Today is a sad day.. Today is the day Deezer is not providing music for free any longer. Meaning you need a subscription, but those subscriptions are actually quite expensive. I think we are better off with a physical copies of DVDs, CDs or just plain old MP3's. Since if you are paying for all those services, it will cost you a fortune and you own nothing while in the past you at least own the music/movie. #deezer#free#own#nothing#behappy#ownnothing
Strongman rule is a fantasy.
Essential to it is the idea that a strongman will be your strongman.
He won't.
In a democracy, elected representatives listen to constituents.
We take this for granted, and imagine that a dictator would owe us something.
But the vote you cast for him affirms your #irrelevance.
The whole point is that the strongman owes us #nothing.
We get abused and we get used to it.
Another illusion is that the strongman will unite the nation.
But an aspiring dictator will always claim that some belong and others don't.
He will define one group after another as the enemy.
This might feel good, so long as you feel that you are on the right side of the line.
But now #fear is the essence of life.
The politics of us-and-them, once begun, never ends.
We dream that a strongman will let us focus on America.
But dictatorship opens our country to the worst the world has to offer.
An American strongman will measure himself by the #wealth and #power of other dictators.
He will befriend them and compete with them.
From them he will learn new ways to #oppress and to #exploit his own people.
At least, the fantasy goes, the strongman will get things done.
But dictatorial power today is not about achieving anything positive.
It is about #preventing anyone else from achieving anything.
The strongman is really the weak man: his secret is that he makes everyone else #weaker.
Unaccountable to the law and to voters, the dictator has no reason to consider anything beyond his own personal interests.
In the twenty-first century, those are simple: 👉 dying in bed as a billionaire.
To #enrich himself and to stay out of #prison, the strongman dismantles the justice system and replaces civil servants with loyalists.
The upcoming Nothing Phone 2a has been officially confirmed and is poised to mark the company's entry into the budget smartphone segment. Drawing inspiration
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Thanks for the info! However, I had to fish a bit for the lede (especially with the confusing company name), which I attempt to restate more clearly here:
I know the weird reliance/obsession over #iMessage and what colours their bubbles are on their stock Messages app is a very US thing, but #Nothing working with #Sunbird to "bring" iMessage over to #Android is pretty cool or at least funny lol - it really highlights what trivial things people could care (too much) about.
I was already highly considering switching to #Nothing, but this might lock me in.
"Nothing Chats is a first-of-its-kind app developed in partnership with #Sunbird, which allows you to message other #iMessage users via blue bubbles on your Nothing Phone."
The Nothing Phone 2a Leaked Details Revealed (trendvale.com)
The upcoming Nothing Phone 2a has been officially confirmed and is poised to mark the company's entry into the budget smartphone segment. Drawing inspiration