guismo

joined 6 months ago
[–] guismo@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

less goods would be produced as there is less demand So that's a bad thing?

From a capitalist/profit point of view I can see it is, but isn't it good for everyone?

Like having less cars on the streets. That's probably bad for profits, but good for everyone. Though I guess humanity is still very far from a point where people in power would be able to see it that way.

[–] guismo@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Norway! Yes, sorry!

Like I said my memory is hazy with the research I did many years ago. I just remember it's not in the 9 eyes.

The last part was also important. Back then it didn't even need javascript. I think runbox6 still doesn't.

Anyway, I like them and I hope they got more users. My only concern is of them going bankrupt. But many years later they are still here.

[–] guismo@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

Good to see another user. I hope there are many of us!

[–] guismo@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

https://runbox.com/

https://runbox.com/price-plans/

The cheapest option is like 20 dollars a year. I think I have the middle one. Not sure, it's been on that for years. I'm pretty sure it's the cheapest privacy oriented one. I tried several since then but I always end up back on runbox.

Server location is Sweden. Which was a major reason for me, outside of 9 eyes (I don't remember, I researched a lot before getting it but the details are forgotten).

I think they don't encrypt? Not sure. This was never that important to me. It was more about server location, privacy respecting and open source friendly.

I don't like their runbox7 though. Luckily it doesn't seem like they will ever disable runbox6. It's old school but reliable and fast. Runbox 7 is too full of feature and issues for me. You can easily toggle which email system you're seeing or loging into.

Oh yeah, and runbox6 is super user friendly. It's old style with just what you expect. Runbox 7 may be more depending on who you're asking. It's not for me, since it's too many icons and too little text.

Oh, and about trustworthy, it's more than I thought it could be. Every issue I had was quickly answered by one of the founders, who was super helpful and honest, even where it doesn't help them. When my domain expire I'm going to let them handle it. I didn't want to leave all eggs in one basket, but I even told him, they are the only company I would trust with this.

After all interactions I had wit them, they are literally the only company I trust. But that took years.

[–] guismo@aussie.zone 6 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I've been using Runbox for many years and it's weird i don't see recommendations.

[–] guismo@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago

Blocked in Australia, which is even more expected. I'm amazed Aljazeera isn't blocked here. Or anything the us and israel doesn't like.

 

I never paid attention to the newspapers, so I don’t know if it’s always like this.

All defending maximum murder or suffering (through genocide or global warming). What the hell is wrong with this country?

If these are the sources of information of a population it’s not hard to imagine the result. I am really hoping it’s just the rich playing with their toys (the newspapers) the way they like, but that it is not really effective in brainwashing the population. That they question what is fed to them.

Anyway, I just thought it amazing and to share my depression with more people. Maybe that’s just every day news and nothing unusual. I imagine it’s probably all owned by the same zionist or super villain or something.

Since the image can’t be read, the one on the left says that if Australia doesn’t support the international court on netanyahuhaha the country becomes terrorist. The second is the typical “people are not supporting my genocide, I’m being holocausted”. The third is asking for harsher punishment for those “fools” destroying the economy and wasting people’s time with imaginary environment issues that could lead to human extinction.

edit. I posted to lemmy.world by mistake. Lemmy is so confusing... edit2. Is the image showing? It didn't show the first try.

[–] guismo@aussie.zone 11 points 3 months ago

Is this sarcasm? Or is the last sentence really something someone could think?

[–] guismo@aussie.zone 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, your scenario is too stretched for me to comment on it.

I can only comment regarding their patent system and I 100% agree that the north american patent system is a cancer on the entire world. A massive problem that needs addressing. But as mentioned before, you can worry, and work on more than one problem without invalidating them. But that problem involves much more variables and powerful companies/ people/ countries to be resolved. I won't comment if that is the solution for the problem you present since I think it's more complicated than that. But, again, I think destroying the north american patent system would benefit the whole mankind. I just have no idea how that can be solved without the whole world going against them.

The rest, I guess I can only say that you can't judge which battles people decide to fight, if you agree they are fighting something bad. You fight to demolish their patent system and others fight to end their imperialism. Both fights are valid and everyone except the abusers would benefit from them.

[–] guismo@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

I'm not arab, but as he said, you can worry about more than one thing. But I think the biggest difference with your tuberculosis example is: One is a problem due to lack of action, the other a problem due to direct action. You have to be competent to do something about one, while the other, just by not doing anything (by not giving them loads of money and weapons) they would already solve the problem.

So one problem requires effort to be solved, the other, they are putting effort to create the problem and it would be as easy as just not doing it. In theory pressuring them in just not doing something should be easier than doing other work.

Put in a different view, what would be your worse behaviour?

-A person you know died of turberculosis and you didn't take them to the hospital

-A person you know died because you shoot them, or you gave someone a gun and money and told them they could shoot them?

Which action would get more people against you?

[–] guismo@aussie.zone 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

zero_gravitas posted a very educational video showing younger biden saying "if there were not an Israel, we’d have to invent one" and "the best 3 billion dollar investment we make". So I don't think he has a history of even pretending to stop them. It will be the same thing again, as it has been with almost every US president.

I remember having the luck of being in front of a tv when, before trump won for the first time, I saw him complaining about why american money goes to israel and if he wins he would stop that. At that time I knew his position would change completely once he was elected. But if anything, the crazy orange candidate has a much better history of being "against" israel than the other senile, though in the end it made no difference. Both supported them as much they could, and the girl would do the same.

But the fact that she showed them support just makes it worse. At least people who voted trump for the first time could be fooled into thinking he would do something about israel (if they ignore all his other insane promises).

So, you don't have to worry. Israel wise I don't think anything changed and the genocide would not be worse (as it can't anyway) if trump lost.

Edit: I can't find his post, but here's the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HZs-v0PR44 Lovely leaders they have there. Not that Australia fares much better with military issues, but at least we are not so powerful, therefore not so dangerous.

[–] guismo@aussie.zone 1 points 4 months ago

is going to erode their already shaky position with purported allies.

As if... their history is full of stuff worse than this and nothing ever happened to them. Whatever chain they have in the ones they command is unbreakable. I think anything sort of nuking Palestine wouldn't affect them.

They can literally bomb their allies if they don't do what they want with no consequences. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing

[–] guismo@aussie.zone 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Noooo! I don't care about Google play. I only use it from fdroid. It's the most important app on my phone! What will i do now?

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by guismo@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone
 

Final edit: Sorry guys, this got out of hand as I feared and it would take too long to answer everything properly and it would just offend more people.

I got some nice tips for finding places and learned more about Australian's views on the subject. I should have been more careful with what I said. It changed my opinion somewhat but people here would still not like it, so I'll keep it to myself.

Thanks for the very civilized and nice answers and I'm sorry if I didn't answer. I would like to, but in private, or this could become a witch hunt. I do not wish to offend anyone or be attacked because of that. As someone commented, I am the problem here.


Hi everyone, I’ve been lurking for a long time and decided to try to ask something I can’t find out.

First, please be tolerant about the question. I am an Australian citizen, but from a foreign background, so cultural things that seem sacred and unquestionable here are not the same to me. I wouldn’t be crazy to post this on reddit (though I deleted my account ages ago) because I know all the posts would just be attacking me (if you don’t like it, leave, are you defending terrorists?, and so on), instead of helpful comments. Hopefully it will be different here.

The question is: is there any Australian town free from military worship? I mean monuments everywhere, pools and parks named after it and so on. Somewhere I can forget and pretend that this is not how the rest of Australia is.

I’ve been traveling around trying to find a place I would like to settle. I found many small towns I liked, but it seems that the smaller the town, the higher the military worship. They may not even have a public toilet, but they will have a military worship statue that seemed to have cost more than all the town to build.

I love Australia, specially the outback, but the military worship issue is so big that makes me think of looking for another country. I know my taxes are being used to send people to kill whoever the US doesn’t like, and the country prides itself with this history. But if I can ignore that, I can pretend to myself that it’s not true and live happy. I tried to fight the issue for a long time but it makes no difference except to me, sacrificing my well being for nothing. But if I keep being reminded every time I go to do groceries trough the park “invasion of foreign country divine pride park”, it will be impossible. I already try to avoid news and ABC, so it should be possible.

I’m sending a picture of some of the places I’ve been to, without much luck. Funny enough, the town I liked the most, Roma, is the worst, with military trees every 10 meters.

Anyway, that’s it. Maybe I’ll get downvoted to oblivion, but let’s try…

By the way, I don’t know if I am posting this correctly, on the right place and everything. It’s my first lemmy post as well. It's very confusing to know the community to post. It shows everything everwhere!

Edit- I posted this before, thought it was in the wrong place, deleted and posted again. Now I see 2 of the posts and the deleted one has 2 upvotes. This is so confusing...

Edit2 - Before I get any comment, I dislike military worship from any country, not just Australia. Military may or not be necessary in modern societies, but worship and praise should never be acceptable and is specially dangerous when applied to a group with power. Citizens should always be skeptical of their military group, its uses, powers and permissions. It should be like owning a gun. You may be allowed to have one but should be constantly proving you are not doing anything wrong with it. The definition of what is "wrong" or "right" should be constantly questioned as well.

Edit3 - just a reminder, that I do not wish to change anyone's point of view. It's your tradition and culture and I respect, but I don't have to like it and I would like to figure out how to avoid it. It is all. I would like to stop Australian involvment in American wars, but besides that I don't mind if Australians like military or not, but I would like to avoid being exposed to that, assuming that is possible, which is the reason for the post, so I can find out.

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