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I will say, despite the both loud and silly pro big pharma messaging surrounding #COVID19 vaccines, I don't think that going into the ins and outs of the vaccines is important.

I'm more of an up vs. down guy TBH, rather than right vs. left; are you for big government, or not?

So while sure there might be questions about the vaccines, I care more about the mandates than the dangers at this point. Yes, I think there should be more transparency and studies regarding side effects, but at the end of the day, if you wanna get shot up twenty times, cool, and if you don't wanna get shot up at all, equally cool. It's a personal choice and I don't think anyone should be shamed for either decision.

This is correct and rational thinking. Sending your kids to government schools is a horrific abdication of your parental responsibilities.

commercial sites are free because they sell your data

fedi is free because the servers are running on last year’s gaming rig and repurposed smart ovens

.@mike_pence says today he was “deeply offended” that I don’t trust that the government told us the full truth in the 9/11 Commission Report. Well, I find it offensive that our government repeatedly lies to us. Here’s the TRUTH: the FBI quietly declassified documents in 2021 that definitively reveal the government lied to the public about basic facts of Saudi Arabia’s involvement in 9/11, until documents were declassified and they changed their story 20 years later.

Omar al-Bayoumi, a 42-year-old graduate student, welcomed, housed, set up bank accounts, and gave rent money to the first two Qaida hijackers after they landed in Los Angeles in January 2000. Al-Bayoumi claimed to have met the two terrorists entirely by chance: The 9/11 Commission report verified that Bayoumi’s altruism was in the name of hospitality, as he claimed.

The FBI, 20 years later, changed its story. In documents declassified last year, the Bureau affirmed that Bayoumi was in fact an agent of the Saudi intelligence service who worked with Saudi religious officials and reported to the kingdom’s powerful ambassador in Washington.

U.S. government officials continue to lie about other matters of public importance – the origin of Covid-19, knowledge about UAPs, Hunter Biden’s laptop, how our money is actually being spent in Ukraine, the Nashville trans shooter manifesto – with a complicit media that just accepts the prevailing narrative without question. This fuels rampant public distrust. There is no credible evidence that 9/11 was an “inside job,” but ironically, when the government systematically lies about Saudi involvement and the media runs interference, that lends plausibility to an otherwise unlikely claim.

There’s no such thing as a noble lie. With all due respect to the former VP, the reason the people don’t trust the government is because the government doesn’t trust the people.

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When _anyone_ spends their resources making something and then gives it away for _free_ they should be greeted firstly with gratitude. They should be greeted secondly with gratitude. They should be greeted lastly with gratitude.

Too much #FOSS #OpenSource community rage and contributor burnout stems from a strange forgetfulness that _no one_ has to contribute _anything_ this way. It's always a wonder. Let's chill out and be a little more kind and a lot more grateful.

@jeff @sevvie @midway Why do they have to be white and anglo saxon? I'm a black protestant, so not a #WASP, but I think the only tribe I fit neatly into is #Christian tbh

Ep. 10 Stay in your lane: our drive through South Central LA with Ice Cube.

(next episode: Ice Cube sits down with us at his studio)

If you think about it, the hollywood strike is sorta funny.

Hollywood writers and actors advocated for policies that destroyed everyone's wages and quality of life, now they're striking because their wages and quality of life have been destroyed.

But as many people have pointed out, in 2008 people let Hollywood into their homes, but that's not really the case in 2023.

#ShotOnLibrem5
#LeTour
#TourDeFrance

- get mad at the CEO because he's overpaid
- try your hand at creating your own business
- it doesn't work
- continue blaming CEO who is the one who secures the deals and customers that keep the whole show afloat
- let's kill the rich
- other people get rich instead
- rinse and repeat

Child sex trafficking is so “Q-Anon” that Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself over it.

MakerTube is now open for public registrations! It's a #peertube video instance for makers, musician, artists and DIY content creators. If you thought of trying out a video platform besides big corp now is the time!

Join in https://makertube.net or any other instance and let's make peertube a place as great as Mastodon.

Please boost this post! Share your creations! Let's build alternatives that stay!

#peertube #makertube #diy #maker #artists #musicians #contentcreator #synthdiy

Glad I have a Librem 5 phone with hardware kill switches - France Passes New Bill Allowing Police to Remotely Activate Cameras on Citizens' Phones
https://gizmodo.com/france-bill-allows-police-access-phones-camera-gps-1850609772 #purism #librem5 #privacy #security

One of the issue preventing #LinuxMobile distros from shipping a #PipeWire / #libcamera camera stack is the fact that it requires #wireplumber as session manager, which again does not always play nicely with #pulseaudio, if that is still used as sound server.

Unfortunately switching to PW for sound is not always possible yet because some mobile-specific packages depend on PA. So if you want to help with camera enablement, please consider helping with issues such as https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/wys/-/issues/13 :)

Technical stuff aside, a major reason why Flatpak does not get the hate Snap does is because users don't resent it.

There are 2 things people hate: the way things are, and change.

Ubuntu put Snaps on users desktops without asking if they wanted them. They just did it, then closed off ways to opt-out/avoid them (Cf. Firefox).

Forced change fosters resentment.

No distro made Flatpaks default/required/opt-out. Users had time to come to the tech and adopt it on their own terms/needs.

Just IMO.

The Liberty Phone is the upgraded version of our popular Librem 5 USA phone with Made in USA Electronics. The Liberty Phone integrates 4GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage. https://puri.sm/posts/introducing-the-liberty-phone/?mtm_campaign=status_update&mtm_source=organic&mtm_medium=librem_social&mtm_content=ls-introducing-the-liberty-phone

God Bless America

#Twitter has completely cut off public access to its posts. Twitter users are now unable to share anything with non-Twitter people. Direct links no longer work, which is a disaster for accounts distributing public information.

This is a textbook example of why you should set up your own server as part of a federated social network. Ownership means your post links will never break, and federation means you can reach a mass audience.

Find out how to do this at https://growyourown.services/grow-your-own-social-network

They didn’t take away the right to kill babies; they just stopped pretending that right ever existed.

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