For one thing, inequality is still way lower than it was before democracy.

Wouldn’t the US working in ever deeper cooperation with both China and the EU be better for business? Billionaires move pretty easily between all three anyway.

By all appearances they’ve never fully committed with China because of the ideological gap, and are cutting out the EU now do to new, emerging ideological differences.

Taking in Africans is political poison right now in Europe, and outsourcing local industries has never been super popular even if it makes sense.

I’m sure it will happen, Africa will develop and start taking on lots of low-end manufacturing and similar, and Europe will probably be a very good customer. But, in terms of a strategic alliance for the EU, most African nations are not a contender. South Africa maybe.

Ah, okay.

IIRC only for a tiny, non-selective subset of users unlucky enough to pick your two bad nodes. Otherwise Tor would basically be dead.

Was XFCE a thing when the project started?

If you don’t trust your own hardware or are worried about a session being compromised it also offers some protection - especially if you have a physical read-only switch on your media.

Tor isn’t on postquantum encryption yet, which is less than great.

Besides that, about as good as it gets, and at the cost of being less usable.

Yeah, but it’s open source, so so what? When people say this it seems like either cope to justify doing nothing, or some kind of ritual purity thing.

So what’s the threshold for this power to be used? It doesn’t actually say.

Is Heise a reliable source? There’s not much corroborating this ATM, and the legislation title returns nothing - maybe because it’s just a draft.

Edit: Also ironic that they make you sign away your full GDPR rights to view the privacy article without an account.

SWAT breaking in to enforce some drug law and shooting the dog is a pretty common thing in the US. They still do it. But, we’re not talking about the US, so it might be harder to just sweep that kind of thing under the rug with tough-on-crime arguments.

Guns are a great example under “accepting we’re mortals in an ugly world”, actually. Nobody is seriously claiming they’re going away, but the way they’re talked about by the left, you would think undoing a technology is on the table.

I mean, you can still want more gun control, and most other nations have gone that way, but the only people mentioning they’ll still be around in some way tend to be on the right - because that’s ugly.

For example: the US flag. It has become a stereotype in the US that if you fly an American flag on your house or car, you are a conservative/right-wing nationalist. “America bad” is a lefty stereotype for good reason.

Fun fact, it was leaking into Canada for a while. Unnecessary maple leafs meant you probably didn’t like vaccines or Trudeau. Then you guys (well, Trump; we know there’s another party) talked about annexing us and made patriotism neutral again. Thanks?

January 6th was a weapons demonstration, not a real attempt at coup.

That’s an interesting way of looking at it, although I’m not convinced it wasn’t just stupidity on their part. The right also have hangups that will self-correct, in their own way.

That’s kind of what I was going to say about tribalism as a force, too. Nobody turns their noses up at an Irish name today, and nobody will be impressed by lifted pickups and ill-informed scriptural references in the future. The idea of elected representatives has been around for centuries, though.

Not OP. I was agreeing with you, haha.

Caring about tech issues seems more like a gen X/Millennial thing to me. Most of gen Z hasn’t figured out the problem yet; most older people just see a magic box. Obviously there’s exceptions at both ends.

Edit: And gen Alpha might be old people all over again in a different way. We’ll see.

Conservative-coding of things that are actually just healthy personality balance is a real thing. Bravery, duty and basic acceptance we’re mortals in an ugly world also come to mind.

There’s enough history written down to say for sure it’s going to self correct. Hopefully not in the “everyone like that went to a camp, but some of their ideas found a new audience a century later” way.

You must have a very left-leaning sample of boomers.

Yeah, I’m still not used to those either.

Since this is Lemmy, I’m required to ask if you’ve considered a custom ROM.

Another vote for Rexodus.

It’s kind of the problem with Lemmy sometimes.

Boooo!