS, but at the time had read plans about eventually dropping the phone number requirement. I mixed those things up in my head.

From what I understand, they're fully invested in dropping the phone number requirement though, and some more googling says that they've had versions of Signal PNP (phone number privacy) running for a while now.

You're correct, that part hasn't actually changed over yet, but it's in the works.

GPS was short for Google Play Services, not Global Positioning System. Sorry.

Signal is always encrypted by default. Same with Matrix. Telegram you have to choose for it to be an encrypted chat, and you can't do encrypted group chats.

I agree with that take, but this is an example of an "Oops I won't do it again I promise" attitude in Washington DC politics in general. The "having documents you're not supposed to" has happened with a lot of ex-officials, including Democrats, but it's usually hand-waved away as long as they destroy/return them. I don't think that is Biden trying to not appear partisan as much as it is Standard Operating Procedure with politicians, and they just didn't expect an actual all-out criminal to refuse to give them back, like Trump.

Earlier this year. It no longer functions as an SMS service and you now have a username instead. I think the changeover was in March or April.

Because a lot of people who live on a fixed income like social security or disability simply don't have the privilege of being able to do so?

They often can't afford to live anywhere but a Food Desert, and often don't own a vehicle in a city with few public transit options. Things like this can severely limit their choices on which company to spend money.

The reality is poor people shop at Walmart because in a lot of cases they really can't afford not to. This is what people fighting against expansion of companies like Walmart twenty years ago said was going to happen. They will dominate with low prices until they've pushed out all other viable businesses, and then you'll be left with no choice but to spend your money with them. This was all on purpose at the corporate level. Not sure why you're blaming 20-30 years of corporate choices with very little pushback from city governments on the people who don't have other places to shop anymore.

If you trust Telegram you're naive. Here is a great breakdown earlier this year from Kaspersky.

https://usa.kaspersky.com/blog/telegram-why-nobody-uses-secret-chats/27662/

Signal isn't perfect either, but their mistakes are far less egregious. They also have removed some of the more egregious mistakes, like needing a phone number (edit: incorrect, see below) or google play services to function. It can be run on a device without Google Play Services because it only uses Google Play Services for push notifications.

Sans' favorite game.

So only the US can prosecute their President for war crimes, and it has to be based on US laws? That's not a legitimate discussion, I'd say.

So the people who write the laws just write it so that they didn't break the laws. That's literally what Obama did for Bush, legalizing warrantless spying, ramping up the drone war, etc.

I mean, that's literally the point of the ICC, is that governments can just be like "we didn't do anything wrong" and then continue abusing the world. So you take them to a neutral third party.... the ICC.

You usually send war criminals to The Hague and then it's outside the hands of the nation in question. Many nations like to do a lot of "we investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing."

I guess US law trumps international law and laws governing war, huh? No wonder the US refuses to join the International Criminal Court.

https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/war-crimes.shtml

Oh look, shocker, torture is in there.

It's the tipped employees who don't realize they are getting fucked and maybe their clients shouldn't be the people expected to fill the shortfalls of their paychecks instead of, you know, their boss. It's not the people who work regular jobs themselves where they are not tipped.

Source: Working the first tipped job I have ever worked and motherfucker these people are entitled. Delivering pizza to poor people living off of disability and judging them for not tipping. It makes me fucking furious. I live in a state with one of the highest minimum wages in the country, it's not like these people are being paid $2.13 an hour. Depending on the day they can make $30+ an hour when you include tips. They're so fucking angry and shitty and petty when people don't tip. It's like, I guess fuck anyone who just wanted some comfort food in the middle of their shitty lives and it's not their fault your boss doesn't pay you better. I have previously only worked jobs where I was never tipped but still had customers acting entitled. People who demand or expect tips on top of the highest minimum wage in the country are fucking crybabies angry at the wrong fucking people. That's on them, not the people tired of the bullshit tipping culture.

As a weed smoker for something like 25 years who has spent his time doing a lot of studying of the science because I understand that it is not an inert substance, and I know its affecting my health long-term somehow...

I've seen the studies that have shown specific strains have more to do with different "highs" than whether it is indica or sativa (nevermind that there is no such thing as a true indica anymore.), do you have any idea how I feel when some fucking twentysomething starts telling me about the (bogus) differences between sativa and indica and expects me to give a shit when all I care about is potency.

Like sorry, you're not getting a tip for knowing less than me, some bum off the street, about the stuff I'm putting in my body.

Ichor being the fluid that flows like blood in the veins of Gods, and the prefix petro referring to rocks or stones on the ground.

The smell of a god's blood on stones.

Quick, someone call Marcel Proust!

Proof that AI can never replace a true artist like the 1st place winner.

More reasons to prioritize public transit over individual car ownership.

When did you wake up and choose to be evil?

I hate it because the company that makes it is trash and duplicitous. Their business practices (including those in Fortnite) are what make them terrible.

Especially since the tale has been around so long lots of lottery winners intentionally don't reveal themselves and do the things that have been being suggested for lottery winners for like twenty fucking years now. (suggestions are usually along the lines of "get a lawyer and get a broker for investing.")

As we've seen worldwide, I'm not sure how well turning a public health problem into a political issue will work out. No matter your political slant, politicians just aren't the solution to public health issues, as much as they're needed to administer the legal solutions.

As well as the fact that bedbugs are spreading more and faster due to climate change since they thrive in warmer environments. This problem has been growing and will continue to grow. I worry about when it reaches my own city.

Solutions for such a wide outbreak are scarce, but viable solutions I think would come from the scientific community about effective treatments and long-term changes to keep them at bay. However, as we've seen with COVID, there will be a number who will resist efforts to control the pests as some form of social control, infringing on their right to be scruffy bastards, I suppose.

I do wish Paris the best in finding a long-term viable solution to this, it's a terribly difficult problem to be facing. Especially with intent to host an Olympic games.

… I’m applauding that but you’re on thin fucking ice

... read in the voice of Brain

EDIT: God damn I want to live in a world where The Brain just occasionally drops an F bomb when talking to Pinky.