Who’s Dan Bongino?

Maybe. I’ve had the same thought, to the point of bringing a cheap point and click camera or even a disposable one, so you’re not alone!

What is this “vid-eo chimera” you speak of? Some ancient technology from the Mayans? /j

But seriously, unless there’s some reason to stream live, old tricks are sometimes still the best tricks.

I mean, you may not have broken the rules technically, but I don’t think mods of a serious community care about how close you can get to the rules without breaking them.

I respect your (admittedly strange) craft, but it’s why I say you should just make your own news community. I think people would welcome a little levity.

I don’t particularly care if you think I’m the dumbest fucking person in existence. You’ve been dishonest, stubborn, and obtuse, so your opinion of how I sound to you is near the bottom of things that matter to me.

Bye.

Sorry, man. You should know better than anyone that News communities aren’t for shitposts. You’re no greenhorn, so YDI.

I dunno why you don’t just put this stuff in your own namesake community. You’d almost certainly get subscribers who would love a regular feed of your particular brand of satire.

I moved my whole family over to Signal specifically because it was so easy. SimpleX is easier than Matrix, imo, but when Matrix is equally as easy to set up as Signal, then we’ll see where things are.

The only big issue I’ve heard with Matrix is the current implementation doesn’t scale well, due to how servers are required to clone data (or something). I think they’re working on a fix, but it’s still not ready for prime time, I think.

If you believe highlighting human right violations such as drafting people by force and not allowing everyone to leave a country is spreading propaganda than you are a victim of the propaganda yourself.

You and I both know that’s not what you said. It’s in the modlog, and multiple people have all seen it and pointed out where and what the propaganda is and why it was removed. Pretending those preceding sentences don’t exist is peak troll behavior.

coward: a person who is contemptibly lacking in the courage to do or endure dangerous or unpleasant things.

See that word “contemptible?” Point to where I said or implied that it was contemptible to be afraid of death.

But revisionism and lying on top of not understanding how to comprehend a basic definition is totally on point for you, based on this and other exchanges.

Again, nobody is swayed by your bullshit. Try harder, troll.

I did. Read my first comment.

I already replied to your first comment and the others. I’m not posting any disinformation, just because you don’t like it or the russian are saying it doesn’t imply that what i’m saying is false or wrong.

It’s not my fault you can’t read and don’t get it. Propaganda always has a kernel of truth—that’s what makes it effective. That doesn’t mean it’s a complete truth. It’s not my job to educate you, and it should bother you that you’re spreading propaganda, not truth. The fact that it doesn’t bother you says a lot about your intentions.

…you are basically implying ukraine people are cowards and should be forced to fight.

LMAO. Sure, Jan. That’s definitely what I was implying and not that the prospect of death scares people into running away. That you construed cowardice when I see humanity says a lot about you.

You talk like a villain, wars are fought by real people who die in the most miserable way.

Yeah, I’m the bad guy here. Lol. How many times did I say that “war isn’t fair,” again?

You’re not convincing anyone. I and many others have already pointed out why YDI, why your comments were removed, why what you said is propaganda, and refuted your arguments ad nauseum. If that’s not enough to persuade you that you’re in the wrong, then you have already made the choice not to learn from it, and I can only conclude that you’re spreading disinformation in earnest.

New FBI, who dis?

Can you point out the disinformation?

I did. Read my first comment. I specified where the disinformation is, and you would be wise to heed that these are almost verbatim Russian propaganda talking points they use to justify why they should just be allowed to take Ukraine.

Whether you think it’s fair for the draft to exist is irrelevant when you’re staring down the barrel of an invading country. They’re coming, and the draft exists to ensure the country does as well. I am sorry for them that people are trying to escape the draft, but again: war is not fair.

If the draft didn’t exist, the end result would be might makes right. The countries who didn’t have enough volunteers would lose, and the country with the bigger stick would always be the victor. Human lives would be spared, sure, but at what cost? Living as a conquered people is not defacto better just because you’re alive. One need only look at history to see that fact.

I’m just highlighting that meeting the world most powerful rulers in their headquarters is not the same as rooting in a trench.

Nobody said it was. But that doesn’t mean he’s never been in the trenches or that what he’s doing isn’t still vital. War isn’t fair.

Indeed if it wasn’t for deluded maniacs with power ambitions we wouldn’t have the draft, that’s why i’m calling them out.

Since you said “them,” I’m going to assume you’re including Zelenski. The draft isn’t a grab for power. It’s not some method of controlling the population. It’s a last resort method of survival, and last resorts of any kind usually come with heavy costs, or else they would be first resorts.

So you’re not “calling anyone out” or saying anything particularly novel or relevant to human rights when “rights” are a privilege you get from a society that is not at war. War is not fair.

Normally I would, but honestly, I think TikTok is a net negative, so my interest in how they get their profits virtually zero.

Russia is a country plagued with corrupted authorities and where the draft is mandatory, calling these things out goes against russia government interests too.

Not when your justification is their propaganda. You’re just spreading their disinformation in ignorance, rather than malice. The effect is the same, regardless.

Human rights shouldn’t be abolish under any circumstance, there’s no scenario under which slavery is tolerated.

Human rights are not objective facts of reality. They’re a social contrivance. Furthermore, conscription is not slavery, and virtually every country with a military has a draft available. I’m thankful that my country, the US, has not needed to use it in decades, but it is still there, and there are real punishments for trying to dodge it (unless you’re rich).

Some of the countries he visit literally have royal palaces like Abu Dhabi.

So what? He doesn’t get to choose the venues; that’s just where they are. You think he can effectively beg for money over Zoom while in a bunker?

War isn’t fair, and drafts supercede some of people’s rights. You can feel whatever you’re going to feel about it, but the reality is that we wouldn’t need drafts if there weren’t any authoritarians with delusions of grandeur.

But there are, and so even well-militarized countries with lots of volunteers still have drafts for times of emergency.

Ah, I see. Doesn’t change my core point.

Because I’m sure those advertisements weren’t curated by digesting user interaction data and selling it to advertisers. And I’m sure those sales aren’t further used to build profiles to sell to advertisers. /s

Just because they got a dumb Stanley cup shilled by their favorite influencer doesn’t mean they’re not ultimately the product.

$6B in in-app purchases

What product?

There could be an AI revolution. Send Elon and the rest of the billionaires into orbit, and they’ll revolve around the Earth; they’re all artificially intelligent, after all.

Wow, people are paying $6B a year to be the product. Makes sense why the world is how it is right now.

I think there’s some fundamental misunderstandings about what each technology does.

• HTTPS encrypts the data you send to each website. However, there’s no guarantee a website will respect that setting (though they often do) and it may or may not include ancillary data and trackers from third party JavaScript; if there’s an issue, your browser may fallback to HTTP mode. DNS requests will almost always be unencrypted, so each gateway between you and the website can at least see where your IP address went.
• VPNs essentially act as a proxy for your internet browsing. What that means is that anyone who could sniff your traffic can see that you established an encrypted tunnel to the VPN IP, but they would have to be able to track that second IP address to see where you were going. Each gateway operator between you and the VPN can only see that you connected to the VPN, and the VPN will forward all traffic requests you made back to you via an encrypted tunnel. Good VPNs will also send your DNS requests to their servers, so all anyone can see is that your connection is wholly tied to the VPN.

In your case, your brother could mess with the DNS on the router to send you wherever he wants when you type in google.com, he could set up a hosts file to block you from going to specific sites or IP addresses, or he could manipulate any unencrypted data packets you receive.

Using your phone internet just puts your privacy in the hands of your phone’s network operator instead. How much do you trust them not to rat you out?

If you want anonymity or ways to get around blocks, you need to use a logless VPN at minimum or something like Tor, depending on your needs.

Any time an article says, “Scientists find strange/weird/shocking thing,” I know it’s only strange to the author/editor of the article.

If scientists were as ignorant as these article authors, supernatural events would have been “proven” long ago.

YDI. The first sentence of every comment is literal Russian propaganda. Clutching your pearls at forced conscription during an ongoing invasion speaks to a level of privilege I rarely see, even online. Zelenski is touring “the royal courts,” because he’s prostrating himself to beg for money, weapons and aid for his country. Wars aren’t free, especially when you’re up against a global power.

You’re playing loose with the facts, and nobody is buying it.

Or would you rather they roll over and go, “Sorry, we’re all outta gas. Russia just has more bodies to throw at us”? Become part of Russia? Good thing you weren’t in charge of the country, or you would have run up the white flag years ago.