People in a wide variety of circumstances report positive experiences with psychedelics.

I think someone in a bad situation they can’t improve through their own effort might feel better numbing their experience with drugs. The trouble with that is people aren’t always good at judging whether there’s anything they can do about their bad situation.

They used a procedural trick which only had to pass by a majority of those present to create a situation where it would need an absolute majority to fail in the next vote.

This happened as many MEPs have already left for their summer break and were therefore absent and unable to vote. It appears that Parliament President Roberta Metsola engineered this, but I haven’t looked in to it in detail.

It is exactly fundamental attribution error, with a bit of motivated reasoning.

It’s an easy, comforting answer.

“That person’s life sucks because they do drugs” doesn’t raise any uncomfortable questions, and it makes avoiding a similar situation seem easy. “That person is using drugs because their life sucks” leads us to ask why their life sucks and whether the same thing could happen to us.

Additionally, run an ad/tracker blocker so you don’t leak data to anyone else.

So nobody can agree if they’re far-left or far-right, but everyone agrees they’re far-authoritarian?

Three states (Louisiana, Texas, Washington) do that. Others don’t.

As to why, the simple answer is the state government made a law. They get to do that because the state constitution says so, and it doesn’t conflict with any federal law. If you keep asking why, you’ll usually end up with a root cause like the people who have power want it that way, or at least don’t especially want it a different way.

The fact that other places do it differently has nothing to do with anything.

This was meant to be the same kind of distinction. Ordinary abuse leaves a “removed” placeholder and spam vanishes.

There was supposed to be a distinction, but it doesn’t look like Reddit is handling it very well anymore.

A ban or “permanent suspension” (an odd name) is for ordinary bad behavior. You’re meant to know you are banned, why you are banned, and how to appeal if you think you didn’t break the rules.

A shadowban is for spam or repeated ban evasion where an intentionally abusive account operator expects to get banned and will waste resources and make fewer successful posts if they can’t tell they’re banned.

I kinda think that if MS tried Palladium today, they could succeed.

Windows does have most of the features of Palladium today, but it’s impact is modest because native desktop applications for consumers don’t have the importance they once did. The main place people encounter it is game anticheat.

A combination of secure boot, DRM, and remote attestation Microsoft proposed adding to Windows in the early 2000s. It was such an obvious corporate power grab that it got critical coverage from the New York Times.

Things like Google SafetyNet have been equally obvious corporate power grabs, but barely got negative coverage from the tech press, much less the mainstream media.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next-Generation_Secure_Computing_Base

That’s all kinds of fucked. Anybody who saw Microsoft Palladium and thought it was a good idea shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a computer.

Given that new cars are very expensive, and you don’t want new-car features, you might be better off putting significant money into maintaining your old car.

People usually only do that with collectable cars they expect to increase in value or enthusiast cars they drive for fun, but you can spend quite a bit on maintenance before it’s as expensive as new-car depreciation.

I am surprised. I’ve run both KDE and Gnome on a Surface Go 2 (8100Y), which is either slower or barely faster depending on which CPU you have, and I’ve had no UI lag.

My solution in the same situation is to use Gnome. I strongly prefer KDE on a desktop/laptop, but Gnome is an outstanding tablet UI and KDE isn’t… except that Gnome’s onscreen keyboard is crap.

Yes, it’s possible. Some things might be challenging, like keeping the system up to date without the user having access to an app repository, but it’s possible e.g. by running a script as a cron job.

Whether it’s a good idea is harder to say. Linux distributions for phones are not especially mature and polished compared to desktop Linux. You might get better advice if you explain why you want to do this and who the intended user is.

I wasn’t really thinking about cultural differences in my comment. The friend in question is a conventionally attractive woman who lives in the USA.

A friend who gets catcalled often thinks it’s mostly men posturing for other men; they don’t usually do it when they’re alone.

Who do you want privacy from and why?

That’s not a rhetorical question. It matters. If you want privacy from corporations and governments doing mass surveillance because you’re against mass surveillance in principle, Signal is great! As long as you don’t give janky apps permission to read your notifications, or you limit what Signal shows in its notifications, your device won’t leak to those kinds of threat actors. You can’t be sure everyone you talk to is as fastidious though.

If the cops, gangsters, or similar are likely to target you and the people you’re talking to directly, there’s a good chance just using Signal without a security plan won’t keep them from getting the contents of the conversation as in this recent incident where the FBI extracted deleted messages from notification logs. To defend against that specific attack, everyone needs to configure Signal to keep message content and contact details out of the notification. Dedicated devices for secure communication set up by someone who knows what they’re doing are ideal in this situation. Signal is still a good choice here, but Signal alone won’t guarantee privacy.

If you’re being targeted by an intelligence agency from a rich country that has allocated a significant budget to surveil you in particular, you’re probably screwed. There’s plenty of public information about how US government officials and contractors are required to work with classified information to get a sense of how you might try to mount a defense. It’s guaranteed to be inconvenient.

They won’t affect Android builds that aren’t Google-certified directly.

They’ll affect F-Droid in that most people won’t be able to install most apps from F-Droid without an obnoxious process and a waiting period. That will affect what people spend their time building and will likely result in fewer open source apps being created and maintained.