I usually think of the video game industry as having the bad aspects of both the tech industry and the media industry.

931 is a bit more than a few

For god's sake can corporations and governments stop trying to control and survey people do the job of parents and society. If parents are not doing their job then you need better awareness and education not to take over.

Wait why the fuck would a fridge be connected to the internet?

Edit: where I come from we don't have unlimited internet plans so this would just be taking up expensive bandwidth and monthly quota.

When I was a kid physical gift cards where the only way I could pay for online games since my nobody at home had a credit card that accepts international transactions.

Yeah some time ago I used to respect these companies I remember when Google condemned the Egyptian government's actions in 2011 and one of the very popular activists in the revolution was the head of marketing in Google MENA. But now the truth has never been more obvious to me. Individuals may or may not care but corporations will never care.

Thing is peertube is still pretty much new and empty. I didn't find much content that I would be interested in or even an interesting community. Although I see its potential as a social platform I don't think it will ever replace YouTube (at least for me) as it wouldn't give creators the financial incentive to use it.

If this how the outside of my window looked in the middle east, a national emergency has probably been declared with hundreds dead or lost and the military dispatched to the streets.

I'm starting to think that no place is left that isn't turning into a shit hole.

unlucky

I don't think it's unlucky just stupid. In bdsm we have something called RACK (risk aware consensual kink) where before a scene or activity you have to study risks, anatomy, and physiology as deeply as you can and then do negotiations with your partner where you discuss all the risks and establish safe words and alternative non-verbal cues, and everything that could go wrong and the protocol that will be followed if it does go wrong, while changing things and substituting some aspects with others that would achieve the same goal but more safely.

You also generally don't participate in extreme activities with a new partner especially if someone is inexperienced.

Boycotting and striking work we should be organising more of them world wide.

I believe whether this was to cover up something or not, Israel is using intimation tactics to keep eyes and cameras away from them. We have a saying in Arabic that goes "hit the one with the leash to scare the loose" basically you attack non-threatening individuals to scare away actual threats.

You guys are also forgetting that the Golan Heights since 1981 and recently southern Syria are illegally occupied by Israel and heavily militarized. Which has caused the locals to move away that of itself may be argued to be a crime. So if you wanna maintain opsec go ahead but not when the operation is about stealing land and harassing locals.

I feel like some people think Linux is only for hackers and cybersecurity professionals

Do few graves really matter when all the homes around them are leveled out probably with dead bodies in them. (I don't know if this particular area was evacuated or not but in other places civilians where bombed inside their homes)

mfw the US government can perform secret assassinations and kidnapping on foreign soil with high precision, but can't for the love of god distinguish between Latin Americans and Native Americans.

It's hypocrisy. When the morality and logic behind your ideas is inherently flawed then hypocrisy is fair play and sometimes even a necessity for survival.

Westerners also seem to forget that the UK, France, and US are mostly to blame for all the instability and war in the middle east, forgetting (intentionally or not) the colonial and imperialist past of their governments when they were committing war crimes and dismissing the will and needs of entire populations for decades before the idea of non-europeans also having rights became popular.

We do that in Arabic too. It's called "badal", a figure of speech where you replace "the whole" with "the part" to emphasize that part's importance in the context; in this case that would be either where the government is located in the country or where the report originated from.

For example when Arabic news agencies want to refer to the USA's government they say Washington or the white house. Since that's usually where the news come from.

As a computer engineering student who has just got into this whole fediverse thing recently I find the concept of decentralised social media to be pretty mesmerizing. I didn't think people would actually seek the ability to cross-communicate too.

We are in 2026 I'm pretty sure there are vending machines and ATMs there now

Edit: please ignore this stupid comment I just woke up and I don't know what I'm saying