I love airline meals! They are such a treat. Get your mouse away from the downvote button and I shall tell you why… I don’t fly very often and I am usually very hungry by the time the meal gets brought around so it really does taste nice. And it’s a very plastic kind of meal, very tiny, and I never have processed food so it really feels like a bit of a space-age game to me. All that dreadful plastic and the Barbie sized tray, I cook all my meals from scratch so airline food is so weird and such a rare experience. I like it in the way I like “funeral food”: the little triangular, pure white sandwiches (no crusts) and tiny sausage rolls. Perhaps it’s the child in me that likes them… I don’t know. Okay, you can click the downvote button now. 😅

I don’t use them mainly because they put pressure on an already problematic property market (UK). Also, I don’t want to stay in someone’s house, especially if I’m going out with friends, the anonymity of a hotel room is heaven; pop that card on the door handle and close out the world until you’ve recovered enough to face the scary outside people.

I have had a Tuta (Tutanota) account for years and they’ve always been good (I just have a free account and it’s always been fine for my needs) https://tuta.com/

It is definitely the theatre of war that the left is much better at than the right. The right in general is terrible at memes, and terrible at comedy, especially when it comes to satire.

At least we will win the meme war!

While in theory it is nice that an organisation would give over so much power to its customers in terms of where donations go, it does come with the risk of problematic decisions being made. Then later, when they’ve boxed themselves into a corner, quite unnecessarily, all they can do is go along with what their customers decide and then pass on the morality of that decision to those customers. But that’s not really good enough to say “My customers made me do it!” No, you gave your customers too much power in the first place. It’s a privacy organisation so surely better to give some money to a group that supports and compliments your aims. Bellingcat (regardless of the problems raised in the article I posted) has nothing to with privacy. If people read the article and decide they are happy with Proton, then go for it. I’d rather people make a decision with their eyes open.

I’ve never used Fastmail, so I cannot comment on that but I just closed my Proton account because of their donation to Bellingcat. It might not be a problem for some but it was for me.

https://propagandainfocus.com/proton-mail-imperialist-stooge/

Binary trans people would be included with “women” or “men”, they wouldn’t require an asterisk. It might be for non-binary people

If I’m not using my cam, it’s not plugged in. If I am not chatting, my headset’s physical button has the mic deactivated. That’s two potential vulnerabilities I just don’t have to think about.

I agree! :)

I use Mullvad as my default browser (so it opens links) and Librewolf for login sessions so I can store some selected cookies and connect it up with keepassxc for some password/2fa autofill goodness.

Thorium for dire emergencies if I need a Chromium based browser for the very rare cases where Mullvad and Librewolf don’t work.

Science stuff, space stuff, WWII, current affairs, sometimes worryingly conspiracy-theory stuff too (no thanks to the algorithm and auto-play). If something is popular there are content farms for it - during my research I discovered how easy it is set up a content farm and automate the entire process on any topic you like. One video I watched looked specifically at space videos - there were farms with single channels dropping content several times a day with millions of subscribers and millions of views. I even found a 13-year-old video which claimed Google had “declared war on content farms” presumably that was before they realised they could make a shit-ton from them.

I got a call from my mum recently saying that my dad was watching stuff on YouTube that had “a robot voice”. I knew immediately that this was content farm crap and had to send my dad a detailed and politely written email to warn him about not watching this shit. Of course, it’s never going to get deleted because Google make money from this drivel too. Honestly, it’s another reason to stop using Google stuff completely, including YouTube. For me YT really is a last resort and usually it’s for computer stuff, gaming hints, and teardown videos for a repair. Fuck Google, ironic that it has literally turned into the most evil company on the internet.

I did look at content farm warning videos to send to my dad but they were all a bit rubbish - most warn about content farm stuff designed for children. Definitely didn’t see any leftist takes on content farms.

Like all distros, they have their place. And sometimes if you want to boil a frog you have to heat them up gently. 😅

Any distro can be a steep learning curve and sometimes something to lessen that curve will be a good thing. I wanted my dad to try out Linux and I knew that it had to not look different as he would immediately get confused, he’d seen my setup and I tried to gently show him around and he said he liked it but it was all a bit too different and he would get confused. My dad’s late-70s and apart from programming on the ZX Spectrum in the 1980s he’s always used a PC with Windows and is at the point where if something is too different he knows he’s going to have trouble with it.

I do get where you are coming from, for people who are more mentally agile I would prefer to try something a little less Windows-like but in some cases I don’t think it’s a good idea and it is nice to have a more Windows-like alternative available.

AI text checker https://gptzero.me/ says it’s likely written by a human.

Well, I am very happy for you, that sounds like a lovely meal; I love Vietnamese food. It is rare for me to eat takeaway food, I enjoy cooking so much but it is a nice treat sometimes, if I am feeling a little lazy (not that I am calling you lazy!)

Yeah, burner account. And look up loads of stuff you don’t like to confuse it. 😂

For example, “Is Thomas Friedman single?”

https://www.972mag.com/ have a newsletter (daily email) https://electronicintifada.net/ is good but they don’t have a newsletter that I can find, they do have a daily YouTube programme though. Either way, these are good sources (others may disagree!)

Both have RSS feeds though. 😉

Wonderful! Thanks for sharing.

Good grief. What a charmer… 🤮

The best list I’ve come across is this one, it provides information on why to boycott and in some cases provides a link to supporting evidence: https://www.boycotzionism.com/

Is says of Starbucks:

Howard Shultz is the largest private owner of Starbucks shares and is a staunch zionist who invests heavily in Israel’s economy including a recent $1.7 Billion investment in cybersecurity startup Wiz.

And McDonald’s:

McDonald’s Israel announced that it’s giving away thousands of free meals to the Israel Defence Forces and citizens. Proof