Obinice

Ka is a wheel

Inexorably? …Really? It can’t be turned off?

Religious extremists, you say?

Yes, we should all avoid discussion with humans at all costs, and of course already know everything anyway.

Imagine not knowing something and asking a human for more information? Ew

Sounds like it’s time to bring the U.S some Freedom! 😎🪖🕊️

If only my TV had a Jellyfin app, I could switch, but alas it doesn’t. Got to use Plex if I want to watch stuff from any home streaming thingy. That said, it’s free to do that, at least.

I just don’t have the money or time to buy an external box and fiddle with it to get it running these days either, otherwise I’d build a modern version of the XBMC server I used to have in days gone by :-(

Indeed.

The UK is deploying a Royal Navy warship

You can just say the Royal Navy warship, I think we only have one these days, right? 🥲

Wild how the terms of the cease-fire allow both sides to continue to attack each other, amirite?

Isn’t Politico owned by that rich mental dick head btw? Should we be using it as a news source?

But the big headlines today are the Americans bombing Iranian ships, today?

Funny looking cease-fire.

That said, even a real cease-fire doesn’t mean the two nations aren’t at war. It’s a cease-fire, not a peace deal. There still exists a state of war between them which can (and has, in this case) returned to active conflict.

The USA is at war with Iran, whether they like it or not.

My first question would be who are these middle east eye lot, not a news outfit I’d heard of. Wikipedia has this to say, for what it’s worth:

Middle East Eye (MEE) is a United Kingdom-based media website and channel that primarily focuses on news related to the Middle East, North Africa, and the broader Muslim world. Though the organisation denies it and will not disclose its funding sources, it is widely believed that the organisation is funded by the government of Qatar.

Our modern anti-protest laws are, if anything, even more restrictive than the old Emergency Powers Act.

Nope. The country is too brainwashed by whatever propaganda is fed to us through their only window into the world these days (phone, TV, newspaper, but importantly not the world and people around us).

We no longer have any real grip on the reality around us, no grounding in our local community, no heads up looking at what we can actually see.

Everything we take in is fed to us through carefully crafted algorithms and long term propaganda campaigns designed to make us think what they want us to think (they being a wide range of actors none of whom have our best interests at heart - the government, the rich media owners, foreign powers looking to damage our society, etc).

Can a society (can we even call ourselves a society, if we’re now just a bunch of strangers who never look up from our phones to notice each other exists? Are we a society if we don’t even know our neighbour’s names? Or what’s happening in our community?)

…Can a society come together to take any sort of strong meaningful action after so much brainwashing, turning us is against each other, convincing us our rich ruling class masters know best, building so many anti-protest and anti-freedom laws that they can lock you up if they feel like it with no reproductions, for any made up reason they like?

And in the mean time, constantly spy on you, observing where you spend your money, what websites you visit, where you go, who you speak to, etc, every single day, in order to identify those who would be a threat to their power?

No. There won’t be another General Strike in the United Kingdom, and if there were some small, fractured last gasp attempt at one, it would quickly crumble under the boot of our capitalist overlords.

Sad that, of all the things that have changed in the world, nothing about this has changed one bit since then.

I don’t believe in a brighter future any more.

Missing the decades in which they tried persuading, debating, discussing and educating up to this tipping point, this final straw, all to no avail.

Are we supposed to just keep trying forever, pointlessly? Exhaustingly? Every day? For another 30 years?

At some point for our own mental wellbeing it’s time to consider that some people will simply never change, are closed to any and all discussions, and it’s best for ourselves to stop trying over and over, and focus on our own mental health instead.

I was idealistic once, and would have said there’s never a time to stop trying to fix other people, to help them see a different viewpoint, or mortality, etc, but some people just can’t be fixed. All you’re really doing by continuing to try is breaking yourself in the process. Be kind to yourself <3

You stay far, FAR away from that shit, is what you do.

Scanning people’s entire history for political leanings, etc? That’s some deeply dystopian stuff right there.

It’s easy to forget that these sorts of communities are dictatorships with only as much transparency as the owner wants to share. Usually they’re benevolent dictators, so we don’t think about it too much. But they can change in a heartbeat - and we don’t ever really know what they’re really thinking, or doing behind the scenes.

When the mask slips and they reveal this sort of thing, thinking we’ll just accept it and keep living under their rule, it’s time to read the red flags and GET OUT.

Hopefully someone compiles a list of places that do this stuff, so we can avoid them like the plague <3

What?

Your comment’s got some unreadable corrupted text there.

especially if it’s using sim/esim card. Those mobile carriers can literally do whatever the fuck they want to your phone and there’s nothing you can do about it.

Wow that’s wild, how does my SIM card allow my carrier to do whatever they want to my phone?

On the face of it, that sounds like a gigantic breach of privacy. Can they look at my photos, capture my screen, read my stored app data, intercept outbound Internet traffic before it’s encrypted, etc? That’s wild.

Not to mention that I bought my phone separately, so it’s got nothing to do with them. As one might imagine, I only added a SIM in order to receive traditional telephone calls, it’s not otherwise useful to me.

What did Neo do to deserve such slander?!

That’s not the case at all. For ads, perhaps, but in application purchases? Many games (especially free to play games, of which there are many excellent ones) have purchases you can make in the game.

Helldivers 2 is an excellent game, and that has DLC packs and individual items you can purchase in game. So does World of Tanks (which is also free to play).

Even some perfectly normal applications have that tag, because there’s a shareware version (maybe with a launch nag “Ad”) and the full paid version (which may only cost a few quid), that you can upgrade to from within the free version. It still counts, even if it’s just a one time thing.

There are many scummy practices some game/application makers employ using ads or in-app purchases, but many don’t, and both types have that sort of label applied.

Honestly, I see that label applied to basically everything these days, so I just ignore it and judge the application based on the nuance of how their monetisation is presented.