Why is this notion that science is some great scam so prominent in American culture? Where does it come from? Is it just that people don’t understand it and want to feel better about their ignorance?

I see they’re promoting something called the Helium network. What’s the relationship between that and Meshtastic? Are they completely different things?

Here’s the smarter way of saying it:

Feynman: Magnets (and Why?)

This is common with these sociopaths. Our middle-aged techbro overlords too are hugely ignorant, yet convinced that the only knowledge worth having is what they already know, and the only jobs worth doing are the ones they can do.

Bill Gates walked into the meeting “riding high” because he acquired patents for malaria treatments. Reality beats satire every time.

Bill Gates will never be a good guy.

Your posts are a bit confusing to read because you don’t capitalize Windows To Go. Capitalizing it would make it easier to understand.

The Republicans know the free market is a myth and the only way to win in a capitalist system is to start rich and cheat. This involves convincing the plebs to believe in a free market.

If you told me it was naughty funtimes with two other British blokes I’d believe you.

I’d use a Kill-a-Watt or similar to check how much power it uses, before deciding whether it’s worth installing anything on it. Also check how much noise it makes, unless you have a separate room for servers. Enterprise servers aren’t always a good fit for home use.

Yes, as I understand it, by “stock” Android OP meant any of these OEM-supplied Android installations as opposed to a custom version you’d install yourself. Although the “stock” Androids are different from one another, they all share the same relatively poor baseline privacy because they all send data to Google, on top of which they may also send data to the phone manufacturer and the cell network provider and possibly other organizations. This contrasts with custom versions of Android like GrapheneOS which are designed to be better for privacy and send less data to Google.

Binary on fingers really comes into its own when you need to order 1023 beers over heavy background noise. Except when there’s a mix-up and you end up with -1 beer.

Sounds like cabinet material to me.

Can Google still see contacts if not using their contacts app?

Probably. Android has a contacts database with which your contacts app interacts. And Google Play Services, which you can’t disable in stock Android, has access to everything, including this database.

Plus they can use location to see who you meet up with, and get their info and their contacts’ info from their phones. One way or another, Google can build up a pretty thorough profile of your social circle.

It seems he was behind them, just too cowardly to put his name to it publicly:

https://prospect.org/2025/11/08/why-does-schumer-keep-trying-to-cave-government-shutdown/

Your location, contacts, nearby devices, nearby WiFi, search history, voice query recordings, which apps you install and use and when, a log of activity on your phone, your advertising profile, which accounts you set up on the phone, possibly facial recognition for photos you take, who you call and message (if using default apps) including which phone numbers you connect to, events in your calendar, browsing history (if using default browser) and YouTube activity (if using the YouTube app).

Those are the main ones that are usually mentioned in articles about this. Some of it won’t apply if you use only open source apps and no Google apps. But some of it is baked into the OS and the Play Services, and difficult or impossible to avoid.

Check out the Wikipedia page someone already suggested.

Certainly seems that Schumer was behind this despite pretending not to be:

https://prospect.org/2025/11/08/why-does-schumer-keep-trying-to-cave-government-shutdown/

Are you really asking for the name of the author of the article?

“The white nationalist movement used to be very fragmented and had a lot of infighting,” Balgord said. “The reason that we’ve been warning about the size and the threat of the white nationalist movement in Canada right now is because they have managed to sort of figure out a unified and coherent strategy. And they are successfully recruiting large numbers of people doing it.”

Not good. Canada needs a broad antifascist movement, including communities and mainstream political parties, to ensure that the Nazis don’t get anywhere near as far as they have done in the USA. There’s still time, but if we leave the country in the hands of neoliberals while doing nothing to counter fascism or to provide a socialist alternative, we’re leaving the door wide open to Nazis. For now though, there’s still time to disrupt their funding and their organization. And if the NDP can pick the right leader, someone who is an energetic and unashamed socialist (like Zack Polanski in the UK) it could still provide the electoral alternative people need to steer the country away from the rocks.

OP explicitly says stock Android, not a Custom ROM.