krolden

krolden , 1 year ago to worldnews in South Korea has given up on talking to the North

???

krolden , 1 year ago to worldnews in South Korea has given up on talking to the North

What are these completely moral justifiable reasons you speak of?

krolden , 1 year ago to worldnews in South Korea has given up on talking to the North

I’m not crying about it, but I’m noting it is there.

Why? I just explained how terrible surveillance is in the USA in response to you claiming the other poster was constantly being watched while they were in NK after they stated they didn’t have anyone watching over their shoulders every minute. There was no reason to bring that up other than to inflame existing western opinions on the DPRK.

I’m also noting that the issue of not toeing the party line may have more consequences for the average person compared to the US.

It doesnt matter what your political opinions are in the US. Everyone is regarded as if they are an enemy of the state and the rights they pretend to hold so dear are just a suggestion to the people in power. Why else would they have extended the laws they say are created to ‘fight terrorism’ to monitor all citizens at all times? We’re living these consequences every day.

krolden , 1 year ago to worldnews in South Korea has given up on talking to the North

I live in the USA and when I leave my house I am being constantly tracked by at least five different private surveillance networks. There’s hundreds (thousands?) of privately owned facial recognition and license plate scanners within 20 miles of my house. My neighbors even invite them into their homes and have constantly recording cameras facing the street. They are recording everything that goes on everywhere, reporting back to their corporate overlords, and selling that data to whomever can pay (including the US government).

I’d much rather have state surveillance because that’s at least somewhat auditable, and the state is getting the data either way. When municipalities and citizens start paying for the privilege to feed them data is when I start to get really worried about what they’re doing with it.

So don’t fucking cry to me about constant surveillance in north korea. Our lives are constantly being quantified and logged right here in the country that touts itself as the bastion of freedom but continually wipes its ass with the bill of rights.

krolden , 1 year ago to worldnews in How Russian colonialism took the Western anti-imperialist Left for a ride

Who the hell is Alaric DeArment anyway? This is his only article on salon and afaict his only ‘political’ article. Most of his other journalism seems to be about the biotech industry which makes the original article here even weirder.

muckrack.com/alaric-dearment/articles

krolden , 1 year ago to worldnews in How Russian colonialism took the Western anti-imperialist Left for a ride

Wow the liberals must be actually afraid of Cornell west to be writing garbage pieces like this ‘calling him out’.

krolden , 1 year ago to worldnews in Judge orders release of 3 of 'Newburgh Four' and assails FBI's role in a post-9/11 terror sting

Its crazy how much shit like this the FBI has gotten away with, even before 9/11. Of course these days the only group being vocal against the FBI (in the mass media anyway) is the trumpers. so now if you say anything bad about them in public, everyone automatically assumes you’re a trump supporter. Ive had this happen multiple times in casual conversion.

theguardian.com/…/fbi-entrapment-fake-terror-plot…

rollingstone.com/…/how-fbi-entrapment-is-inventin…

thedailybeast.com/how-the-fbi-seduces-suspected-m…

huffpost.com/…/oklahoma-city-bomb-sting_n_5993c04…

krolden , 1 year ago to startrek in Roddenberry Enterprises weighs in with support for Prodigy

i think they pulled it just to get attention through people outrage posting about it.

krolden , 1 year ago to technology in Universal Chat Application, Beeper, Will Be Available To Everyone (For Free) In A Matter Of Weeks.

Then run your own matrix instance with these bridges that they maintain for the community.

krolden , 1 year ago to technology in Universal Chat Application, Beeper, Will Be Available To Everyone (For Free) In A Matter Of Weeks.

Yeah this is especially difficult if you’re dealing with people overseas who have generally bad cellular voice service. I’ve had to relaunch whatsapp in another profile on my phone just to answer their calls.

krolden , 1 year ago to technology in Universal Chat Application, Beeper, Will Be Available To Everyone (For Free) In A Matter Of Weeks.

The one thing that sucks about bridging and is never likely to be solved is voice calls through bridges. Theres really no good way to implement it as you would essentially need to have the bridge call you through matrix after you get a WhatsApp call.

krolden , 1 year ago to worldnews in Biden orders US to share Russian war crimes evidence with ICC -official

More like hypocrisy

krolden , 1 year ago to worldnews in Biden orders US to share Russian war crimes evidence with ICC -official

For anyone who doesn’t know

independent.co.uk/…/revealed-how-the-west-set-sad…

The CIA also played a central role in preparing the death lists of those who were to be eliminated after the coup by squads from the Ba’ath party. Mr Aburish says that he believes 5,000 were killed of whom he has collected the names of 600, including many doctors, lawyers, teachers and professors who formed the educated elite of Iraq.

The death lists were drawn up in CIA stations across the Middle East with the help of Iraqi exiles. In Egypt the agency was helped by an Egyptian intelligence officer who got much of his information from Saddam Hussein living in exile in Cairo. But Mr Aburish says: “The American agent who produced the longest list was William McHale, who operated under the cover of a news correspondent for the Beirut bureau of Time [magazine].”

As the CIA lists reached Baghdad the result was a massacre of extraordinary ferocity. Pregnant women and old men were killed, some tortured to death in front of their children. Mr Aburish says: “Saddam Hussein, who had rushed back to Iraq from exile in Cairo to join the victors, was personally involved in the torture of leftists in the separate detention centres for the fellaheen [peasants] and the muthaqafeen, or educated class.”

krolden , 1 year ago to technology in My Opinion: NewPipe, Piped, Invidious, etc's days are numbered.

Newpipe doesn’t use YouTube’s api to play videos, and it plays videos from pretty much any service that uses embedded video like YouTube does. I dont think its going anywhere anytime soon.

krolden , 1 year ago to worldnews in Americans will need a visa to visit Europe starting in 2024. Here's what you should know.

Does my pornhub account qualify as social media?