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JWayn596

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  • We caught technicians at Best Buy, Mobile Klinik, Canada Computers and others snooping on our personal devices

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  • And that's why you would never be put on a jury Mr. "Hunt the predators and rapists down and kill them violently".

    If I were in your position, I might be getting equally angry at the meer suggestion that privacy is important, but I would be wrong for being angry at the wrong topic.

    Anyway, this fight against encryption is going to lose, for the sake if journalists who report in hostile countries without freedom of speech, for the sake of kids with parents who'd kill them if they came out as trans, and for people in the intelligence industry.

  • We caught technicians at Best Buy, Mobile Klinik, Canada Computers and others snooping on our personal devices

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  • Well it's understandable that you think the predators are random men in white vans texting your kids, grooming, and abducting them, but in actuality, most of the major produces of CSAM are parents or family members.

    Having the goverment ban encryption will only undermine the privacy and security of law abiding citizens, and jeopardize national security. Parents don't have to send messages to their kids really.

    The police won't protect your child from your spouse.

    Banning encryption won't do anything to curb this concern of yours, its like banning car locks because people could hide heroin in cars.

    I can empathize with your stance, but I have to tell you, that the "protect children" argument has been used to justify genocide, racial segregation, and so many other violations of civil rights within the last 100 years.

  • We caught technicians at Best Buy, Mobile Klinik, Canada Computers and others snooping on our personal devices

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  • Well yes, because it's not up to the government to take care of or protect your kids. And it's your job to make sure they can protect themselves online. That's just common sense.

    Additionally, the government is still effective at catching bad guys without backdoors to encryption, and this stuff doesn't stop you from monitoring your kids devices.

    Yes in the US, Texas for example has used publicly available information to jail moms who travel for abortions.

    If the government were to trample on the freedom of privacy, it would affect the right to protest, it would affect freedom of assembly, it would affect freedom of opinion.

    China literally monitors most of their citizens communications this way.

    We do NOT want governments to invade privacy for the sake of security.

    Because, if the government can see what you do, then criminal actors can also see what you do too.

  • We caught technicians at Best Buy, Mobile Klinik, Canada Computers and others snooping on our personal devices

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  • What do you mean deprives us of freedoms?

    Everyone has a right to lock their bathroom door. Crime might be comitted behind the bathroom door, but usually there will be other evidence of that without looking in the bathroom, so there is no need for the government to legislate that all bathrooms should remove their locks.

    No one ever questions the right of locking your bathroom door.

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  • Rightfully so.

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    New York Times: US Intel has reported they have "HIGH CONFIDENCE" intelligence from multiple sources, that the hospital strike was a failed rocket fired from within Gaza.

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  • Well if you are like "hurr durr 3rd parties".

    The most ironic part of this is that Al Jazeera happened to live stream 2 angles of the entire incident. You can see the rocket launches, and the failed booster of the specific rocket, synced with phones on the ground already recording because they noticed the launch.

    You can see how the rocket booster failed over the hospital, and then the explosion.

    The videos were geographically confirmed by Geoconfirmed on Twitter, who only geoconfirms things without more analysis.

    US intelligence is corroborating this with satellite imagery.

    Hamas doesn't have the firepower to cause that big of an explosion, but Islamic Jihad definitely has more powerful rockets that could have done that. They announced a launch like 4 minutes prior to the strike on their telegram I believe.

  • *actually PIJ 🤭

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  • Context:

    NYT, WSJ, and other news media have started to report that US Intel confirms it was a failed militant rocket through infrared imagery.

    Downvotes are legitimately, copium.

  • Israeli air strike hits Gaza hospital, hundreds dead, health officials say

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  • Absolutely not, at first I thought it was infact an Israeli airstrike, but upon pouring over multiple angles of video that has been geographically confirmed, it's fairly damning, and fairly convincing that it was not in fact, an Israeli airstrike.

    The incident had been broadcasted live by Al Jazeera too, so even if you have a bias in favor of Hamas and Palestinian struggles, all signs point to a self-inflicted tragedy.

    Despite that, its far too late since everyone already started protesting at embassies in greater numbers. PA president and Jordan leader cancelled meetings with Biden.

    The situation is deteriorating rapidly.

  • Israeli air strike hits Gaza hospital, hundreds dead, health officials say

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  • You should double check whats going on. I'm sure everyone who jumped to conclusions is going to look like a clown in the morning.

    I couldn't say that confidently when it happened, but now with new information, absolutely.

  • How does everyone feel about iPhones?

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  • This is an old thread, but I thought I'd give my thoughts.

    I absolutely love the Android Open Source Project. The amount of things you can do with Android are spectacular. Pixels especially are wonderful devices.

    However, it's come to my attention that I think iPhones make better "Phones" than any other device.

    Apple is in a unique position of having fast and sleek operating systems and software, and wonderful integration.

    Homestly if you're not running privacy focused stuff, like your own homeserver, or a custom OS, or anything. Apple is the best for your privacy.

    The reason I believe this is due to their implementation of their Apple TV Box. Google's TV stuff is designed first and foremost to give you advertisements, even on the home screen, and Apple does no such thing. Needless to say, I switched TV Boxes. Upon researching what Apple does with your data, I'm becoming convinced that the Apple ecosystem has become a better option for consumerist services, like social media, news, streaming, and banking.

    It's not enough to make me get rid of my Android Pixel, but I've been heavily considering getting an iPhone, iPad, Watch, Mac Mini.

    Powerful math tools, diagnostic tools, chatroom apps, forum apps, Signal, games, emulation, privacy tools, all mostly open source software, they'd all go on an Android Pixel running a custom OS still.

  • US begins delivering munitions to Israel as the American death toll rises to 11 in Hamas attacks

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  • Depends on who you ask, there's 50 Senators and 221 House Representatives on the Republican party.

    Despite the substantial erosion of decorem on the right, there are still some who operate with civility and reason, though they are not as vocal as they should be.

    Before you respond with semi-justified cynicism, it's not an assumption. Republicans know they'd align mostly with Democrats on Israel.

  • Israel announces 'total' blockade on Gaza

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  • I mean it's very politically divided, but in terms of securing Israel, most opposition leaders called 9ff protests and united behind Netanyahu since there are still Hamas militants in Israel.

  • They were told to leave their homes. They did. They were still bombed

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  • Let's not forget that the act of using civilians as shields is a warcrime in the first place to prevent this kind of situation from occurring.

    If Israel tells Palestinian civilians to evacuate because there's Hamas military targets in that building, and Hamas troops tell them no. Then they die, and Hamas can cry wolf.

    It would be Israel who is following international decorem and Hamas making it difficult for any country to support them.

    Just now, Austria cut off aid to the Gaza region. Is that Israel's fault? Nope.

    Hamas had good PR going and they fucked it up by escalating with brutality.

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  • Morally, it's a complicated situation.

    Geopolitically, Israel probably has the support of most Western nations simply due to the fact that they engage in diplomacy and have proper decorem, with a government system that is a relatively modern system despite political leanings.

    Additionally, Israel has a better human rights record DOMESTICALLY than Palestine and the Gaza region. It's still dominated by religion, terrorist leaders, and its own population's semi-justified bitterness. Freedom of expression and freedom of press is heavily restricted, just like any other Islamic religious state in the middle east.

    The sole responsibility of the escalation and subsequent destabilization of the region lies with Hamas. The sole responsibility of the withdrawal of Palestinian aid from countries like Austria, lies with Hamas.

    And with all the videos popping up over the treatment and killing of Israeli civilians, it's hard for the Western world, and especially Western governments to garner the sympathy for the Palestinian people that they had 1 week ago.

    Both sidesing isn't correct, whataboutism isn't correct, blindly supporting either side isn't correct, supporting efforts to contain the conflict is correct. The best way to do that is to monitor Israel's progress in containing Hamas.

    We know that Hamas hides in schools and civilian buildings, using their own civilians as a shield. That's a warcrime it itself. So it's going to be messy as hell.

    The US sent the USS Gerald Ford into the Mediterranean as a deterrent. If any country starts to try to 3rd party the conflict, oh shit oh fuck WW1 vibes. That's how tender this situation is.

    And with 1 other active conflict in the world, this is shaky ground.

  • US begins delivering munitions to Israel as the American death toll rises to 11 in Hamas attacks

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  • On the bright side, this means that Republicans may have to stop playing hardball with Ukraine, in order to not appear hypocritical.

    Most support Ukrainian support, and most Western countries need Israel as a foothold in the middle east.

  • NYC pro-Palestine rally splits Democrats over Israel

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  • Reducing it to a binary is the incorrect analogy.

    The needle of responsibility in this conflict definitely leans toward Hamas.

    Every Palestinian civilian death, every displacement, every house bombed, every western country, like Austria, who withdrew support, the imminent reoccupation of the region, it's all on Hamas.

    They really really hung themselves on the world stage with this one, they had some excellent PR going too.

  • NYC pro-Palestine rally splits Democrats over Israel

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  • I mean Hamas had some really good PR going but they really, really fucked up this time.

    Many countries now withdrawing aid, most are reluctantly supporting Israel because most countries despite being just as guilty as Israel, know that Israel is the West's proxy in the middle east.

    The blood of both Palestinian civilians and Israeli civilians, and the imminent occupation of the region is going to be on their hands.

    I don't know what they're smoking.

  • Please don’t nuke me

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  • Well to be quite fair, it's better to judge a country by it's progress and current state of affairs than by its past actions. Because if we judged every country by their actions in the past, not many countries would have clean hands.

    From 2016-2021, I was ready to move away. I was quite disillusioned by everything. What changed? Soccer 💀. Soccer made me comically nationalist for our national teams.

    Honestly being in that environment of being able to be innocently prideful of my home without thinking about the past helped put things in perspective.

    I'm now prideful to be American, and proud that my home heavily invests in NATO. I'm an adult now, and I've been working to push for some more improvements in things like infrastructure. I don't cringe at 4th of July celebrations anymore, and I feel great that I'm making an impact.

    You probably won't see me putting a flag outside my home, but I have a lovely high quality flag.

    Our national park system is the best in the world, our ecosystem, nature, and geography are spectacular and diverse. And NASA is phenomenal.

    Don't allow yourself to wallow in this cynical disillusionment. It's not good for your mental health to focus on the terrible parts of America without having the ability to change those parts.

  • Europeans, what is something that Americans have/do that makes no sense to you?

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  • I just made a comment about that, hopefully that explains the current state of affairs about it.