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Trump's Voter Raids Have Begun

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To add to this, Nevada has basically two cities, Las Vegas and Reno, and a lot of empty space everywhere else. The vibes of Vegas and Nevada’s proximity to California attract socially left people. The lack of income tax attracts financially right people. The sparsely populated areas tend to be right wing like most sparsely populated areas in the US.

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95 what?

You laugh but if you ever take a college physics class you’ll appreciate having the idea of being overly careful of your units drilled into you.

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ai thirst is killing us

I mean even disregarding the environmental cost, it’s rapidly accelerating our decline from the “Information Age” where knowledge about anything can be found in an instant to the “Disinformation Age” in which it’s impossible to tell what is fact from fiction because information is overflowing everywhere but most of it is bullshit.

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What's the deal with Signal?

Signal is an open-source privacy-focused end-to-end encrypted texting platform (so competing with SMS, WhatsApp, iMessage, Telegram, and similar). It’s developed by a donation-funded non-profit organization.

Signal is quite good compared to the competition, but it faces a lot of scrutiny because they make big promises about privacy and security so the people who care will really get into the details on that. Also IIRC there was a period when one of their competitors was trying to slander them more or less.

In general there’s nothing wrong with Signal and it’s quite a good option. If you really care about the privacy details you can always host your own instance (but that would require you to convince your friends to use your instance … it’s not federated).