Oh my God I’ve triggered the Apple FOMO dorks. Please get a life

Lol? Way to discredit yourself as a clueless fucking rube. “I work in the industry and I take everything my employer says at face value” is not going to convince me bucko.

Why don’t you start talking about Apple’s third party ad service servers if you think you know where all the data is going? They leak everything even if they don’t officially retain stuff. It’s all theatre for employees and regulators and the EU.

Apple is still an ad company they just want to cordon off their “private ad system” with their VPN products and hide my email shit. Don’t trust Apple at all myself

Apple is only promoting themselves as a privacy company to try to get VPN customers to move to their iCloud plus and shit. It’s like Micro$oft moving into open source. I really don’t think it’s ever wise to take a company’s philosophy seriously it’s just a way to manage customer and employee expectations temporarily.

What you’re able to request from these companies officially is just the tip of the iceberg. The point is that between phone numbers, email reuse, google analytics etc with fingerprinting, and operating system telemetry, a complete picture is assembled of users.

If you’re not looking for arguments and instead approaching things from understanding surveillance maybe my statements will make sense now.

I take it you mean Douglas Leith who is the first result?

Doesn’t have anything to do with Microsoft and Apple’s market share on PC which is what I was thinking of.

Besides, it wasn’t like I was saying Google’s mobile telemetry is less invasive on Android, where they compete with Apple for being as creepy as possible. IIRC windows phones haven’t taken off

Whataboutism? Where did I say this makes what Google is doing better? They all work together. God you people are dense.

Microsoft and Apple absolutely are ad companies lmfao.

Just imagine what Microsoft and Apple are getting thru telemetry

I can’t get browsing by hashtags to work on pixelfed itself. Only shows like 3 results.

One lady I know called it “haunted as fuck”

Ah… their hairlines…

Isn’t matrix supposed to be end to end encrypted and all that? Your old posts won’t even be visible to someone who takes your account IIRC.

Literally just work out and take care of your skin and hair.

Fuck everything with a material that looks like that idk if it’s an adhesive problem but the Surface keyboards like that are simply the worst

This is just democrat Qanon

The Nth of which is asking me about Ukraine.

Here is where we will likely have serious disagreements lol

I understand the prevailing view is that Putin is trying to steal the Donbas, but from the perspective of the people there, he has actually been incredibly reluctant to do anything about them getting tortured and bombed. The Maidan coup has been forensically deconstructed even using facts from the case within Ukraine there was a false flag shooting by the far right Bandera linked organization that has involvement with US intelligence services going back to WWII to put it in broad strokes. Even the far right Polish parties are averse to them over them massacring Polish people with the Nazis. I digress. Lindsay Graham and Amy Klobuchar and John McCain put it better than I can lol this is search banned on Youtube iirc so ur welcome 😎😎

Putin’s motivation was to come to his fucking senses after everyone in the regions later to become LPR and DPR (especially the communists) fought a civil war (much of the army defected after the Maidan coup)

Sources: Download link to Rossolinski-Liebe, Grzegorz - Stepan Bandera_ The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist (2015, Columbia University Press) - libgen.li.epub 14.6 MB I don’t know why that says PHP maybe just look it up on libgen??? Good book but he has dumb statements about the NKVD that don’t even get backed up, but the stuff about the Banderites does more,

Obviously be prepared to read abt the holocaust mentally: How Monsters Who Beat Jews To Death in 1944 Became America’s Favorite “Freedom Fighters” in 1945—with a Little Help from their Friends at CIA

Beatings, Stabbings, & Electric Shocks: Donetsk Militia Vets’ Ordeal in Ukraine’s Torture Chambers

The Maidan massacre in Ukraine: revelations from trials and investigations

Lord of the Underworld: Meet the Paratrooper from North Carolina who Helped Orchestrate the War in Ukraine

uh ill link more later

Oh I understand what you mean. Fox and MSNBC being on in the gym are what’s driving my anger, not these misunderstandings. I wouldn’t be interested in clarifying things with people like this if I were like rage posting

Sorry, do I know you? Do you need to imagine everyone online that you have a disagreement with as being hopping mad? Do you go around fantasizing about people online to feel better about yourself?

Defense not so much. I try to be a realist

Apologies in advance for long post sometimes I write because it is cathartic 😁

I have no love for the man but you must understand this language you use reflects demonization of a foreign leader, and that’s coming from propagandists who even told us he might die of cancer last year? Sweden and Finland are reaching the apex of this Russia hysteria. It has done no good to Latvia or Lithuania or Estonia, economic devastation is occuring due to this far right vs neoliberal capitalist pendulum swinging.

I want Putin and his allies to lose power to the growing communist movement in Russia (KPRF). The naivete he admitted to related to the west was seen by other less greedy people long ago. He only has the advantage of being more interested in resource sovereignty of Russia rather than international corporatiobs controlling the country’s resources, which is legitimately worse it creates a horrific conflict of interest where people use unsafe extraction methods and dehumanize their workers etcetera, like Exxon and Chevron and co in Latin America. This is why Putin is preferable to post-Soviet leaders to me lol.

Also can you imagine our leaders doing adversaries foreign interviews like Putin or Lukashenko or Maduro? (In order of ascending affection from me lol, Lukashenko is meh, Maduro is flat out good.)

Putin has been happy to bring oligarchs to heel over the sanctions thing but he won’t depose them because he is dumb and a greedy capitalist at heart. To use broad strokes.

My only point is you find a decidedly different opinion of Putin in global south countries, the locus of malice around him is a product of us trying to displace problems at home. Russia is moving more towards a domestic development policy like China and they already have foreign aid that is quite robust considering they are comparatively a smaller country. Their GDP was = to Texas in 2017 this is mainly because of the inflated value of our shit (there is a stat called purchasing power parity that GDP can be adjusted with to fix this)

While I think there is a lot of deception going on with the whole Carlson thing it’s not like he just got blackmailed to do it, since he’s gone off into the NewsMax and direct streaming crowd like my old landlord, who think aliens are coming and shit, he can fence sit between completely insane QAnon people and those who think we should refocus our aggression on China away from Russia lol (won’t work btw, even with their military eating a much smaller amt of their production, as shown by the crisis in the Red Sea with Ansarallah taking or missile striking ships bound for Israel and now all US and UK vessels, resupply of anti aircraft missiles at sea massively limits how we can function in the age of rocketry. Anti ship missiles are extremely powerful and getting better constantly)