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Comment You made everything political, now everything IS p (Score 1, Insightful) 173

No matter what tribe you belong to, this tribalism is horrendous on BOTH sides of the great divide and one side has been extremely busy making everything into a political statement as part of their progression; so now everything IS political and is seen and attacked as such. One side has dissolved objective reality and hard facts and replaced it with emotional angles and what feels good and feels right. So now everything is up for interpretation and up to everyoneâ(TM)s individual emotion. One side has replaced truth with activism, so now everything is subject to political activism for the sake of activism and tribalism. You just do not like who is currently pushing the levers after your tribe has been pushing them for so long.
The actual issue is less who has current control of these levers; the issue is these topics should have never been full of political emotional activism and these lever should have never been created in the first place. YOU caused this, YOU made this possible.

Comment Re: For better security, don't use secure services (Score 1) 56

You are describing what is essentially the dark age of technology and the inability of admech to invent anything and instead rely on religious dogma to keep existing machines running because they cannot create new ones in w40k.

What you forgot, however, is the salami tactic that is going on. They will create seemingly stupid rules in one corner, and will slowly creep these in. Once established, they will then create the really radical changes and regulations and they will claim these are not new, just trying to enforce already existing rules⦠so there cannot be any discussion or vote about it since all the rules are already in place. They are slowly setting up the gank in a way few people notice or care, and once all pieces are in place the real execution will start.
You will see protocols and technologies forbidden, broken and infiltrated, and any other ideas that currently seem entirely insane and impossible.

Comment StaSi wettest dreams (Score 2) 112

It is almost unbelievable how in todays world people are gladly and voluntarily leaking their most private data and information, sharing it with everyone and anyone that simply presents them with any kind of web form or file upload.. this must be the StaSi wettest dream, an entire population conditioned to spill all the beans always everywhere and without any limits or restraint fuels by an insane culture war, plus private camera systems supplementing the gov surveillance and everyone is wearing st least one tracker, big and surveillance system in their pocket.

Comment Re: A valuable life lesson (Score 4, Insightful) 66

It is actually even deeper and worse than that - I think we do not fully understand the angle that the internet is a massive anonymous playground for some of the worst people of humanity. A gigantic Petri dish for highly manipulative sociopaths who thrive on causing misery for others. I suspect way over half of the internet mobs, the cancel culture and other vigilante pseudo-justice is being fueled by sociopaths who just want to destroy others.

And knowing that, you then need to understand how these people think and work. There is no reply you can give or action you can take that will not give them at least SOME satisfaction. Any form of engaging in discussion, no matter how skilled in rhetorics, and you are losing because you reacted to them and they got a rise out of you. Downvote, block or ban them? They enjoy your reaction and know you are a potential source of entertainment for them, so they will find new ways to get to you.

The only thing that completely destroys these sociopaths is what OP said: ignore them. Complete deafening silence. No reaction at all. This breaks their spirit worse than anything else! Do not feed the trolls was always true, we just never saw how many of these trolls are highly manipulative, targeted attacks from sociopaths trying to feed.

Comment China envies the EU? (Score 1) 34

With the salami-tactic used for breaking of encryption, the greenlit invasion of your chats, the identification of everyone online thru age-restrictions, kicking down doors for being critical of politicians and now the digital equivalent of book burnings, the EU is fast becoming an absolute Orwellian nightmare - and China must be green with envy how far the EU are able to push things in just 2-3 years.

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