Sigh. This will most likely come up in every legalization discussion in the future

There seems to be a gross misunderstanding of how everything works here. Any platform will need to provide data to authorities when “asked properly” - as in, receives an actual order from some enforcing body that has authority on the subject in question. No commercial company will fight the CIA in court to protect your data. The best you can hope for is that they minimize what kind of data they collect about you in the first place - in the case of E2EE, they will only have access to IPs and other metadata such as connection timestamps and nothing else. But all of the services you listed will collect at least IPs and most will do phone numbers as well. The only difference with Telegram is that they’re transparent about it. You can either avoid using commercial platforms altogether, or use them in a way such that data retrieved from them will be useless. But believing that “Signal will never give my IP to law enforcement” is delusional.

Being thankful for the US “subsidizing” military defense and foreign bases? Sure, you definitely build bases in other sovereign countries out of the goodness of your hearts and not for your own tactical and espionage interests. No European would shed a tear if every US troop fucked off tomorrow

Sounds horrible

Uhh… what? Not saying that those things aren’t real today, but are you sure they were the cause of the fall of Rome? lmao

He’s barely coherent because he’s Trump, not because he’s 78.

How so? Even if it’s a no-profit, PBS is still a business. Even though they are operated like one in the US, political parties are not supposed to be businesses.

There is no need for official political merch anyway, it’s not a band or a sports team. I don’t mind if people or associations make and wear them, bit why does a political party need to sell stuff?

That’s because there’s no “first party”. Just protocols and people

Just saying what I feel it reads like, since you said you were wondering why the downvotes.

Because you’re confusing weather and climate. It’s not that “the globe is warming yet it’s cold here”, it’s cold and shitty exactly because of climate change.

Weather getting ever odder you say? Hmmm

I’m sure he’s devastated.

Not true, SSH keys need their passphrase to be used. If you don’t set one, that’s on you.

Based on? Lmao

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How though? With nasty posts on the interwebs?

The world was better when we had Lisztomania instead

It’s kinda funny to think that the “woke mind virus” is actually real, just the exact opposite of what conservatives think it is. Something that they are spewing around, and its effects are lack of critical thought x)

A $13 billion fine does not look like a “cost of doing business” scenario to me.