We as creatures behave certain ways because of a result of biology and circumstances. How can you say anything we do isn’t a natural/biological impulse. When did we stop being a part of nature? And stop being controlled by biology?

Only if you don’t wash them and don’t clip your nails, or if you paint your nails that’s also nasty

Fish is not meat, but it’s also not vegetarian

I’ve never used any, but Molly seems well liked

You can use Signal with a different client. Signal being operated within the US has no effect. As of now the jurisdictions that I know of to be worried about are:

The UK, where Apple was recently ordered to remove end-to-end encryption features, and have been gagged from talking about it

Sweden, where a law is proposed to add an encryption backdoor

The EU, where leadership is pushing for an encryption backdoor

My understanding is that the Indian government under the BJP and Congress has been pretty consistently anti-encryption, and violated privacy rights

France arrested the founder of Telegram for using end to end encryption in Telegram

Australia in 2018 passed a law that enabled the government to require communications platforms add a backdoor for government decryption. The Director of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) said that “privacy is important but not absolute”. Which has the same vibes as “this is not about human rights, this is about human life.”

WhatsApp was previously suspended in Brazil for refusing to hand over decrypted messages.

Austria is in the process of passing legislation allowing police to backdoor encryption in messaging apps

China and Russia are very obvious problems. Here’s an easy one of many examples

The White House both in Trump’s first term and in Biden’s presidency were pro-encryption. Signal and Tor were US government funded projects. That’s not to say the US is great on encryption, and there have been laws in the past that did/were proposed to limit it. But, as of now, it seems that the US is (edit: one of) the most hospitable jurisdictions for encrypted messaging non-profits.

BTW, I’m not saying using Tox is bad, or that Signal is good, I’m just talking about the US jurisdiction part.

Does it really matter who made it if you can see the source code? You don’t have to trust them.

I don’t think so, rubber bullets travel relatively slow, I don’t think they would be accurate enough to aim for the eyes. I do think they’re probably not careful enough about the face of though

It’s not 2014 anymore

And engineers who stood to make a lot of money

I have no memory of ever mentioning it so I’m impressed

And you’ll be called an incel when you point out the double standard

You understand this policy as of now is only targeting Harvard. The article is about Harvard, don’t pre-cope imo

Yeah, it was also clearly political before, like Ukraine’s win tbh

I care about the working class kid that isn’t gonna graduate.

There’s a near zero amount of working class kids studying abroad at Harvard

You’re definitely earning more than me, but I’m also a freelancer. So much of at least Czech and Polish tax code is set up to make it far more expensive to run a small business or be self employed, than to work for a company

You definitely have. Whenever people meet me they feel the need to tell me which American politicians they support for some reason. And a non-zero percent of them in essentially every country like Trump. And of Chinese people I’ve met it’s 100% for some reason lol

In my former school district they paid a ton to some consultancy firm to “use AI to optimize the bus route”. The first day of testing the new route many kids didn’t get home until after 9pm. They cancelled school for the rest of the week and then immediately reverted to the old route.

Maybe the best headline that’s come out of the recent LLM explosion

Some American frozen pizzas can be good, but at least in Poland/Czech Republic almost none of it is.

TBH compared to the rest of SEA Vietnamese food is often relatively mild