emdash [comrade/them, comrade/them]

Cuba has resorts. It’s one of the most popular vacation destinations for people from Canada, if I remember correctly.

My bank app works fine, not sure what they do differently

The point is that people severely exaggerate how “unusable” a degoogled phone is. There are FOSS alternatives to most things, and anything there isn’t an alternative to is probably a shitty service that you’d be better off without (see: burger apps)

MicroG might be installed, but I don’t use anything that uses it. Since Aurora lets you search for apps that don’t require it, I always go for one that doesn’t.

Before, political cartoons were shown primarily in a local context (or in international papers to an audience that was more aware of political things) so labels weren’t needed. These days, political memes are disseminated online to an international audience who don’t necessarily know what every single US politician looks like. I have no idea who the person on the left is without a label, for example, besides “that person who said ‘we’re all going to die.’”

This doesn’t strike me as an example of over-labelling, the way that gets satirized in Kelly comics.

I don’t even have the sandboxed Play store and everything works. I use Aurora to download APKs for anything that isn’t FOSS (which is like, two things)

“Mirror mirror, on the wall: who is the most popular of them all?”

I love the episode of DS9 where the Fedseration are like “let’s mine the wormhole!” and everyone thinks it’s a great idea. I was like “wait, isn’t that a war crime?” when I watched it.

Their monstous, civilian-killing weapons of fascism; our glorious, freedom-defending defensive grid.

Safer to watch it from the balcony than through a window, honestly.

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This is probably what he was talking about RE: the apps