China scanning private messages - bad, evil, dystopian, mass surveillance
EU scanning private messages - good, protecting children, necessary, nothing to worry about
I remember reading the novels in like late elementary school to late highschool and thinking Voldemort lacked sauce because his thing is he goes around casting the death spell at people. The books made the biggest deal about how evil he is, even having a gag about a book in the forbidden section of the library about "evil artifacts" puss out and say, "Horcruxes are too evil for even this evil book of evil things" when it's literally just phylacteries. His whole arsenal of awful is limited to, "lmao he uses the death spell...and phylacteries...and and...and he mind controls people? Can you believe that?"
Meanwhile, Umbridge gets two books to be that two-faced prim and propper old biddy from your neighborhood church group and PTA who nobody really likes, not even the priest or the principal, but everybody suffers because she's agonizingly involved in every bodies business, and than it turns out that it's all just a facade. You find out all the grotesque skeletons in her particular closet, all of them stuffed there in pursuit of clout and that there's really no sin or cruelty she wouldn't descend to if she could get away with it and it furthers her image publicly.
I guess you could summarize it this way.
Voldemort is a Saturday morning cartoon villain, written through the eyes of a school teacher who tacks nonsense on without realizing it just adds to the ridiculousness. Like, he's evil because he's a rape baby and therefore can't know love.
Meanwhile, Umbridge was in the Epstein files.
The vote is over — and on paper, we lost. Chat Control 1.0 is reinstated until April 2028.
But look at how it passed: with just 314 votes in a 720-seat Parliament — because the EPP’s second-reading trick meant opponents needed 361 to stop it. The bar to block it was set higher than the bar to pass it.
It carried on the last day before summer recess, with barely 600 of 720 MEPs in the room. What Parliament rejected in March passed today — on an empty chamber and a procedural tilt. That should trouble anyone who cares about how democracy works, not just about privacy.
What this means in practice: US tech companies are again allowed to scan private messages without a warrant or prior suspicion — direct messages on Instagram, Discord, Snapchat, Skype and Xbox, and emails via Gmail and iCloud.
The real fight now moves to September, when Chat Control 2.0 — the permanent regulation that reaches into end-to-end encryption — returns to negotiation.
Brazil was better when their players were womanizers, drunkards and slightly out of shape. In other words, when they were behaving like Catholics— letting the power of friendship and good fun do the heavy lifting.
Evangelical Protestant sterilization has flattened their ball, ruined their samba, and obliterated their swag.
World historic aura loss.
Karoline Leavitt:
Got a job in the press office at the White House during Trump's first term
Left the White House and called January 6th, "“a dark day in the history of the United States Capitol”, praised Mike Pence for certifying the election, praised the officers who protected the capitol
Changed every single view point she had to run for congress and claimed the election was stolen
Lost her congressional race where her campaign and treasurer had illegally accepted campaign donations over the legal limit and had never repaid donors
Back at the White House
Waited until Trump won to disclose in 17 amended campaign filings over $300,000 in unpaid campaign debts no one knew about with 2/3rds of the debt composed of illicit campaign donations made in excess of campaign finance limits (very illegal)
Married a real estate developer 32 years older than her worth millions of dollars
tldr for my generation: go find a 60 year old business owner to marry and sell your soul and all your values to destroy our country and steal money from the American people
Hey @EU_Commission, you owe a public explanation after deleting this post today. You cost us Europeans 4.5 billion EUR per year to maintain. At minimum, stay accountable, transparent, and honorable after you deliberately spread misinformation on social media.
My mind is still blown by this. My wife's very expensive bike, was nicked. No Police. Someone had a car robbed, there was CCTV, no Police. Someone was burgled, no Police. A woman was stalked, no Police. A man was mugged, no Police. ALL in the same area.
What did Alastair do to warrant a 'check your thinking' visit?
*checks notes*
He highlighted how a new Green Party Councillor (thus likely insane) allegedly has an issue with people drinking outside my local pubs, as THEY HAVE FOR THE BEST PART OF A CENTURY.
Said Councillor I've met. I brought up the insanity of the 'Tit Whisperer' nutjob liar that is the party boss and all his insane campaign manifesto. Also that transwomen are men. The response was 'yeah, but, you're not voting for him' and some 'blah blah'.
Correct, I was offered the chance to elect someone from a party who had aligned with Jihadis and, apparantly personally, has an issue with the politest people in London having a beer next to the River.
I've lived here for 6 years. The landlords, landladies and bar staff know my name, my wife's name and our babies name. As do the corner shops, coffee shops, supermarkets, postlady etc
I've NEVER seen this councillor in any of the pubs here.
Heck, until canvassing time I'd never seen him ANYWHERE