uber sucks, bicycling or walking is better

I’m not sure how “rarely talked about” we’re talking about, but it doesn’t get brought up often enough that Reagan and Thatcher were involved in Operation Cyclone, a CIA and MI5-backed financing of terrorists. specifically, they financed the deeply religious mujahedeen, and even met their leaders.

Those groups opposed labour rights’ movements around the world, which would greatly have benefited engineers, plumbers, electricians, nurses, farmers, scientists, and so on around the world.

My hot take there is this. Osama used to help the mujahedeen, so in retrospect, most theocratic violence (yes, even 9/11) was caused by the aftereffects of Reagan’s and Thatcher’s politics backing religious fundamentalists, rather than y’know, moderate socialists. Capitalists remain capitalists, after all.

Does iodé allow for an iOS-like look? A minor thing for me, but nonetheless…

CalyxOS was founded by someone who worked for the feds through Raytheon, no? I’m doubtful… granted, he got threatened by the FBI, so there’s that.

LineageOS or iodéOS are options, the latter being better if what this summary says is true..

Unfortunately, iodé doesn’t sandbox apps, nor has per-app storage & contact scopes, which are pretty big things. Verified boot is also not thorough, excluding app updates.

And doesn’t Nothing have a privacy policy where the data that they transfer and store, can be outside the EEA/UK? See point 9 there.

Samsung is too big tech for me, so that’s out of the question. Asus would be an option, but the short support is indeed questionable.

Nokia is a possibility, but they got into the AIslop.

Een groot en opmerkelijk probleem. Het is veel nuttiger om ook hierin digitaal soeverein te worden; een onafhankelijke non-profit, gefinancieerd door de overheid, zou hierin het beste helpen.

Then what is the next best?

As far as daily drivers go and if your threat model would say your risk is low, I think Fairphone with e/ is a great choice, yeah. I was thinking of the Fairphone 6 for that case, actually.

But if your threat model is higher, or if you want to support people with higher threat models, or want to prioritise security, I think GOS seems better. My worry is primarily about the ethics of a Motorola or Pixel, considering where Motorola is based and who owns it.

They are, yes. But it feels all very paradoxical.

A company owned by a country with pervasive surveillance, set in a country with pervasive surveillance laws, cooperating with a OS developer for anti-surveillance measures.

Granted, I could see that from places with pervasive surveillance, a need arises for something that removes all that surveillance. But then, would governments not be harsh on that?

What about the USA?

Parking is only expensive if you’re not a resident there. It’s also easier to travel by public transit to and fro in and around Amsterdam.

'sides, the 30 km/h is good for safety in pedestrian areas. So I feel like this measure actually improves general wellbeing.

A livable city is a city of pedestrians, bicyclists, and public transit. Cars should only be necessary for ambulances, firetrucks, police, and transport. (And while we’re at it, kick out those disgusting American monster trucks!).

Now, the housing affordability, that one’s a great and valid concern - I think we should allow squatting if people keep it clean, and push away from people owning several homes to rent at extortionate rates. We’ll need to encourage building in a lot more towns and mid-sized villages around, instead of only in the Randstad. If we want the NL to be balanced and prepared for sea level rise, we better gotta build in the south and east.

On the sex level, I disagree with Halsema’s proposal to move out the prostitution to a remote area which may be less safe for them. I think it’s better to coordinate w/ the prostitutes etc themselves to increase safety w/o laying foundations for surveillance states.

A step ahead, but better to ditch relying on corpo altogether, and have an independent, own host.

Balkanise Russia instead

Can’t Wero try to change servers?

Yesilgoz en de VVD & rechtse “bondgenoten” misschien? Ze volgt vaak Amerikaanse belangen, vind ik.

Goede zet. Wij moeten zoo veel mogelijk onze eigen gegevens en essentiële infrastruktuur in eigen handen houden.

Zal wel door Yesilgoz komen. Ze lobbiede eerder voor het apartheidregime van Israël en zorgde voor doodsbedreigingen aan Douwe Bob (om kritiek van die discriminatie in de doofpot te stoppen), dus het zou me niets verrassen als ze dat ook deed voor de VS. Rechts is inherent corrupt.

Er zijn ook bakfietsen. Voor pakketbezorging is dat een mogelijkheid.

Je kunt ook subsidies mogelijk maken om bestelbussen elektrisch te laten rijden. En als je zo’n flinke vervuilende micropeniswagen hebt, dan mag je daar niet meer mee rijden, maar moet je die verplicht naar de schroot brengen en krijg je er in ruil een compacte bestelbus voor terug + enkele maanden lang gratis opladen.

We zouden ook het stroomnet flink moeten opschroeven, zodat het de extra capaciteit aankan.

VVD veroorzaakt problemen, water is nat.

Hoe zit het met gratis OV? Langere bussen en treinen? Hogere frequentie, en ook meer in de provincie? Minder asfaltvervuiling?

Met het versnellen van de energietransitie en zorgen dat het stroomnet meegroeit? Subsidies om over te stappen naar duurzame transportmethodes zoals FIETSEN, OV EN ELEKTRISCH RIJDEN?

There is a European alternative to Visa/Mastercard! It’s Wero.

Oh definitely, she’s an enabler. What we need to do, as leftists, is to look at WHAT the fascists are doing to win votes, and use their own tactics but tweaked for the left.