That's why I'm never gonna do that shit

It's just a warning label not a prohibition

In all countries the general population doesn't understand anything. Certainly Americans don't understand. If you've been to some countries that have already experienced the problems you mentioned, they might look more familiar to you, but I think Americans may be experiencing them for the first time.

WhatsApp is more secure by design, but one suspects that Meta is up to something. But I suppose to whatever extent it's possible to trust Meta, they are nonetheless likely a better guarantor of your security than Telegram is

Having read some (but not all) the comments, I do agree with the idea that decentralization (federation) somehow is what helps to alleviate this problem, although it's such a complex matter that you will have to see how it plays out. For my part, with some exceptions I was more or less satisfied with how Reddit used to be, and part of that was because Reddit was centralized. Reddit not being federated or decentralized is to its benefit because social platforms benefit from having everything all in one place, but what really seems to have done Reddit in was commercialization. It went from being similar to some kind of basic software tool to this corporate nightmare of tracking and ads, algorithmically shaping content, etc. It's like Facebook now but with a red icon. Lemmy wasn't designed to do that, and it will never do that. Federation does help with that.

He uses some famous examples of American leftist intellectuals (to some extent) siding with Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Unfortunately, it is a thing.

war special military operation

Has anyone ever drunk that many beers?

Well I'm already doing the former, so I might as well try out the latter.

white waiters too

I think duplicate submission / news

Not sure why they chose the name Atesh, but it is apparently the Persian word آتش meaning "fire". It's interesting how much Persian has shown up in and around this conflict, likely due to historical Ottoman influence in the region. Persian makes anything 1000x cooler

I think he should be deported from the US

Mera bhai <3

OK now you are really confused. Please note I'm the moderator lol

TIL

Discord is no match for Matrix

Flour tortillas and Kraft singles. That was the extent of my mom's cooking

Can you explain what you mean by "black" propaganda?

You are a bit confused but that's OK