I prefer to digest text too, but still would choose to taste a meal than read a typed up printout of the flavors it contains.

If I showed up at a restaurant and was presented with a menu that didn’t describe anything about the dishes on offer, I’d be pretty disappointed.

Point being that we have limited time and a nearly limitless amount of options for how to spend it. Text summaries are a tool we can use to decide whether something is worth our time (and money) investment if we’re on the fence about it.

Thank you for distilling that down, cleared up all of the confusion I had. Cheers.

Oh, I was just interested in making a pun based on the name. 😂

To be perfectly honest I was under the impression that we had collectively bailed on PGP in favor of GPG, but based on the Wikipedia article it seems like PGP is still getting updates so maybe that’s not the case?

Well it’s not very good, it’s just pretty good.

They DID try. They got under 30k people even willing to provide a signature, much less a vote, and they failed.

Thank you. I’m going to restate your explanation to be sure I’ve got it:

• authorities want platforms to comply with legal requests
• when Signal gets a subpoena, they open the key locker and show that it’s empty. They provide the metadata they can (sign up date and last seen date, full stop) and tell authorities they can’t do better.
• when Telegram gets a subpoena, they open the key locker and show all the keys, then slam it shut in the face of the investigator, telling them to get bent.
• conclusion: it’s easier to never have the keys in the first place than to tease the government with them

I’m no authority on it but from what I’ve read it seems to have more to do with the social features of telegram where lots of content is being shared, both legal and illegal. Signal doesn’t have channels that support hundreds of thousands of people at once, nor media hosting to match.

Ah, racist thought police won’t let you use a word that has a meaning that’s a slur. That’s fun.

Agreed about Trump being a wild card and this being among his biggest weaknesses. If he presented cohesive plans for even a medium term policy horizon (10 years?) that aligned with conservative interests, he’d probably be able to keep a lot of their support.

I imagine it’s tough to spend your whole career working to implement conservative policies that are centrist enough that the down-ballot races aren’t negatively affected and run headlong into Trump, whose actions have created so many antis that Congressional races are being impacted and weakening the party more broadly.

So what happens if you try to sleep outside? Do the cops pick you up and bring you to a shelter where they provide a bed, meals, and a roommate named Bubba who thinks you’re purdy?

Conservatives are so short sighted - this is just giving handouts with extra hands and limited humanity.

I don’t disagree, but telling individual commenters to do better isn’t going to work when the technology fundamentally doesn’t allow for it.

If you feel quite strongly about it, you could always open an issue with the Lemmy devs or the Mastodon devs.

Otherwise I feel like you’ll just come off as kind of a jerk?

They may be coming from somewhere other than Lemmy (Mastodon?) and this format is more acceptable and/or normalized for them. One of the quirks of the fediverse.

Um actually, in the US

ACKTUALLY, whether or not you can get fired is a state issue, and some states such as California provide statutory protection for employees who use cannabis. It’s true that there are some states where you can get in trouble, but the federal laws are not being enforced by the Biden administration, who has given the green light on cannabis consumption and rescheduling, so there’s really no single answer that applies to the whole United States, and your mileage may vary.

Is it 26 now? Jeez I swear it used to be 24.

Piss off? I want Santa in the cockpit! 😂

Friend, you’re right, I am missing your point.

I wasn’t trying to engage in a conversation with you at any point. I don’t know why you keep replying.

We seem to mostly be in alignment on the issue of liberals and Nazis not being the same. I was offering my viewpoint to the original commenter I replied to, just in the same way that you did, when you came at me with this “I’m standing right here” bullshit.

If you’re hurt because I’ve insulted your instance, that’s tough. If you hang out with Anarchists all the time, you aren’t allowed to get upset if someone calls you an Anarchist. I’m far from the only person who has pointed out the frequency of viewpoints that lack any connection to reality coming out of Hexbear. My comment was a PSA and I won’t apologize for calling it out.

Yes, I recall the speeches Biden has given where he rallies the crowd against the Palestinian scourge!

Look, I’m not arguing that the Israelis are doing anything positive, I’m merely suggesting that the venn diagram of people who are thankful that Biden dropped out and people who support genocide is not a circle.

Sorry, ad hominem attacks are not something I want to engage on today. Me and my baby brain will enjoy existing in the real world, enjoy your limited world view.

Anyone holding a “Thank you Joe” sign supports the genocide of Palestinians

Have you ever considered that being this much of a reductionist is limiting your ability to understand the true nature of the world around you?

You’re standing right here, on Lemmy.zip, not on your home instance, and the comment I was responding to was a response to a different Hexbear user who was literally saying that there is no difference between liberals and Nazis.

If I meant to reply to your comment, I would have done that.

It was incredibly jarring when I first got to Lemmy and started running into nutjobs who seem to be on some sort of crusade, spouting ideas so far out of touch that they’re either straight up trolling or they are state propaganda assets from a western adversary. Sometimes when people ask where these people are coming from, I like to provide something of an orientation, as the community will never survive off of nutjobs alone.

First, I appreciate your reference to literal dozens of liberals. 😁

Second, you’re right that most liberals don’t want revolution. Non-liberals too, for the most part! Unfortunately, in some corners of Lemmy, such as Hexbear or Lemmygrad, the ability to distinguish and discuss nuance is not included in what I would describe as their “community values”.

If you’re looking for a constructive discussion about policy issues, you’re barking up the wrong tree. Alternatively, if you prefer to discuss everything in terms of absolutes, and you love China and tanks, it could be a great time.