This is your friendly reminder to buy testing kits if you do drugs, so you know what’s in them.
The kits aren’t expensive or difficult to use :) when they had a drug testing tent at a UK festival recently, something like 2/3rd of the people didn’t have what they thought they had.
You’re not wrong!
If you do have something like a Pixel / Galaxy already, consider installing DuckDuckGo browser. It’s not just a browser… it also runs an onboard vpn, which has the side effect of blocking ad tracking requests. I was kinda horrified and surprised to see what kind of info most of the apps were taking, and how often they were making the requests. GPS (both coarse & fine), IMEI, post code, email address, all kinds of other identifiers.
You’ll have to manually let a few apps through (stuff like the wallet, maybe banking apps) but everything else is blocked on my phone.
If I was going to buy a new smartphone right now, I’d prob get a Fairphone:
Fairphone is a Dutch electronics manufacturer that designs and produces smartphones and headphones. It aims to minimise the ethical and environmental impact of its devices by using recycled, fairtrade and conflict-free materials, maintaining fair labour conditions throughout its workforce and suppliers, and enabling users to easily repair their devices through modular design and by providing replacement parts
Personally I’d love to see sanctions applied to USA for what they’ve done in Iran - though don’t get me wrong, I don’t support the Iranian regime either - BUT you really cannot compare Iran to Ukraine.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but Ukraine hasn’t spent the last two decades funding terrorism and proxies to destabilise the European area? Let’s not pretend like Iranian gov is some helpless, innocent angel here. Many were clapping for regime change when it was being earned by the blood of innocent students. Perhaps many of our countries would’ve been involved in this conflict, if it was planned and executed sensibly (though I’d argue the conflict straight up wouldn’t have exploded to actual conflict if anyone but the stupid orange turd was at the helm)
You have activated the Command & Conquer fanbase. Good luck haha