we is doomed!

Support the artists ? Buying from Apple (or Amazon etc) sees you supporting Apple, supporting the publisher, the RIAA. The Artist is at the end of a long chain of grifters and middle men taking their pound of flesh… I’d love to support the artists, if I could donate directly to them. The ones who aren’t, like Taylor Swift don’t need more supoort.

I am 58, I have a vague memory of being lied too about Father Christmas , being told thays not true even though I was assured he was originally and then thinking the same thing about god (catholic family) but figured out for myself that it was bullshit. Doesnt take much ciritcal thinking, even as a kid to realise that.

I had to LARP for a bit but stopped the nonsense of church etc when I was allowed too as a young teen. Reading more widely after that you get to see some of the utter horrors caused by religion and release how toxic they are.

An example, lived in Cambodia many many years ago and a bunch of evangelicals wouldn’t let locals use a water well until they “converted”. A constant reminder of the toxic nature of religion.

Right, it’s not like there aren’t billions and billions of religious nutters out there. I mean I don’t see aethiests killing people for believing in a fairy god monster and yet if you said you’re an atheist in Saudia Araiba etc you’d be killed. The fuck sort of tolerating intolerace is that?

Aethiets are pushing up not down, mocking people for believing in fairy tales seems a very sensible reaction ? especially when they inevitably double down on their nonsense.

Pretty much this but another point of difference with say the US is that (Utes) (trucks) in Australia would be classified as “cars” and not commercial vehicles. Which is why you can see so many giant fuck off trucks in the US, they’re not part of the legislation … loopholes. Currently they want Government to have the same loophole as the US, so Toyota -> Hilux Ford -> Ranger etc can keep bringing in their big sellers with no penalty,

can’t do a whole lot without also physically stealing my phone.

??? Theres a while bunch of loopholes they can exploit without having access to your phone, here’s must one.

https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical/web-application-penetration-testing/why-totp-wont-cut-it/

I do it the way you do it as well but am under no illusion it’s bomb proof.

I did something similar and just sent a link to Signal when IPhone friends and family SMS’d me, worked…eventually :) (am on Android)

As an Australian, either.do I. They are in Mastodon and I have pointed out that being in Australia should make them a no go for anyone.

Same thing with Boost, logging back in fixed it.

And Project Gutenberg (the book archive) had been blocked in germany for years.

Wtf! Why?

My 82yr old mother uses Signal on her iPad and iPhone to message me.

I don’t txt anyone, Signal for about 80%, 20% Telegram. I do receive a few SMS for 2FA , that’s it. My mother and sister use Signal on their iphones and tablets to message me as an example. I use Android. I’m in Australia though.

“I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative” John Stuart Mill