This ones my fave: https://amiunique.org/fingerprint

It shows the percentages of people who use your same browser features (called similarity ratios), and can determine whether you’re unique in their dataset. Can help for tweaking browser settings to try to make yourself not unique.

Thx. Yep so far the strategy has been “contact your regulators emails”, which doesn’t have much affect, since google can easily ignore those. Having many devs go on strike and promise to remove their apps from google play, is much harder to ignore.

There’s nothing wrong with thinking highly of a country, especially one on an upward trajectory in so many ways: working to end world poverty, end dependence on fossil fuels via a green energy revolution, and put a stop to the low-wage trap that US imperialism has imposed on the global south.

The only reason these seem offensive to you, is that you’re propagandized to hate the geopolitical enemies of the US police state (and its vassals), so anyone saying something positive about them must be heresy that demands a public condemnation.

If I spoke highly of any other US enemy (like Cuba or Venezuela or the DPRK), it’d likely evoke the same reaction, but if I spoke highly of a neutral country like Tanzania, Malaysia, or Switzerland, it wouldn’t need the same condemnation.

I have an open issue to try to get a developer strike going for the keepandroidopen project, but unfortunately it hasn’t gotten any attention from the maintainers.

I make like 4 android apps and would be more than happy to remove them from the play store by the deadline, especially if more devs were involved.

Another badass version of this is from Omar Mukhtar:

Was staunchly team vim for 15 years, but now I’m on helix. As another user stated below, its like if vim were re-designed today, and without needing any addons to be a code-aware editor.

I have this going continually.

Fill a quart mason jar with 15g of hibiscus flowers, add water, put it in the fridge, and wait till morning or evening. Filter it out into a water bottle, and repeat by adding more flowers.

Then once the jar is full after a week or so, make jamaica tacos with them.

Good of course, as long as the torrents stay seeded (at least to a certain ratio). I haven’t kept up with all these sonarr advances over the years.

Torrenters : Communitarian / communist, sharing to strangers for the communal good.

Service-enjoyers : Individualist consumers, paying to rent data (not own it) from capitalist media companies, shares nothing to the community.

I have yet to read this book, but The Palestine Laboratory is supposed to outline how a lot of the surveillance and weaponry used today are first developed and tested in Israel to aid the occupation, then exported to other countries.

After nazi germany defeated poland and their government collapsed and fled, the USSR either had the choice to let the nazis continue unhindered eastward, or to move forward. This action saved millions of lives from the nazi’s scorched earth campaign which included mass rapes. You can read more about this here.

Also noteworthy: in 1939, Stalin offered a million troops in a pact to the UK and France to stop nazi germany.

UK and France refused the offer.

Data from authoritarian countries is less reliable

Part of the ideology of white-supremacy, is that proximity to whiteness means trustworthiness and authenticity, and distance from it means untrustworthiness.

So white supremacists think only the western countries (and their allies like South Korea, Japan, and other US military base countries) data and educational institutions can be trusted, while the numbers coming from any country opposed to them must inherently be a lie.

Stalin made a spoon so large not even he could eat all the grain with it. #inconvenienttruths #tankiespwnage.

The British empire committed far more atrocities than Nazi Germany could ever aspire to, and they did it all using a far more stable form for colonialism than fascism: parliamentary / bourgeios democracy.

The US genocided an entire continent under this model, something the nazis explicitly tried and failed to accomplish in eastern europe.

The only reason nazi germany is demonized while the british and US empires are not is because: nazi germany also attacked western europe (a big no-no), and that they lost (thanks to the USSR btw). So really all you can say about the fascists vs the other countries you mentioned is that fascism is a far less historically stable and successful model of government for colonialism, than parliamentary bourgeios democracy.

Also most US police forces, as part of the militarization of police, have been effectively using tanks and APCs against protestors and civilians for at least 15 years now. Israel uses the Palestinian people as guinea pigs for most of this new population control tech, then the equipment that works gets sold to US police.

One other more recent example too of the US using tanks against its citizens was the waco standoff. The US used tanks against, then burned ~100 people alive.