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  • But to where?

    Following the launch, Proton’s CEO Andy Yen told the Keystone-SDA news agency that the company had chosen Germany as the location for Lumo’s servers due to the planned VÜPF reform. The company is also setting up locations in Norway. However, Proton does not want to completely pull up stakes in its Swiss homeland.

    Depending on your threat model, you may want to look where to pick servers (if that’s an option, which should be, and if your data is spread such that none of these countries can figure things out, the better).

    Norway is good, though it is part of the 9 Eyes network; and Germany of the 14 Eyes.

    Depending on your threat model, best to always look at which country your VPN has its headquarters, and where you pick your VPN.



  • You’re completely right; it is true that Wero is only rolled out in a few countries now. But it’s also new and basically going to be a continuation of iDEAL (a nicer name imo) at a European level.

    Monero is indeed crypto and whether it’s scalable, I do not know. But what attracts is that it’s much more decentralised, I feel. It’s like Ethereum in that regard.

    I also agree with you that breaking down the duopoly is necessary and should be done by the European governments. In fact, I think it’s the simplest way to foster extra competition. Break up Visa and Mastercard and introduce a few European competitors.









  • Eh, I feel like horizontal decentralised planning would work better, where people tell what their needs are and the day-to-day administration (which is tasked with exclusively doing that task, and cannot increase its power) then does so.

    For example, take a small town somewhere. It has no bus stops, schools, or such.

    Under capitalism, flight would continue; the doctor leaves, and even the grocery store too; and we get a ghost town eventually.

    Under central planning or a mixed-market economy, the flight would mostly be halted. But this comes at the cost of a lack of input and choice. It is up to the central committees whether the town can continue to exist, or not.

    Under decentralised planning such as in anarchocommunism, however, people give their direct input to what they need, and in return the administration must act accordingly. Thus a bus stop might be built; a school, and so on.





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    Real answer coming. The poster in the pic is ignorant; but at least they asked in good-ish faith, so I ain’t judging.

    Being queer (ie. anything other than straight and/or feeling the same gender as how you were born) is a crime in many countries.

    From things like…

    • not being able to donate blood if you’re gay
    • not being able to adopt only because the government wants to know if you don’t have the same genitals
    • being prohibited from pissing just because some idiots think toilets should be segregated ("separate but ‘equal’ " shit, much?).
    • child genital mutilation of intersex people (this also happens to cishet women and men!)

    to more…

    • being stigmatised and punished (fines, imprisonment or even death penalty) if you talk about (very much real) queer issues
    • bullying, harassment, physical and verbal attacks, mob attacks, misnaming and -referring
    • not being allowed to have sex together because the government is poking its ugly eye into what you do in your bedroom
    • no medication or surgery allowed which saves your life and health (vaginoplasty, a womb transplant, HRT, penile transplantation, etc…)
    • being forced to change who you are (eg conversion torture), often through cruelty and indoctrination.

    And even cishet people, with a certain “privilege”, still also suffer due to this artificial segregation, because of:

    • not being able to get medication as easily due to gatekeeping
    • abortion being limited or prohibited, and so your rights get eroded; the man controls your life. A rapist’s cells then have more rights than you!
    • men’s mental health issues not being talked about because some idiots find that “sissy” even though it’s very important for your health. This leads to increased suicides.
    • exclusion from competitions simply because of your genitals being somehow relevant (they aren’t and shouldn’t be!).
    • segregated general institutions (bathrooms, schools, etc)… I attended a school without any of these and I can tell you, it’s much better than anything, as people from ‘both’ sides learn to understand each other better.
    • cramped, hateful, ignorant responses to very real issues from police, media, and society – leading to the issues getting ignored, or worse.

    Frankly, we’d all be more relaxed with it all, if we just put a shovel up bigots’ arses, and called them pussies/hags/fools for not caring about everyone. Free speech especially means free speech for the repressed queers and allies!