I don’t care about the user’s age, I care about their behavior.

There are adults here that act immature and bicker like a child, I don’t want those either.

Its easier to enforce a code of conduct and ban users with bad behavior, rather than something arbitrary, like age.

How are you even suppose to verify someone’s age without violating privacy?

sh.itjust.works

you can use a throwaway email

Then: “Who would be insane enough to take on the Donnager?”

Now: “I didn’t think we’d lose”

(The Expanse Reference, sorry I love making references)

Kinda fitting tho, since the Donnager was

I agree. Personally this sounds pretty reasonable. I don’t want young children on here. Any expectation of anonymity on Lemmy, a social network, is not warranted.

/s

Weird, I recall Lemmy being so happy when Australia pass the “social media ban” for kids thing. Guess Lemmings forgot stuff like this also impact adults.

Standard Notes is end-to-end-encrypted, syncs to the StandardNotes server, and the local storage can also be encrypted. You set it to send a daily backup to your email (in encrypted format)

As a 华裔-American, I agree, we should just use all the true names of places.

I mean, what kind of a name is “China”?

Its 中国, officially 中华人民共和国.

So… lets use the real names, shall we?

This is what class would sound like:

"Alright kids, it’s time to learn about countries. As you know, Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó¹ is one of the largest guó jiā² in the world…

Xiāng Gǎng³ is a tè bié xíng zhèng qū⁴ that has de jure autonomy. Just like guǎng zhōu⁵, and the rest of guǎng dōng shěng⁶, people generally speak guǎng dōng huà⁷ (aka: yuè yǔ⁸), as a fāng yán⁹…"

You get the idea. (The “I agree” part at the beginning is sarcastic)

I bet like 90% of the Western world has trouble even hearing the words with the tones. Tonal languages is very difficult to learn, I only know how to speak a bit because I was born into it, even I have trouble with words, since I grew up in the US, I haven’t spoken Mandarin in over a decade, and only still use the basics words of Cantonese at home (since political conversations is just a one-sided conversation, with parents spewing propaganda, not even worth talking about).

If I hear people attemping to use the native (non-Anglicanized) pronounciation and absolutely butcher it, I’m gonna feel so much 尴尬/cringe. (Sorry, I just feel like people are mocking me when they try to say 你好 (Hello) since the Tones feel so “off”)

Edit:

Translations in case you were confused:

• ¹ People’s Republic of China
• ² Country
• ³ Hong Kong
• ⁴ Special Administrative Region
• ⁵ Guang Zhou (City)
• ⁶ Guang Dong Province
• ⁷ “Guang Dong” Language (commonly known as “Cantonese”)
• ⁸ “Yue” Language (another name for "Cantonese)
• ⁹ Dialect (technically, Cantonese is a Language, but they didn’t have a flag and an army… so… 🤷‍♂️)

Missing the news lately?

A billionaire bought the white house.

Enjoy Oligarchy! 🫠

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As a US citizen they cannot deny you entry, but they can still make your life difficult on entry.

Just to add, even if they obey every law, they can still mess with you a lot.

They can:

• Hold you for 48 Hours withiut any charges
• Confiscate all your belongings (and probably they will try to crack any encryption on devices)
• Put you on a no-fly list
• Conduct targeted surveillance on you
• Send Pegasus malware to your new phone
• Use cell tower triangulation, doesn’t matter if its Graphene OS, it still needs to connect to cell towers if you wanna make calls or use data.
• Randomly send agents to tail you make you feel scared, park in front of your house and constantly monitor your activity.
• In certain scenarios, use thermal imaging to see inside your house (even though some courts have ruled against it), and it would be difficult to even prove they were illegally using thermal imaging, since its passive.

These are all legal and previous administrations could technically already do that, it’s just that they usually weren’t this crazy.

As a PRC-Born, Naturalized* US Citizen, I do not feel safe entering/exiting the US borders right now. I told my PRC-Citizen father and grandmother (who lives with us) to not do any border crossings.

*technically it’s Derivative Citizenship, Green Card holders under the age of 18 automatically become a citizen if one of the parents become a citizen

If I were a cis-gender white person born in the US, I would probably feel okay crossing borders if I don’t have tattos and don’t have a high-profile anti-trump publicity. I would still wipe any phone before border crossings, load it up photos of my cat, and random nature photos I’ve taken. Zero political content on the device.

You said you naturalized during Biden’s presidency, which means you’ve been citizen for less than 5 years. During this time period, if the government believes you are a terrorist, or a member of a “communist” or “totalitarian” party, they could revoke your citizenship. So maybe wait till 5 years + 1 day after your naturalization just to be safe.

But consider permanent emigration to UK, in case things get worse in the US (I’m not saying to do it now, but keep in mind the possibility).

Edit: So if you natualize in January 1, 2021, I’d wait till January 3, 2026, to be extra safe.

But remember, this administration is gonna try to find every legal justification they can if they really want to get you.

Nah, they actually can’t arrive faster due to time dialation.

When I was a teen, I said life was too boring and maybe someone should start a war or something to spice things up.

Fast-forward to:

• russian invasion of Ukraine

• Hamas-led Attack on Israeli Civillians and subsequent Israel-led Genocide in Gaza

• Coup Attempt in South Korea

• Transition to fascism in the USA

• Trade wars against the entire world

I DID NOT MEAN THIS 💀

Not exactly healthy…

In fact, its worse than even fast food.

iPhone about to cost $5000

iPhone 17: Patriots-Only Edition

@mizu6079@lemmy.world has no such weakness

I’m team right-wing.

The right chicken wing is always tastier, so I eat that first.

Edit: Wait, this is politics? Wrong thread.

Mullvad and IPVN has too few servers, its very likely all their IPs would already have been flagged. ProtonVPN has like 10,000 servers. (The CEO Controversy aside, it’s OP’s best bet for an IP that isn’t banned) ProtonVPN also accepts Cash.

Not sure how an .onion address helps?

If you are using Tor, the admins wont know who you are anyways.

Anything before 2005 is old to me