If you read about how it was chosen it was elected by a community poll and they mentioned they didnt really verify anything. Yeah, ridiculous thing to do, but possible for a lib that doesnt know what bellingcat is, and they later apologized take it as you want, theyre obviously libs and the other alternatives arent any better, and are probably worse

you could always host your own mail of course but that has its own issues too, you obviously cant host your own vpn so the only option is tor which can be very messy to use regularly

Are there any other decent alternatives for mail that arent just 'store in plaintext on our server'. Of course it will never be perfect but my biggest concern is always weird sysadmins and ransoms, theyre always the most likely threat to an average person

edit: I also feel like proton is fairly 'normie' and most people wont flinch at the email address

Yeah I edited to say that, if you are an edward snowden or something you really need to just not have any computers and sneak into libraries with a usb with qubes on it or something if its absolutely necessary to get on the internet

Theres a lot of reasons to use a vpn that arent just privacy related anyways, like I vpn into chinese servers to get around the firewall (it blocks outside requests or shows different results to westerners) so I can read specific chinese news articles. Proton is probably the most secure choice for that (vpn into hong kong seems to do this fine). Tor traffic seems to not yet be fully obfuscated a lot of sites block it its also slow as fuck

Fundamentally one company gets all your information whereas before it was all companies get all your info, its also been audited and shown to only store your ID in a visible way so

Of course if you're using an OS or browser that has a ton of telemetry that can be used to track you, I'm personally not a privacy absolutist, I'm more concerned about weird sysadmins stealing nudes and knowing my IP or something than a nation state cracking down on me (which they can do anyways)

ive been listening to blue stahli lately. mostly just the instrumentals stuff. gives off doom soundtrack vibes

yeah same

tbh I think their only good album is Data Renaissance, came out in 2022. personally i think the best synth artists are probably Daniel Deluxe, Carpenter Brut, or Power Glove, one of them did Hotline Miami music idr which

trash synth stuff. been enjoying The Algorithm's Data Renaissance, sounds like an old scanning machine with synths and metal on top of it

generally tho you want to max your class's main stat

they are expensive to run and they dont release the full game anymore, 5 years from release date you can have a good experience if you pay for 200 dollars worth of dlc

https://tankie.tube/w/p/6f8pLXDTas2BYDqyiwXm5b

I have all of Phil Ochs, plus some other labor songs. Might add

https://tankie.tube/w/p/6f8pLXDTas2BYDqyiwXm5b

Here's Joe Hill's Last Will, modern take on IWW classic