• Election Audits occurs by selecting random batches of votes to verify, and they doesn’t show discrepencies.

• There are poll watchers across the political spectrum, the Democratirc and Independent poll watchers are there, there are no widespread reports of election irregularities.

• States run elections, even if red states or swing states are rigged, it still doesn’t explain why safe blue states also went red by double digit percentage points. The trend seems to be nationwide.

My Conclusion: Although the election was not totally fair, the unfair aspects didn’t happen in the form of “rigged votes”. They happened as unlimited billionaire political spendings funding propaganda and misinformation, voter roll purges, the First-Past-The-Post voting system and the Electoral College that causes the emergence of a Two-Party System which causes voter apathy because people don’t feel like those are rea choices, and inflation that just so happen to occur duing Biden’s presidency, and voters not understanding that: correlation =/= causation; and thus blamed Biden for it, further fueling voter apathy, and lower turnout from Democratic voters.

What’s doctor? I don’t need them since I have a friend that just shows up whenever I feel sad. Idk why my parents never say hi to my friend, fucking rude.

Preferably that takes a large SD card, otherwise has at least 128gb of storage. I want to be copying files directly on to it in a file browser and for them to play in the right order

I mean, if you want all those features, your best bet is a budget Android smartphone, then just physically sever the wireless antennas. If you’re in the US, get one of those “locked” phones, they’ll be cheaper and you won’t be needing to make calls anyways (don’t get the verizon ones, they require activation). A Moto G Play is like less than $50 (USD).

Just sever the antennas and transfer the VLC.apk from a computer, and you have a nice MP3 player.

🤣

I would just reply with a guide to shoplifting 😉

Does that matter if your os is still Android (like most people are)?

OMG

I was born in PRC, and I immigrated to the US along with my family. They just look at WeChat all day, and regurgitate CCP propaganda, and also pro-maga propaganda which is kinda an interesting combo of propagandas, considering how maga is always anti-China. Keeps blaming Democrats for the “migrant crisis” like BRUH we are immigrants 🤦‍♂️.

They left for economic (and to some degree political) reasons. Its fucking hard to get a job in mainland China, like theres 1.4 billion people ye know what I mean. And there’s no unions, no strikes, no workplace safety, no labor rights.

Yea they look at their current Union job in the US and still be like: “China wasn’t that bad”

Also funny thing is: I was the second child to be born in my family… during the One Child Policy… 👀

So I was not supposed to be born, my parents violated CCP policy, and they would’ve killed me (as in a forced abortion) if they found me, so my mother had to hide until I was born, but even then, I didn’t have legal documents (like birth certificates) until they paid a massive fine.

AND THEY ARE STILL SYMPATHETIC TO THE CCP 🤦‍♂️

Gee, thanks mom, guess if you love CCP so much, just let them take you away and force an abortion? At least I wouldn’t have to deal with this fucked up world.

Like, that’s my best argument against them every time they bring up pro-CCP views, I’d just be like (in Cantonese, obviously): “So you agree they should’ve killed me? Why didn’t you just let them then?” that shuts them up every time.

I mean, this world is so bizzare, I feel like I’m on some Truman Show and everyone is just messing with me

it can even send images

Bruh

Imagine transmitting dank memes using a ham radio in the middle of battle 🤣

New Trending Term: “Died In Committee”

👀

Is there a ready-to-use meshtastic device? Because they look interesting but I hate to have to build it myself or have to dig around and flash the firmware. I like stuff to be useable out of the box.

You Wouldn’t Download A Car! 🏴‍☠️

Use radios: Gmrs or Ham

Do not transmit from your base, travel somewhere further away, then broadcast. Change location of broadcast every time.

Use encryption.

One method is using my Rattlegram + SSE method (both open source)

Rattlegram is a mobile app that converts text into audio

You play this audio over the radio, and the other side can use this to decode and get back the text.

All you have to do is encrypt the text using any open source program. I like to use SSE (Secure Space Encryptor / aka: Paranoia Text Encryption on iOS). You could also use PGP, but it would take longer to transmit the message since asymmetric encryption results in longer ciphertext.

Copy-paste the ciphertext into Rattlegram and voila! (Just reverse the process on the other side to get the plain text)

Obviously you shouldn’t use any iOS or Googled Android. Use Graphene OS or something like that. Physically disable the antennas on the phones, you need them airgapped.

Alternatively, you can use One Time Pads, although it would be slightly harder to generate, distribute, and store OTPs, but if you use OTP, you wouldn’t need to rely on digital encryption, and its more secure, but it’d be much slower to manually encrypt your text.

For resistance radio stations: Shortwave - although there aren’t really any interesting stations right now, but if a civil war starts, I could see someone in Canada or Mexico start broadcasting to give the US revolutionaries info. Shorwaves can travel long distances.

At least that proves a human wrote it

🙃

Not an old person, but my parents see me as retirement fund…

And on that score, I often muse if we should be grateful that MAGA and Trump are accelerating the timetable as they have…

Accelerationism

Freezing credit is free…

I only believe it to the extent of:

It doesn’t make sense to:

Not exist --> Exist --> Not exist

So I’m just (baselessly) theorizing that existence is more like:

Not exist --> Exist --> Not exist --> Exist --> Not exist [Repeat… forever]

I think if you die, there is some unmeasurable energy that transfers to living being that’s born around the same time and area where you died. Like, scientists couldn’t see atoms until recently, maybe there is like some “soul” or whatever thay haven’t been measured yet.

But that’s just a theory, Lemming theory

Check the url and domain is correct and make sure HTTPS is on. It should be fine. I use Tor for Lemmy all the time.

(Not that it will stop the NSA or anything, but like… I wanna waste their time trying to trace the connection. If they wanna find me, they’ll need to spend the extra time to do their investigations)

What if I logged into my Lemmy account outside of Tor without a VPN one single time? So Lemmy should have received my real IP and location at some point.

Yea, you slip up once, its essentially as if you never used Tor. Don’t accidentally use a normal browser to log in lol 😉

If you want an “anonymous” account. You have to create the account using Tor, then only ever use it over Tor.

Otherwise, you should just use clearnet, since there’s no point of using Tor sometimes and clearnet on other times.

Apple requires like $99 per year to keep the app in the store. Google play requires like $25 one time fee.