Of course, this raises the question: if Jews fared better under Muslim rule than under Christianity, why would they leave their alleged homeland and go to Europe, only to want to go back a thousand years later?

https://www.un.org/unispal/document/statement-ohchr-08aug24/

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/11/outrage-over-video-leak-of-is...

I belive if you search for ‘Israeli soldiers gang rape prison’ you’ll find multiple links to it.

The IOF has been notoriously lying about killing and torturing civilians. Not only that, but even soldiers caught red-handed on video raping prisoners have not only gotten away scot-free but also been allowed to rejoin the army. Is there a reason why we should trust anything such a genocidal, morally corrupt organization has to say?

Many people raised in democratic societies don't fully understand the intricacies of the relationship between the military and dictatorships; they see the military as a tool in the dictator's hand to wield at will. This couldn't be further from the truth. A (strong) military in a dictatorship is its own institution, largely isolated from the rest of society and granted its own perks and benefits. The dictator can wield the military only to the extent that it aligns with the institution's goals. Competent ones try to align the military's goals with their own; incompetent ones get overthrown.

Because of this isolation from broader society, the officers and soldiers believe that what is good for the institution is good for the country. They're not suppressing their citizens; they believe they are protecting the republic.

The U.S. Army is already operating as an isolated entity from broader U.S. society. Monetary corruption is quite substantial—consider the medium- to high-ranking officers and their relationships and revolving doors with defense contractors.

I'm not saying the U.S. is going to become -insert non-democratic country here-, but if we ignore the usual Western caricature of Stalinist-style dictatorships and realize that there are multiple forms of eroding democracy, you'll start to understand why it's not such a far-fetched idea.

It’s also interesting that you served in the U.S. military and didn’t recognize how self-serving and institutionally corrupt it is. I come from a country with an oversized military relative to its government, and the parallels I can draw between its behavior and that of the U.S. Army are uncanny.

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I don't understand why there isn't a single distribution that offers a full Secure Boot implementation or LUKS Encryption with a password sealed by the TPM out of the box.

Also, there seems to be a lot of misconception about what Secure Boot does, unlike what the name implies, Secure Boot doesn't inherently provide any extra security or protection. It's just a mechanism to sign the software running on the system.

To make the most out of Secure Boot the distributions would need to sign and lock the boot-loader, kernel, and initrd, Then they could seal the LUKS encryption passphrase using the TPM, so if anybody tries to run any unauthorized software, they wouldn't be able to access the data on the drive.

It would be very similar to what windows does with bit locker; your hard-drive is automatically decrypted on system boot without entering any passwords.

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I made a blog post trying to explain the Intel ME hardware bug.

Understanding the Intel CSME Vulnerability for Mere Mortals - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22534259

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I got the book, tried the audio-book and even tried watching the movie, I couldn't get myself past the first half of the book or the movie.

It just seems (to me) so childish and incoherent, am I missing somthing?