iOS now has a “Lockdown Mode” which is supposed to be more secure against pegasus, but can break some functionality, but then again, it’s a closed source OS so you’ll have to take their word for it.

Yay! Good Bot!

@CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world

I hereby summon you!

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It sometimes work, sometimes doesn’t. In this case, I tried to click the show context like 5 times within 10 seconds so cloudflare didn’t like it.

Lol I joined for the piracy, then I see the sidebar linking the Anarchist Code of Conduct and I just felt so… liberating.

Using Tor is considered terrorist activity in France

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/336989

Why couldn’t the US just do the same?

Internet freedom and privacy needs not only needs protection by technological tools like Tor or VPNs, but also needs legal protection. Would anyone use Tor if the government starts raiding houses? Tor users are such a small minority that the government can easily throw you all in prison.

Why is there always an authoritarian law being proposed every month?

“This instance has been seized by The US Department of Defence due to threats to national security”

The people at !fuck_cars@lemmy.ml need to advocate for these people to be banned before advocating for banning cars.

I actually don’t mind banning cars, I just can’t deal with being locked inside the same vehicle as a psychopath/sociopath.

To be fair, a Republic with a mostly democratic system is far better than the governments available at the time. The entire world was essentially all monarchies.

Now, the issue with the implementation was that initially, only land-owning free white men could vote. Over time, the people who were eligible to vote increased and the barriers to voting were gradually removed due to pressue from the people. The election system in the US today is far better than what it had been.

But here some issues that needs to be fixed:

1. Get rid of the electoral college. One-person, one-vote. Electoral college violates that principle.

2. Ranked choice voting / Instant runoff to replace first-past-the-post

3. Get rid of the Senate, transfer all their powers to the House. Get rid of gerrymandering by allocating seats based on percentage of votes. Getting 51% of the votes means roughly 51% of the seats, not 45% of the seats due to some stupid districting shenanigans.

4. Supreme Court justices should not be permanent. Example: 15 seats and each seat has a 15-year term with staggering expiration. Each year would have one seat expiring. Each year, one person will be appointed. If a judge dies before the seat expires, appointment would require 2/3 of the vote to confirm, or wait until the year it’s suppose to expire then you can appoint one with only 1/2. One president shouldn’t have more influence over others because there happens to be more Supreme Court justice death during the term.

5. Get rid of bribery. And Congress members should not be allowed to access their money during the term and live on minimum wage only in the official residence to be provided by the government. (Well they probably shouldn’t have that much money at all, but that’s a topic for another time) Let’s see how quickly rich congresspeople would quit when they don’t have access to their luxury lifestyle. (Edit: On a second thought, this part seems a bit problematic. The other points still stand.)

That’s some basics on how to make things better. Not perfect, in fact, far from perfect, but more bearable until we can convince people to make more changes.

Piracy? No it’s Surprise Ownership!

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I think since blahaj has a lot of LGBT+ people and since right‐wingers has already been blaming the LGBT+ community for pedophilia, they didn’t want any more risk of the media start accusing the blahaj instance of endorsing pedophilia, so they had to act pre-emptively and defederate. I don’t really think it’s anyone’s fault, it’s just that in today’s political climate, any accusation against a group of people, even if it’s false, would end up inspiring mobs to target that group of people. I think the admins of blahaj just doesn’t want LGBT+ people get be associated with peodophiles and potentially become victims of a witchhunt against LGBT+ people.

Technology? = More

Escapism? = Also more

Climate change? = Exponentially more, to the level of potential extinction

(Not against technology btw, just need to control this shitty climate)

A nazi is beating an innocent person to death

“Sorry, I’m a pacifist”

How do you know people aren’t already overloaded with fear? The fear of losing your job and livelihood because your employer just mildly dislike you.

Lenny? Lenny?

Rip Linux, Android custom roms.

lemmygrad.com is just a redirect to exploding-heads.com which is just another extremist instance at the other end of the spectrem.