Check out the documentary “The Act of Killing” and the book “The Jakarta Method” if you’d like some historical context for modern Indonesia.

Their purpose isn’t to make quality products. Their purpose is to make money. Especially now, they don’t really have to compete, so we’re forced to support and subsidize their garbage (and their attacks on us).

Main camera is whatever default is for Graphene. Also use “Open Camera” and “Fair Scan” from fdroid.

I just use a different camera app for those kind of pictures (receipts, etc). That camera app is configured to save pix to a location that doesn’t get backed up.

Their update notes are always jokey.

Again, you are distorting and decontextualizing. Both-sidesing like this flattens the reality of the situation, and only serves to justify the status quo. If you care about the problems in Iran, your very first concern should be ending the imperial wars and sanctions against them. Otherwise what is the point of this conversation? I’m here in the US. I presume that you are also in a country that provides material support to Israel or is otherwise directly attacking Iran. What can we do about Iranian problems? We can support the status quo of starving and bombing them, or we can be against it.

I understand this argument, but I don’t think it’s anymore “foolproof”. How often are you going to have to present ID? Every hour?

Something I never see anyone talk about, is how, with all the ‘fingerprinting’ and data collection/analysis these companies do, they already know whether you’re 18 or not. I know this isn’t actually about “protecting the children”, but I’d still like to hear more discussion from the angle of: they already surveil us enough for this purpose.

Fully support Meta killing this awful product.

Honestly, that part about eating nothing but pie for two days makes me feel like this is a mood mild but elaborate troll.

What question posited? Whether Iran existed as a nation before earlier this year? I’m really struggling to understand your point. It seems to me that you would like to decontextualize Iran. History matters, and you will never understand the present without studying the past.

We have to keep fighting, and it isn’t easy but we have been building great things! Look at the growth of the fediverse with projects like mastodon, Lemmy, pixelfed, etc. More and more, people want alternatives to surveillance-capitalist social media platforms. They see the value in privacy as the stakes get higher for activists. Keep fighting, keep sharing.

Now, I also believe that ultimately we cannot solve political problems with technical solutions. We need to organize online and offline to effect real change. This organization must be multifaceted (“diversity of tactics”). A recent success of this type has been rolling back flock surveillance in municipalities around the US. Go to city council meetings with your neighbors. If the council won’t listen, then go out later with a comrade and smash those fucking things.

We need to start some independent, inclusive sports leagues, beginning in those states.

If you’re one of those people super against hijab, do a say, duckduckgo image search for “women in headscarves”. You will see many cultures represented. They aren’t all Muslim, even. Which ones are ‘bad’ and which ‘good’? Would you also ban Orthodox Christians/Jews, or Hindu women from covering their hair? Rasta women?

Who’s talking about bouncing from system to system? Imperial forces need to stop fucking with countries, and let them develop their societies themselves. All the bombing, sanctions etc will only continue to hamper natural political development. The current geopolitical balance is exactly what gets us nowhere. At least nowhere good.

I’m not talking about the state as victim. I sympathize with your friends, but they are absolutely naive (even if I understand the need for hope), to think that any of this will result in an improvement to their lives. Ending sanctions would result in immediate improvement, and a much higher likelihood of long-term loosening of strict state social controls. Instead they get bombs dropped on them, and a government that consolidates its existing domestic (and foreign) support, and is increasingly and for good reason concerned with internal threats.

Fascists coopting the language of socialism is as old as fascism. That people continue to fall for it amazes me.

This is a bad attitude. It’s like saying being vegetarian is performative if you aren’t full vegan. And for the record, I use Mullvad (for now), I don’t use any of the other services you mentioned, and I am vegan ;)

This kind of attitude serves the interests of the status-quo. If the victims of empire are “just as bad” then you don’t really have to care. Also, “they would be doing similar shit had they the same power” is just projection. I imagine German citizens in 1941 saying the same kind of thing.

It’s a grave mistake to blame this all on Trump. Our foreign policy has always been evil, and will continue to be so.