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PowerCrazy

@ PowerCrazy @lemmy.ml

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  • 'Dumbphones' Are Not Private

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  • It's the most private and secure phone OS you can get today. You have to have minimal trust in Apple that they won't change the terms, but that is miles better then using google who will explicitly use your data for anything they want.

  • We can beat Trump together — but there's only one way to do it

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  • Electoralism is the least you can do. It accomplishes next-to-nothing. So you may as well vote for the best candidate. Not the "most-viable" candidate in your extremely imperfect understanding of US voting trends, not the one you can post on facebook about how your vote "matters," but the literal best one that doesn't support capitalism. Everything else you can possibly do is much more important and has greater impact. Not voting for capitalism costs you nothing, you will never be punished for not voting for capitalism, no one is worse off for you not supporting capitalism, it is the least you can do. Yet you can't even manage to do that, because the status quo is what you support. The genocide is what you support. Capitalism is what you support. Even within an imperfect system where you are free not to support those things, you will still choose to support them.

    As for local work I volunteer at a workers association. They run no candidates, they accept no cash for services, they are volunteer based, do grass roots work, hold workshops on theory, provide legal, dental, and medical benefits to their members. They have nothing to do with who you are voting for, and the only political help you can give them is trying to end capitalism. Yet you won't even do that, even when it costs you nothing. You are more interested in voting for "student loan forgiveness for pell grants recipients who run a business in a disadvantaged area for 3-years." You don't know why you support that, you don't even know that is what you support, but you don't care. And that is the actual problem.

  • We can beat Trump together — but there's only one way to do it

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  • Ah, so the very least you could do, not voting for capitalism, you refused to do. However you have concocted a series of didactic expressions to help you rationalize your unwavering support of the "lesser evil". But added some additional qualifiers that make your position indistinguishable from the average blue no-matter who voter. I'm sure eventually, somehow, your pragmatically compromised morality will certainly defeat fascism.

    In the meantime, things have gotten a lot worse for a lot of people, so maybe it's time for you and the other liberals to try something different?

  • 'Dumbphones' Are Not Private

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  • It comes down to the hostile actor you are trying to defend against. If you are Jason Bourne and you have been burned by your agency so multiple nation-states are looking for you, then you have to go fully off-grid and live a quiet life without ever communicating with anyone in your prior life again. It doesn't matter if you are using Signal, or SMS, or even a dial-up BBS. If you are communicating with people that are also under heavy surveillance, you cannot hide.

    If you want to reduce your "digital footprint," then not using google/facebook/other social media is the most worthwhile thing you can possibly do. Your phone doesn't matter. Use iOS, never install any of the social apps, use Safari in incognito mode, and you'll never be tracekd across websites again.

  • We can beat Trump together — but there's only one way to do it

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  • Ah ok. Then I assume you voted for the PSL candidate who isn't quite on-board with full communism now (She still believes in markets) , but could probably be swayed that way right?

  • We can beat Trump together — but there's only one way to do it

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  • These are rights for people who are economically well-off enough to exercise them. You don’t, in fact, have the right to due process if you can’t afford to miss work to exercise that right, and you don’t have the right to speech if your three jobs don’t leave you enough time to exercise that right.

    Agreed. No war but Class war. Identity Politics is a privileged distraction. A game of oppression olympics always undermining social good.

  • We can beat Trump together — but there's only one way to do it

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  • Racism and Xenophobia are tools the Nixo used quite effectively. Do you think Nixon was racist and that was his goal? Was he in Vietnam because of how racist he was? Perhaps you should take your own advice Re: Nixon and make sure you understand "Why" and don't confuse it with "how."

  • We can beat Trump together — but there's only one way to do it

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  • You don’t vote for the candidate you want to fight for you, you vote for the candidate that’s easier for you to fight.

    If that is the case, then I assume you voted for the geriatric cult of personality who will be dead within the year?

  • Liberals are catalysts to catastrophe, again

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  • I've identified as a Leftist since ~2007. Well before Trump entered the American Zeitgeist..

  • The Government Has Been Shut Down for Months

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  • So the cool thing about government shutdowns is that all the stuff you think wouldn't be funded like ICE, or the Military, still is. But all the stuff that people rely on like federal services, healthcare, etc, somehow has to shut down.

    Now of course, the dems could have changed this anytime they wanted to under Obama or Clinton, with a simple majority vote, basically making government be funded at the previous years levels, but they didn't want to for some reason. I can't imagine why.

  • Google's YouTube to pay $24.5 million to settle 2021 lawsuit by Donald Trump over account suspension

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  • I maintain that american corporations should be beholden to the bill of rights. A random citizen can choose to ban people from their forum, but an "open forum" where they are exploiting their users, shouldn't have that luxury.

  • Sinclair gets nothing it asked for, puts Jimmy Kimmel back on anyway

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  • They will get what they are after once their conglomerate merger goes through. The BS censors they claim they want was just a press release.

  • Schumer says 'we need a serious negotiation' with the GOP to keep government open

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  • We've tried making our voices heard with the first amendment, maybe the 2nd amendment should be tried?

  • Exclusive: InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that’s stronger than steel | TechCrunch

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  • Nice semantic solution to the intentionally misleading question. I approve.

  • Swapping to POE switch

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  • Yes. There won't be a problem, assuming that the devices in question are indeed ethernet devices and not just using cat5 wiring. That said you will need to be aware about what kind of PoE device you are plugging in. There are several evolutions of the PoE standard.802.3af 802.3at 802.3bt

    So make sure that if the devices requires 802.3at, the switch is rated to provide that.

  • US actress Jennifer Lawrence calls out Gaza genocide

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  • The idea of "sacred rocks" is pretty funny to me tbh.

  • Hegseth says Wounded Knee soldiers will keep their Medals of Honor

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  • Revoking medals of honor is dumb performative bullshit. The people who got those medals are long dead, the "indian campaigns" have concluded. You want to make amends for the past? Maybe try addressing the material conditions of the present for native and non-native citizens alike. Start with universal healthcare and ubi. Implement wealth taxes to keep social security solvent and lower the retirement age to 55.

    Execute the shambling ancient congress-people who were alive when those atrocities happened.

  • Assata Shakur, a revolutionary hero who fought against the US for Black liberation and escaped persecution, has passed away.

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  • Was also the Aunt of the rapper Tupac Shakur and was part of a prison break in 1979. She was a real one.

  • Greece and Italy violate ICC arrest warrant but France and Spain don't allow Netanyahu to pass through their airspace anymore.

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  • tbf to Italy and Greece, they couldn't have stopped the war criminal even if they wanted to. France certainly could have though and that is why Ben avoided France, keyfabe must be maintained.