So depressing that this feels like an absurdly out of date joke of something from decades ago... but it's not quite a whole year old, we've just had 30 years worth of scandals in this year alone.

I miss the days when 24 hour news networks were so desperate for scandals that they had to freak out over what kind of mustard the president asked for.

I think we should attempt the futurama strategy... what we need to do is put a whole lot of ICE in a big net, and drop them into the middle of the pacific ocean.

For me it's kind of an honesty thing. The biggest thing is if they are lying to their customers there... also apparently lying about where it's based (They are in Lithuania, which has manditory data retention laws), only using panama as a tax haven.

Bottom line is, it's about trust... They have a history of lying about a lot of small things, which then makes me think twice before trusting them with bigger things.

I mean to me one of their huge red flags is their advertising. IE my big never using nord, was one of their commercials where basically it was voicing a guys vacuume, smart TV and Alexa, and vacume etc... talking about him behind his back. Which then the narrator is "Your devices are all talking about you behind your back, get nordvpn to protect yourself".

That and many more were just blatent misrepresentation of what a VPN can and can't do. (point being, in the real world... everythings running https or some level of encryption. If your devices are compiling information, it's via their connection to their services. Of which a vpn isn't going to do jack to protect you from.

Also a lot of shady things still within there, 2019 they had a major data breach, Many complaints on their service auto renewing.

you can get a summary of a lot of parts of it with https://windscribe.com/vpnmap

(site catalogs data breaches, complaints etc... with VPN services).

Big mystery to me, where the hell is opera getting so much money to shove in front of every youtube channel out there. It seems to be one of those things that every creator starts recomending at the same time... which automatically makes me cringe because, well obviously almost everything that has a huge influencer push, is complete garbage (air up, honey. nordvpn etc...)

I don't disagree on that... Especially the leaders. Schumer and Jeffries have proven again and again that they find progressives a bigger threat than republicans. However we have seen it is possible to get progressives past them and into power. Aside from violent revolution I don't see anything else that represents a way forward.

Well we can fully agree, democrats are republican light. The bottom line is most democrats are opposed to rational policies like, removing ICE, DHS, Regulating AI etc... All politicians who are for any of those things, are democrats, no politicians who are for those things are republicans, and the system does not allow 3rd parties. Point is the only strategy within voting... is.

Primary all centrist/moderate democrats with someone that actually stands with the majority of people. Support those primary candidates as best as possible, and then vote for whoever the democratic nominee is, as I still would hold that the worse democrat is still currently better than the best republican.

I mean there's 2 sides. Analog fails in more gradual forms. Digital obviously has the advantage of... replicating massively over large distances very quickly... IE your document could be backed up to a remote server as often as you save it. Versioning can exist so, you can have every change every update... differences between the file at 3:33 and 3:34 pm.

True on the gist that, a single corruption can't hit a whole typed document usually, IE your 20th keystroke on a typewriter can't randomly damage the first 19 characters.

I would say though digital excels in being able to be replicated, and versioned.

My thoughts exactly, what's next "cigarettes are bad for your health, fossil fuels may have something to do with climate change"

But all homophobes are secretly Lindsay Graham

Or after... or in-between trump 1 and 2.

Really currious what the overlap in really shitty politics and really shitty behaviors is. I mean obviously we've got the blatent shit at both ends like Gingrich, Trump, Sinema etc..

Clinton, kind of iffy on both ends there, I mean honestly he accomplished a lot of things republicans wanted but couldn't have done... ripping up Glass-Steagall etc.. His affairs could be looked at as far less, but I do have to point out the power dynamics are what should have been the bigger deal than they were. I haven't heard much on how Weiner's policies were, I don't think I've heard much on his policies, only his too hard to stop laughing at misconduct.