Leraje @ leraje @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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An actual life sentence for being the victim of rape.

I'm only part way through the 3rd one but I have to agree. This third one in particular just seems like - how much shit can we pile on this lad before he breaks? It's part of the reason I'm so confused about Kettricken's anger at him. Yes, he's been an idiot at times but he literally saved her life more than once. What's she so angry about?

Ahhhh, OK. Thanks :)

Fire Walk With Me, with Bill Murray helping Laura figure it out quicker.

Of course they are. A few years from now, there'll be no ad-free plans at all. Across any streaming service.

Possibly but I can't think of a time that's been attempted, let alone successfully implemented. Capitalism always (it seems to me) ends up morphing into a system to protect wealth and the wealthy. They would never, ever allow 'proper regulation' (by which I assume you mean regulation to protect workers as much as the rich) to happen.

Capitalism isn't a national thing - its global - there's always going to be places where what one country forbids another country allows. All a rich person or company has to do is transfer their base of operations there to circumnavigate most laws and pay lip service to the laws of the countries they operate in. Look at Amazon or Starbucks.

Capitalist governments are pro-finance, not pro-people. Totalitarian gvmts (China etc) are pro-system, not pro-people. They're just different ways of maintaining classes of people who control the power/finances.

There's always been an uber-rich elite, all the way from the first tribal chieftain or Pharaoh or whatever until now and there's always been a huge underclass of the rest of us. The first law of any hierarchy is to protect the people at the top.

What we see today (in Westernised countries) is the natural, logical progression of economics driven democracy. Economic theorists say wealthy people create wealth by purposefully distributing it via jobs etc but in reality they do everything possible to minimise the loss of what they see as their money by abusing labour laws, privatising everything, trying to kill unions, creating convoluted laws to protect their fortunes, avoiding taxes and hiking prices up to the point most of us are just about surviving with enough carrot to ignore or pretend we don't see the stick.

And we're willing participants in that system. We know this is happening but we're dazzled by lotteries holding out the chance to join the rich, promises of work making us rich and a media which lionises the elite as some kind of fabulous aspirational status to the point we have people on social media faking a rich lifestyle for internet points.

The uber rich believe they're better than us and our acquiescence with this system really means we agree with them.

I don't think Larson is a particularly good actor, certainly not good enough to carry a lead role, but even she suffered from some bizarre editing and writing choices in this one. The entire movie felt like a series of vaguely connected individual scenes. I mean, I get it, it's a superhero movie, no ones expecting Oscar worthy stuff but it's not a great look when the end credit scenes are more interesting than the actual movie.

Awhile ago, a user on r/casualuk posted a list of UK based stuff that was either free or cheap (food/entertainment/etc). They mirrored it in a few places and I bookmarked the github mirror. Doesn't look like it's been updated for a year or so though and I ain't prepared to head to reddit to check the original.

ISPs pass on your data to various authorities in quite a lot of countries. My own country (UK) has such a terrible privacy reputation I wouldn't be at all surprised to find ISP's hand over data for every request.

You can easily switch back to stock Android if necessary :)

I switched a couple of years ago and the process then was pretty straightforward to the point I can't really recall much about it, I can't imagine its got trickier since then. I'm due a new Pixel sometime this year and I plan on putting Graphene straight on to it.

Process is simple;

1. Backup everything you want to keep and move the backup off your device.
2. Identify FOSS equivalents for all the apps you currently have (but maybe you already use them)
3. Read the installation instructions. Re-read until you understand exactly what every step entails and means. Any step you're at all unsure of, ask. Much better to ask questions before you start than be stuck needing an answer halfway through.
4. If it goes bad (which it won't) or you don't like Graphene you can, as I said, revert back to stock Android.

Other things that spread disease: hetero sex, breathing, kissing, touching surfaces other people have touched, generally existing.

Therefore, if gay sex is immoral because it might spread disease, so must all those other things be.

Clearly incorrect as no one would be sad.

Outsmarting Piers Morgan is about as difficult as obeying gravity.

To me, it's an issue of personal responsibility.

Lemmy is, like a lot of Fediverse platforms, about as private as it can be. There's no trackers, you're not forced to use real names or any other identifying information, no adverts follow you from site to site, no browser fingerprinting and no instance owners are trying to sell your data.

Beyond that, what you choose to say on Lemmy is your responsibility and yours alone.

Depending on the make and model of your Android phone, you might be able to use GrapheneOS which will vastly improve your situation. Use it together with privacy respecting apps and you'll be a long way towards reclaiming your mobile privacy. You can also buy Android phones that are pre-configured with Graphene on them on ebay but you are obviously a running a risk.

Desktop/laptop you will need to move to Linux. Mint is (in my opinion) a very good option if you're new to Linux as it is privacy respecting and looks/acts in a very Windows type way. Like most Linux distributions, you can even try it without installing it by downloading and burning an ISO to a USB pen/stick drive. Here's a YT tutorial on doing that (also covers going on to install Mint).

Switch browsers to Firefox and install uBlockOrigin, LibRedirect and Firefox Multi Containers add-ons. Switch to a privacy friendly search engine such as DuckDuckGo, Startpage or a SearX instance.

Migrate your email to an encrypted privacy respecting provider such as Tuta (recently changed their name from Tutanota) and stop using things like OneDrive or Dropbox, instead use a service like ProtonDrive or Filen.

Use a decent VPN like Mullvad on all your devices. This not only protects your ISP from seeing what you're doing it also means you're using their DNS, which you can configure to block trackers, adverts and a few other things (at DNS level, you'll still need uBlockOrigin in your browser). It doesn't offer as much control as PiHole or AdGuard but it's a lot less complicated to set up.

I think it's something that app creator invented.

Not Only Instant Messenger.

Don't think it'd even take weeks. It wouldn't be just be a couple of foxes or badgers, it'd be all of them for miles around. Scent travels a long way. Then on top of the larger (by European standards) animals, lots of birds eat carrion.

Seen this?