That’s great; you should always have a full slate of scrutineers.

Are the Democrats also recruiting an army of scrutineers? Because we know about Republicans and projection.

So… is that enough votes by their constitution to move ahead with the constitutional rewrite?

I figured they might have done a dry run through with him at Mar a Lago before he flew out… but you’re right; he probably thought shaking the basket looked like fun and did it because he’d seen the employee do it.

Yeah; my reaction to the headline was “…and good riddance?”

I never signed up for Facebook in the first place because I knew some of the people involved in the original Facebook. I didn’t want them getting their hands on my personal info because I knew what they’d do with it… and they did.

Their fries are definitely different; probably designed to minimize steps.

It suggests that Trump may have practiced making fries sometime though; just not in a McDonald’s.

Over half will. Of those, some will overlook it focusing instead on the perceived intent (“he’s trying to be like one of us”). The rest will vote for someone else.

MUCH earlier. That was his role in the 1980s.

Only by the Conservatives. They’re already reaching out to see what it would take to get the Greens to form government with them.

Hopefully the answer will be “You do know your policies are precisely what we’re campaigning against, right?” BUT one of the Green seats is West Van, so anything is possible.

I find it interesting that for decades, I heard people saying “gotta vote liberal/conservative to keep the conservatives/liberals from getting in. NDP? They have no experience governing and look at the debt the SoCreds got us into.”

And now that they’ve finally had a chance, they’ve shown us they can do a pretty good job without the corruption of the Liberals or the “burn everything down and revert to the 1950s” of the Conservatives.

What they haven’t figured out yet, because they’re actually about governing the people and not about gaining advantage for a minority group, is how to market themselves and distract people with single issue causes.

Ah; that makes sense.

Tor is indeed about providing cover. US Military and US and German covert operations use it, and hide in the noise. But in those situations, it’s a win/win, as they provide funding and everyone gets to have a somewhat secure channel.

I’d argue though that in any case where you don’t control the exit node, you have no expectation of real privacy. So it becomes a question of how much you’re willing to trade.

China has been focusing on influencing local elections for over a decade. What’s changing is that we’re starting to notice.

He nop’d on an interview targeting young black voters. That will probably excite his supporters and cement their desire to vote for him.

The irony is that even the ones filmed before a live studio audience dubbed in laugh tracks.

How do they know your phone number? Only a cryptographic hash of it is sent to their servers.

Signal is designed to collect meta-metadata. They don’t hold any information that can tie a person to their account, but they definitely know how those accounts interact via their servers.

In Canada, the regulations have been 8 hour workday with two paid 15 minute breaks in that period and an unpaid 30 minute break for salaried workers, unless otherwise agreed by contract, since I started working in the early 90s.

This means a lot of people work 9-5:30 or 8:30-5. Union jobs generally have a 8 hour day in total with a 1 hour lunch break, and other professions have other arrangements.

For a number of years, I took my “lunch break” at 5 and just worked a straight 8 hour day with two 15 minute breaks.

Some people realized when Signal removed SMS support on Android that Signal is a private org that can make changes as they see fit, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

Other people get stuck on the fact that Signal requires a legitimate phone number in order to operate.

In both of these situations, the people up in arms usually don’t understand WHY the changes were privacy and security improvements and make Signal a better platform. But the argument about not being fully in control still stands.

So it could be argued that Signal may keep you safer than if you try to roll your own Matrix or SimpleX server, and it’s definitely a better platform for anyone who wouldn’t have a clue how to set up and secure their own server. But people have definitely had reasons for leaving it.

Personally, I use both Signal and Matrix, and push average people towards Signal.

Indeed. With no central control, it seems easier for a single individual/org to dominate any given discussion, but otherwise it seems close to what reddit originally claimed to be.

I’ve used them both the exact same way, which kept me away from a lot of the junk on Reddit until they killed my access via Apollo. Then I just switched over and subbed pretty much the same topics.

I thought people had been moving OFF signal lately?

Personally, I’m on signal, but never signed up for a Meta property because, well, it was obvious from the start that they had bad privacy controls that depended only on corporate promises.