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lol, they can track the IMEI. the phone component still works without the SIM, for example to make emergency calls. that means it is still able to connect to cell towers and you can still triangulate it's position to some degree.

I'm afraid, you'll have to cut the phone in half instead. can't be helped.

Somehow I doubt the big corrupt polluters would stop in other economic systems, but there's only one way to find out.

As a European, I have to say that the libs in this example are right, because the US voting system is completely fucked with the electoral college, winner-takes-all and all that gerrymandering (and soon more).

So they either have to vote dem (however bad their candidate is) and then unfuck it, so they can do a real election afterwards, or violently install a leftist government and proper democracy.

holy shit. he's gone full deport: https://imgur.com/gallery/0WNu076

That was quick.

just saw they're going for Irish since months: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/09/irish-man-seamus-culleton-ice-detention

https://sh.itjust.works/post/55141916

did 4chan leak trolls again? shoo. back under your bridge.

that depends on what you think is honest. maybe the ppl think repeating this discussion again is boring and they dislike it. don't take it personally. you are not your content.

btw mastodon and bluesky don't have downvotes. i think ppl who are here instead on those, decided this way is better. i for one left mastodon in favor of lemmy.

"only upvotes" don't help as much, because you get a gap where ppl don't like it. you can only use ppl who like it to sort, which may be much less than ppl who dislike it.

also, once downvoted from many ppl, fewer ppl see the content and it gets less downvotes.

actually downvotes give less "power to aasholes", because otherwise ppl can post their evil shit like on xitter and they and the algorithm assume silence=agreement, even though agreeing takes only one tap while disagreeing requires writing a comment. this emboldens the "assholes". they get little to no feedback ppl don't like it. on top of it, there are ways/algos to sort by number of comments. so if ppl actually dislike it so much to write a comment, it pushes the bad post up on these rankings, shoving the horrible stuff in even more ppls faces.

don't forget that downvotes mostly help with sorting. they don't mean "this is wrong". they mean the reader didn't like it and it should be sorted further down or even start collapsed. it can just be a highly unpopular or disgusting truth ppl want to swipe under the rug. it can also be totally irrelevant or link/quote sites ppl don't like and want to reduce traffic to or be forgotten (reddit, xitter, fb come to mind)

it's just a quick feedback that can help the community.

it's from the perpetrators. to get more likes for their gangsta lifestyle