A few days ago, the U.S. government sanctioned A/I for supporting “extreme far-left antifa terrorists”. If you didn’t know, A/I is an antifascist and anticapitalist group based in Italy, and they host a lot of services (like email, website hosting, etc.) run through donations. Their policy states that they are against racism, sexism, militarism, homophobia, and transphobia, and you have to agree to those principles to use their services. Their website and mailing server has been taken down, and unfortunately, that also means my email no longer works. It’s kind of insane how quickly the American government can take down internet services they don’t like. A/I has denied all of the allegations by the Trump admin, and rightfully so, they’re just a digital services provider who respect your privacy and are against fascism and bigotry.
relevant link if you want to read more about this: https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10076
I still need to use email, so what’s a good alternative email provider that doesn’t profit off of my data? I have used Disroot in the past and had good experiences with their services, so they are currently my fallback. I have ruled out Proton and Tuta, as neither support IMAP properly.
You imagine. You sound like someone who’s either A), never struggled with addiction; or B), is currently struggling with addiction and just hasn’t realized it yet.
“It’s won’t be that bad if I have self-control” is a lie that many addicts told themselves in the beginning. You hear people mention it all the time at recovery groups.
The problem is that tiny little “if” is pulling several times more than its own weight in that sentence.
I sound more like the people who say if you want to lose weight you need to eat less. Which while true some people do not have the ability to follow through on. Of course I’ve never done heroin or crack - but I wager the people willing to do heroin or crack are the kind of people most likely to get addicted to it.
Addiction is super fucked up but it’s not some sort of alien body snatcher that makes you have zero control of your actions.