Yeah I don’t know what they’ll block yet but I’m already assuming some of my apps will be blocked. It’s pretty terrible news. I really didn’t want to have to hunt down a phone that was compatible with alternative OS’s.

The prices to import it from the Netherlands decreased from last year (12-13% cheaper than this time last year) which would mean to me they should be able to export more as well.

Hmm, I’ve gotten lucky. I’m constantly doing various things where it is all centralized from my place, but there’s no telling that she’s watching something without a VPN and I opened something in the living room while having a VPN connected. I’ve been trying to use split tunnels recently so my VPN stays on all the time, but I choose specific apps, so like my jellyfin server stays local, but if I torrent something the app goes through Spain, and I usually keep my phone/laptop going through another U.S. location to keep response times down. But I’m sure I’ve had the splits fucked up or just hitting everything before. I’ll have to keep an eye out for that. debrid has been great, think I’ve had 2 outages in 4+ months

That actually sounds like it could be beneficial to a lot of people if we found a way to limit pharma patents.

Free Open Source Pharma (FOSP) would be nice. I’ve only seen small things like the Four Thieves Vinegar Collection before though. https://fourthievesvinegar.org/microlab/

Aka, Israeli Government minister admits genocide has been their goal.

Edit: Also what a desperate attempt to sound as if they were like the U.S. or the U.K. in those scenarios. They are in the position of Nazi Germany. They were the ones expanding their borders and stripping the rights from the peoples/semites in the area who they considered themselves better than. Not to mention, both Germany’s and Japan’s lands weren’t taken and inhabitated and the U.S./U.K. did assist in finding a path that they could rebuild. Japan isn’t a majority Americans, nor is Germany majority English/French/Etc.

Edit 2: so for the U.S. a better example would be what we/they did to the Native Americans, For the U.K. that’s hard to say… maybe Britains treatment of Ireland. But… As history has proven, Ireland survived and has their land and population still.

To bad the world had no food to feed these kids for the last 5 months

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/07/usaid-emergency-food-incinerate-trump/683532/

I mean Brasil will still get orders from the U.S., but it just tells the country to not depend on trade with the U.S. in the future because U.S. companies may not be able to afford to buy your products.

Edit: you guys know this is the entire point of Tarrifs right? To make it so your companies find other countries products are to expensive… So you find a way to make them cheaper in country. Just in this case they won’t find them cheaper… So it will manipulate the amount sold from Brasil… and hurt their economy unless they make trade deals elsewhere to sell any potential losses

Always a terrible feeling

Seems like they are setting Hegseth up to take a few falls to consolidate blame.

That makes sense.

I imagine Amazon has for more influence than Meta do to AWS, could be wrong though.

Not to mention those trained people mentioned above attempting to move here have to fight deportation for checks notes, coming here on a work visa, having a tattoo, speaking your mind, not being white. Hard to say really.

How is it just blamed on “the west”. China, India and other “Eastern” countries are in the UN as well. Would you not have to say it just shows they care nothing about the international community and it is really about their control and power as well? The world is watching executions around the world, and people are just being censored to/from it by their governments. Israel’s biggest trading partner is China by far, almost twice the U.S. Not any huge press from them about stopping.

Hounding someone on something they don’t agree with just makes them shut down a conversation.

Using something like that brings the bias to light without them ending the conversation. You cannot assist someone with seeing bias in media who just blocks you. While it sucks, sometimes small steps help getting you going in the right direction.

How I pointed something out to a family member this morning.

When Israel attacks housing units in a country it is in a “ceasefire” with, the media says they are “threatening the ceasefire.” If someone fires back. The media will say Israel is being attacked and the ceasefire was broken by the other party.

While that should seem wrong to many, it flies under the radar for many.

Well clearly we haven’t been efficient enough in starting conflicts with China. We need to find ways to hurt our trade with them even further

That was the Senate not Congress, but yes those are the numbers. The Senate holds terms 3x longer than Congress and thus do not represent their constituents as accurately. They are a not proportionatly representing the population which is why many believe they should be reformed. (1 member represent less than 600,000 people in one state, while another member represents ~19,000,000 people.). Their votes both count as 1.

So while the majority of Democrats now have an unfavorable view of Israel, where as in 2022 the majority had a favorable view, this takes much longer to get representation in the Senate. Are there representatives that vote against their constituents beliefs, sure. But when a change happens that fast it is very hard for a Representative based government to be able to move fluid enough to represent what the people want vs the payment checks coming from their campaign funders.

A dictatorship is not the answer, but we need voting systems that get accurate representation of the majority of the population much more efficiently. Unfortunately that would make us more of a democracy and the oligarchs don’t want that. Because we would vote to better the majority and shrink the wage gaps. Which inevitably makes it harder for them to control the media when they don’t have as much money to buy all of it. Making more voting go to help the people and not their pockets.

Yes support for Israel was bipartisan. With minority support of Congress to not support Israel.

Biden refused to break the law. If you want legislation to change taxes it has to go through Congress. It was 50 Republicans 2 independents and 48 Democrats for the first half and then 51 Republicans, 2 independents and 47 democrats in the second half of his administration. To fundamentally change things you either can do so legally by having majority support or illegally by overthrowing the government. Impeachment also takes at least 50% of Congress to file the articles. If Biden actually did something illegal he would have been impeached, yet while Republicans voted 50/51 against anything that mattered, they never could get all 51 of them to agree with impeachment, because Republicans were the ones who had to have agreed on EVERY piece of legislation that passed during his administration or it wouldn’t have passed. Saying he was currupt was always a publicity stunt.

I installed a Linux server on an old laptop, then installed Jellyfin. It’s like a Walmart special from 8 years ago, so no graphics card outside of the integrated graphics. Doesn’t matter. I disabled sleep, and power saving settings on the Wi-Fi. I had a USB external 1tb drive hooked to it. The laptop doesn’t even have support for a 5ghz wifi connection. No issues at all. I can run 2 movies at 1080p in different rooms off the external USB drive without issue. Just go for it. I installed RustDesk on it so wherever I am I can remote to it, turn on the VPN and kick off a torrent for whatever movie someone mentioned while at work or what not. Then when I get home it’s there.