m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@thatguyoverthere @kravietz @feld
OMG, European companies are there too, but it's not only them: China, Turkey — those who can't be suspected to be US' lapdog; but there is more — Russia, one of the most vocal critics!
I mean — yep, US involvement didn't bring any good, that is for sure. Debatably, that was a dirty political game and some Americans are willing to take the blame, but if they indeed "did it for the oil", apparently, they did a rather shitty job.

@thatguyoverthere @kravietz @feld
Were any of these countries that are often attributed to be "ruined by CIA" ever prosperous? There are particularly funny cases, such as Iraq. I've been rewatching Vice recently — not a bad movie of course, very entertaining and well-made, but it's implied throughout the movie: "They did it for the oil!" Now let's take a look into who is mining oil in Iraq: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_industry_in_Iraq#Service_contracts_licensing_results

@thatguyoverthere @kravietz @feld
When it comes to CIA involvement, on one hand I understand where this is coming from, it's American guilty conscience speaking: "It was us who ruined their country!", on the other — it denies people in other countries their free will. It's like you said — not direct mind control, more like favouring one party over the other, but if tipping the balance of scales can result in collapse, this means that society is already in an unhealthy state.

@thatguyoverthere @kravietz @feld
And when it's foreign intelligence, it's even less control and I'm pretty sure that a lot of the money they are pouring into it might be yielding no return at all and goes into drugs and cheap booze for "very perspective" young political activists, journalists, some — probably into more expensive booze for professors of who-the-fuck-knows-what from a plethora of high-brow think tanks 😂

@thatguyoverthere @kravietz @feld
Yes, but as individuals become leaders of movements, they get more ambitious and harder to keep on the leash. E.g. it was discovered that Lech Wałęsa had ties with domestic intelligence — if anyone is surprised, it's not me 🤷 In the end it was him who had the last laugh: it was him who fucked the system over and succeeded, not the other way around as it usually happens, so who am I to judge?

@threat @kaia
Then it could be that you're just exhausted and there's no cause for alarm. As you grow older, you start having the feeling that you have less and less time left — but this doesn't mean that you have to start burning the candle both ends. Getting sleep in order and maybe even sorting your shit out and going on vacation before pursuing new projects never harmed anybody.

@Hyolobrika @feld
The problem was already blown out of proportion as it is, but in case with 1 on 1 chats it's not even relevant.
Besides, I think they have already implemented a "sort of" fix for that: "Never send encrypted messages to unverified sessions in this room from this session" in room settings is just that, but it's not perfect as you have to enable it for each of your sessions individually.

@Hyolobrika @feld
They are, but whom would it leak the status to in this case? There is your server and the server the other party is on — both are already aware of your presence 😆
The way I understand it, it sends out your status to all participants of group chats even to the sessions that no one verified explicitly or implicitly — if one of the participants is compromised, it could be used to track when you go online.

@spacemagick
I'm not sure I got all the references, but that cabbage is extremely funny 😂

@iska
Some of this you can do IRL even not being a cat — like throwing wine bottles at old ladies, but that probably won't be cute 😹

@threat @kaia
> probably also handy if you want to watch the same movie over and over like it's new
Weed gave me this a lot back in the student years. By the end of the movie you're like: "Damn, we've already watched this one!"
But I'm pretty sure it's not so fun when it's happening all by itself without the involvement of any substances. Take care, man!

@kaia
Might work to a degree 🤔
But mine isn't one of those "borderless" keyboards so black case would still get in the way, and my mouse doesn't have interchangeable top panels… Well, I can always paint them 😂
But for now I just rolled back to the dark theme I've been always using.

@splitshockvirus
You fell on your sword, just admit it 😏
@eric @waifu

@bartholin
True! I notice myself leaning further left every time I let up on shaving.

@romin @hakui
Nice! I'm eyeing a registrar to transfer my domains to right now and payments in memecoins could come in handy as normal ones don't work here anymore 😅

@kaia
What's wrong with it? 🤔

I've made an attempt to switch to light colour scheme today — more like sepia one, but with pink-ish accents. And by the time I was done with the software I realized that it doesn't really work with black keyboard and mouse, no matter what backlight colour I use.
What a pity I didn't get a Razer pink keyboard and mouse set when they had a discount on that 😩

@kaia
When you minivan didn't even attempt to get in shape for the summer 😅

@romin @s @kirby
Mintplg fork definitely supports them, not sure about original one 🤔

@romin @kirby
Write it down on piece of paper and stick it on your display! Like all normal people do! 🤪