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I can’t remember the site, now, but I literally couldn’t log into one this week because the email never arrived.

Well, email allows you to solve that issue by self-hosting. But what you can't solve is that if you do self-host, gmail will drop your emails to spam or just discard them completely, just because it feels like it, even if you do the whole dance with DMARC and have used the domain for a good few years. It's frustrating as shit.

Don't forget the Ukraine war and the ongoing social, health and economic consequences of the pandemic

You're about 2 weeks too late for that, US&Israel have committed multiple war crimes already.

The previous post-911 logic of "Dave slapped me because I was an asshole to everyone in the class, so now I'm going to torture and kill Rick who kinda looks like Dave to me" was not much better

Well, technically the condition was to expel the israeli and US ambassadors. This is the other way around, and AFAIK withdrawing your own ambassador is considered a less aggressive move than expelling the ambassador of the other country. And either way I strongly doubt they will do anything about their US relationship. So this seems to be just a based thing to do rather than trying to comply with iranian demands

P.S. it seems israel already withdrawn their ambassador from Spain last May, so this move now feels completely unrelated to the demands.

This is a really naive take - this amendment (which requires message scanning to be targeted) passed with a slim majority and could well have failed. In that case the existing mass surveillance ("voluntary scanning") would probably keep happening at least until 2028.

The council meanwhile is overwhelmingly pro-message-scanning, and they (together with the commission) are the ones who are pushing to break e2e encryption. There will now be talks between the three institutions to decide on how to proceed. Sadly I expect that some "compromise" will be reached eventually.

Poland, Lithuania and a few others became "the west" very recently, and didn't get in on colonialism directly; hence "most" in my claim.

I get your point, but if you actually go out and speak with women who trust you, chances are they will all have multiple stories of harassment and/or SA that will make your skin crawl. It's not just fearmongering, there are a lot of awful men out there (in absolute terms)

By that logic it should be "peanut butter substitute" as well

Literally anything is better than coal, oil and gas. Renewables are the cheap option to produce energy when possible, and nuclear is insurance for base load in case we never quite figure out grid storage at scale.

It didn't start out from a good place either. US in the 70s was still homophobic, racist, and bombed the shit out of middle east. Reminds you of anything?

No idea :) I'm not familiar enough with the Iranian/Persian culture to even make a guess.