While some services support payment in crypto, be advised that there's no such thing as complete privacy on the internet.

Three letter agencies will routinely run TOR exit nodes and monitor traffic. You can be profiled merely on your browser configuration and usage behavior (eg mostly posts during daytime in specific country), sentence analysis and words you use. A determined government actor with unlimited resources will be able to track you down sooner or later. They did find Silk Road creators, albeit it took them years.

That being said, tails + tor is a good option. Maybe over VPN so your ISP can't see you're running tor. Run it from USB if possible, that can be quickly discarded. If possible, do not use the computer for anything else - hardware can be fingerprinted. Use a static site generator (such as Hugo). Host your blog on IPFS. Try not to have predictable patterns / times when posting. Run your text through a local LLM to change the words and sentences.

If you opt for a commercial service, find one that accepts payments in Monero, which is completely private.

Other than that - good luck.

It didn't. It's a movie. They don't care.

Well, it probably doesn't help that Graham Norton comments the Eurovision every year. And makes fun of it. Used to even openly mock it.

Maybe entertaining to watch, but gives completely different precident to the show that other counties have.

If you're taking something as a joke, you shouldn't be surprised you come in last.

That being said: Fuck EBU. From disqualifiying the Netherlands last year to keeping double standards all across the board.

It's not about songs or nationalities any more. It's only about money.

Any universe? I'd like to be Bruce Wayne. Not Batman. Bruce.

It's the same reason that Age Gating is popping up all over the world.

It's because fuck young people, that's why. I got mine, I don't care about you.

I don't know what's "short distance" for you, but a flight from Zagreb to Amsterdam takes about 2 hours.

Using public transportation on the same route is 20+ hours at best and you need to switch between bus and train four times. Driving is 10+ hours.

Maybe, just maybe, we should stop immediately providing kerosine to private jets first? And droping subsidies for jet fuel and financing public transport instead?

No, it's an international thing to complain about the US nowadays. 🙂

If anything, they should limit fuel for private jets first. If we're talking luxury - that's were it is.

Not with some poor old chap squished like a sardine inside a Ryanair flight.

That would do a lot more for the environment and for fuel savings.

I would love to get on a train and arrive well rested into Amsterdam overnight. Unfortunately, we're not there yet. Hopefully this crisis might speed up more efficient means of transport and reduce tax credits for airline fuel.

I don't subscribe to the notion that any particular race or (physical, not sociological) group can be evil.

People fight for resources. Sometimes with other people. History is littered with people doing the wrong things for the right causes.

Genghis Khan was from Mongolia and has killed so many people it actually affected climate at that time.

Even if you believe certain actions of certain people were evil, it's difficult to generalize them to the whole population. Especially if they had no way to influence their decisions.

How could have a Dutch farmer change anything in the Kingdom of Netherlands? And how can a minimum wage brick-layer in England be responsible for what a UK king ordered 400 years ago?

Just as an example: look at the world today. America, Russia and Israel elected their presidents. Without getting to much into political discussion, at least some of their actions might be viewed (today) by majority of people as "evil". Does that make all the residents of those countries evil? And their children? And grandchildren?

I really do believe that the reasoning is much simpler. And that, unfortunately, hasn't changed even today: those who are in power and have wealth, will fight tooth and nail to keep it. By any means necessary.

Don't all iPhones have the same sentence on them?

Yes?

Actually yes. They did vote for this.