ParadiseLost

25. Bored, just here for the arts.
You're not entitled to more personal information.

[Birds Colour 🕊️ @birdscolour56]

Yes-yes-yes🤓

[El CondeNado @elconde_nad0]

🐂: Señor ¿Está usted jugando?
👨‍🦳: No, pero ellos de allí sí.
🐂: Perfecto, gracias

[🇫🇮✸⌘Lucien Lambent⌘✸🇫🇮🇪🇪🇲🇳🇭🇺 @LambentLucien]

EU friends, read closely and retweet aggressively.

Chat Control will mean scanning of private messages and a complete destruction of your privacy as a citizen.

You don't need to be a tech expert to protect yourself. Here's a setup and instructions that will that help a lot in retaining your privacy:

Step 1: Buy a phone from outside the EU.

This is absolutely non-negotiable and the foundation of your entire privacy stack. Buy a US or Japanese model Google Pixel phone if possible. It's easier to set up privately

Step2: Use Signal for messaging.

Step 3: Download all your apps from third party sources; Discord, Whatsapp, TikTok — all of it.

Stop downloading them from Google Play and Apple's App Store. This is called "sideloading". Most of the apps you use today can be downloaded as sideloadables, including Twitter/X itself.

Step 4: Get a VPN

Consider Mullvad or Proton VPN since they don't keep logs. This is a powerful way to hide your location even if the EU attempts to ban virtual private networks.

For Android:

Consider GrapheneOS. It's a free privacy-focused system. It removes a lot of tracking.

This combo makes it much harder for unwanted scanning or tracking. It's not perfect, but way better than default settings.

Look it up on GrapheneOS dot org or PrivacyGuides dot org.

Start small and tell your MEPs you want real privacy, not mass surveillance.

Our tireless fight against Brussels' hegemonic steamrolling of our sovereignty continues. Never stop.

Stay secret! Stay safe!

#Privacy #EU #ChatControl

[Roko 🐉 @RokoMijic]

Thinking that Fahrenheit is natural and intuitive because *you* grew up with it is just a "breakfast test" failure.

Strike one

Fahrenheit has its zero point in a completely random place at -17.778°C. What is the point of that? 0° Celsius is the freezing point of water and determines whether roads and bodies of freshwater will freeze, rain vs snow of hail, etc.

Strike two

100°F is at least somewhat sensible at 37.78°C, because that's roughly human body temp. But actually there are two problems with this

(a) the outer surface of your body is at about 33°C, not 37°C.

(b) we don't actually feel air temperature, we feel a mixture of humidity and temperature (see:humidex)

So setting the 100 point on the temperature scale to body core temperature isn't even that helpful...

Furthermore, the air temperature often goes above 100°F. In fact at any given time there's usually somewhere on Earth where this is the case. So 100°F isn't even really a good maximum temperature.

Strike there

Bonus problem: the metric system is great and doing anything at all with imperial is a nightmare. People have died because of the silly imperial system.

Fahrenheit sucks

[WORLD CULTURE 🌐 @pedestrian]

Every single painting he drops is an instant classic

[ParadiseLost @ParaLostCube]

@MemesOfCars The legend, the Pagani Honda

[ParadiseLost @ParaLostCube]

@Pirat_Nation only 32 gb vram on a '90? so a barely $1200 card? (okay, rampocalypse, i get it, $1500 max if it's actually limited edition)

it's a fucking joke

for almost 6k MSRP there better be $3500-$4000 worth of actual solid gold on the goddamn shroud

[ParadiseLost @ParaLostCube]

@CoreyLewis86 I am sincerely impressed by the fact this thing looks like garbage from literally every single angle I've seen

More pointless than Audi Cybertruck, uglier than Luce, somehow even more embarrassing than the Mercedes LogoBlob, whatever its name is

[Sander Sassen @SanderSassen]

Als ingenieur wil ik graag even iets verduidelijken. Een airco is een warmtepomp, die de thermische energie, warmte, die door de zon in je huis is gestopt naar buiten verplaatst. Laat u dus niet wijsmaken dat een airco het klimaat opwarmt.

[ParadiseLost @ParaLostCube]

@Sorb3tStan seriously, the caliber of that clown... a 5080 is *supposedly* putting the "high" in "high-end" pc build (and is still a hilariously bad deal - paying 1k or more for only 16gb vram is clownery)

solid midrange is something like rx7800xt/rtx4070, with the rest in line with that

[Sofoets @mosuyanagi]

genuine masterclass of art to make whatever the fuck is going on here and still somehow have House be instantly recognizable

[ParadiseLost @ParaLostCube]

@horsepower I'd assume because (probably) cops and cameras are camping full-time in all the safe-ish highway places

so they choose to avoid cops *and* risk their lives in the process

[ParadiseLost @ParaLostCube]

@SaintSFGil funny, from this angle it reminds me of a Prius

[ParadiseLost @ParaLostCube]

@2Hugh2Mungus It may not be pretty, but at least it's not electronic piston bullshit that may or may not render itself (in)accessible at its discretion

[ParadiseLost @ParaLostCube]

@s__e__a__n__2 words i live by

[ParadiseLost @ParaLostCube]

@gearbox_reviews what the actual fuck is this Great Wall of Nissan

it looks like it was built to protect China from Mongol raids

[ParadiseLost @ParaLostCube]

@GrailArchive looks good from everywhere except the front, where it's a squinting pig 🫠

would actually look great with e30 or e46 inspired mini kidney grills, leaving space for a license plate between it and the lower grill

[ParadiseLost @ParaLostCube]

@Dongerborn @HiraethHayseed It's his destiny