"internet is full of shitbags" isn't on topic. Corporations are full of amoral, cocaine soaked greedy, selfich bastards with absolutely no empathy is.

the corporations are full of shitbags, news at 11

FTFY. Oh, and an offtopic educational link for you grocers and foreigners and others who don't understand English:
https://www.angryflower.com/24...
I see enough of that shit on Farcebook. Note, I've been staying away from /. for the same reason, the normals have taken over the site.

That's why they changed it from "Unidentified Flying Object" to "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena". The one I saw a half century ago was certainly not a space ship, unless Douglas Adams was right about scale, because it was smaller than a basketball. It was bright and fuzzy, rode next to my car for a couple of miles until I crossed a stream, when it zigged at 45 MPH at a right angle and followed the stream.

I wondered what it was for years before I learned about ball lightning, which is what it had to have been. My guess is ball lightning is a lot more common up there where the fighter jets play.

The meanings of words changes over time due to their usage. This is true for all living languages. If you want words with static definitions you want a dead language, like latin.

One of these things ended the other is still ongoing.
Perhaps we just need to wait a bit.

Here in reality Nuclear plants are closing because they can't compete with wind and solar on cost.

So all the math in the world is rather pointless when reality shows us that it is wrong.

The issue is simple to solve.

Tax CO2 output by power plants. Heck, just tax heavy metal and radioactive releases. That alone would shutdown coal plants.

This place is now mostly home to right wing kooks and racists, but I repeat myself.

Sad to see what happened to it.

How soon will I read about criminals framing targets to get them hacked hard by the UK Gov.

Yes, people get older and wiser over time.
Spread of information is not always a good thing. See the anti-vaxxers and the damage they are doing to our nation and it's economy.

Or maybe you are just stupid.
The fascists aren't defending free speech, go to their safe spaces like gab and say something they don't like. You get the same outcome.

Reddit is a private service, it is not tax payer funded.
Reddit cannot impact your right to free speech. Start your own forum.

BTC is only useful for large value transactions, which is why companies are major investors. BigCompany can move $80k in a day, and BTC is fine for that. When I'm buying a McCheezy, I'm paying Mr. Visa a small fee and the McCompany pays a small fee and BigCompany collects all that and doesn't have to move much money in the end so BigCompany wins.

YourCryptoChoice is a lot better for human sized transactions, but BigCompany defines the value of BTC, and YourCryptoChoice tends to be valued according to BTC, so in the end BigCompany still wins. In the end, BigCompany holds the cards as usual, but how we play our cards, with cash, credit, or with YourCryptoCoice seems to matter enough that crypto currency isn't going away.

Okay, I know the "encryption" isn't exactly great, but it is better than SMS and keeps most people out of my messages. For 99.9% of what I want to communicate that is good enough. For the things I need actual security for, I wouldn't trust any app. If you need real security, using a phone is a bad idea. If I need faux security, like probably not giving my stuff to any script kiddie who is curious, then it has a slightly less insecure mode. (Maybe.)

Why use Telegram? It is easy and fast and not completely terrible like SMS. Actually that is about it. I like knowing when a message has been seen which is missing from some of the others. I like how handy the graphics are. I like how friends who joined pop up in my contacts. I like how generally frictionless it manages to be. I like how seamless it is from the computer to the phone to the next computer. I've tried several others and if I wanted to try to be more secure, I could deal with it, but I have little confidence in the device security let alone the app. There are times when I actually care and for those I drag out real encryption tools.

If you're expecting security on a phone that doesn't allow you or experts to examine the code, you shouldn't be using any of the suggestions, but if you must, Signal is probably the least horrible. On the other hand, if you want convenience with slightly less than horrible security, then maybe Telegram isn't the worst.