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But… basically every email provider or hosting service is legally obliged to give the information they collect to the government. It’s not like this is exclusive to Proton in any way whatsoever. If anything, subpoenas are evidence Proton tell the truth and do at least stop themselves from having most of the important data so they can’t give it away.

I wouldn’t be surprised if I was the hexbear user with the most blocked users and comms ever. And I don’t have you blocked, so it’s a good start.

Nah, not gonna happen. Too many diehard conservative voters. Maybe the election afterwards, when Tories have either officially merged with Reform or admitted complete political defeat. Something major is going to have to happen to not be another easy Labour win because FPTP and the Tory/Reform vote is too split.

Shame it’s austerity, anti-immigration, pro-genocide anyway from the working people party.

Americans breached electoralism containment, strict measures must be put in place to restore order.

You have a chance to vote for someone better right now.

Let me tell you something I’d bet my life savings on: Trump isn’t going to dismantle democracy and be a super pooper dictator scooper. Can you really not cast your mind 8 years back to when people said exactly the same thing, and he won, and nothing changed? He’ll just be the same decline that the Dems would have been.

I do agree that the focus of argument should really be on dismissing any claim that voting (in the current system) makes a difference. That being said, I think part of that argument can be composed of “look at the choice that voting has driven us to, genocide or genocide”.

I don’t think EelBolshevikism was saying “you must not vote”. You can criticise the idea of voting as effectively pointless, and still vote PSL for the tiniest mind bogglingly little almost-nothing it will achieve.

I do think it’s important not to concede to any argument that voting in the current system is important in any meaningful way.

A redsails bot really is long overdue, time to look into how Lemmybots work

I don’t see nearly enough gout represented to be accurate

Instead we currently have the grand fascist alliance of Western Europe + US against the less grand fascist Russia.

• Al Qaeda agrees with Hamas: “See, Al Qaeda support Hamas, they must be bad!”
• Al Qaeda disagrees with Hamas: “See, Hamas is even worse than Al Qaeda!”

except the peasant is your step-snake snake. You’re the guy.

I do not believe for an instant that “a couple of years ago” searching “phone screen cleaner” returned anything but ads for special products either. Maybe more like 15 years ago.

True, but only if:

a) Your phone/screen protector ever had an oleophobic coating

b) Your phone is <1 year old, by which time the coating will wear off anyway.

I don’t think it really matters in most cases.

As someone in tech, I frequently dream of a fantasized life being a berry picker in a hunter-gatherer society.

Yeah. Any AI worth it’s salt is just going to address climate change by pointing out the blinking obvious solutions already present and well-known.

Not debunked, but it’s all theoretical and controversial, as I say nobody really knows. Many still reasonably suggest there’d be mass extinctions from a “minor” nuclear war. Some disagree.

Basically everyone agrees there’d be some form of globally damaging fallout. Whatever the case, I’m not that eager to find out, personally.

We’re not fully sure of the number, but somewhere between 3 and 20 modern day nukes will be enough to start a global winter where everyone dies anyway. If any kind of nuclear war starts out, even a teeny tiny one, most-to-all of humanity is fucked.

Real life.

Is not.

A fucking.

Trolley problem.

You are actually allowed to break the car and turn off the power.

The world is not a fucking trolley problem, there are infinite alternative options to actually stop the murder. And unless you’re actively involved in organising to do so, you have no right to talk about voting to improve the system.