I haven't bought proper electronics in decades. Honestly impressive how utterly disconnected I am from society at this point. It still feels to me like it's 1995 because all tools I ever buy need to be good at their use and the corporate internet is mostly being ignored by me, same with its electronics and walls and laws and gags. I never in my life owned a console that would even be capable of accessing the internet, much less needs to. So all I ever owned was mine to do with what I pleased. If I want my super Nintendo or N64 to stream music while doubling as a washing bowl, I'll bloody well modify it as needed and I see fit.
Imagine one would genuinely not care about being called dipshit under the given circumstances. Context and intent are more important than the choice of words. I can't call something retarded, but I can call it demented. Crazy is fine, slow isn't. If it were about people and slurs, both words would be banned, but only one is, leaving the feeling of oppression under the banner of Good rather than it being actually about change for the better.
Satan himself could've posted that and he would still be right. Rather than being busy shitting on people for being the wrong kind of people who is right, you should shit on a people voting actual, literal Nazis ans facists into power.
Sure. Happened at .org and exactly how I told it. Police monitored all outgoing connections of all users of a certain provider over three days, waiting for someone to connect to a certain IP. Lead to the catch of the operator of a giant child porn site on the darkweb as well as several of his accomplices.
People complained about the breach of privacy and overreach of government. Not a joke.
So far I find it to be nonsense. Call the US a terrorist nation for couping democratically elected leader in favour of dictators for over a hundred years, get downvoted and banned by amerophiles. Call China or Russia terrorist nations for literal genocide, wars and international strongman bullying, get downvoted and banned by tankies.
Can't say retard because that's a slur but idiot is fine despite it meaning the absolutely same thing, also calling someone slow but in french is also fine.
People are so hardcore pro privacy would literally rather see child rapists go free and child porn platforms stay online, than to have to tolerate the police scan outgoing connections for a specific IP for three days.
Lemmy feels more and more like extremist echo chambers without any actual discourse or exchange.
Protest. Create awareness. Because, you now, unlike the Chinese or Russians, Americans have the freedom to do so without getting vanished in re-education camps and gulags.
Do the guy also love US terrorism and foreign interference? Because that's what people probably take most offence with. There is not a single additional nation on this planet that has couped to many democratically elected governments and replaced them with corrupt authoritarians that are more than willing to oppress and torture their people and cause civil wars and sell out their nation's interest to US interests in exchange for power. The US is sole world leader in evil and hase been for over a hundred years, only briefly eclipsed by individuals like Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Kissinger.
Because as someone who is "deeply critical" of US his government and military, he really seems like jeans and jack o'lanterns have any weight when people call the globally most hated nation on earth a barbaric terrorist shithole.
And let's not even start counting warcrimes or threats of acts of war towards their "allies".
Fun fact: ask people to name three governments the US has couped. See what happens. Just three.
I haven't bought proper electronics in decades. Honestly impressive how utterly disconnected I am from society at this point. It still feels to me like it's 1995 because all tools I ever buy need to be good at their use and the corporate internet is mostly being ignored by me, same with its electronics and walls and laws and gags. I never in my life owned a console that would even be capable of accessing the internet, much less needs to. So all I ever owned was mine to do with what I pleased. If I want my super Nintendo or N64 to stream music while doubling as a washing bowl, I'll bloody well modify it as needed and I see fit.