Might not be the most convenient option depending on your personal use-case, but have you considered a dedicated audio device? I personally got a refurbished LG V30 because I came across a YT vid while looking for cheap options for having a dedicated “mp3” player to keep archived/favorite episode of podcasts, audiobooks, and music. Seems there is a decent fanbase of folks that love the 3.5mm DAC that phone has (of course has Bluetooth too). It also has microSD slot. Got a 512GB card (can use up to 2TB which I might do at some point). Most of the music I have on it is flac where possible. I keep it offline and just transfer files via USB, but could use wifi to sync with PC if I wanted to at some point. Shit lasts a pretty long time with wifi/bluetooth off only using the headphone jack (helps that the battery was replaced by the refurb).

There are also lots of cheaper Android-based players (I got one before I came across the vid on the V30) but can have some amount of malware and no easy access to their firmware or communities that can advise custom ROMs to safely flash something clean and/or newer. When I got my no-name device I just side-loaded apks to avoid giving access to my Google account (though I plan to keep my V30 offline after I got the last updates for the OS and LG apps). I just wanted to have something that I only use for local audio and just keep it in my car or backpack and have access to the three apps I like (Musicolet for music, Podcast Addict for podcasts, and Smart AudioBook Player for my audiobooks).

Hezbollah would be fools to hand over any weapons (not even pocket knives). They should triple-down on getting more in response. They were the only faction in Lebanon to firmly and actively fight the genocide in a real way. If they hadn’t been hit as hard as they have been, it would have been great add to the Iranian response of waves of missiles with whatever they could. Even if not as much or as big (size of weapons), would mean even more Iron Dome and IOF personnel burned.

They still did so much and have paid in blood, and I hope that they can build back enough to stand against the Lebanese government if needed. And the Lebanese government should really be more concerned with how the IOF has treated Syria, and wake the fuck up. Disarming is not the answer to the IOF, as they will just invade/attack anyway.

This is the only other site I could find with the same title. https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2025/06/20/3338600/multi-dimensional-cyber-operation-destroys-israel-s-internal-communication-infrastructure

Just used unshorten.me on the link from OP, and it seems to go to the site you found.

Thanks for the reply!

I am very lacking in global trade (might need an ELIA5). But what are they concerned about? If stuff can’t go to the US, how does it mean they just automatically go to the EU? Wouldn’t those items need to be bought by companies/individuals in the EU in the first place?

Can’t wait for the headlines of the various crashes given all the other planes produced by them as of late. Not looking forward to the many “suicides” of workers that try to speak out about the toxic corpo fucks causing those issues.

Loving how the pro-violent bullfighting folks are acting as if it bans the whole thing. /s Shit would just ban the killing and maiming parts along with time limits for the bulls. If anything it seems like not being allowed to spear the bull would make their sport much more skill based. Like it is more impressive to deal with a pissed off/stress out bull that has no say in the matter. It seems that even if it wasn’t done now, that the younger gens that already don’t like it would be doing it once they are in power.

They mention that he might have been having a mental health crisis. Given the massive amount of various branches of pigs present. I am shocked that he is alive. Main point being that there is no excuse for literally everyone that has been murdered by pigs while having mental health episodes (especially when they showed up after a relative/caregiver tried calling 911 just to help them for explicitly for a mental health crisis). So many people murdered because pigs are taught to “fear for their lives” above everything. Still shocked that one of them didn’t panic pop a round and set off just everyone (again like we see so often).

Gotta keep backing those “moderate rebels” to keep folks from being able to start being a threat to USA interests with ideas of being independent.

On a more serious note. All the “chaos” being caused by Musk, Trump, and all of the rest means that all leftist orgs, parties, and even just individuals should be going in hard to win hearts and minds now. If the empire is going to hand us such perfect chances, then we should be taking any and all of them. So many of the libs are going around speaking of “organizing” but will just keep allowing the next cycle and further embolden the far-right/fascists.

Not calling for adventurism shit. But the contradictions of what the centrists/libs are coming back on them faster and harder than any time in my life. Their leaders have been shown to care more about finding reasons to never use power than to do anything they speak of to the masses come every election cycle. The masses that are sympathetic to stuff leftists talk about, but fear sudden change are now having to deal with it anyway.

I may just be dumb and overly hopeful in what some of the shit happening can be turned into. Would rather get razzed on here for it, and at least know I can learn from it.

They should be treated the same as fascists. Bash the fash and never allowed to know anything but fear.

Kind of feels like a US effort to work Japan into doing what the MIC and other war hawks want. Use fear to get mass manufactured consent like after 9/11 and the recent “news” pieces from Syria and that New Orleans crime scene (or the 40 beheaded babies).

I saw this comment and took time to read it. Shit is perfect for the use-case you mention here. I even learned more than I thought I would. So double win in my book! Such levels of decentralization for practical purposes makes sense with a nation as large as China. And does seem to give a reasonable example of why China’s model is more quickly able to have adapted to major changes globally and internally than what the USSR system turned into.

“One size fits all” is not practical in countries over a certain size (both in landmass and population). Even in the US we see huge federal level approaches end up gutted to the point that the name of the bills/laws don’t reflect the names given. What makes sense for a mega city like NYC or LA tends to be completely wrong for the large rural areas/regions.

The article showing that China very much has “states’ rights” makes it easier to show how a socialist system in the US could very much work (and pokes many holes in the propaganda of “authoritarianism” of the central gov we are taught). Also that China’s socialism is actually much more bottom-up than top-down.

Sounds like it just means we need cannons and RPGs for the next one? lol

Thank you! You got what I was trying to say 100%.

I am hoping that Iran and Russia can get strikes going hard and fast to help inspire the official forces to keep going. Shit all is coming after Bashar al-Assad spoke of inaction in supporting Palestine resistance and stopping the genocide. Kind of reminds me of Gadhafi trying to wake up people about needing to stand against western imperialism and then being murdered by US backed rebels.

I am also hoping that the Kurds start merc-ing all ISIS prisoners that have been forced on them to hold indefinitely. Shit is already really fucking bad. The faster that internal threats are dealt with the better for their zone, and allow focus on repelling Turkey and other factions that will most certainly turn attention their way.

Very bad timing for them to do this seeing how the CEO of UHC got dropped. Will be interesting if Anthem walks it back with the real possibility of more people that are pushed to the brink and nothing to lose. If they and the other insurance corpos keep going like this, then I can only hope said people pushed to the brink are met with outpouring of support.

Not a good thought to have. But I am kind of thinking that the Kurds in Rojava might need to really be ready to deal with (just straight up kill) the ISIS prisoners that they have been left forced to keep since all the nations from which many of them came from have refused to take back. If those fighters are allowed to get out, shit will be a bloodbath (especially the female Kurds). Which given how Israel and western powers have been using right-wing groups to keep the region destabilized. I can only guess that keeping such concentrated numbers of ISIS in the area is the plan if the current groups fail.

The idea of bailouts for any large corp/bank in the US is bullshit full-stop. The US government’s constant and ruthless attacks on AES and really any other nations that nationalize such large and crucial companies show why bailouts shouldn’t happen. All the companies/banks that were massively bailed out in 2008 (or any other time) didn’t have requirements that money had to be paid back (with or without interest).

We saw how the rich fucks and their bootlickers took that money and enriched themselves while purging real working people and no pay rises for workers that were kept. For a nation that cheerleads how fucking beautiful and superior capitalism and free markets are. The idea of rewarding huge corps for over promising and fucking it up while keeping the barriers up from smaller or new companies is also fucked. It shows that the true final form of capitalism is private for-profit companies removing all functionally meaningful competition and being monopolies.

Which is basically what all cyberpunk dystopian media depicts when showing huge mega-corps that wield the power of nation-states over even the actual nations they operate within. Shit like this is one of the most obvious examples as to why systems like the US can’t actually fix issues and huge depressions caused by big corps. The moment that any private (both publicly and privately traded)/for-profit company is allowed to be labeled as “too big to fail,” it is time for that company to be nationalized and placed under similar control as corps in places like China.

Should also require that the leadership and all board members/major share holders be given death sentences for requiring money that keeps being taken away from public services. And all that is before the crimes of purging workers and giving themselves huge bonuses while workers are paid shit.