Capitalists all over the world: but can we sell carbon to people?
Trump: Sure, just don’t forget to pay tariffs if carbon is not made in the USA!

Define “people’s”, because not doing so is how we get into a police state and that was some Germany shit. Everyone? A subset at random? A subset at convenience? A subset based on how brown they look?

Note sure to understand your reasoning but here you are: ‘people’ is someone, any person or any group of persons be they a citizen of the country or a foreigner.

In France, for example, the French police has the right to ask for my ID anywhere in the country, it’s part of their job. It doesn’t matter if I’m French or a foreigner, I’m subjected to their legal authority by law (and not giving my ID could get me into some trouble, even if I had a bottle of wine in one pocket, cheese and bread in another and pretty beret on my bald head). That’s also the reason why anyone is expected to always have their ID with them outside of their home… And that is true also when I travel to Germany, or England, or Belgium, or Italy, or anywhere in the EU. ‘No borders’ does not mean no ID and no control anymore. It only means no systematic control in normal situations.

But if you think I am lying and the bus driver is lying, you can easily search for sources you trust.

Keep calm dude, I simply asked for a source. If that makes me suspicious to you, well, that’s too bad.

You struggle to believe

Indeed, I’m not much of a believer.

But you seem confused. You struggle to believe it while at the same time claiming the police are doing their job. Feels like cognitive dissonance.

Wow.

Either you’re really looking to make it a personal issue with me or you have a serious reading issue. I will give you the benefit of the doubt and go for the second option and therefore will encourage you to calmly re-read my comment. If it doesn’t seem clearer to you that I have said nothing of the sort (and presupposed nothing), feel free to quote each problematic passage of my answer and ask specific questions. Otherwise, sorry to disappoint you but I’m not much into personal quarrels.

edit: typos :p

First, sources?

Then, I probably will get downvoted to oblivion but isn’t one of the job of the police supposed to actually check people’s ID? And aren’t all police forces (at least here in the EU) using some computerized data system to check said IDs? Heck, last time they checked mine as much as I was able to tell they used some app on their phone (France, Paris).

Finally, I would also prefer not call ‘Gestapo’ anything we may consider excessive or we disagree with. Gestapo was something else.

would be curious to get your feedback after you start using it :)

but the majority of European languages are fully or partially derivate from Latin

Just a remark: how many Europeans do speak enough Latin to be able to understand a motto versus how many do speak enough English to be able to understand a motto?

9 is WAY too young for sexual content.

But is 9 old enough to watch their family being shredded by bombs or bullets? Note that, following your impressive declaration, you may rejoice about their home being bombed because, like mom and dad, the home TV and computer are also more than probably somewhat out-of-order. Therefore that poor innocent 9 year-old kid will be spared the atrocious temptation to watch a fucking tit (or fucking tits)!

FFS, didn’t you get a handbook telling you how to use that spongy thing that has been hibernating (optimistic version) between your ears all those years?

A few years ago I used Qobuz, it was nice. And French ;)

Thx for the archive link :)

Is it possible to escape the ads?

We have not TV at a home. Smart, or dumb. We got rid of ours decades ago (in the late 90s early 00s) when we realized they expected us to pay good money for a tv set while still expecting us to watch ads, more and more of them, in exchange for meh content.

We have a computer monitor (the computer itself is running GNU/Linux) on which we watch DVDs, or ripped files. No streaming, no services, no nothing. Most of the time it’s not even connected to our network.

I suppose one day not that far in the future, corporations will have lobbied our government to make it illegal (and highly suspicious) to not subscribe to streamed content (what can those suspicious people be doing in their free time if they don’t get their daily netfix?), as well as to actually own content. We will see. Meanwhile, they, their crappy ads, and their spywares can all go fuck themselves.

I wonder how the UK feel about Brexit now that we’ve all entered that you-can-all-go-funk-yourself age (soon to be called a post-NATO era, I suppose) the USA just inaugurated with their new orange king (Kong)?

It’s a serious question. Like I also wonder how the EU would feel about welcoming back the UK?

As a EU citizen, even though they acted like huge dicks (to keep it polite) and knowing they often are an utter pain in the ass to work and to live with, I would support them coming back in the Union. But that’s just me and, unlike that Trump guy and its cheese-headed buffoon, I don’t think I should rule a country like if I owned it, let alone 27 countries. And then, more than a few countries in the EU may not be that excited at the idea of the UK coming back, with their constant demands… because they themselves have made it real easy to not be happy about them being back.

I suppose signing military deals (and hopefully closer collaboration, training and other stuff armies do) would be the obvious thing to do, right now.

PS: I also do wonder how the assholes that led them into this shitty situation are doing?

This strikes me as abhorrent. But most of the people here call it necessary, preferable and even desirable.

I don’t and I won’t ‘call it necessary, preferable and even desirable’. That’s a nightmare that’s being build right before our eyes, with the (often unconscious) complicity of a lot of us (me included, for many years).

Here in France, certain ideas are literally outlawed from any public discussions (it’s in the law, what an impressive feat from a country so proud of its promotion of free speech). But it’s everywhere and at every level, even in the way we’ve learned to not use certain words in our everyday exchanges or to not try to understand something a little better before condemning it—we do like all the people around us, we hate what and who we’re being told to hate.

That’s why I steer away as much as I can from digital means of communication. And do as much as I can offline and the analog way.

Younger people have probably never experienced it but good old snail mail (as well as in-person talks) is still private by default (that too is in the law, at least here, doesn’t l mean it’s above the law, which is fine, but at least it’s private). Also, it’s not tracked or algorithmically quantified and validated by anyone.

Mandatory disclaimer (because we live in this absolute moronic age of ‘either you’re with us, or you’re against us’ angry crowds): me protesting against the growing (self-)censorship of any idea does not mean I endorse any of those censored ideas. It just means that I think censorship is a terrible way to fight any idea. As history have shown us countless times.

Don’t want to deal with admin/security stuff ;)

I imagined myself like a new Dr. Frankenstein, trying to revive democracy from whatever little of it remained. Trying to and, unlike Dr. Frankenstein back in his days, pitifully failing at reviving it.

Those last weeks have been so… painfully filled with this ugly orange hatred and despise for democracy and for its institutions that I’ve not really been feeling like enjoying much hobbies, I must say. My bad, 100%, and I should not let those billionaires oligarchs and their Orange clown reach me like that. I should even be thankful to them! At last, they showed the world who they really are and what they stand for. Maybe that will create an electroshock? Probably not, oligarchs are everywhere and controls already so much of what we need. Now, they also know they don’t have much to worry much about and the can do whatever they want. The orange bully and his billionaire pal, have took hold of the USA. I wonder how Putin celebrated that re-election? Probably a lot more than he celebrated all of his own…

Sorry, I should not have answered like that to your fine question. I wanted to be funny and post something silly. It’s just I feel a little bit depressed or maybe a little more than that, by what’s happening in the USA. And how easily it’s happening.

So much this.

Stallman was and still is right probably on almost every single point he ever made. I’m afraid we will only understand that once it’s too late if it not already is.

that’s why, as a mere user myself, someone that will never be able to write a line of code, let alone develop an app, I still want my apps do be Free/Libre software. I want for those many more competent people all over the world to be able to identify any such a turd and flush them down the drain. I don’t trust any corporation to do a good job at that, even Apple (disclaimer: I use an iPhone…)

I quit GitHub the day Microsoft bought it. I’m not a dev and I was barely using it but still I did not like that change. Now, I’m using codeberg.org which is more then enough for my needs.

I havent switched operating system yet due to fear of losing my data.

If you value any data, you should already have backups (plural), right? So, if you decide to switch OS you don’t need to worry about your data since you have backups (plural). Hint: if you don’t do backups already, start now with or without OS switch.

If i delete google play services, will my phone not work correctly?

Depends what you do with it. What OS you use. My spouse is using /e/OS and she has access to all the apps she needs, but I reckon you probably don’t use the same app as we do (we’re both 50+) ;)

I have been replacing my apps with open source apps, is that helpful?

Depends. It’s probably a good idea but if you use open source apps to access and use non-privacy respecting services, well, they won’t help much.

What vpn should i use? I have malewarebytes.

One you trust. I use Mullvad and Proton. Both are paid for.

You need better air flow.

I had the same issue as a student, when I lived in that pocket-sized 1 room ‘apartment’ with barely any airflow coming through a single and tiny window. The only solution I found to be working was, each morning, to lift the mattress and store it on its side with the bottom/downside face part of it not facing the wall, and let it like that for the rest of the day. The air would do its magic.

I also raised the bed frame that was very close to the ground.

I’ve been journaling since the late 70s, I started as a child and I’m an analog journaler. That being said, I’m also curious and always willing to experiment with new tools and I’ve used many. Some I’ve been using them for many years because them and I we worked great together. Tools ranging from the typewriter to the computer, the smartphone and the tablet. I’ve also used tape recorders (be it standard cassettes or the mini ultra portable ones, the MP3 player or, here again, the phone). I still own a mini recorder I use from time to time, it’s a cool device but the sound is so… meh, at best. In the end, I’ve always come back to good old pen and paper. It feels like home to me.

The longest affair I’ve had it’s with DayOne (Mac/iOS/Web). I remember switching to it almost the day it was realized, I can’t recall the year but back then the iPhone was still more or less a new product and the app itself was a one time purchase (no subscription) and was made by a small independent company. It was wo great I purchased the Mac version when it was released. It was groundbreakingly refreshing, and great, and cool, and so effing nice to use. I’m smiling just thinking about it. It felt almost as intuitive as using pen and and paper. I loved DayOne. As a long time user, I never was asked to pay when they switched to the subscription model, which is really nice gesture (I would still be able to use it without paying to this day) but I also realized the company changing hands (it’s now owned by the same that own… WordPress) was not going in the direction I wanted. So I slowly, and hesitantly, quit using Day One. It took me a few years to finally decide I had enough of the app as it was and to decide to fully commit back to pen and paper. I’ve not had any other serious affair since then, just a few flirts ;)

+1 to this. Beside our phones there is no smart device in our home (and when not in use, they’re turned off and stored in a box to limit their ability to spy on us). No TV, no Alexa, no smart light-bulbs, no smart thermostat, no smart doorbell,…

Heck, I even stopped using my Kindle (and completely quit reading DRM-protected ebooks) because I had enough of Amazon ‘monitoring’ my reading habits.

F*ck that, I want privacy. If digital can’t give it to me, I’m going back to good analog ;)

Also, as an ex-lifelong Mac user (started in the early 80s) our PCs have been running Linux for a few years now, and so far I’ve not morphed into some kind of geeky-hairy-creature. I’m still as bald and as neatly shaved as I always have been, and I’m barely any more of a geek :P

There is one Windows machine still running at home, the one my spouse must use for her work. That being being said, seeing how great the USA-EU relationship have been since Putin’s orange angry puppet has started his new show in the oval office, and knowing the rather specific field my spouse is working in I would not be surprised if her bosses suddenly realized using Windows was not the brightest idea ever and decided to switch everyone to a less spyware-filled and a less US-owned OS alternative. We will see. Meanwhile, the webcam and microphone are constantly covered, and the PC itself is unplugged from the network (Ethernet only) and from the wall-plug after hours. Paranoid & excessive? Maybe… I’d rather be paranoid than be sorry I was not enough ;)