Gogol Bordello - Start Wearing Purple (1999)
From the (Ukrainian) frontman, Eugene Hutz:
> "It's one of the very few songs I wrote for a girl. I just moved in with my girlfriend in New York. We had a neighbour: an old woman who was always dressed in purple head to toe. She was clearly bonkers. So whenever my girlfriend and I had an argument and she would start screaming at me, I would say: you might as well start wearing purple now."
source: https://archive.is/pQRd
Exactly this. Especially with Teslas, some of their many cameras that complete a 360 degree view around the car can see up to 250m.
There's a picture out there somewhere that has a visual representation of the view distances, but I'm failing miserably at finding it.
Precisely why I drive a '97. Also less electronics and shitty plastic parts, and I can fabricate a field repair out of almost anything.
My dad has the '21 model of the same car, it's crazy at how much it phones home.
I find it hilarious that you and I are being downvoted for being angry and wanting to do something more than just sit back by people in the comments that are saying, "we wish you americans would do something."
Keep withholding your cash, fellow prole. We can only force our cowardly brethrens' noses into their own shit and hope they get angry too. The only way for this to be non-violent is to completely withdraw ourselves from the system in all aspects and en masse. Take away their real power.
The problem is, it will require violence and loss of life from the proletariat to make a change at this point. Even the ones that are complaining are not willing to stand up for themselves, let alone anyone else.
I'm fighting on a digital front with my networking and development skills in various ways, and with my wallet and choices in other ways. However, I am beyond ready and itching to get down and dirty with these motherfuckers and start throwing punches. Every one around me just cowers into a, "well, it's not really so bad yet, I just want to keep buying my [insert big company name product here]." They've lost the human ability to adapt and overcome. It's fucking sad and depressing. I've tried so hard to light a fire under my "left-wing" friends that seemingly share in my misery, and I am always met with excuses.
When I make it to the front lines, I fear I will be alone.
Could someone copy/paste the article? This news source gatekeeps information, can't view on a VPN.
Just because something is developed in the USA does not mean it will follow authoritarianism. These projects are open source, and many USA based open source projects are fighting back against this stuff. Besides, the internet is the internet, and these open source projects will live on beyond any USA law. This is the very point of the licensing. Having said that, I do agree with you on the RHEL/Fedora side of things.
I'm not sure about the Debian legal ties, I'll have to look further into that since you didn't give me anything to reference. Still, the key point here is open source, which means you can review the source code and security experts will, too. Signal is also a USA based company; France and Sweden are trying to force backdoors on them, yet Signal has vehemently said, "No. Fuck Off." So, clearly it's not just the USA doing shitty things.
I get that the current political situation in this shithole country is absolutely horrifying, but that does not immediately mean that the entire population of the country is with the fascists by default. Starlink being used for election purpose should be the number one red flag indicator that the citizens of the USA did not actually vote for what's happening and it was manipulated. Because of the fascist playbook and money, it is difficult for the proletariat to do much without seriously violent actions.
I just don't agree with your sentiment on this US jurisdiction idea when it comes to open source, non-profit projects. And to be clear, it's OK that we might disagree. I'm just providing discourse with a healthy dose of skepticism.
jurisdiction in the US, which means a lot of Linux distros are not an option anymore.
Please elaborate and provide some receipts to what you mean.
I know your list is what you use, my list is more data for you to DYOR and find even better, privacy respecting alternatives than what you suggested. As you say, do whatever you think is best.
Thanks for coming back around about it. Still, I agree with you and consider it a red flag, it is antithetical for a privacy person that claims to support FOSS.
It's sad because he had a chance in 2016... then Cliton had to through a hissy fit with the DNC and fucked us all by giving Trump the upper hand for the first time.
Instantly, I don't trust whoever this is. That's a red flag. Matters a great deal to me, thanks for pointing it out so I don't give the site a click.
- Chromium forks are troublesome. I'd suggest Mullvad Browser or LibreWolf instead.
- Qwant is nice, but SearXNG aggregates qwant together with several other engines. Then there's a new up-and-comer called Mwmbl.
- Proton is yet another ecosystem that pretends to be for privacy while actually doing the opposite. Instead, Tuta or Mailbox (only downside to mailbox is no free accounts).
- No comment on payment systems, I don't trust any of them except maybe a local Credit Union.
- Practically any Linux, don't limit suggestions to one distro when there are many with varied support and out-of-the-box options.
- Mullvad VPN + Mullvad Browser were made for each other, browser being co-developed with Tor Project, and is the highest rated in terms of defeating browser fingerprinting (even over Tor), and they have pioneered DAITA. I see many, many mixed thoughts on Surfshark. It is mainly a cheap and better alternative to Nord or Proton, but Mullvad is only $5/mo and you get so much more.
None of the above are USA-based apart from Mwmbl, but it is non-profit and wholly FOSS.
Test your browser fingerprints:
Sheep made of cold, hard cash
Check one of the other comments, turns out you were probably right. I didn't take the label literally enough!
Interesting. Testing for cystic fibrosis via sweat... it literally is a perspiration exuder 😅
I think you found the answer.
Classic de-educated complacency. They've been told they're angry, they've been told not to look up.
Meanwhile, their children are begging them to just take a peek at the sky, even just for a second.
You mentioned another excellent tool, Aegis!
I use it too, and I have it set to auto-export every time I add a new OTP provider to my SyncThing system. Since you can encrypt the exports, it fits nicely and have my OTPs available everywhere.
Massive Attack - Psyche (2010)
[Martina Topley-Bird:]
I'm looking for you in the woods tonight, I'm looking
Looking for you in my flashlight, I'm searching
From in the high or down the ocean
And I face myself in reason
Gain the wolf
Gain the wolf
.
Conjure me as a child
Slipping down a wet side
Stretch up, I cannot reach him
Jumping up, they drag him from the water
I watch them march him into life
I watch them take him from the pain
Into the sky for your eagle eye
The sun seeds a sickle and a scythe
.
Ridicule they won't allow
Quench abuse and let love flower
Rip the cage out of your chest
Let the chaos rule the rest
Show without showing
What you know without knowing
Twigs snap, I catch
No canoe, only you and me
Alone on the old teal sea
.
Dissolving who we are
Call out for yesterday's destiny gone
We're on a foreign shore
It was the mark of falling
I was the car still running
And when you call I'll be your shield for life
And if you feel it, you'll fly
The sunset begging me
.
And I was set to fall in
As I was set to fall in
As I was set to fall in
As I was set to fall in
As I was set to fall in
As I was set to fall in
As I was set to fall in
As I was set to fall in
As I was set to fall in
Thrice - All the World is Mad (2009)
We are saints made of plaster, our laughter is canned
We are demons that hide in the mirror
But the blood on our hands
Paints a picture exceedingly clear
.
We are brimming with cumbersome, murderous greed
And malevolence deep and profound.
We do unspeakable deeds
Does our wickedness know any bounds?
.
Something’s gone terribly wrong
With everyone
All the world is mad
Darkness brings terrible things
The sun is gone
What vanity! Our sad, wretched fires
.
We can’t medicate man to perfection again
We can’t legislate peace in our hearts
We can’t educate sin from our souls
It’s been there from the start
.
But the blind lead the blind into bottomless pits
Still we smile and deny that we’re cursed
But of all our iniquities
Ignorance may be the worst
.
Something’s gone terribly wrong
With everyone
All the world is mad
Darkness brings terrible things
The sun is gone
What vanity! Our sad, wretched fires
.
Oh little light we have!
It only serves to show
The snares and seeds of wrath
We have already sewn on every path
.
Something’s gone terribly wrong
With everyone
All the world is mad
Darkness brings terrible things
The sun is gone
What vanity! Our sad wretched fires.
Immortal Technique - The 4th Branch (2003) [NSFW]
I've tried many many times to set the NSFW tag, but it isn't working... added to title
The new age is upon us
And yet the past refuses to rest in its shallow grave
For those who hide behind the false image of the son of man
shall stand before God!!! It has begun
The beginning of the end
Yeah..
Yeah... yeah, yeah
.
The voice of racism preaching the gospel is devilish
A fake church called the prophet Muhammad a terrorist
Forgetting God is not a religion, but a spiritual bond
And Jesus is the most quoted prophet in the Qu'ran
They bombed innocent people, tryin' to murder Saddam
When you gave him those chemical weapons to go to war with Iran
This is the information that they hold back from Peter Jennings
Cause Condoleeza Rice is just a new age Sally Hemmings
I break it down with critical language and spiritual anguish
The Judas I hang with, the guilt of betraying Christ
You murdered and stole his religion, and painting him white
Translated in psychologically tainted philosophy
Conservative political right wing, ideology
Glued together sloppily, the blasphemy of a nation
Got my back to the wall, cause I'm facin' assassination
Guantanamo Bay, federal incarceration
How could this be, the land of the free, home of the brave?
Indigenous holocaust, and the home of the slaves
Corporate America, dancin' offbeat to the rhythm
You really think this country, never sponsored terrorism?
Human rights violations, we continue the saga
El Savador and the contras in Nicaragua
And on top of that, you still wanna take me to prison
Just cause I won't trade humanity for patriotism
.
It's like MK-ULTRA, controlling your brain
Suggestive thinking, causing your perspective to change
They wanna rearrange the whole point of view of the ghetto
The fourth branch of the government, want us to settle
A bandana full of glittering, generality
Fighting for freedom and fighting terror, but what's reality?
Read about the history of the place that we live in
And stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children
.
Flow like the blood of Abraham through the Jews and the Arabs
Broken apart like a woman's heart, abused in a marriage
The brink of holy war, bottled up, like a miscarriage
Embedded correspondents don't tell the source of the tension
And they refuse to even mention, European intervention
Or the massacres in Jenin, the innocent screams
U.S. manufactured missles, and M-16's
Weapon contracts and corrupted American dreams
Media censorship, blocking out the video screens
A continent of oil kingdoms, bought for a bargain
Democracy is just a word, when the people are starvin'
The average citizen, made to be, blind to the reason
A desert full of genocide, where the bodies are freezin'
And the world doesn't believe that you fightin' for freedom
Cause you fucked the Middle East, and gave birth to a demon
It's open season with the CIA, bugging my crib
Trapped in a ghetto region like a Palestinian kid
Where nobody gives a f*ck whether you die or you live
I'm tryin' to give the truth, and I know the price is my life
But when I'm gone they'll sing a song about Immortal Technique
Who beheaded the President, and the princes and sheiks
You don't give a f*ck about us, I can see through your facade
Like a fallen angel standing in the presence of God
removed n****z scared of the truth, when it looks at you hard
.
It's like MK-ULTRA, controlling your brain
Suggestive thinking, causing your perspective to change
They wanna rearrange the whole point of view in the ghetto
The fourth branch of the government, want us to settle
A bandana full of glittering, generality
Fighting for freedom and fighting terror, but what's reality?
Martial law is coming soon to the hood, to kill you
While you hanging your flag out your project window
.
Yeah..
The fourth branch of the government AKA the media
Seems to now have a retirement plan for ex-military officials
As if their opinion was at all unbiased
A machine shouldn't speak for men
So shut the f*ck up you mindless drone!
And you know it's serious
When these same media outfits are spending millions of dollars on a PR campaign
To try to convince you they're fair and balanced
When they're some of the most ignorant, and racist people
Giving that type of mentality a safe haven
We act like we share in the spoils of war that they do
We die in wars, we don't get the contracts to make money off 'em afterwards!
We don't get weapons contracts, n****!
We don't get cheap labor for our companies, n****!
We are cheap labor, n****!
Turn off the news and read, n****!
Read... read... read...
The Ocean - Metaphysics of the Hangman
On their long journey that leads them
Towards the light,
Winston Smith shall be their guide.
They′re trying so hard to believe
That two and two always makes five.
(That two and two makes five.)
.
Reason won't concuss the irrevocable truth.
And if there′s contradiction,
Keep the faith, burn the proof.
.
To protect ourselves from the
Superstitions of priests and moralists and the
Trickery of evangelists;
Let us be done with the idea
Of moral law.
.
Where do your values come from?
From inside yourself?
Or from some self-appointed moral cognoscentes
Who disguised their own ideas
As universal concepts?
.
God is dead.
.
Where do your values come from?
From inside yourself?
Or from some self-appointed moral cognoscentes
Who disguised their own ideas
As universal truth?
.
(Tried so hard to believe)
(Two and two make five)
.
Reason won't concuss the irrevocable truth.
And if there's contradiction,
Keep the faith, burn the proof.
.
God is dead.
.
Where do your values come from?
From inside yourself?
Or from some self-appointed moral cognoscentes
Who disguised their own ideas
As universal truth?
Seeking refuge with my northern friends
Hiya,
Depressed southern neighbor here looking for some advice. I'm sure you can guess where I'm going with this, so let's not mince words: what's some advice on getting to the Vancouver area, obtaining a visa, and a job, etc.? I'm not really looking for nitty gritty details on legal processes and what not, I can find that info documented in various places online (unless you just have a really good link chocked full of info for me). I'm more so looking for some insight from the denizens of the area that know it well.
I'm a millenial that's been in tech my whole life. I know it's a massive field, but because I've been on linux terminals since I was a wee lad I know how to do... well almost everything that has a job title for it and even at an older age I can pickup new languages and systems with relative ease. Besides that, I'm also an electrician, mechanic, and musician. I've been loosely looking for jobs, but so far what I've seen seems to be in the city and I need to refine my search. I generally prefer to be closer to the forest, or the mountains (glacier snowboarding is on my bucket list, before they all melt), but I wouldn't turn down the city if it came down to that.
What are some not-so-populated areas of the west coast that still have at least a semblance of infrastructure? I don't really care about nightlife, I just want to do tech things and mind my own business without everything that's happening around me right now (I'm currently in the epicenter of the southern maga dipshits).
I'm curious, too... what's the temperature like as far as Canadians accepting educated, healthy, non-fascist US citizens? In other words, do you think there might be some bias against me just because of where I currently reside? Take note how I don't call myself American, because my ancestry is not indigenous to this land. I just happened to be born here.
Any advice on places to checkout/avoid, companies to checkout/avoid, etc. would be awesome and I appreciate it.
And just in case it's a requirement, you should also know that I put a spoonful of Maple Syrup in my coffee every morning, nothing else. It's a magical thing! Started doing that many moons ago and I'll never take coffee any other way now.
ETA: After a couple of comments and staring at the map, I probably should have said British Columbia rather than specifying Vancouver, that's my bad. Seems to me like the remote areas up there may be more my speed.
Run The Jewels - Ju$t (feat. Pharrell Williams and Zack de la Rocha)
I love their music and lyrics, but I also hate how accurate they've always been.