I have a dumb question: what’s to stop someone from creating a GPG based front end for any kind of unencrypted SMS? It could encrypt as you send and decrypt as you receive. If two people have each other’s keys isn’t that end to end encryption? Why would you need to rely on something that the OS or carrier is providing?

“Intel chief” had me thinking the chipmaker. 😂

You hold it just like a TNG hand phaser lol

Taiwanese laughs in local 7-11 or FamilyMart

I agree that flaming asshole level of heat is silly. But capsaicin activates heat receptors - people with less tolerance perceive it as pain but for those of us that can tolerate it, it’s more heat coupled with maybe just a little pain. Heat (or the perception of heat) can act as a flavor enhancer.

Ozzy Osborne is famously known for mishearing the lyrics to Jimmy Hendrix’ Purple Haze as “excuse me while I kiss this guy”.

Mmm magnets.

Well I wasn’t holding you personally responsible but that’s because you guys don’t get to vote for your own leaders. Tell you what: if you vote out Xi and all the other motherfuckers that want to 武統台灣and vote in leaders that recognize Taiwanese sovereignty then we can be real friends.

Lmfao. 不放棄武統台灣 is hostile.

I really don’t care if everyone in China has a government issued unicorn that farts rainbows and shits soft serve ice cream. We want nothing to do with you. Leave us alone. Why is this so fucking hard for you people to understand?

I would not be able to vote for my own leaders and representatives. Everything else (housing, healthcare, etc) can be fixed but once that is taken away we will have nothing.

Edit: I don’t agree that Taiwan is a vassal state or forward operating base for the Americans. Look at the US presence in Japan and Korea - if the Americans really viewed Taiwan (or if Taiwan viewed themselves being American lackeys) as being that important they would have sold us F-15s or other advanced weaponry like they did to Japan years ago and had actual bases here. I wish Taiwanese in general would show lesser favoritism to the Americans as a cultural and human rights sort of thing but when you have no real international relations you do what you must I suppose.

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Hello friend, you seem to reasonable. Here’s a viewpoint from a Taiwanese. You will never see me say anything positive about China because you are an existential threat to our way of life. As individuals you all may be perfectly nice and lovely but as the bully next door we want nothing to do with you.

Can confirm. This works amazingly well.

They should have burned a few boats to stay warm.

“That’s us, dude!” “Oh, yeah!”

Small correction. They were not exonerated. They were pardoned. A pardon implicitly means guilt. Exonerated means their conviction was overturned.

Yup. Our family for better or worse is invested in the Apple ecosystem but US iPhones not having physical SIMs is really making me consider switching to Androids the next time we have to get new phones, even if Androids are pretty problematic too.

I think that’s enough internet for today. You win.

There is an official flatpak but I like deb better. Running the flatpak for now.