> Explain to me why reading news from the state is a good thing?
When you get your news from RT, BBC, France24, DW, PressTV, NPR, Gulf News, DD, Al-Jazeera etc. you get "official" political propaganda from the respective governments that run these outlets. Political propaganda can be based on falsehood or factual truth(s) with a "biased" analysis on it. Government news outlets have to show some journalistic integrity to earn trust. Thus, most of their propaganda tends to be based on facts than on falsehood. So reading them all or reading about the same subjects from these different outlets really gives you a larger political perspective with some great political insights.
This is fantastic. Now if someone can figure out how to replace Ubuntu with Sailfish OS (a Linux based mobile OS - https://sailfishos.org/info/ ) that would be awesome! The lack of hardware ports (apart from Jolla's lack of vision) is what is really holding Sailfish OS back.
Technically the phone isn't wiped - what GrapheneOS apparently does in this case is to delete just the encryption keys (deleting all the files would take too long). So, theoretically, the data can still be retrieved if the encryption keys are restored.
Iran has threatened to attack Saudi oil infrastructure if the Saudis join the Israel-American war on Iran. The Iran War Is Destroying Something More Valuable Than Oil - https://houseofsaud.com/iran-war-refinery-crisis-saudi-aramc... As it has become clear that the US missile defence shield over Saudi Arabia is inadequate (as the US can't provide enough interceptors), the Saudis have decided to be cautious.
Not OP, but I don't understand how you claim that Bush and Biden have nothing to do with the mess in the middle-east? Didn't Bush start the Iraq war, which removed political stability and introduced social and political chaos there? Didn't subsequent US Presidents after 9/11, including Biden, prolong the National Emergency to fight "terrorists" (look it up - while The Democratic party fear mongers that Trump will proclaim a National Emergency, the National Emergency declared after 9/11 is still in force! Every US President since 9/11, whether Democrat or Republican has extended it so that they can abuse the extraordinary powers it gives the US President).
This actually happened to me - a decade ago or so, Google suddenly did not allow me to access my Google Mail unless I provided them with my phone number for "additional verification and security". I had got a job offer and was desperate to access my mail and so caved-in with a lot of resentment. (Ofcourse, now it is nearly impossible to create a Google account without a phone number, but in those days people considered phone numbers to be private and were leery at services that demanded it for sign-up). And then, later on they suddenly stopped allowing you to reset your passwords using email and security questions unless you provided them even more data for "verification" (which nearly often wasn't enough to allow you to recover the account).
Think of it as the front cam you need to make video calls ... I think the bezels is so that the corners of the phone doesn't poke you when you keep it in your pocket (it's a small device - smaller than even feature phones).
One man's "freedom fighter" is indeed another man's "terrorist". My point was that by accepting Israel's position that the Palestinian freedom fighters are "terrorists" western media shows their bias. (Note that only a few countries in the west actually consider PLO or now Hamas a terrorist organisation - the majority of the world doesn't). For someone who has chosen violet politics to fight for his freedom, what makes one a "good" freedom fighter or a "bad" freedom fighter? Isn't taking Israelis hostage better than killing them? When Israel is a military state (as it requires nearly every citizen to compulsorily serve in the military) are Palestinians who use violence, actually using it against civilians or soldiers? (In such a scenario, the only true "civilians" are the children).
And in some ways AI "search" works like SO - you ask a question, you get an answer. If you don't understand the answer or something in the answer you ask for clarification and it provides it. And you don't have to wait a day or a week for it. (Ofcourse, the AI gets it answers from human curated info pools like SEs, pirated books etc ... but if these sources shrink / die to AI, it may not be able to provide new and current information, and we'll be back to SEs and Reddits and HNs again).
I don't fully agree with this as I've found that The Guardian highlights the plights of the Palestinian more than any other English newspapers. But yeah, in general, most English newspapers have been Israeli apologists (with the BBC being the absolute worst during this genocide), towing their government's line that many Palestinian organisation (like Hamas) and freedom fighters as terrorists. (It's ironic that American political history says that citizens have a right to guns as they may need to stand up to a tyrant government one day, but when the Palestinians pick up guns to fight for their freedom, they are suddenly "terrorists" for the same Americans).
Criticising Israel because the actions of its (right-wing religious fundamentalist) government is not anti-semitism. Nor is empathising with the horrific plights of the Palestinians at the hands of some Israeli settlers, police or IDF soldiers.
Looks like scare-mongering tactics by the Democrats to goad their supporters to vote ... Kamala Harris' loss must still be haunting them (she famously lost because a lot of Democrat voters just didn't bother to vote).
Yeah, it is confusing because it is poorly designed. I gather that it is basically an email hosting service that also provides for email marketing, all AI "enabled".
Ideally, yes, if all else were equal we would only be making a purely technical comparison. But that's not how it works. People also factor in the business model and values of the company before making purchase decisions. (That applies to countries too - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycotts_of_Israel ). For many of us, Meta and its founders score very low on the "trustworthy" factor, when it comes to privacy. As for E2EE, despite allegations that Telegram's encryption is weak, nobody has yet demonstrated that by breaking it. And, those who care about E2EE should perhaps use Signal over WhatsApp, as WhatsApp itself uses their technology.
That has become common now in all industry - for example, in India, Bosch refrigerators uses compressors manufactured by Godrej (an indian company). So their indian fridges aren't exactly "German engineering", unlike their washing machine and dishwashers that are made in-house. LieBherr, another famous Swiss German brand, on the other hand has their own factory to make the refrigerators in-house in India, but their service in many cities is outsourced to one run by Bosch + Siemens (plus one more group I can't remember).
Look at any popular religion and you will find a heavy emphasis on sacrifice, selflessness and delayed gratifications (that helps strengthen our control over our base desires). This is because early civilisations (that used a religio-political construct to form societies and nations) recognised that a healthy society only flourishes when humans are taught to fight their innate desire to be selfish. You can observe this when kids demand attention as they become jealous of their siblings or play with toys with anyone - they have to be taught to share, and appreciate it as a value.
Your perspective on the in-group and out-group is relevant of course - it isn't healthy if one is self-sacrificing without addressing their own needs. (However the degree of that varies between eastern and western culture. Eastern cultures, which have more civilisational history, perhaps don't necessarily see as it in such rigid terms?). Moreover, my point was that having wealth tends to affects your perceptions to "expand the size of the in-group" - money does provide more avenues to be independent, and thus a financially independent youth can (ignorantly) miss opportunities to learn how to have healthy co-dependent relations as most erroneously assume that such relations are not important to them because they have achieved "independence". Learning to be independent is important. But then learning to understand the importance of co-dependency is another step to become a mature adult.
I am not sure - in my experience, I've observed that the more money you have the less people care about relations (their social circle becomes smaller) and healthy co-dependency reduces. This is more true of the young. Human nature tends to be selfish, which is not conducive for a healthy society. Young people becoming financially-independent at an early age may negate opportunities for self-introspection on that - without the struggle to earn a good living, many fail to understand the value of money and good relationships, which often lead to costly and immature decisions.
> I want to be able to finish a task fully without missing or skipping a step. One way to do this is to make a plan for everything you do, and only do that thing. Nothing else.
True. Also don't overthink during the planning stage. And you need to understand that the reason you freeze / abandon and not complete something is because of anxiety (which triggers avoidance). For example, for perfectionists it is the strain of the high standards they demand from themselves and the hidden fear of judgement that drives this.
The appeal of Telegram over Signal or WhatsApp is that it is not an American or BigTech service. (And, ofcourse, it's really good). Signal is funded by 2 rich American entrepreneurs who made their fortune when their services were acquired by Twitter (TextSecure / RedPhone) and Meta (WhatsApp), respectively. Whether it is indeed altruism behind this, you'll have to judge for yourself ...
> The state-wide ban applies to data centers using 50 megawatts or more, officials told Reuters, and it won’t be lifted until the state figures out what “consistent standards” for responsible data center development in New York should look like.
Sounds pretty reasonable - states have to consider power generation capacities and if data centres are suddenly going to balloon everywhere, the social and economic impact of that needs to be factored in too. And then there is the political concerns from some sections of the society to consider too.
This maybe unpopular here, but the Tor Project should also warn people that anyone running Tor relays could potentially face legal problems in their country. The majority of countries don't take kindly to attempts to circumvent their legitimate national security concerns on communication networks. And as most of the "hidden web" on Tor networks are currently dominated by CSAM and criminal enterprises, you definitely need to be circumspect to not get accused of being associated with these illegal activities in any manner. Note that Europe is already considering requirement to share an ID (for "age verification") to use some parts of the internet, while many countries are already scrutinising (and have even banned) VPNs.