Alexengineer

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(Also, email is just inherently insecure. If you must do sensitive communications through a digital medium, email really is not it.)

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Speed running Iraq here

Photo of a man praying and it reads "jesus, I see what you've done for other people, and I want that for me."

Don't just vague post, enlighten the class.

Go down the stupid rabbit hole and you'll learn how the Empire of Japan was Good Actually™️

All elections are important but the idea that voting doesn't matter gets even more stupid when you apply that to local and state elections which are even more impactful than Federal ones in some cases.

Also your enemy is not staying home on election day. Why should you?

One other thing about these electoral conversations that get missed is that federal presidential elections are not the only thing that exist. You also have local and state elections which arguably have more effect on your day-to-day life than national ones.

Meanwhile most non-white people I have known don't give a shit as long as you are being respectful about it.

The problem is the white people fretting about appropriation (and it's always fucking white people too which annoys me) will say something pretentious and problematic sounding like "oh well, Asians appropriating European is okay because something about power structures.'

I mean there's GIMP, Krita, and Inkscape for local option.

Photopea is a nice free cloud option.

This is where I wish I was more obviously Asian so I could walk into a group of white ppl fretting about appropriation of Asian culture and state "I'm Asian and I don't give a fuck. Have fun with your lives."

Depends on your computer, what do you have now?

Assuming they can find an email job....

For those of you who grew up after 9/11, we got along just fine without a Department of Homeland Security for 212 years.

The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.

I feel like "we can't have open borders because welfare" is rooted in some idea of "immigrants only serve to suck up welfare dollars" and not rooted in anything sound.

I do feel like the social conservative vibes that can come from some immigrant communities is an elephant in the room that a lot of leftists don't want to address.

Sure but for a good part of human existence, if a parent wasn't big on their kid, there was a whole community ready to step in and at least help out.

It was by no means a ideal situation but it's still was better than "you are stuck with someonewho can't deal with you and there's no other option."

There's also a bit of group think in leftist online circles. It's "in" to hate on Stancil.

Fair point. My focus was on Android, which you can do for free (until Google screws it up)

Technically you can sideload iOS apps, but unless you're in the EU, you have to jump through hoops to do it.

But yes, you do have to change the code to point to a different instance which is not ideal.

I mean you don't have to pay for an alternative app, I've compiled and made a fork of the Android app, although I haven't done much with it since my IRL use case with Stoat faded away.

Yeah I remember the project lead just geo blocking the 18+ channels from UK folks because he had no interest in processing government IDs. Which was not an unreasonable stance; PII processing is easy to fuck up.

You can self host in theory but the codebase has a lot of hard coded assumptions.

Adjacent to this idea, I wonder of a good chunk of it is because parents in our society have to raise kids mostly on their own, opposed to in a shared community like we did for most of our species' existence.

In fact, you could probably argue that a lot of issues are downstream of "no community."

Stoat was probably the furthest along, but unless they've changed stuff radically since the last time I checked, you will have to fork the repos to get it to work with a different instance. But more mature of a product AFAICT.

Spacebar seemed dope when I tried it out. My only meow was lack of native support which was a deal breaker for my use case :(

But I did look into it when I was exploring Revolt/Stoat and saw some concerns about that space.

Stoat/Revolt is cool, but last time I checked (albeit a few months ago) the mobile support was wanting. Still, it has promise.

It would be extremely funny

The other "proof" I saw was his fortnite account or something being turned on in Israel after his death.

While I think we can all agree that there's been some stranger than fiction events in this case, this doesn't meant everything is now on the table.