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I'm not saying to never use Firefox Android forks, but the reality is that Chromium forks are significantly more secure on Android, such as Mulch (same dev as Mull) and Chromite (Bromite fork).

Again, I am talking security, not privacy, and specifically for Android.

Here is a good write up on the topic from the developer of the Mull and Mulch browsers:

https://divestos.org/pages/browsers

For desktop there are a lot of good Firefox forks, such as Mullvad's Browser, Librewolf, & Waterfox. If a website needs Chrome to work, I just use Vivaldi or Ungoogled Chromium.

Edit: I've made this point a few times, and always with lots of downvotes, just kind of funny. Especially when I provided a technical write-up from the developer of a security focused distro (DivestOS) as well as two popular security focused Android browsers (Mull and Mulch), but hey, maybe you all know better than he does.

Me? I'm an atheist.

Methinks you doth protest too much.

This ladies and gentlemen, is a textbook example of projection.

Isn't that what all the priests used to say?

200 comments in 11 days?

JFC dude.... I've never said this to anyone before, but I think you need Jesus.

Killing another country's civilian is not casus belli, especially when considering both countries are allied.

These terms are steeped in legal precedent and tradition. You may not agree them, or respect them, but that alone doesn't change how they're defined.

But that also doesn't change the fact that this should be a serious diplomatic row with serious bilateral consequences, but so should have untold numbers of other war crimes committed against the Palestinians in general, and more specifically, against countless American citizens within the occupation zones.

Also, I'm pretty sure Joe isn't cognizant about much lately, and I would wager that he only appears lucid when talking about events that happened 50 years ago.

I really think you're missing the point here.

CNN is running a headline intentionally distorting the reality of what this group is. They're making it sound like Musk destroyed the Humane Society.

They want people to feel pity for the world's largest advertisers, or feel angry that Musk managed to slightly inconvenience them.

If you want to have a debate on the merits, you can't have it in an environment like that.

No, I understand.

Do you really think that if it wasn't for their consortium, companies would think "you know what? I think we should run ads next to Nazis".

Hint: No. They wouldn't.

And Musk has even managed to do a couple of worthwhile things in his life as well. I don't see why that means I should disregard every other terrible thing he has done, and will do.

Because that is your argument. That these gigantic advertising entities, who would destroy the world if it meant an extra 0.5% in their net revenue, are doing the world of service and we should be grateful for it.

I am not, fuck them. I hope all their key decision makers and Musk gather for settlement talks, and a meteor strikes square in the middle of the conference table.

1. I'm aware that the Olympic boxer has DSD, and that it's prevalent in an outsized portion of female combat sports athletes. I'm still of the opinion that they should not be discriminated against for using their genetic condition to their advantage in becoming a world class athlete. I see this as no different from how Michael Phelps has a condition where he produces a lot less lactic acid.

2. If you were implying that the Olympics should start genetic testing of athletes and screening them for these types of conditions, I am entirely against that, see my previous response.

Did you miss the part where I was very clearly and specifically talking about the case of trans women combat sports athletes? Those who had male levels of testosterone during their body's development and who then transitioned.

This is a very niche subject, but for some reason people like the user I was responding to, insist on pretending that puberty as a male doesn't matter if the adult athlete is on blockers, and that it does not give them an advantage in a combat sport. I'm not so much concerned about the advantage itself, as I am about the inherent danger to the other participants.

Striking blows from a musculature developed in male levels of testosterone, present an outsized risk of death, or permanent injury, to a female fighter/boxer. A risk that is significantly higher than the normal risks associated with combat sports.

No, I cited a very specific and highly relevant scientific rationale, and then followed up with an example of what happens when you choose to ignore that reality for the sake of, whatever it is you believe you're doing.

Combat sports are combat sports....MMA, boxing, etc., they're COMBAT sports.

But I can tell from your ignoring the scientific reality of the situation, and choosing instead to call me a discriminatory fuckwad, that you're someone who should be taken seriously. Clearly I'm not up to that task...

What I'm going to say has nothing to do with the Algerian boxer, she was born a woman and if we started banning athletes from the Olympics whose rare genetics gave them an advantage, there'd be no reason to watch.

trans women are actually at a competitive disadvantage since hormone blockers also nullify the low levels of Testosterone that women produce naturally.

That is objectively false for combat sports. Blockers do not reverse the years of effects that testosterone has on their bodies development, such as skeletal structure and bone density.

I don't understand this insistence on denying reality for the very niche topic of trans women competing in combat sports, it is dangerous.

If you don't believe me, go listen to the interviews of female MMA fighters who Fallon Fox destroyed, and I'm talking like fractured skulls.