This should definitely be the approach for the first phase of protesting, but I fear this is also missing the part where fascists — including the oligarch owned media — will actively produce and disseminate disinformation to justify their crimes, regardless of how peaceful and disciplined protesters are. I fear fascists will continue escalating to mass murder either way.

Remember “They’re eating cats and dogs” or “kitty litter in schools” or “migrant caravan”?

In the age of disinformation, facing a fascist mass murder, protesters need to be prepared for “peaceful” to turn into Tiananmen square, at which point there’s no reason to congregate around the square anymore; you need to switch gears and go guerrilla warfare. Obviously this should never be done anywhere near a protest. It should never be waged against civilians/MAGA voters, cops, troops, or federal agents. It should only ever be targeted specifically at the fascist leadership, and their immediate senior accomplices. Wasting time or effort on low value targets is counterproductive.

*Statistically guaranteed to happen

I’m sure SK can produce 100x more than NK can without breaking a sweat.

This article has some good points, and the EU definitely needs to standardise and integrate, but quotes like this completely miss the economies of scale the USA MIC is operating under.

Look for instance at the price of modern, third-generation battle tanks and the cost of self-propelled howitzers, which have been key to the fighting in Ukraine. German prices are far higher than their American counterparts.

The US has produced well over 10k of this “main battle tank” in the last 40 years, and has at least 10x the number of those in active duty as Germany. All of the EU’s combined tanks (of comparable capability) would probably still be less than half, or even a quarter, the size of the USA’s. Naturally, the average cost is much less when you build 10k instead of a few hundred.

Nazi’s, backed by the worlds most powerful governments and corporations.

Apple will never do this as it would kill the MacBook Air market. Same reason why they’ll never add a touch screen to a MacBook. iPadOS is their heavily locked-down anticompetitive monopoly desktop OS, a la iOS. Every iteration of macOS in the last decade has destroyed api’s and features which non-apple apps and services rely on. Apple are more likely to get rid of MacBooks and macOS in favour of iPadOS, once it does enough for non-superuser “pros” to use it full time.

This is why their monopoly should be broken, they should be forced to open up their firmware/hardware for alternative OS’s, and open up their OS api’s so alternatives can implement real/legitimate feature parity with iCloud etc, and all of Apple’s own services.

The next century or so will be the story of how we triggered a vicious cycle of multiple tipping points, but most importantly “nobody could have predicted this” … except the millions of scientists who were ignored because of systemic species-wide greed and ignorance.

The entire history of humanity will be summed up by “Talking chimps destroy own planet, and themselves”.

Person who is not a complete fucking moron questions the intelligence of the entire species; how an aggressive immediate divestment and decoupling from the fascist failed-state of MAGAstan is not completely fucking obvious to everyone, everywhere?

If their code isn’t open source, and your searches aren’t encrypted in such a way that their logging of them isn’t an option, why should you believe them? It’s not like there’s some precedence that corporations face any legitimate consequences for their crimes. Unless they steal from the wealthy, any consequences will be less than the profits from their crimes.

Yep. Save reason I won’t use Kagi and I don’t use AI much. Surveillance capitalism will only ever lead to authoritarianism and dystopia. I don’t want anything to do with it.

You can’t trust any company to not sell you out and pick your carcass clean.

This is not surprising. The EU is also run by a political class who serves the oligarchs, and capital, above all else.

Even if they said he weren’t welcome, it would only be for optics. They would still allow his money and influence behind the scenes.

Patch devices as soon as possible and consider retiring those that for some reason cannot be patched.

Require all device firmware to be open source, and require all other software to be open sourced the moment it stops receiving sufficient support.

Maybe our quality of life, livelihood, and retirements should not be bound to the success of for-profit corporations?

This is the greatest grift of all time. Binding the average citizen’s, and governmental, wealth to the success of private corporations means that the economic success of those corporations, and the oligarchs who own them, become equal to “national security”; thus they are violently protected by the state, even when their actions and success are the antithesis of democracy.

Your comment reminded me of how I got banned from lemmy.world news 2 years ago — a comment about an SC justice wiping Trumps cum from his mouth.

As if the tens of thousands of dead children didn’t already prove this…

The problem is that there is a fine line between stating your observations of a few people and racism.

Understanding that the majority of Israelis are fascist and support genocide does not make you rascist.

What you are doing is conflating zionism with Judaism, no different to the Israeli state and their propaganda. Believing that the Israeli government IS judaism is about as rascist as you can get. It’s no different than claiming Iran or the Taliban IS Islam/Arabs, which is unironically what Christian naturalists/racists/fascists believe.

People need to start calling this what it is. Backdoor-ing encryption is backdoor-ing national security. It should be considered nothing less than treason to democracy…

But we don’t live in democracies. We live in corporate dictatorships masquerading as democracy, so these efforts to destroy our civil liberties make perfect sense.

*Because surveillance capitalism has consumed our governments and is writing regulations that expand their data collection capabilities… under the guise of “protecting kids”, “fighting crime”, or “terrorism”.

Their approach has not changed in decades, yet the majority continually fall for it, over and over again.

Epstein didn’t hill himself, and his closest friends were oligarchs, including European royalty and the US president.

I read the headline and was like “The entire IDF/Israeli state?”

Surveillance capitalism benefits the most criminal and corrupt the most. As they possess no morals or ethics, they’re happy to use all available data and methods — however illegal — to engage in psychological warfare, disinformation, and straight lies to “con” voters into supporting criminals.

This means that surveillance capitalism is authoritarianism, as it will serve to promote the worst governance and destroy the best; the enshittification of government. It is the greatest threat to transparent, honest, and just governance — to democracy — probably in all of modern history; certainly in the history of politics and information warfare.