The distinction between hallucination and reality doesn’t really exist for humans either. To discover a divergence between sensor data and perception, a human needs to somehow find out the truth another way. The only way to find anything out is via these sensors (using your ears to listen to someone telling you that your eyes are deceiving you etc.).

No one loves democracy more than America! America would never overthrow a democratically elected government to protect the business interests of American corporations!

Gee, I really noticed. It’s been impossible to pirate anything this year!

They could just make that illegal too. ISPs in the UK are legally compelled to store all of their customers’ internet activity for at least a year. I also found it interesting that there’s been a minor scandal over the Home Office asking Apple to backdoor their end-to-end encryption, but no such scandal over the encryption which Apple provides by default on iCloud - I think it’s almost certain that Apple gave up the keys to the UK (or someone in five eyes) quietly, and that the only reason they withdrew the end-to-end version from the UK is that the Home Office’s request for a backdoor was leaked to the Washington Post.

All in all, the only person you can trust to encrypt your data is you.

Je le trouve frappant qu’Apple n’a que dû arrêter le chiffrement de bout en bout et pas le chiffrement défaut - ça suggère qu’ils donnaient déjà les clés du chiffrement au gouvernement Britannique.

What makes you think the new Syrian state will want to give the Kurds any autonomy?

This strikes me as really strange, but Ocalan surely knows more than I do about what is necessary for a free Kurdistan. I do doubt that the people living in Rojava will simply surrender their land to Turkey/Syria, given what that would mean for the freedoms they have fought so hard for.

Don’t be fooled - Trump cut a deal with the Libertarian Party promising he would do this if he won the election. It seems that yet again, he can conceive of no morality greater than transactionalism.

The Telegraph loves this. “<Insert shocking headline> MAY OCCUR!!” = It has not been proven mathematically impossible.

While there’s no clear evidence of plans to attack NATO, Russia is creating the conditions for it.

Have they read the news within the last 3 years?