dil [he/him, comrade/them]

This is super interesting! Good article too - I feel like I understand the general ideas behind the experiments they ran.

The findings align pretty well with the observations we’ve seen with MDMA being effective treatment for PTSD.

Also kinda reminds me of how both humans and monkeys laugh when we think there’s something scary, then find out it’s not a threat. This study is on a longer time scale (across days, not a single moment), but a flood of dopamine to extinguish fear makes sense.

Hopefully follow-up studies will be done to look into what causes each region of the brain to sensitize to dopamine.

There are plenty of people that think that each of those things are morally wrong, and some who would say that they’re much worse than a bomb threat.

Those people are writing the laws.

Legality and morality are two completely different things. It’s a comfortable lie to think they’re the same.

Having an email provider that will not comply with law enforcement is important because any of us could be next on the target list.

I’m not saying “yay, it’s morally good to send bomb threats.”

Folks who care about privacy don’t want their email provider engaging with local authorities.

when tyranny becomes law rebellion becomes duty

“Illegal” is NOT immoral, and when laws are increasingly being passed by right-wing nutjobs, folks doing the right thing will be doing illegal things.

• women getting access to an abortion
• undocumented folks avoiding being sent to El Salvador
• trans folks getting healthcare

Any platform has three options:

1. Always comply with law enforcement, and give up vulnerable populations that are targeted by the government
2. Never comply with law enforcement, and make law enforcement track down bomb threats some other way
3. Sometimes comply with law enforcement, based on… what criteria? where’s the line?

3 is obviously the thing we’d like, but no company is going to open itself up to legal threats by doing it.

This article shows that Proton Mail is falling into category 2. I think that category should exist to protect vulnerable populations.

I could see it being a “softer” way of a community enforcing good behavior, especially for things that don’t rise to the level of mod action.

I’m not on an instance with (visible?) downvotes though, and I do think that makes me more comfortable voicing opinions.

The hexbear mods/admins will probably have gotten community feedback and done a poll, so might be worth checking with them?

its employees had received emails containing obscene and vulgar content sent via Proton Mail.

the email service reportedly refused to share details about the sender of the allegedly offensive emails, despite a police complaint.

Last year, the police department of the southern state of Tamil Nadu had sought to block Proton Mail after the email service was found to have been used for sending hoax bomb threats to local schools.

Honestly, pretty glowing review of Proton Mail

God and I want the other direction, where the leftist is picking between flavors of socialism, anarchism, and communism and the normies just see “liberal”