iOS now has a “Lockdown Mode” which is supposed to be more secure against pegasus, but can break some functionality, but then again, it’s a closed source OS so you’ll have to take their word for it.

You can pull a “reverse michael jackson” to increase your um… size… ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Once you go black, you never go back.

Climate change is pretty good at that…

All he wanted was to let people know. What people decide to do with the information is up to the people. He achieved his goals, it isn’t his problem if people just ignore his message.

Better yet, abolish the state.

What is this scene? I never watched Star Trek, but this image looks so funny out of context, but what’s the scene about? I don’t mind spoilers since it’s so old anyways. I really want to watch Star Trek but not sure if it’s really the type of stuff I’d like to watch. I mean, the only space themed shows/movies that I liked are: The Martian, Interstellar, The Expanse, and For All Mankind. Is this similar, or is it just gonna be too outdated for my liking? (I’m 19-22 years old)

Yea lets shoot the person who demoted him… wait…

Meanwhile, you can use an instance that has them defederated.

This post is on lemmy.ml, an instance whose owner decided to continue federating with lemmygrad.ml for… reasons. Go visit lemmygrad.ml and you’ll understand why.

Found the hacker that defaced lemmy.world

If your comment (the top-level one) was supposed to be sarcasm, you need a /s tag because there are people actually being serious saying that “it’s a conspiracy, couldn’t be any other possible explanation” stuff.

But also, the “hostage” thing is not entirely false, just very exaggerated. They only take your family “hostage” if you are like a leader of a protest or something. But I doubt they care if you are just some forum user that has no followers and “protesting” online. They got too many dissidents within their jurisdiction to care about those abroad.

I can see the message, how do I get out? Do I jump off a building? Please give instructions.

Edit: HELP MY TOTEM IS SPINNING FOREVER. WTF IS GOING ON? GET ME OUT OF THIS DREAM!

Well I, as a former citizen of China, do “speak out” against CCP as in family discussions, in online forums, and sometimes with classmates in school, but I don’t “speak out” as in actually participate in protests. Demonstrations just isn’t my thing. Protesting against CCP gets you labeled a “race traitor”. I mean honestly, with all the racial problems in the US, and having to deal with my abusive family, I really don’t have to energy care about CCP anymore. It’s dead to me. I view China just like how an anti-fascist German view Nazi Germany. There’s no point of protests. It’s beyond anything a protest can fix. Like… why do I even care, it isn’t even my country anymore.

Edit: Also, it isn’t a conspiracy that ethnic Chinese (I’m gonna use the term “ethnic Chinese” because this applies regardless of citizenship status) people don’t “speak out”. People just value “Social Harmony” more than being correct. Like if you live abroad, why care about what happens back in China? Most ethnic Chinese people who lives abroad don’t really feel welcome in their new country, so why be against your former country if you aren’t even sure if you are actually safe in your new one? You don’t end up in a situation where you have no safe harbor in the world. Ethnic Chinese people living abroad believe China will accept them again in-case their living situation abroad goes south, so they don’t want to get on the bad side of the Chinese government. Like what happened with the Chinese Exclusion act in the US more than 100 years ago, and also the Japanese Internment Camps. Maybe you disagree with the thought process, but that is what most ethnic Chinese people think.

Honestly, our attention span is so fucked, most of us only read headlines.

Source: Me, I read headlines most of the time. Too depressed to read a full article.

How would that work if they have a toxic family and decided to kill 2 birds with one stone?

I mean if the CCP threatened my family while I’m abroad, I’d just go: “Lol go ahead, idgaf. They’re toxic anyways. Thanks for getting rid of them for me.” 😎

But too bad my toxic family is already here and I had to endure their abuse. 😥

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Probably just a Canadian.

https://youtu.be/xa-4IAR_9Yw

Hitler has only got one ball,
Göring has two but very small,
Himmler has something sim'lar,
But poor old Goebbels has no balls at all.