CRAZY BDS CULT TURNS ON HAMAS HOSTAGE
"Imagine your child being kidnapped by Hamas, and then having to be escorted out of an event by police because Hamas supporters are trying to attack you."
Yael Bar tur @yaelbt
https://twitter.com/i/status/1736936381329424700
"Tonight I attended an Israel event hosted by a prominent Jew in NYC. The event featured 3 speakers, including the incredibly brave mother of Naama Levy, a 19-year-old who has been raped and held captive by Hamas for the past 72 days. (1/X)"
#Antisemitism #WarPropaganda #CeaseFireNow #Skeptic #Propaganda #Israel #Palestine #NoWarNoDraft #DemExit #AntiMilitarism #NoWarForIsrael #Peace #RadicalFeminism #RadFem #Cults #Propaganda
Pvt Jessica Lynch was raped, sodomised and tortured after her capture by the Iraqi army. CNN verified the story.
She was rescued when commandos stormed the hospital she was held in. CNN verified that too.
Until she regained consciousness and told everyone it wasn't true, that she was injured in a multi-vehicle pileup in her lost convoy, and the Iraqi soldiers took her to the hospital where they treated her kindly, like any other patient.
The hate that young woman endured for her naive honesty and courage was beyond imagining.
I can only hope the Israeli hostages rise to the occasion as well as that young American servicewoman did.
Mine was part of a batch with Qualcomm modems that had actually failed QA. The modem used to freeze randomly. Various devs (not Pinephone staff) came up with a series of increasingly effective workarounds.
But the thermal issues are the real killer. Pinephone need to stop using laptop-spec chips in a mobile phone form factor.
Pinephone does hilarious things to shave a few cents per unit, and the rusted-on fans gaslight complainers by asking if we really want an open hardware phone or not?
I do, but it needs to do what the advertising says it does...
It is Communism, but not the Communism you have right now.
Right now you have huge numbers of blue-haired, rainbow-flagged public service bureaucrats using taxpayer's "generosity" to exert unaccountable power over the poor, the elderly, veterans and the mentally ill. And inculcate dependency, helplessness and entitlement.
You also have other parasites to make sure the correct boxes are ticked, and yet more to put private sector butt-armour between each bureaucrat and other people's consequences.
This creates a vast vote bank of horrible people voting for horrible people out of fear that they might lose the ability to be horrible on a middle-class wage.
You also have an even larger bloc of learned-helplessness poor people mostly voting for horrible out of fear of becoming homeless.
UBI is a quick and politically-tactical way to turn the poor against the bureaucrats, and hopefully get the bureaucrats reassigned or dumped back into the private sector to survive on their skills.
Devil's Advocate here, but most of you would be amazed at how sincerely clueless, myopic, out-of-touch and groupthinked ~90% of politicians are after a year on the job.
They care very little, true, but even for that you have to reach them through an elaborate system designed to deflect and gaslight you and them both.
One big difference between that time and ours:
Hitler didn't trust the German people would keep following him if they knew what he was up to. Hence the pathological secrecy of the Nazi regime. The number of free Germans who knew what Treblinka really was was never more than hundreds, hence the need to use the inmates for everything.
And whenever Hitler got caught by his people doing something he said he wasn't doing, like executing the disabled or removing crosses from Bavarian schools, he stopped abruptly and changed tack. He was nearly overthrown in '34 by angry crowds when he was slow about this.
Nazi-era Germans were braver and more moral than any Western population today.
Pinephone is complete garbage. The limited apps and borderline-unusably-buggy OS I could work around.
But the thermal engineering - man, a Pinephone can literally cook itself on a warm day.
And the aftermarket support and parts availability is exactly what you'd expect of a scammy Chinese startup.
Hilariously, #amethyst is flagging comments in this thread for using the three-letter acronym for Nostr Implementation Possibility.
From the end of WW2 until about 1970, the Soviet Union averaged over 10% annual GDP growth, with a savings rate about 50%. By 1970, it had leapfrogged Britain, West Germany and Japan to be the world's second strongest economy.
With good culture and good leadership, Communism can be a brutal success, economically.
Unfortunately, the stuff governments want done is rarely good for human happiness or flourishing.
This is true of every Statist system, not just Communism.
(Communism's failure modes absolutely suck, as evinced by the Brezhnev and Gorbachev eras. But I'm not sure how much better surveillance-centric crony capitalism is with Brezhnev-style fearful ineptitude spreading at the top)
Here in Australia its also $2... but for a litre, not a gallon. This is one case where I'd prefer American Customary Units over Metric!
I have two degrees, and I endorse this message.
Working for yourself has never been easier to get into, and customers care more about your reputation than your bits of paper.
There have been many stories of companies giving up user data to stalkers and other criminals pretending to be cops with emergency data requests, but this one stands out because it's so utterly shambolic. The stalker submitted his request using a protonmail address FFS.
https://www.404media.co/verizon-gave-her-data-to-a-stalker-this-has-completely-changed-my-life/
"[...] it highlights the increasing problem of criminals filing fraudulent emergency data requests"
Criminals have always had that capability.
Actually, this highlights the increasing problem of corporations cyberstalking everybody, combined with an increasing cultural fetish for badge-licking.
And the USA is undoubtedly the "best of the West" in personal freedoms. We're so fscked...
Imagine roast beef was a spread, like peanut butter. Concentrated roast beef. Then add more salt.
Its made from yeast, like Marmite, and I enjoy the look of horror on the faces of British people when they try Vegemite. (It tastes nothing like Marmite.)
In fairness, I probably made the same face when I visited the UK and tried Marmite :-p
An unlikely threat, but certainly not impossible.
We rug them by moving all our business to the #monero blockchain.
When you're called up, you get issued whatever ancient broken crap was lying around at the back of the armoury.
Australia and the USA would be exactly the same if they suddenly mobilised their Reserves.
There will be a dissident movement, and the Great Rabbit-Proof Firewall will be poorly implemented because it will be designed by a parliamentary committee based on the time-tested principles of "ooh shiny" and "my expert needs another junket to study that".
I've found the Cyber Plumber's Handbook more useful than Tor for helping ppl get through really bad mojo govt firewalls. SSH is everywhere, and ownership is as plausibly deniable as a set of spanners :)