Matrix gets a lot of flak from people for their constant protocol changes, de-facto centralization around matrix.org and Element etc… but I’m very happy with Matrix as an open, federated, encrypted and private messenger and I hope it gets more adoption.

China spent the last 2 decades investing in infrastructure, energy, heavy industry and manufacturing while we were… doing what exactly? Selling smartphone apps to each other, pumping crypto, gig economy and letting private equity gut our services?

Goldbugs were right after all. To be fair it’s always been a much, much better investment than shit like crypto or stocks. At least gold is real and has real uses in the real world.

I’m not sure what you’re asking, but the average American racist for sure thinks all Arabs are Muslim. Usually their Islamophobia is actually anti-Arab racism, as they aren’t nearly as bigoted towards Indonesian or Chinese Muslims.

It was interesting to see all the mainstream outlets suddenly talking about extrajudicial killings in Gaza like they haven’t spent the last 2 years cheerleading for an extrajudicial genocide in Gaza. The articles are all meant to present an implicit message - “look at how scary and violent these Arab barbarians are. This is what happens when you let them run their own country instead of killing them all”.

Here’s the article from Amnesty on the issue. It’s from 2016 so the situation has obviously changed since then, but I doubt they’ve become more squeamish about torturing Russians especially with how widespread Russia’s own use of torture has been.

I suspect the drone incursion was accidental. Judging by Europe’s reaction though, I think Russia sees no downside in continuing to fling cheap drones their way. It wastes NATO’s time and money by forcing them to scramble their jets and anti-air defense systems and nobody in EU leadership has it in them to invoke Article 5 over cheap drones with no payload entering their airspace.

Hamas wouldn’t need to exist if Israel ended their apartheid and genocide of Palestinians. There is no “both sides” here.

What the fuck? They’re raiding people’s homes for using jailbroken TV sticks? The UK is so, unbelievably cooked

It’s pure racism. Decades of propaganda has trained people to see violence by Muslims as different from violence from other groups. People here have no issue with Ukraine torturing and executing Russian collaborators, but when Arabs do it they’re seen as violent savages who’ve been hypnotized into ultra-violence by their primitive religion.

Yes, that’s usually how you deal with collaborators and snitches when you’re at war with a much larger enemy. I don’t see what their religion has to do with it, Hamas is a nationalist anti-colonial movement, not an Islamist one.

Boooooo. I hope Mozilla is at least getting paid a shit ton of AI money for this.

At least someone has had good experiences with CUPS lol. cupsd is usually the first thing I uninstall when I install Linux onto a PC since it never works.

Please. There’s never been an anti-colonial movement where collaborators weren’t punished harshly. Nelson Mandela’s ANC executed collaborators in famously brutal fashion.

Is this article just based on Chinese internet comments? Because idk if that really reflects the broader attitude in China. Chinese people are extremely friendly and generous to foreigners in my experience.

Ok liberal

You could install Batocera and use it as a home theatre PC and retro gaming station.

They’re talking about the Popular Forces here, an ISIS-linked drug trafficking gang that collaborated with Israel during the genocide. Their leader, Yasser Abu Shabab, recently wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post, despite being illiterate. When the ceasefire was announced, Israel said they would not give give them any support or amnesty lol. Now they’re stuck in Gaza with Hamas hunting them down. Moral of the story is never become a collaborator, especially with western-backed regimes. You always end up being left hanging onto the last airplane as it takes off from Kabul.

EU and USA in a competition for who can dickride Israel the hardest:

The point is to manufacture consent for violent regime change.