Sphere [he/him, they/them]

Yes, but if you’re looking to have a long-term burner smartphone separate from your main phone, grapheneOS is pretty much the only secure option I’m aware of (although ‘long-term burner’ is a bit of an oxymoron, admittedly, given that a true burner is one-time-use).

You might want to read up on what grapheneOS is…

This is why ninite.com is and will always be the correct way to install basic software on a fresh PC

Yeah there’s no statute of limitations on murder

The article quotes a lady from a “sex worker support group” that turns out to be a SWERF organization:

L’Amicale du Nid firmly supports the belief that prostitution is intrinsically incompatible with human dignity and equality between men and women; the human body cannot be construed as an object or piece of merchandise. It refuses to liken it to a profession and wishes to build its action along consistent abolitionist lines, advocating for the ban of any form of sexual intercourse for payment

It goes on about non-penalisation of sex workers but last I checked, a total ban wasn’t what actual sex workers wanted.

I don’t know, this just might be a broken-clock kind of thing. Probably for the worst possible reasons, though, if I had to guess.

Roblox

Who the hell wants a ceramic donut?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain

Who the fuck names a girl “Brett”? Johnny Cash?

Someone is ripping off

Friend, I don’t know where you’re getting the idea that you are experiencing more comfort than you deserve, when you aren’t able to get basic medical care. You and your family are not the problem here, nor even all of the people like you collectively, but the system as a whole, one you didn’t choose and obviously don’t support.

Yes, things are going to get worse here in the US. No way around that at this point, unfortunately. The next few years in particular are going to be ugly. But to the extent that you and yours suffer because of that, it is undeserved; you do not need to atone or balance some cosmic scale of economic justice somehow.

As communists it is not our goal to castigate people for their privilege, nor to murder everyone on the wrong side of some mysterious dividing line between proletariat and petit bourgeois. Our goal is to reorient the relations between the people and the means of production, to focus the economy on improving the human condition, and more broadly, to prove that a better world is possible by building it. There is no requisite amount of self-flagellation necessary to call yourself a leftist, you have only to work to advance the cause in whatever ways are within your ability given your material circumstances (including time pressures and mental health challenges).

In short, give yourself a break; you haven’t done anything wrong.

It’s base64 for https://archive.is/

My initial instinct was to read it the first way, and a look into their posting history confirms this, I think.

the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: “theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron”

Wait, I thought .ml was part of the tankie triad

Cradle by Will Wight is both really good and a lot of fun to read, in my opinion. In a similar genre, Beware of Chicken by “Casualfarmer” is very enjoyable as well.

Also, a little darker, especially in setting, but somehow not a depressing story in spite of that, Naomi Novik’s Scholomance trilogy is also excellent.

Not familiar with this new terminology; I usually just call them “pigs” to avoid confusion, but I suppose calling cops “rats” does make sense. You don’t usually see mainstream British newspapers introducing new slang terms like that, but hey, stranger things have happened, right?