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How are they analyzing network traffic with Signal? It's encrypted

Not my specialty, but signals end to end encryption is akin to sealing a letter. Nobody but the sender and the recipient can open that letter.

But you still gotta send it through the mail. That's the network traffic analysis that can be used.

Here's an example of why that could be bad.

How exactly do you think encryption prevents the analysis of seeing when an encrypted message is sent? It feels like you're trying to hand-waive away by saying "encryption means you're good!"

Cyber security is not my thing, but my understanding is that you'd still see network traffic - you just wouldn't know what it says.

Thanks for taking the time to walk through your thoughts - I appreciate the conversation.

I think the particularly egregious problem with interpreting the comment as referring to the association of man=top=dom is that the meme has a gal as the dom, as you've pointed out, which does go against heteronormativity.

I understand heteronormative to be about social norms centered around heterosexuality, and how that is the dominant cultural factor.

With that understanding, viewing things through a heteronormative lens is to exclude or diminish the views of non-heterosexual folks.

Then "heteronormative bullshit" is comparable to "heterosexual bullshit".

I might've missed some nuance - this is not my forte. However my naive understanding is that saying this was commentary on "cultural norms" is similar to saying to civil war was about "states rights". States rights to do what? (Slavery) Cultural norms centered around what? (Heterosexuality)

I definitely agree with you re: comment being confusing - it seems to largely be a complaint about folks being vanilla and not knowing the nuances of vocabulary describing relationships, which affects folks regardless of sexual orientation.

"heteronormative" doesn’t mean "it’s the fault of straight people" are you serious

But does "heteronormative bullshit" imply that?

What if they'd said "I'm tired of this homosexual bullshit that glitter goes everywhere?"

That definitely reads as "I believe it's the fault of the queer people" to me, do you believe otherwise?

I legitimately think this is a thing.

I suspect folks who grew up with door dash see it as a normalized service. I grew up poor before it was a thing, and even though I'm financially better now it's only used when we're absolutely pooped.

There are just... So many more entrenched predatory services now that only serve to extract money more efficiently. All that klarna "buy now pay later" stuff? Absolutely deadly if someone doesn't know how to budget.

Reusable rockets, in particular.

Imagine having a reusable car in a world where they were all disposable.

Yup, one of the first things I did when I had a reasonable expectation of not moving around often was buy a big ass brother laser printer, scanner etc used for like $60. These things are built like a tank.

Doubt, trump is famous for refusing to read intelligence briefings. He just wants to surround himself with sycophants.

Note that he says "if you like her", not "if you think a stranger is hot"

This entirely speaks to a situation where you like someone, know their interests,etc, but you're nervous about ruining the relationship you do have. AKA my entire high school experience lol

This does sound like it could be a liability issue if not done correctly

So you know how your phone runs android or iOS? Think of windows as one, and Linux as the other if they could both run on the same hardware.

'sudo' is another contender

wouldn’t it be impossible to unmix any pigment color combo? And wtf does that sort of metaphor even mean?

It's an example of a situation where it's easier to start fresh than undo past actions, which by your point you show you understand.

I don’t think it’s acceptable to call the planet an unfixable mess.

Let's differentiate between OUR planet, and the planet depicted in the movie. Are you saying that there are no ways in which a fictional future earth is unsalvageable?

Do you also rally against movies set in, for example, a dystopian cyberpunk setting due to not liking the scene it was set in?

There is no real response because we're talking about a fictional future, with unknown ailments, established by maybe 20 minutes of film as a backdrop. They wanted to tell a story titled "interstellar", not "terrestrial".

Given all those unknowns, it stands that there are times when starting fresh is easier than undoing. Trying to unmix brown pigments comes to mind.

You asked:

If earth is in a climate apocalypse, and we have extremely advanced technology that lets us bring life to far out planets, then why are we leaving earth? Can’t those same technologies be applied to saving the earth people?

This is a potential answer, given the lack of established truths in this fictional universe.

It can be easier to start with a fresh slate than it is to salvage a mess.

This is the same logic as "if we stop testing, the disease goes away"

Which conservatives also spearheaded during covid, so we're par for the course.

That is coincidentally exactly what meta is arguing in their lawsuit.

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