Ah, one of the classics.

Although the unironic uttering of the words "You know Marx literally founded sociology, right?" remains my favorite from this genre.

It's probably the cloud host of the sites themselves marking the addresses of the specific servers you use as questionable because it saw problematic traffic from them before (i.e. other subscribers from your VPN service), not what the other users theorized.

It's one of the reasons why VPN services move to new server addresses all the time. The goal is not beating deliberate VPN blockers per say (which would be futile, since acquiring updated lists of all public VPN server addresses is trivial, and literally everyone can do it), But to reset the reputation of the servers (measured dynamically by automated systems) because that reputation always goes to shit over time.

it’s not about robocalls.

Nothing was ever really about "le evil pedophiles" or "protecting children" either. Yet, using that excuse seems to work wonders with the gullible masses, including many people here, I would imagine.

Real power doesn't exchange hands at the ballot box. And to think it does is the most laughable a notion. But much investment goes into conditioning (a nicer word than brainwashing) people to subscribe to it.

Some contrarians take this too far and use the framing "Democracy is a lie". But the reality is, it's not necessarily a lie, but rather, it's just largely inconsequential when the brokenness exists at a higher level (the modern nation state itself, its establishment, and both their interconnections with inter and extra national powers). In that reality, the voting process is not a tool for the masses, but rather a tool to distract and contain them.

Consulting people, via voting or any other method, is still desirable of course, but only after that brokenness is taken care of.

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The best way to get full access to fediverse data (including e.g. voting) is to run your own instance. So what instances, do we think, are operated by bad actors, irrespective of their identity or nature❓🤔

Or to get more conspiratorial, a bad actor would need one or more big instances to collect that info without sticking out. So which big instances, do we think, would be willing to give, or sell, a "bad actor" full access❓😉
(This of course assumes that none of the big instances were created by bad actors).

In any case, if you're posting overton wrongthink™, and not doing it (pseudo-)anonymously, then you're doing it wrong. I mean, you're in a network/platform that goes as far as encouraging you to use multiple accounts, so what's stopping you from doing it right?!

I guess it's good for Radio Free Asia to have competition.

Even a 20 year should know Napster saga (with all the implications involved) happened in 2001.

The Israel project was misguided from the beginning, but it could have been justified in the immediate aftermath of the holocaust. Now?

European Jews* grabbing land and displacing people in another continent to create a new faux-nation, all facilitated by the British empire (with help from the French, and the already mentioned soviets) is "justified" because they suffered a holocaust! at the hands of Nazis who actually had an agreement with Zionists before the war (yes, Nazi Germany itself was on the list of facilitators, together with soviets)!

I'm not necessarily attacking you personally btw. I'm just showing that your positioning, common among some mainstream leftists today, is neither historically informed, nor logically, intellectually, or morally consistent. This positioning, precise in its "filtering", is designed specifically to score points in the mainstream right-left political theater. A theater that has staunch Zionists in every faction, to the point where Zionism was often the easiest uniting factor one can point to.

That is not to say that all apparent opposition to Zionism in mainstream politics is fake. But whatever genuine opposition that exists out there, is an opposition to factions within Zionism, not Zionism itself. And it's often an extension of local/national factional fights within that theater.

* Many were atheist and non-religious cultural Jews btw.

You included memes (IPFS), and omitted important shit (DC, original Freenet), not to mention some old networks (ed2k, gnutella/G2) that went out of fashion, but are not fully extinct.

As for the future, the situation could get grim at a much lower level, as both the "file" as an ubiquitously accessible unit, and desktop computers in general as ubiquitously available and affordable hardware, are both under threat, with the latter already affected by the semi-fake partial (for now) scarcity supposedly fully caused by the AI craze.

I denounce Zionism. Some Zionists are not as bad as others.

I support Zionism. Some Zionists are worse than others.

You seem to gloss over what's important (the first stipulation), by arguing for the latter stipulation, which is on the surface true, no matter how formulated. Although, the "not as bad as" formulation makes it clearer that this is a simple case of relative privation.

Mainstream politics in the west, left and right, supports Zionism. And that's what's most relevant. Everything else can be assumed a diversion, unless otherwise proven.

Make the question(s) more interesting:

• Are there instances which offer users the option to access their user UI+API via tor hidden services?
• Are there instances which primarily exist as tor hidden services, and thus, federation traffic itself must go through the tor network if an instance wants to federate with them?
• Are there clear net instances which would be willing to federate with the hypothetical tor hidden service instances mentioned above?

The word "acknowledged" seems to have been dropped from the title.

This is a mix of you growing up with a hint of nostalgia, and the death of the TV.

Excitement for the world cup is waning, just like it's waning for any other event/show that collected the family in front of the small screen.

The quality of game itself has always been not good at the international level. And that probably increased with players playing in many different leagues, not just teams. While decades ago, you had some cores of teams playing for the same club.

The game itself changed of course. No more no.10 artists giving you a good show.

In my extended family, most people who care about the world cup are people who don't watch the sport much during the regular season. So it's not really primarily a sporting event for them.

I would love it if it was a moral awakening, or increased awareness of the hubris that is the modern nation state identity, that is driving this. But I genuinely doubt it. And if you think it is now, or was in Qatar (the biggest moral posturing maxxing event in internet history) or Russia, I'm afraid you're probably over-influenced by your echo chamber of choice.

No. So fair enough 🙂

underage.

only punished in one direction

Off-topic. Criminal codes around adult incest punishes both parties.

a power-dynamic where consent cannot be guaranteed.

That's a universal truth.

Incest is generally considered taboo

What makes it taboo, what is it precisely that is taboo, what reference ideology/statues (if any) is it based on, what is believed to be a deserved (earthly) punishment (if any) and for whom, and who has the right to enact such punishments, is what's relevant here.

Those steps could be coherent or logically consistent or not. And that's required before getting into a right or wrong verdict.

The laws in the modern nation state and how they come into existence fundamentally lack that logical rigor, irrespective of the topic at hand.

it’s basically high-school biology

Feel free to actually source scientific facts and concrete numbers. Maybe what is believed to be "high-school biology" is the problem. The folklore part is beliefs that defects can be born out of otherwise healthy individuals (e.g. with no carried bad genes, in high-school biology parlance). But a lot of myths leak into school influenced societal beliefs too (school is after all the state's primary conformist tool).

I advise against siting a certain study from Croatia, which despite its already understated findings (which are laughable compared to mythical folklore beliefs) was still rife with trivial process and analytical mistakes.

Having to run to "think of the children" and mythical high-school biology, is additional indication of the weaknesses of what is already an incoherent post-hoc rationalization.

We must tear asunder the past before we can truly deserve the future.

That's a very funny sanitized (I believe what the kids call it) westoid "version of events".

Kurdish-led Syrian

Non-"Kurds" left. And the PKK "ideological" fighters are not Syrian. Many Syrian Kurds are not ideologically PKK-aligned. Many of them would in fact be annoyed with the current heads in Demascus because they are not Muslim enough (anymore), not because they are not PKK enough.

at the forefront of the battle against the Islamic State jihadist group

Everyone fought ISIS, and the only ones who fared well without aerial cover were actually other jihadists.

The YPG couldn't even compete against ragtag mercenaries propped up by Turkey, because the aerial cover this time was supporting the other side.

And it's those ragtag mercenaries the YPG was skirmishing with for years before 2024, while having an underground economy with them and everyone else (where crystal meth transcended supposed battle lines).

After being Syria’s most highly trained and organized paramilitary force

Is that why this mercenary force with pretend yet confused marxist ethno-nationalist zionist-loving one-man ideology lost more than half of their territory in 48h? 🤣

the SDF was promptly dropped by Washington

It was promptly dropped by the Arab part of their mercenary organization too, hence the 48h collapse mentioned above.

ITT: Uniparty-ists thinking anyone with a brain trusts anyone of them, from any faction, current or former.

LLM's and stylometry are not magic.
i write using different styles constantly.
And It's not like people are writing original long essays here all the time, for the weapons grade tools to assay anything with high confidence.