Wait, aren't you in Saudi Arabia right now?
From what I heard, it's worse than PRC, do you feel scared when talking about politics at home?
Like in PRC, the expectation would be prison / forced apology depending on severeity. Isn't dissent like a death sentence in Saudi Arabia? 😬
(I hope you are using Tor btw)
as cell phones became more popular they switched to that for private comms
Corrupt cops are gonna have a signal group chat for off-the-record police brutality and evidence-planting 👀
Top-Day for a daily check-in of what's going on. Scroll like a few pages, or just 1 page if you don't have much time.
Top-6-Hours would be if your employer isn't looking at you all day, and you are able to sneakily browse Lemmy throughout the workday.
Yea... that's why I feel very weird about the front page and it felt "broken" to me. Didn't feel like what a reddit-like front page should look like.
So I just switched to Top-Day, or if you want more "hot" content, Top-6-Hours or Top-12-Hours.
I mean, dude literally commited treason. "Market manipulation" is quite tame in comparison.
Pragmatism =/= Kissing ass
Its like a cop thinking: wow, people really respect me
No they don't lol, the moment you're not looking, they are gonna graffiti ACAB on the police car you're driving.
I've been interested in those old-school radios recently, and most of them are made in China. With the recent tariffs, and because of supply-chain concerns on communications (Exhibit A: Israel attacks on alleged Hezbollah members by rigging pagers and walkie talkies), its a good idea to have local trusted community members with knowledge of radios to build them ourselves.
Unlike smartphones, radios are much easier to build, and requires zero dependency on some corporate/government controlled infrastructure. Maybe we could even have some sort of community code-words for secrecy or airgapped computer hardware integrated in the radio to do encryption.
Like some meshtastic stuff, but even meshtastic devices you buy online could get intercepted and compromised. I'm thinking of like radio enthusiasts should be helping their community build home-made radios, like from scratch, and placed repeaters throughout entire cities on their roof connected to solar panels.
This make it very difficult for governments to shut down communications in event of like protests.
You wouldn't download a shirt!
Unrealistic, surely no politician IRL would do this, right?
Right?
👀
When I was a teen, I said life was too boring and maybe someone should start a war or something to spice things up.
Fast-forward to:
russian invasion of Ukraine
Hamas-led Attack on Israeli Civillians and subsequent Israel-led Genocide in Gaza
Coup Attempt in South Korea
Transition to fascism in the USA
Trade wars against the entire world
I DID NOT MEAN THIS 💀