Holy shit, it would be so funny if this started an 80% 3D printer market.

bloody murder about our lack of military readiness.

I mean this isn’t hurting our military readiness nearly as much as everyone seems to think. They should focus on how he is using this to try to harm individual soldiers access to healthcare.

If I were Biden, I’d draft an executive order, go on national TV, and explain the reason why I have to use emergency authorization to use an EO to make sure our military has the leaders it needs to be ready.

I mean I hate Tubby as much as anyone and he is a piece of shit but that step is not necessary at all. Our military has the military leaders it needs and they’re doing those jobs, they just don’t have the requisite rank. It happens more often than you’d think.

Edit: If anyone disagrees with what I’ve said I’d love to discuss it with them.

It’s insane that one Senator has that much power and Tuberville is a unqualified, moron but ultimately I don’t see this being a huge issue for the military. They will simply have those people fill those slots without the requisite rank or have another GO cover down and do that job. A good chuck are probably positions created solely so they can have a place to put those GOs anyway.

There are Linux distros like Tails which will be very hard to use day to day, but if you are laser focused on privacy, it’s between that and CubesOS (not Linux).

QubesOS. Also TailsOS isn’t too bad if you do persistent memory and don’t mind slow internet traffic over Tor. I find it plenty usable for simple browsing and downloadikg small files.

forcing messaging services to integrate backdoors, thereby undermining end-to-end encryption._

Wouldn’t this only apply to messaging apps that do the encryption for you? I’m curious how this could be applied to something like PGP/GPG or SHA256.

And that’s fine, the Fediverse gives you tools to not have to deal with that through silencing or defederation.

But for many people on the Fediverse, they’re here specifically for other things, and being able to interact with the corporate social web from outside of it is ideal for them.

But that’s seems to go directly against what the Fediverse was built for. They say that “The fediverse is a collection of community-owned, ad-free, decentralised, and privacy-centric social networks.” Threads seems to be the antithesis of that. If people do want that, they can find a different platform or create their own. Not coop the Fediverse.