You use Signal to avoid government surveillance.

I use Signal to avoid government accountability.

We are not the same.

Oh, he knows. They took him on an airplane and made him eat food he had just called "poison" for a photo shoot.

He couldn't say no, because of the implication.

The "Stan Kelly" persona itself is a fictional satire. The work is actually done by cartoonist Ward Sutton, whose standard political cartoons under his own name criticize the right wing directly.

The ifunny watermark really tips this over the edge, comedically.

Any idiot can build a bridge that stands. It takes an engineer to design a bridge that barely stands.

Elmo is beloved and doesn't hurt anyone. Put some respect on his name.

if it's immediately rewarding

Hell of a caveat there.

Twitter has accounts that Brazil says violates Brazilian law.

Brazil took steps to shut down those accounts in Brazil.

Twitter refused to cooperate, going as far as to fire all of its Brazilian staff, so that it can't be reached by the Brazilian courts.

The Brazilian courts ordered all of Twitter be blocked until they comply with local law that they designate a corporate representative who can be served by court processes.

Brazilian ISPs complied with the court order to block Twitter.

Starlink did not comply, and Brazilian courts froze SpaceX's Brazilian assets, including bank accounts, and started making moves towards de-licensing Starlink, including its 23 ground stations located in Brazil.

The issue escalated to the full Brazilian Supreme Court, who ruled that the assets should remain frozen until Starlink starts complying with court orders.

Now Starlink says it will comply with the court order.

It is a noise coming through the speakers themselves. As many have pointed out, it is almost definitely feedback of some form.

Like back in the day when leaving a 2G GSM phone next to some computer speakers, it would make certain buzzes as it was receiving a text message or phone call.

I still think it's bullshit that 20-year-old photos now look the same as 20-second-old photos. Young people out there with baby pictures that look like they were taken yesterday.

Oh don't worry, malicious .exe files were all over the forums back then.

That's the joke.

In the late 80's, there was a huge consumer push for tuna fishers to change their techniques so that they didn't kill dolphins while catching tuna. Before then, tuna fishers used to actually track dolphins, because following the dolphins generally meant being able to find the tuna faster. Then, they'd surround the tuna with their nets, indifferent to the dozens of dolphins they were drowning as part of the process.

By the 90's, there was legislation on how tuna cans could be labeled as "dolphin safe," and stepped up enforcement of the existing laws that made it illegal to intentionally kill dolphins.

During the height of this debate in the popular consciousness, of course, this comic came out joking about that link between dolphin deaths and tuna canning.