kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

@CyberSocialist @Wetrix Socialism is an utopia in the best case, in reality it's a vague concept that is defined by everyone differently. In the worst case it's a totalitarian nightmare as in USSR and economic collapse. So socialism is no answer and never was - constant change, reforms, dialogue are the only answers that ever worked.

@cck There is a lot of that indeed in the whole Eastern Europe unfortunately.

Levels of interpresonal trust are very low - Russia 27%, Poland 22% although there are some interesting differences highlighted in the study here https://ourworldindata.org/trust

A bit of a paradox is that people in the same countries routinely fall victims of mass-scale scams, Ponzi schemes etc.

Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet’s Google have failed to provide adequate transparency for global users around political advertising on their services, a privacy advocacy group said on Tuesday.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tech-privacy/privacy-group-says-tech-giants-not-delivering-on-political-ads-pledges-idUSKBN1WH2NW #privacy #twitter #google #facebook

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https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-to-take-a-big-step-to-fusion-electricity

Here's that hippie, pro-privacy, pro-freedom Apple y'all so love: Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/02/apple_hong_kong/ #HongKongFP

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@yogthos The problem with US is that its politics is just as obsessed with ideological anti-socialist ideology as USSR was with anti-capitalist. This obsession switches off pragmatic and rational policy-making.

So Johnson actually wants NI to leave but still be subject to all the horrible "EU bureaucracy" that he was moaning about all the time?

"Northern Ireland stay aligned with EU regulations on all goods and agri-foods, while at the same time leaving the EU’s customs territory"
https://www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/alexwickham/eu-crazy-leaked-tory-memo

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"Вообще стоит отметить, что именно по Сбербанку традиционно наблюдается наибольшее количество продавцов и самый широкий спектр услуг. Продают практически всё – от выписок и балансов до кодовых слов" https://www.devicelock.com/ru/blog/tseny-chernogo-rynka-na-rossijskie-personalnye-dannye.html

My cousin is a dentist and she just told me this story that she'd better not...

She: - What's this unusual smell from your mouth, have you checked your stomach recently?

Patient: - Oh, glad you asked... (and here goes a 5 min lecture about the benefits of urine therapy)

So respect your dentists, they still have to inspect these mouths...

@Wetrix I have this feeling when in US, UK, Poland and Russia so you're not alone at least :)

I guess they could reuse scripts from 60's nuclear attack & Soviet invasion awareness trainings

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