George Orwell: There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct-in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5539
Camus: Maybe it's not about happy ending. Maybe it's about the story. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5540
Karl Marx: We must announce to the governments: We know you are the armed power which is directed against the proletarians; we will move against you in peaceful way where it is possible, and with arms if it should become necessary. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5541
I'm going to be a very mild troll here...
Hey y'all! Say Hi to my delightful sister! @emilie_stims
She's new to the whole fediverse thing and a little overwhelmed. If you want to catch her interest, I recommend talking about birds, ren faire, singing, and folklore as some easy topics!
But do me a favor and let her know how friendly the fediverse is ❤
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So the root thing behind this that we only relatively recently figured out is that much of it comes from us having value based identities (as opposed to organization/association based identities).
Allistics tend to have much more fluid relationships to their values, because while important, their values aren't fundamentally who they are. Instead their identities are based off of their social structures (think things like "team spirit", "hometown pride", etc). Their values shift based on whether people are watching and how their actions relate to the groups they associate themselves with.
We on the other hand typically root our value purely in our values: the choices and actions we make. We're consistent regardless of whether someone is watching, as well as whether or not the thing impacts groups we're a part of. (things like "If it can be destroyed by the truth then it should be")
So of course we're angered by injustice... it's people and groups around us betraying their own values constantly. And so often one of our key values is "stand up against oppression", so we'd be betraying ourselves if we didn't get infuriated.
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I might actually end up using Signal.
My issue has always been how it takes over your phone number...
https://theintercept.com/2024/03/04/signal-app-username-phone-number-privacy/
Signal’s New Usernames Help Keep the Cops Out of Your Data
Ephemeral usernames instead of phone numbers safeguard privacy — and makes the Signal messenger app even harder to subpoena.Micah Lee (The Intercept)
Shiri Bailem
in reply to Lolita • •Edit: Incorrect, see Fabio's response
@Lolita as far as I'm aware there's no user level language option, it can only be set for the server.
So for a different language interface you have to find a server in that language.
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Raroun
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you can add
?lang=en
to the url which will temporarily switch the displayed language.Example:
https://friendica.opensocial.space/?lang=en
for englishhttps://friendica.opensocial.space/?lang=de
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Marco R.
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