People are saying that in the OG thread too, but unless you’re Sting fucking for hours I wouldn’t expect it to be a problem.

Intelligence does seem like the white-collar kind of thing which might be left to fancy degreed officers.

As far as I can tell most synagogues aren’t that cool, though. The ones remotely nearby to me give Zionist vibes.

It’s a shame, I was planning to reconnect with my heritage right before Oct. 7.

Absolutely fascinating, thanks for sharing!

I didn’t know military intelligence had noncoms. How does that work?

Dying naturally tends to be an excruciatingly painful and slow process.

eating, drinking water, moving out of the way of danger, etc.

Not eating and drinking is a definite thing.

Are we required to actually eat it? If so, chocolate, because I’d rather throw up once than get cholera. If not, maybe the shit just for novelty’s sake.

How loudly?

It’s night half the time, and I’ll be really visible if I’m glowing whether I want to be or not. So, definitely the second one. Prolonged water contact in a visible place is easier to avoid, if needed.

I plan to re-enact Gulliver pulling along the Lilliputian armada.

Good argument

Thanks!

What gave the voters then the opportunity to make better decisions for themselves?

The voting. If it’s anything like Canada, there have been socialist fringe candidates all along, it’s just that there hasn’t been much interest.

You could say people have been railroaded into not supporting socialism, but they don’t. No amount of extra democracy will change that.

No problem. The internet should be fun, not stressful.

I would still have to see any evidence that what I said (essentially that the US has been the biggest bully in the world for the last 80 years) is way off the mark.

If we’re including post-WWII decolonisation, pretty much point to any former colony - which is a rather large map area. The British or French didn’t just let them leave, but did atrocities to stop them until they couldn’t anymore. I went looking for casualty figures, but it turns out there’s not much information known. Maybe we’ll have to wait until the guilty parties are all dead.

I think you’d arrive at the same conclusion that it was a two-sided competition if you were to read up in detail on a few times and places during the Cold War, as opposed to just the US coup greatest hits. Mao did not fight alone. The thing is, it’s hard to capture that all in one number. The USSR spent maybe 20% of it’s GDP on it’s military, while being a third the economic size of the US, to give a sense of scale of the kind of resources that were piling in from the communist direction.

Over a period that long and the area of the whole world that’s about as good as I can do in a Lemmy comment.

Social media manipulation is in no way equivalent to supporting or initiating coups.

Ukraine comes to mind (did we talk about that already?), as does Georgia. Globally it’s in no way just social media, either. In places like the Baltics there’s your classic people with suitcases full of money going around and paying for sabotage, access or votes. That’s not just hearsay - some have been caught.

In the West they’re more limited because it’s harder to get away with, so yeah, they mostly mess with social media. I’m pretty sure there was somebody that went to jail in the US during Biden’s time, though.

I’m not sure I understand your second point here,

It wasn’t a point, I just won’t/can’t argue with the basic idea that they’ve been too aggressive. I’m arguing with the first thing.

why should anyone support the US or any of its closest partners?

I mean, the most conservative stance would be just to support nobody and say every country is awful. Why isn’t that in consideration?

have not supported the US/West position in either Ukraine or Palestine.

Ukraine has lots of third world support (see the votes in the image). Palestine has some Western support; Canada just went against the US to recognise it in what is a very sensitive period in our relations. Sweden did long ago.

The claims that it’s “for democracy” is very weak when there are examples in the recent past of the US either supporting or not opposing coups against democratically-elected foreign leaders. The first example that comes to mind is the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt after the Arab Spring. From what I recall, there was hardly a squeak from the US when that happened, because it benefited the US.

Support for an anti-democratic coup hasn’t happened since the “stop communism” era. If you include not getting involved, neutral Switzerland is a massive bully, and I actually can show it in a Lemmy comment.

I would guess Obama was concerned and disappointed, but also wanted some kind of stability, and to not alienate a new government he was going to have to deal with one way or another. Starting another ground war in the Middle East was obviously out of the question at that point - even closing Libyan airspace was very controversial.

Does one of them have alsimoneau’s number in it (that’s who I meant)? You yourself gave a number closer to 15%.

I mean, it’s not that expensive to start an exit node, and requires “only” knowhow to mess with someone’s unencrypted browsing, which is what the first and third did. I can’t remember now if Onymous actually managed to break Tor anonymity - I’m pretty sure good-old-fashioned stings turned out to be a big part of it.

IIRC the two-node timing attack I was thinking of was an academic demonstration. Because it’s too non-specific to be very useful.

That excerpt still says it was deployed to all the businesses listed above it, though. So yes it was being used however those businesses used it.

It was in the OpenSSL (for example) as an option you could manually enable. Who knows if anyone actually did, given that everyone who knew enough to specifically ask also heard it was suspicious.

Having been involved in campaign treasury myself, you absolutely can run a campaign on a shoestring budget. A good campaign costs a bit more, but at the end of the day it all comes from small dollar donations, and if you’re getting a meaningful amount of votes you should get some of those as well.

People tend to blame the government if their services aren’t working or the economy preforms poorly, working class solidarity be damned. That’s why it’s tempting to shut strikes down even if you endorse the basic concept in theory.

Obviously there are regional differences, e.g. US vs Canada vs EU. I think the tendencies are the same but the degree is different at any point in time.

I will point out that in Canada, there’s not much money in politics. We don’t have a Citizens United equivalent. Pretty sure European countries are more like us, although each one has a distinct system.

It’s an essay format, not a deductive argument so the thesis is stated, then it’s given support. Not saying you should be convinced, just explaining why it seems like this.

Alright, I guess I’ve delivered as much rebuttal as is appropriate, then.

It’s also a light year away from an exhaustive analysis. I can’t do that here and now. It takes books to do this.

You know, too much length on each analysis itself actually reduces strength, in my experience. If one’s idea is that complicated, they need to put it in a modular, structured form (so not prose), or are guaranteed to have made logical errors somewhere inside.

Post the next paragraph too.

Moreover, the algorithm had been shown to be insecure in 2007 by Microsoft cryptographers Niels Ferguson and Dan Shumow, added Mr Clayton.

“Because the vulnerability was found some time ago, I’m not sure if anybody is using it,” he said.

But your comment implied that because it is open source it automatically means that it is safe and trustworthy and that isn’t true.

Well, your comment implied that OP shouldn’t trust Tor. OP should trust Tor at least as much as they trust their own device, which almost certainly has closed-source components I’d rather target if I was the NSA. (Or the Chinese, or…)

Since this user wanted an in depth conversation on the topic I don’t feel like its “ritualistic purity” to disclose all that I said above.

Except in-depth isn’t what was offered. This reply appears all the time in regards to Tor, and it never comes with alternative suggestions. So yeah, I suspect something irrational is motivating it.

Democracy was pushed by the bourgeoisie.

Sure, because it weakened the aristocracy over top of them, not because it was a better way to keep the proles down. Marx, who you probably respect, held that, and it has strong support from modern scholarship as well.

A king may care about his subjects, the rich barely care about the poor.

So, again, that’s not real history. Now most people of a given high class start in a slightly lower class and get lucky, while monarchs are raised in a system of open extreme violence and either knew they were an almighty heir from the start, or were willing to kill and betray friends and family to usurp power. A look through history books will confirm they tend to be more brutal than guys like Paul Fireman (who’s boring enough you’ve never heard of him) or Amancio Ortega (who you also probably haven’t despite being number 9), on average.

I doubt it was driven by competition, since the USSR was never close to lifestyle parity, and the US was never at any real risk of pro-communist unrest. You can’t really make the policies of the period (good or bad) have nothing to do with American voters.

But most people who looked at the NSA’s backdoored encryption noticed it was sus and didn’t use it (as I remember it, that was a decade ago). Per your link, at the time of publishing it was unclear if anyone was using the effected version.

Okay, sure. Open source doesn’t mean completely safe, but if it’s a well-known package it does mean much, much safer. Public public affiliations don’t even say much about who authored whatever thing; here’s a another near-miss that illustrates that - which is why this can feel more like ritual purity than an actual security argument.

So what should OP use?

Like, every service by law being available in both seems like overkill. It’s good to have services available in other languages than English, so there’s no reason to shut it down proactively, but native languages, Mandarin and Punjabi seem like equally major priorities without Quebec.

I suppose French on every label would also be overdoing it, by that logic, although without that it would feel less like home.