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Pretty sure their security concerns aren't nebulous. They only lost 27 million people. Not a big deal to you, maybe. But they will never forget and allow that to happen again. So yes, they are entitled to protecting themselves from that happening again.

If you want to pretend this is solely about abusing Ukrainian sovereignty then that's fine. The west was happy to abuse Ukrainian sovereignty in 2014 when their intelligence agencies helped overthrow their democratically elected government. So really your logic is just a ruse. The facts speak for themselves.

Libya and Afghanistan?

Clearly you are ignoring the history of the conflict and the desires of the Russians, and thereby the entire reason for the invasion. It was explained clearly many times prior to the invasion that they would go ahead and do so if you ignore their security concerns.

Remember when they put missiles in Cuba? We can't ignore their security concerns and pretend facts exist in a vacuum.

I have felt the same way at times. Just not waking up, so nobody can say that I quit.

My advice is to focus on healing your self with therapy sessions. Assuming this might sound like bad advice to someone who is broke try to figure out which free resources are available. Maybe subreddits or users willing to help pro bono.

Just the fact that you want to inquire about social media being weaponized against you is something that I would say just log off, don't let it even get to you. There's a reason why people deactivate their social accounts. Maybe it has happened but that shouldn't concern you. Your well being is and that involves difficult conversations challenging your thoughts and expectations.

Adulthood is more insidious in this respect, yes. Because our country lacks basic things like a national health care system that can help us. We have an infinite budget for wars but the notion of helping one another is blasphemous. So you're on your own in that sense, unfortunately.

The mind is funny, it can be our best friend or own worst enemy. Do everything in your power to love and care for yourself. Everything flows from there. Your situation is not unusual or embarrassing. You're not the first and won't be the last person to experience it. Build yourself up, don't break yourself down.

Yes there's a lot of good content now with guidance on setting up one of these pf or opnsense routers. Really cool stuff. And use any old router you have in AP mode and you're set!

Some could argue that your life savings is also at risk in a bank in high inflationary countries like Turkey or Lebanon. I think bitcoin's main argument in its favor is that its supply is not controlled by bankers.

All the risks associated with holding onto it is worth it to me. Anonymous transactions are not interesting to me personally but complete sovereignty is.

The chances of someone guessing your key are very low. But if you are worried about that then you put the funds into a multi-signature arrangement.

It certainly takes time to understand these things but it's worth it for the benefits it brings. Nobody can steal or tax your funds against your will. If it takes 6 months for an average person to wrap their head around all the concepts it's not the worst thing in the world. It takes 6 months, at least, to learn how to operate a tank. But it does slow adoption rates.

Tongue in cheek joke went over most people's heads

You really just closed that overton window didn't you

Don't know if it works for your use case but I've been pretty happy with cardknox

Why doesn't anyone ever consider XMPP using one of the many clients like gajim, conversations, etc.? It's got all of the encryption features anyone would want but has zero mentions as a secure messaging option.