Yes, you should be concerned!

I’m pretty sure that’s a premium service you pay a monthly fee to access. Definitely does not come standard with a BMW. You’ll want to shut it off immediately to not incur extra charges to your BMW account.

I’ve seen tons of discussion around Luigi, almost zero about the history of what lead to this in regards to the War on Terror and earlier anti-terrorism efforts. When the FBI stopped being about catching high-level criminals and became almost exclusively focused on counter-terrorism.

Circlejerking around one guy isn’t necessarily the same as having more complex discussions on how we even came to this point and why. Someone else here even linked to a thread saying “we’ve talked about it before” and yet the thread had zero substantive discussion around such issues, rather just more circlejerking Luigi.

But I guess contextualizing and synthesizing the history of the US is too much to ask for from most of its citizens.

This is it folks, this is his “making us respected on the world’s stage again.” He’s going to piss off absolutely everyone and balkanize the US.

I’d say it’s been a good run, but it hasn’t been.

at a furniture store years ago

That furniture store? Yeah it’s a crab now, too.

HOT LAWYERS IN YOUR AREA WANT TO GET TO SOME STEAMY LITIGATION

No problem, not everyone is up to speed on everything. Here’s some reading material.

Went back to Xitter and started funding Nostr.

https://thedeepdive.ca/jack-dorsey-leaves-bluesky-board-unfollows-almost-everyone-on-x/

Dorsey already left Bluesky back to Xitter because he didn’t like their moderation practices. I’m talking about Jay Graber, who literally got their start developing Zcash, a cryptocurrency. Graber is far from a billionaire at the moment.

inb4 “it’s not my job to contribute to a community project when there’s a slick corporate alternative” which is basically just saying “it’s not my job to make the world a better place.” (Actually that’s everyone’s job, all the time.)

“Wahhhh, I shouldn’t have to learn to code, or garden, or be a street medic, or learn to do anything to take care of other people ever. I should have it all spoon-fed to me by corporations that don’t give a fuck if I live or die!”

And yet there are somehow those of us who have the audacity to call Boomers lazy and entitled. We’re obviously no fucking better.

Easier to care for than a succulent, tho.

If anyone truly thought this group of techbros that was spearheaded and organized by Jack Dorsey was gonna somehow be different than the previous iterations, I’ve got a bridge to sell them. I mean, they owe millions to Blockchain Capital. Cryptobros. But sure, we just need to keep making more billionaires and then ditching their services after they have enough money to deeply influence politics.

Idiots acting like they’re against people like Musk but they’re just creating another one at a different company.

To be fair, the person you’re responded to said “vegetarian” not “vegan.” But yes, otherwise, it isn’t rocket science. My vegan boys are big fans of seitan.

Telegram’s MTProto has, to my knowledge, never undergone any security audits. It’s a roll-your-own-encryption, which is always dubious when you’re unwilling to have it audited. I would never suggest Telegram, even for cleartext communications.

She’s religious, that was the expectation.

Signal, Matrix/Element, Wire

Are you full vegan or just vegetarian?

If it’s for Ouback Steakhouse, you could always have a Bloomin Onion if you’re okay with eggs and milk.

But otherwise, yeah, not much else on the menu for ya.

My sister wanted me to be the Godfather to her children. She considered it a “gift.”

I’m an atheist. I told her explicitly “Hey, you remember I’m an atheist, right?” Part of this whole Godfather business is making a promise to raise them religiously if their parent dies. I thought I was being considerate and kind by being honest that I did not want to be a Godfather because I could not in good conscience make such a promise.

Nope, I’m the bad guy, not the person who knew I was atheist and decided to not respect that at all anyway by asking me to be a Godfather to begin with.

Thankfully, a bunch of the episodes (but not close to all) are on archive.org!

Hey, at least we got the Antiviral Wipe during the pandemic!

I actually really miss his police procedural sendup series A Touch of Cloth starring John Hannah.

Despite being the stuff of nightmares, Santa continues to be the world’s most popular home intruder.

Charlie Brooker and Diane Morgan fucking kill me whenever they work together. His writing and her delivery as Cunk just kill me.

Yes, folks, all the Cunk specials are written by Black Mirror head writer and creator, Charlie Brooker.

Looking forward to Cunk’s Quest for Meaning (which looks like it got renamed Cunk on Life in the last 10 months), looks like it’s hitting BBC’s iPlayer on December 31st and Netflix on January 2nd. Ringing in the new year with Cunk sounds grand to me.

Edward Snowden is a prime example of how to handle it.

Only communicated via encrypted channels.

When revealing himself and his leak, he had already left his home country. He was trying to make it to South America when the US canceled his passport. US went so far as to bring down a sovereign nations Presidential plane to search it for Snowden.

I’m sure he has still had to worry about his personal safety after getting stuck in a country he wasn’t planning on getting stuck in.

But the reality is you have to meticulously plan and basically abandon your entire life and move somewhere they cannot touch you. When it comes to US companies, you generally will have to do like Snowden and avoid US-allied nations.

See also: Steven Donziger and Chevron

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Donziger

Donziger was placed under house arrest in August 2019 while awaiting trial on charges of criminal contempt of court, which arose during his appeal against Kaplan’s RICO decision, when he refused to turn over electronic devices he owned to Chevron’s forensics experts. In July 2021, US District Judge Loretta Preska found him guilty, and Donziger was sentenced to 6 months in jail in October 2021. While Donziger was under house arrest in 2020, twenty-nine Nobel laureates described the actions taken by Chevron against him as “judicial harassment.” Human rights campaigners called Chevron’s actions an example of a strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP). In April 2021, six members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus demanded that the Department of Justice review Donziger’s case. In September 2021, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights stated that the pre-trial detention imposed on Donziger was illegal and called for his release. Having spent 45 days in prison and a combined total of 993 days under house arrest, Donziger was released on April 25, 2022.

US corporations can and will bring the weight of the US “justice” system on whistleblowers. The US is not unique in this regard. Whatever giant company you’re whistleblowing against, you better GTFO of the country they are based in.