Zombie

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[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

That's how anarchy has been portrayed by propaganda media since time immemorial because it scares those in power.

Anarchy means without hierarchy. That's it. Rules can still be agreed upon. It just means there isn't one person, or group of elites, setting and enforcing the rules, but that they're agreed upon by consensus.

Just like hierarchical systems, there are many different variations of anarchy. Very few, if any, serious forms call for chaos and everything goes.

Why? Because it would just lead straight back to Might is Right. "I'm bigger, stronger, more powerful than you, so I'll make you do as I wish" isn't a part of anarchist theory.

Anarchism, despite seeming a simple concept on paper, is a difficult and complicated idea. Not because of the core principles but because humans and human behaviour are weird and hypocritical at times.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's MTG, right? Who's the jumpsuit guy?

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 1 points 3 weeks ago

Which Google Translate thinks means Red Stubble haha

It means Red Point

https://getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/guides/the-gaelic-origins-of-place-names-in-britain/

Gaelic defines colours differently from English. The term "red" here means the orange-brown hue of the rock, which is most obvious in the foreground of your picture.

Great pic!

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Buachaille Etive Mòr translates as "great/big herdsman of Etive" for anyone curious, with Etive being the name of the river/glen.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracleum_mantegazzianum

And the carrot plant looks near identical to Giant Hogsweed because they're both in the same family. One has a delicious carrot underneath and will do you no harm, you can even eat the green tops. The other will cause you severe burns even just by brushing against it. The plant itself doesn't even burn you, it destroys the skin in such a way that sunshine is what burns you.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What does "exposed your alt on .ca" mean?

Can you intertwine Lemmy accounts from different servers somehow?

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It validates that governments can see what's happening on Telegram, and that makes Telegram a target.

They can't go after the likes of Signal because they have very little to go on in the first place. They can't say definitively what's happening there as they can't see any messages. Unlike Telegram.

It's not a conspiracy that Signal are compromised, so they're being ignored. They're being ignored because there's nothing to see, so governments might as well spend resources going after the apps where information is visible instead. At least they might get a result. E2EE apps are too difficult.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Signal only delivers a promise that their E2EE will be enough to make the information govts get useless.

Signal do more than just a promise. Their encryption techniques are available to see. You can confirm if it's enough protection for you or not. Telegram are the ones making a promise. I'm not saying they've broken their promise (as evidenced by the arrest).

But it is just a promise when Telegram still has the ability to see messages. Signal can't see messages and therefore don't have to rely on a promise that can be broken (willingly or not). They instead rely on encryption, which appears to be far stronger than any promise could be.

For all we know, this is performative and the French government already has access to Telegram's servers and can see everything. If they have access to Signal's, oh well, they can't see shit.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Which part of the US 🇺🇸 is Austria 🇦🇹 in?

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 37 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Flying insects are not necessarily impossible to control. You can promote the populations of their predators.

The problem is, that usually requires promoting a mixture of amphibians, birds, reptiles, small mammals, and other insects. To do that, you need a habitat full of various plants, trees, and terrains, but vast swathes of land have been turned into dead monoculture, so the predators die out.