dil [he/him, comrade/them]

I’m surprised ******** is even allowed as a password tbh

Supply-side pedophile prevention

First, I think there’s some risk if she’s telling people you two are dating. Definitely tell your wife, but you should also probably talk to her parents about it.

1. If they start hearing stories about their daughter and you, they already have context for it
2. You can work with them to decide how to proceed

This is an opportunity to teach her about boundaries, appropriate behavior, and unrequited love in a relatively controlled environment. She will listen to you in ways that she won’t listen to parents.

You could have a direct conversation with her about how it’s not ok to tell other people that you’re dating. Tell her that it makes you uncomfortable that she knows you have a wife but still told you she has feeling for you. Tell her that you are happily married and not interested in dating a fourteen year old. Model clear communication.

And empathize with her that it’s hard to have feelings for someone that doesn’t like you back. Talk about how you’ve handled it in the past. Tell her that it’ll pass. Tell her what she should know as she grows up.

She’s a teenager, so her feelings for you will go away regardless, but I think you can make the rest of her life tangibly better by having a real conversation with her.

There are plenty of people that think that each of those things are morally wrong, and some who would say that they’re much worse than a bomb threat.

Those people are writing the laws.

Legality and morality are two completely different things. It’s a comfortable lie to think they’re the same.

Having an email provider that will not comply with law enforcement is important because any of us could be next on the target list.

I’m not saying “yay, it’s morally good to send bomb threats.”

Folks who care about privacy don’t want their email provider engaging with local authorities.

when tyranny becomes law rebellion becomes duty

“Illegal” is NOT immoral, and when laws are increasingly being passed by right-wing nutjobs, folks doing the right thing will be doing illegal things.

• women getting access to an abortion
• undocumented folks avoiding being sent to El Salvador
• trans folks getting healthcare

Any platform has three options:

1. Always comply with law enforcement, and give up vulnerable populations that are targeted by the government
2. Never comply with law enforcement, and make law enforcement track down bomb threats some other way
3. Sometimes comply with law enforcement, based on… what criteria? where’s the line?

3 is obviously the thing we’d like, but no company is going to open itself up to legal threats by doing it.

This article shows that Proton Mail is falling into category 2. I think that category should exist to protect vulnerable populations.

I could see it being a “softer” way of a community enforcing good behavior, especially for things that don’t rise to the level of mod action.

I’m not on an instance with (visible?) downvotes though, and I do think that makes me more comfortable voicing opinions.

The hexbear mods/admins will probably have gotten community feedback and done a poll, so might be worth checking with them?

Jesus Christ this is fucked.

The MAXIMUM estimates at the number of folks in the US illegally is below 20 million. So this bill is proposing that we spend over $4,000 per person and only to cover the next 4 years.

I’m curious about section 287(g) is of the immigration and nationalities act is - the fact that it’s not named is a bit concerning.

$20 million to “check minors for gang tattoos” is fucking gross… oh, wait it’s actually $40 million bc we have two departments doing it.

its employees had received emails containing obscene and vulgar content sent via Proton Mail.

the email service reportedly refused to share details about the sender of the allegedly offensive emails, despite a police complaint.

Last year, the police department of the southern state of Tamil Nadu had sought to block Proton Mail after the email service was found to have been used for sending hoax bomb threats to local schools.

Honestly, pretty glowing review of Proton Mail

You may have already looked into it, but I’ve been pretty happy with stremio. There are guides on getting it hooked up with real debrid + torrentio, and the end result is reliably search for what you want -> click play.