I treat my dog better than the IDF treats all Palestinians

Wait til you find out what Israelis have been calling Palestinians for decades

Fair enough. Like I said, I got mine, and I am a fan. At the end of the day though, so long as it’s hardened and runs Foss apps then it’s good by me. I couldn’t see being pro-privacy enough to take the plunge on a hardened phone AND being consumerist enough to the point of brand loyalty, lol

No but like fr. Every single thing they don’t like about Trump, they blame on his advisors. “We don’t like vaccines, so he didn’t really greenlight vaccine research, it was Faucci in his ear. He didn’t really disbelieve the 2020 election was stolen, Sidney Powell was in his ear (until it was palatable to them).” Every step of the way if they like something then it’s him, if they don’t it’s someone else (until they like it). Two months ago they were blaming Bondi for mishandling the files; just give it time, in a few years they’ll unironically say he befriended Epstein to infiltrate him or some shit. Give it a couple more and I guarantee the party line is going to be “look at [victim]. Do you really think that someone like that wasn’t asking for it?”

Eh. I don’t fault anyone for not wanting to give google the money. I love my pixel, I love my graphene, but at the end of the day privacy is the first, last and only priority.

Nah. I talked this over with a friend earlier; you don’t really have to look any farther than Mitch McConnell to see what’s what. Dude has suffered lifelong complications from measles and still played an integral part in where we are. It is going to take entire generations growing up losing friends and family before this sinks in. When the mandates stop, child mortality is going to rise in both vaccinated and unvaccinated groups. Herd immunity is probabilistic, not binary, after all. This is going to be a repeat of covid, amongst people primed to believe that if vaccinated people get sick, the vaccines are somehow fake. Paradoxically, the deaths are going to build the maha movement, not end it. And the US apparatus does not give a shit; so long as capitalism keeps running, nobody is systemically doing shit. Hell, if the economy goes tits up, even then the most we’re going to get out of the US is just enough reconstruction to get it going again. This means that first gen, you’re going to have kids indoctrinated with shitty “proof” that vaccines don’t work, that faced slightly elevated mortality rates. Then you have a second generation with even more dead and disfigured, maybe questioning maha while largely propagating those same beliefs into adulthood. Only when you get to gen 3, gen 1’s kids, will you see it “sink in” amongst people raised in antivaxx communities, and even then it will take decades for them to grow up enough to deconstruct the maha movement their grandparents and great grandparents built. Make no mistake, this is a project that took the right 50 years to build; expect at best the same timeframe to dismantle.

This just in: leading hydrologists definitively solve age-old quandary for humanity; water is, in fact, wet.

Unironically. What sucks is how exclusionary it is to people without google, too. Like Microsoft is bad, but google uses literally every product to pull you into their ecosystem. If I want to access a google doc, I have to use a google email address. To use the email, it eventually forces a phone number, then begins putting up more and more strict validation prompts while advertising google authenticator. Meanwhile, you now can access files in a half-assed browser. But what do you know, google drive has a desktop application that is a lot more responsive. So just off of one doc share that could have been emailed, now google has incentivized you to give them access to your email, phone, passwords, and pc, all through sheer enshitification.