I don't know whether #JoeBiden's false implication that the #ICC warrants assert equivalency between #Israel's government and #Hamas is based on willful blindness to the facts or cynical political maneuvering.
Either way, it is immensely disappointing.
I guess we'll have to wait 105 years for the U.S. government to acknowledge that what's happening now is #genocide, just as we had to wait that long vis a vis the #ArmenianGenocide. #Gaza#GazaGenocide#politics
@Mrfunkedude My uncle was just in the hospital for 4 days. I came down to NYC from Boston to visit him for several days because he needed the moral support. He ended up in the hospital again today; it was bad, but I was able to be there with him for most of it, and it would have been much worse if he had been alone.
I received two emails late last night from a user of my #Thunderbird extension.
The first read, in total, "WHY AM I GETTING HUNDREDS OF NOTICES!!!!"
The second, a bit later, read (again, this is the entire message), "JEZUS FUCKINNG CHRIST THE MESSAGES" #smdh#TechSupport
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I would be happy to help you solve whatever problem you are having, but for me to be able to do that you're going to need to be more specific. You haven't told me anything about what notices/messages you're talking about, so I can't possibly determine what is causing them or how to make them stop.
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I am taking a #Greyhound#bus today between Kansas City and St. Louis. It's been so long that I can't remember the last time I took an intercity bus. It hasn't changed a bit.
Most notably, it appears to still be true that the people on buses are mostly the people who can't afford to fly.
(Yes, I know, it's a generalization based on appearances. Don't come into my mentions harassing me about it unless you've ridden a Greyhound for several hours and seen it for yourself.) #transit
It's still a combination of perfectly decent, nice people, rude people, and people who seem to have something not quite right in the head. The latter category continues to seemingly be overrepresented on buses compared to other forms of transit.
Definitely a much higher percentage of BIPOC, especially immigrants, compared to flying.
(One wonders if this is in part due to the fact that undocumented immigrants can't get the ID they would need to fly.)
I just had a conversation with a guy who said, “Yeah, well I’m a capitalist.”
So I asked, “Okay, how much capital do you have?”
Boy, oh boy, does that question put things in perspective. He became a caricature of an old Warner Brothers cartoon character, trying to compose himself as he fumbled for words, all while he avoided actually answering the question.
So I simply repeated the question. I highly recommend.
Let's talk briefly about what a tire-fire #Wyze is and why you shouldn't buy from them.
I attempted to order COVID tests from them near the start of the pandemic. They sold more than they had, I never received the tests I ordered, and cancelling the order was a nightmare.
But then they started spamming me.
In 2022 I unsubscribed from their #spam.
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In February 2024 I asked them to delete my #Wyze account (created only to order the COVID tests).
They just spammed me again.
When I click the unsub link, the page it takes me to claims I'm already unsubscribed.
In addition to all this you're probably aware they've had numerous security and privacy issues with their products.
You really, really shouldn't patronize this company. #spam#privacy#security
@AIBrain@jonah@doomy@protonprivacy 1) If the hash isn't one-way then Proton can be compelled to unhash it so there's no point.
2) They could require the user to reenter the recovery address if it's needed for recovery, confirm that it matches the hash, send the recovery message to the address, and then discard the unhashed address.
If they're not doing it that way then they screwed up, or they decided convenience outweighs privacy, or they want to be able to cough it up if asked legally. 🤷
@jonah@AIBrain@doomy@protonprivacy In fact, people are significantly more likely to forget a password than to forget their email address.
And if they have multiple addresses and don't remember which they used, they can try all of them.
As I said, this is a privacy vs. convenience trade-off.
Other apps do this (require recovery email to be verified by user before it can be used for recovery). Proton would not be breaking new ground here.
@protonprivacy@jonah@AIBrain@doomy I don't understand why you keep making excuses instead of at least acknowledging that you could choose to handle recovery emails in a way that keeps them private.
@GraceC@davidaugust We absolutely need to vote blue, but unfortunately that won't end the fucking circus, because the NYT and other mainstream media outlets will continue to both-sides democracy until it's gone, and them along with it.
Who could have predicted that rising sea levels triggered by human-caused climate change would cause flooding in coastal areas? What a fucking surprise! Totally unexpected.
Gift link: https://wapo.st/4aZm46l
Up next: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-w-pdqwiBw ("Sell their houses to who, Ben? Fucking aquaman?")
Seriously, though, there are only two choices to avoid chaos: either we embark on public works projects on a massively unprecedented scale to keep the water out of coastal areas, or we spend massive amounts of money to buy out the people on the coasts and relocate them inland, with the clear stipulation that anyone who refuses to be relocated can't get insurance and can't get any help from the government when their property is flooded.
We probably won't do either until it's too late.
The fundamental flaw of well-meaning politicians who have the right values and want to do the right thing is that the longer they serve, the more most of them come to fear chaos more than the injustice that drove them to politics.
This leads to 2 things: they're slow to recognize dramatic changes in the status quo, and they instinctively defend the status quo against such changes. #JoeBiden is a perfect example of this, as demonstrated by his recent speech about #StudentSpring. #politics
The normalization of #COVID by well-meaning politicians* all over the world is another example of this. The push to "return to normal" was driven by the fundamental belief that order is preferable to chaos because it is easier to govern and makes it easier to predict future outcomes.
Career politicians Get Shit Done, as Biden definitely has. But this is their Achilles' heel.
*I know there are many #CovidIsNotOver folks who don't believe they're well-meaning. I think some, like Biden, are. 🤷
P.S. You bet your ass I'll be voting for Biden in November despite the missteps I believe he's made on COVID, Gaza, and plenty of other stuff.
Because it's going to be either Biden or a fascist in the White House come January 2025, and Biden's at least trying to do the right thing, and, in many areas, succeeding.