I for one am going to stop using this app very soon if there is no way for me to not have my browser render the garbage being posted by rabid antichristians on this forum.

The fact that they claim to not want to do that to us should tell you something. That they enjoy this forced contact.

If I can't assert my freedom of association I am out.

Nature abhors a vacuum. Unfriend and other possibilities, better quality people, will come along. I think you should seriously consider that this person is riding you in some way, if they aren't really listening to you.

As for VPNs, I don't seriously believe any single point hop is securing you against very much. Maybe you can change your watcher from NSA to FSB at best. Tor is a joke, it has not improved in any meaningful way since 2007, just a bunch of mandatory protocol changes because they keep putting insecure garbage in the protocol.

Yep, just like shitcoins. All facade, no substance. I doubt that all the computer hardware in the world all working together at once could get close to a believable humanoid consciousness.

Anything that comes out of it is going to turn out to be fatally dangerous to depend on.

The AIs are a joke, and extremely expensive to run. Sooner or later the lack of economic foundations to the tech will be clear. But let's entertain them for the time being and tell them their very fancy new clothes are not invisible.

I'm sure the dossier on both of them is extensive, should they stray from the script.

Privacy is always a bad word to the psychopaths who control you, whether it's an abusive friend, partner, or a bunch of people who are openly and proudly calling us "hackable animals" and literally have voted in laws in places that states that the government is allowed to hack your phone and spy on you.

Even better than just rural is friggin remote af.

Apple, pear, plum, peach... I must be insane if I think that thing on the top left is an apple, right?

Asserting you are claiming to have superior knowledge in a sarcastic way has nothing to do with argumentation or fallacy. And your further remarks stating that the apple is not distinctive without the bite is absurd, and you know it.

I don't think Hanlon's razor is a good rule to live by, far more potent a logical razor is Occam's razor, which states that the simplest explanation is probably correct.

Hanlon was clearly a dupe. Attributing error to malice is a safer call in all cases. Better to avoid someone than risk them proving you wrong (about your suspicion).

As for the apple, the bite and the rainbow, the apple is called Malus, the acid in it is called malic acid, which is from the old latin which means "evil" and "small". It has a 5 pointed star, in section through the centre where the seeds are, and has been associated with the devil and the story in Genesis 3 for hundreds of years.

And maybe there is no irony in this at all, really, that the entire theme of that chapter is precisely deception, that is used to trick people into poisoning themselves.

I could talk about some other theories about the identity of that fruit, or the fact that the Pentateuch predates Judaism (it's derivative of Sumerian and Phonecian mythology). But I think it's enough to say that there is nothing innocent about the meaning of that logo. No different to the extensive set of set of symbols used by Google for their various logos that are taken straight out of babylonian, phonecian, sumerian and other mythologies that are associated with what the Jews, Muslims and Christians all associate with Satan, or if you prefer more original names, Chronus or Saturn depending on which side of the mediterranean we are talking.

Have you been keeping up to date with military funded research? You know the US navy made Tor, right?

One person invents a viable monetary system and everyone loses their mind. But no problem to build a tank with a radar emitter that causes a sensation like your skin is on fire, no problem. Or to force people to accept untested medical procedures to treat a disease that is less lethal than riding a bicycle.

I know... I saw a few episodes of Black Mirror the other day. What's funny is that I was reading stories like those in the early 80s at the library, and all the normies thought I was a freak. And now, even as it clearly provides an illustration of the consequences of many idiotic ideas like reputation scores and constant media capture and the alienation of simulation technology and immediately forget what they just saw and happily bend over and let Big Brother even as far as mandate injection of mysterious fluids with zero adequate medical tests being done, and insanity that would make Mengele and Goebbells proud.

I'm sure that you think DARPA stopped inventing new weapons after the internet, amirite?

I keep my tools in a toolbox, in a drawer. Not next to my reproductive system, I mean my pocket of course, but modern normie drones are so immature they talk like 12 year olds who just started their first period or ejaculation, nor would I let my tools tell me what to do, ever.

But if you like to obey stupid machines that's your larp to have.

To say that I should accept the invasion of my privacy, the constant gathering of intelligence about my movements, in exchange for a few small conveniences, I'd rather refresh my skills in reading paper maps and people can go fuck themselves if I'm tired, busy, or just because fuck you that's why.

I like electricity. I can fix any electrical system and even older style electronic devices. I don't like microwave radiation though, but I'm not some doofus who thinks all microwave frequencies are ionising, most of them aren't. But the bands used in 5G and Starlink do include the oxygen activating 20ghz band and the 80ghz "V band" which was previously only allowed to be used by military. These frequencies DO have effects on electron charges on some kinds of materials and cause health problems with long term exposure.

And my freedom of speech lets me say that calling someone insane only shows how brainwashed one is.

When my only social media is nostr and my nostr client respects my full control and serves me instead of idiot ideas like calling wanting to be healthy and free insane, well, I won't miss people like you. Nor you us, but hey what do I care?

Look at all these normalcy bias, mainstream faithfuls in this discussion thread.

They are so perverted they automatically think that "sleeping with" means sex. That's so mature. Do these people actually have a full 18 years behind them or are they 13 year olds with too much libido and zero skill in logic.

They think that we should accept the toxic elements of the technology's application with the few good utilities. No, I'm not accepting what I don't want, what is wrong with you???

This is the new normal I guess.

I got a 5G phone last year and when I hold it near my, even when it has been idle for hours, how quickly it feels hot on my skin near it like it's radiating something. And the whole thing, especially the screen, gets so toasty so quickly.

Anyone who wants to put that thing near their gonads clearly has no intention of ever using them, cos I can't see how this radiation, which notably 20ghz literally ionises oxygen, could be good for DNA, at all.

Of course, you have a better explanation for why the apple with a bite out of it, and the original rainbow over it that has no reference to the bible, don't you, come on, give it to us since you seem to know!

It's pretty clear they are trying to chase us away from our gathering places and place traps and snares in our path. I'm starting to get really ornery about all this. This is not the world I was born into. The children born since about 1990 are extremely feeble minded, unable to make decisions or judgements by themselves. They are teaching them to be sheep, like never before in history.

It's clearly correct what the article says. One of the funny things is that I've been saying to myself for years "I want to get rid of this phone"... nearly 20 years I have been living with this shit and hating it. I'm not just following along, I literally almost ditched my phone altogether but then I need it to organise a migration. So again it is active, but I'm now putting my phone inside a faraday cage at night. I can feel it fucking with my sleep.

Defi? Really you think you have identity with the group who run and mostly populate this site with content? "we"?

It could be a lot more anonymous if there was competent and low enough latency hidden services possible somehow. Tor just is not good enough for a protocol that requires strong liveness, because it's got weak liveness.

Hah. Show me one element of the mass of society that isn't being controlled and creamed by psychopaths taking advantage of people's weakness and trust, and I will show you a unicorn.

There is fraudsters, abusers, robbers, liars, poisoners and murderers running amok on this planet everywhere, nearly completely unchecked.

When people say, "Bitcoin fixes this" what they mean is that because these exploiters can't control the supply, they can't position themselves to have a privileged position at the spigot of the money supply increase. Without this power, they can't leverage the people who seek a better social position to act as their agents covertly and overtly.

It's at the centre and why you have to preload with "finance" because it is central to the networks of power who keep the psychopaths protected, ensure that people don't learn to defend themselves.

In the end, the best thing you can do, apart from using Bitcoin, is to be extremely fervent in your refusal to do business with the psychopaths that are empowered by the networks of psychos whose exploitation of this central vulnerability.

Every psychopath you deny access to your energy is one who cannot use that energy against you and others.

Just walk away. Whatever it takes.