These kids have a hatred for those who bomb and starve em, bunch of antisemites, if they grow up chances are they’ll take revenge, that’s why they need to be starved now. Makes a lot of sense /s

Fair point

“You can’t remember their favourite song, so you try to login to their Spotify account. Then you realise the account login is inaccessible, and with it has gone their personal history of Spotify playlists, annual “wrapped” analytics, and liked songs curated to reflect their taste, memories, and identity”

Instead you could track your listening habits on ListenBrainz. In doing so you safeguard yourself from Spotify ever restricting access to your data, data which they consider theirs. For ListenBrainz of course you must be willing to share your data freely, but it will be for the benefit of all, whilst if you don’t it will only be used for the benefit of Spotify corporates. You’ll help facilitate a healthy online music ecosystem, because people can built apps on top of the ListenBrainz dataset. You can get recommendations from algorithms of your choice instead of having to rely on Spotifys algorithms.

Not working for Listenbrainz in any way, just an enthousiastic user that plugs it when he sees fit :)

Believes in free software…

But uses Twitter…

Kropotkin’s the Conquest of Bread is a good read, and surprisingly readable, if you do want to try some theory.

Where as we Europeans tend to visit every state in the US. /s

I think you’re right in what you’re saying except for my intentions. To be honest, I never make news posts on here, this is my first one. I came across this fact in Dutch news and hadn’t seen it on here, so I decided to share it. I am first to admit that maybe I should’ve paid more attention to the correct wording of the title. What would you deem proper. Something like “Microsoft blocks email-access for ICC prosecutor in accordance with US sanctions over Netanyahu arrest warrant”?

care to elaborate?

You’re right. The word ‘just’ is out of place. Freedom often depends on people not complying.

Lol, absolutely not

care to elaborate?

We need to reverse this. We need to make sure we only need to win once, to permenantly secure this. This is why constitutions exist. Instead of passively waiting, we need to go on the attack, and strike the final blow, before they do. We need these rights secured by constitutions, so they can’t be so easily taken away from us. I read that for instance Germany has article 10 of their Grundgesetz, which, (in this translation), states:

“(1) The privacy of correspondence, posts and telecommunications shall be inviolable.”

But sadly it’s being followed by:

“(2) Restrictions may be ordered only pursuant to a law. If the restriction serves to protect the free democratic basic order or the existence or security of the Federation or of a Land, the law may provide that the person affected shall not be informed of the restriction and that recourse to the courts shall be replaced by a review of the case by agencies and auxiliary agencies appointed by the legislature.”

I imagine more countries might have these half-ass measures. Laws that read '(1) X is a fundemental right and nobody can ever take it away from you. (2) except ofcourse goverment, who can do as they please’. I suppose ultimately it requires legislators to give up power, and obviously that only happens under external pressure. Currently people don’t seem to care enough to put pressure on these types of issues. I mean, if people cared, they’d move to private services, and if they did then this would be less of an issue. It’s an issue precisely because people don’t seem to care nor understand the relevance of privacy.

So we need people to care temporarily, and then use that momentum to get our constitutions changed. And for that we probably need a scandal, one that’s completely outrageous, while still being quite easy to understand. I don’t know if or how this would come to pass, but I wouldn’t say it’s completely unthinkable. Perhaps we also need some books or films, like a modern 1984, some AI-dystopia. that atleast gets cultural elites, but preferably larger parts of society, to worry about their freedom. In a sense doing the groundwork, and then when minds are ready, we need to strike.

Stay vigilant indeed.

13.2% of the inhabitants of Luxembourg are Portuguese.

TIL KZ stands for Konzentrationslager (concentration camp).

Thinks people shouldn’t take medical advice from him,

…proceeds to give medical advice to people.

Race to the bottom vs. race to the top. Both are happening. Some are probably competing for most delicious lemonade, but only these two capitalists can afford it and the rest of us drink their piss. The idea of competition in order to race to the top is not a bad idea, and can be usefull in some contexts. It’s just that the race to the bottom is usually omitted, or presented as a positive rather than a negative. The idea being something like:

capitalism leads to good things, capitalism leads to people drinking piss, ergo people drinking piss is a good thing.

taxes or the guillotine. decapitilization or decapitation.

I prefer the first option, but ultimately the outcome is what’s important.

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because of copyright?

Why can’t people just be normal. I am being my normal self, but other people seem different. Bastard freaks.

if only I knu how to renu my cells :(

Studying the Child marriage in the United States Wikipedia page. Looking at the map legenda that says ‘red = 0’, thinking ‘surely that means it’s forbidden, right? right??’ What the fuck.