Yeah... for the most part they just double down. You can point out the war in Iran that they supposedly didn't want, the deficits they supposedly wanted to reduce, the prices that they thought would go down with tariffs somehow, and they will just say that doesn't matter because the Democrats were going to turn their boys into girls.

Thanks for the tips. Amazon/Alexa/Ring are next on my list after the de-Google.

Fastmail seems like it's worth a try. Privacy from data brokers and ad companies is my main goal so Fastmail gets a green check mark there. It doesn't seem like they claim E2EE but they do claim encryption.

I guess I was thinking Proton because the E2EE "we can't even see your data" claim is appealing in an age where corporations are hungry for data to train their AI models.

I am also interested in the bundled VPN with Proton, but yeah the price is a little off-putting and it seems like it is going up.

Been meaning to check out Librewolf, but Vanadium has been pretty good so far.

I've been using it for almost a month and I'm a big fan. I was planning to wait for the Motorola phone but my screen on my old phone was rapidly becoming unusable.

I'm using it to divorce Big Tech. I created two secondary profiles, one for work and one for Big Tech. The Big Tech profile is where I'll enable Google services and permissions. I don't let it run in the background so once I switch back its like I turned off Big Tech. I can still use all the apps and services I'm used to, but I added enough friction that it's causing me to explore alternatives every day.

My owner profile has Play and Play Services totally disabled. I get push notifications for Signal using Sunup for UnifiedPush. I get apps mostly through Accressent, Obtainium, and Aurora. If apps complain about missing Google services too much, they get relegated to the Big Tech profile while I find an alternative. Most of the apps that complain about it (like Ring) still work fine. Most of the "apps" I use are just PWAs that run in Vanadium and have icons on the home screen.

The biggest issues I've had were around RCS messaging. I was able to get it to work in the Owner profile, but it's a known issue that it doesn't work in secondary profiles. I'm just not getting group texts from iPhone users anymore. Oh well, everyone who matters will contact me on Signal or SMS directly. I was never able to get E2EE working over RCS with iPhone users anyways, even though my carrier supposedly supports it and the iPhones were updated.

It's also exposing just how much I depend on Big Tech. I'll probably be switching to Proton for mail, calendar, and VPN. My one gripe is they don't have a way to sync contacts to my phone. Still, Ill happily pay $10 a month for storage and services that don't spy on me for advertising instead of paying $3 a month for a service where I can't expect any privacy.

I'm still using Big Tech while driving unfortunately, haven't explored alternatives to Maps and Spotify yet.

The average number of Palestinians killed per day since October 7th, 2023 is around 70. Is he advocating that the Israelis take their foot off the gas a little on their genocide?

I'm in a red region of a blue state. There's a good amount of Trumpism around. Most people I talk to made it through school without learning history or civics. They don't understand the economic issues and mostly vote red because they believe that the Democrats want to take their guns away, turn their sons into daughters, or give their money to brown people both at home and abroad.

Steaks

It could have been incompetence, yes... Or it could have been someone who knew this would slip by the Trump loyalists and end up getting published.

"SecWarCrimes has invited you to a Signal chat"

Jessica from Dune encourages her son Paul to use "the voice" which is some future space wizardry that allows him to control others.

In this case, the voice that Americans (probably mostly millennials) think of when someone says "my wife" is the voice of Borat, who develops an obsession with Pamela Anderson from a Baywatch poster and refers to her as his wife.

They could just stop impeding progress and let the working class have things like healthcare and a living wage. Guess that's too much to ask and they would prefer guillotines?

When did Trump promise to stop funding genocide? I remember something a long the lines of "genocide harder".

Aside from that... were these people not around during Trump's first term when he tried his level best to setup a war with Iran? Pulled out of the nuclear deal, assassinated their general... Bolton's "I'll celebrate with you in Tehran" speech... How could anyone possibly be surprised by this?

It's even worse than that, they think the root cause is immigrants, minorities, and trans people.

Is there a place in Europe that does NOT already have the kinds of policies that AOC supports?

He's going to have to flee to Argentina like the rest of the Nazis.

Bad title. "Caught" implies that someone will be holding him accountable.

This is what the Trojan War was fought over

The Office

I don't hate him. He's a typical rich asshole who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

I'd have no problem with him if he spent his time playing golf and sailing yachts, as long as he paid his taxes and would be held accountable for any fraud he commits.

I hate the people who looked at this guy and said "he represents me, I want him in charge". Or "I don't understand what the words communist or fascist mean, I just want him to hurt those other people I don't like".

The people who put him in power are the problem. Without them he would just be another rich asshole saying bigoted shit on social media that we could just ignore. If they didn't put him in the White House, there's at least a chance that he'd be held accountable for his crimes.

His social media posts would be a case of "say whatever you want old man, you're just making yourself look foolish.". Instead he has a platform to make the entire country look foolish.

Because authoritarians convinced the American people that military interventions prevent terrorist attacks to distract them from the reality which is that terrorist attacks are caused by American interventions.

It's only possible to convince Americans of that because they are shockingly ignorant of history and they believe whatever the warmongers tell them.

I wouldn't mind that so much if those payment methods were more universally accepted, but they aren't.

I use a wallet case so I can put cards in the back of my phone case instead of carrying a wallet.

Nice marbling