I’d love to have no WhatsApp in my life. Many years ago, I signed off it as I did with Facebook. Sadly, because of where we are at the moment, my partner is now the main hub for communication with businesses and people who don’t care about or aren’t aware of Meta’s privacy practices. After many arguments, I’m now being forced to share the communication responsibilities and reinstall WhatsApp.

For those who can, I read a suggestion once that struck me with its simplicity: turn your account into a business one and set an automatic reply letting anyone who messages you know that you’ve moved permanently and how to find you.

I’m 100% with you on this. The Dems are also complicit in not ensuring voters knew what illegal activities were happening at the time — when DOGE was in full swing, the left sat on their hands and allowed Musk and his army of hackers to siphon off terabytes of sensitive data. That said, I do believe in a swing of the pendulum, though this time it may swing further to the left than many expect.

The damage is now done and he’s going to get what, a fine or some shit? Doubt it. A shrug and a strongly worded don’t do that again- He will promptly do it again.

Iran was going to charge $1 per barrel to “hostile” nations who transit the Strait. At oil’s current price, that’s a 1.33% fee. Trump is implementing a 20% fee to ALL traffic. With BS moves like these, It’s becoming hard to swallow the rhetoric that Iran is the evil player here.

Correct me if I’m wrong here. It sounds like because the judge nullified the entire settlement, including the immunity agreement signed by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the legal barrier protecting Trump’s past tax returns from audit has now been struck down.

I know this can be appealed, but at this stage, it sounds like a huge blow shining some serious light on the Trump family’s grifts.

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Just start setting up the special election. He’ll show his face if he’s still alive.

In a nutshell : TikTok uses tracking pixels, so switch from mainstream browsers (Chrome, Safari) to privacy-focused alternatives.

You can ask TikTok to delete any data it already has about you.

Contact TikTok directly through their privacy/deletion request process.

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Rigor tortoise.

This is greed-driven malfeasance without restraint, the scope of corruption displayed here is staggering on historical levels. How can someone even downvote this post?? Thanks Congressman Huffman, this presentation is remarkably organized and exceptionally well-expressed.

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It has nothing to do of the fact that it’s constantly being shoved and pushed down our throats by some of the worst human beings imaginable, wanting to maximize profits at the expense of humanity itself.

Billionaire technocrats pitch “AI will cure cancer and free humanity” but instead this shit steals jobs, creates poverty, abuses natural resources and rapes our privacy.

Fuck AI, it was always about helping ascend the elite to an untouchable place.

Or that Mossad is the number one foreign agency that spies on the US government and has been for decades, that it holds kompromat material on much of the elite, and that this keeps Trump on a leash. There is no rational reason we kiss Bibi’s feet other than blackmail. Jeffrey Epstein was the most successful foreign agent in world history

Although Trump posted this at 7:30am this morning, resulting in the Iranian delegation to cancel the peace talks.

I’d guess it’s because people are either lazy and not wanting to type the text out, or people don’t like / know about modern tools to extract the text for posting.

Also, meme culture doesn’t have the same ring to it when the text is extracted from the picture.

I’ll just leave this here.

“I expect that I will leave some time in the next couple of days. But you know, it’s always a delicate coordination dance with the diplomatic protocols. I’ve gotta be honest with you – I don’t really understand these things. I’ve never been particularly into the diplomatic protocols. My attitude is lets get on the ground and actually fix these problems”

• JD Vance

In a broadcast aried on Iranian state TV (translated)

In light of the United States’ clear breach of its commitments regarding the first article of the memorandum of understanding on ending the war, and in response to the continuous and relentless violations of the ceasefire by the Zionist regime in southern Lebanon, which have resulted in the brutal killing and displacement of hundreds of thousands of innocent people in that territory, as well as considering the failure of the occupying Zionist forces to withdraw from southern Lebanon, it is announced that the Strait of Hormuz will be closed to vessel traffic,” Iran’s Khatam al-Anbia Central Headquarters said in a statement on Saturday.

I would love to not have YT in every corner of the internet though. I wonder how developers of Youtube forks will deal with this?