I’d argue that everything big tech produced in this last decade with all that expensive workforce is somewhat unnecessary. If I have a 2026 Linux computer with the capabilities of a 2016s win/mac, I am totally fine and I can do everything I want to do with it.

Autocratic countries doing autocratic things. Day by day, i am more and more disappointed by our Governments to still stand by Israel.

This genuinely makes me sick atm. Does anyone of you have ideas what we (in the West in general. Im from Germany, but it’s not much different here) can realistically do to countermeasure any if this?

He repeatedly said that Kim and Xi and Putin are very, very nice people. They are the best people. And he knows them soo good. He knows all the good people.

On the other hand, he calls Canada, Europe, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, etc. shitholes with weak leaders.

We have to be there for each other now, I guess.

This is the way. Just today I thought about looking up Hungarian products in order to support their new direction. Maybe I should do the same with Armenia.

Where is OP telling a conspiracy?

Who hurt you? I mean… all of your points are totally valid, and you seem to have profound IT knowledge. Great! But OP just wants to have his built evaluated, probably bc he wants to further improve… and you’re non-chalantly bombing him with strong words and more negativity than all of my toxic exes combined. Jeez xD

Geez, your story is heartbreaking. I wish you and your sister all the best. Also, have you ever thought about emmigrating? I know that many countries do currently experience similar shifts, but I guess the US is leading the polls right now when it comes to living a toxic life under constant pressure. I really wonder why there arent more US americans grabbing all their stuff and their loved ones and leave for a better life. The biggest struggle would be the language barrier, but NZ, AU or CA should still be possible.

Never thought about it this way… especially in the context of slave ownership. Thanks for the new perspective.

Thats a brilliant question. I might be in the minority here, but one thing I’ve always wrestled with is whether ACAB is best understood as a critique of an institution or as a judgment of every individual within that group.

Personally for me, the strongest argument has always been the institutional one. I have deep criticisms or even hatred of how police power is (ab)used, of the historical role in protecting existing power structures, and of the ways in which accountability regularly fails.

At the same time, I’m less convinced that every individual who wears a badge is equally malicious or equally committed to those structures. Some actively reinforce them, some passively uphold them, and some try, with varying degrees of success, to mitigate harm from within. My best friends father is serving as a police officer here in Germany, and he is as left as it gets. He became a cop bc “that’s where the change needs to happen”. He’s openly anti-racist, supports refugees, is active in labor and union issues, has privately attended demonstrations against far-right groups, and has never been shy about criticizing police misconduct, especially if it’s about his very own colleagues.

That’s why the Edward Snowden question is interesting. If someone works within a coercive state institution, but then exposes wrongdoing at enormous personal cost, what does that tell us about the institution? What about the individual?

So I’d say: the police is one of the biggest problems of our societies. Comes right after the fight against climate change and the fight against capitalism. But IMO it’s wrong to say ACAB, because the problem is too complex for such a simple solution. Philosophy says it’s every individuals own action that should decide over their fate. Feel free to argue with me, since I’m open to changing my mind.

Edit: typo

Did he say that? :o

Valid point. Do you have ideas for a better solution?

This is creepy as hell. I liked the Renault 5 - until now. Fuck this shit. I wont pay a small fortune, just to enslave myself to a 1984-style digital panopticon. I am getting angry just by reading your story. Corporate greed is once again crossing the line, slowly shifting the overtone window. Everyone who is not concerned about this, is simply ignorant and/or borderline stupid.

If it was my car, I’d probably cover it. And if it then starts beeping, I’d maybe even locate the speaker and deactivate that one, too.

I wonder if it is even legal to sell you something like this without informing you prior to your purchase.

Im with you. And i think social media didnt stop being social by accident. Once a platform becomes expected to grow forever:

• People stop being the product’s purpose and become a resource to extract value from
• Communities become audiences
• Conversations become content
• Hobbies become enshittified engagement metrics

Id argue that the internet didnt suddenly forget how to be social, but that it was purposfully optimized not to be.

The nazis did the same. They denied science like physics and instead created “their own” physics that pleased their agenda. I’m just waiting for the day when fake science is adopted to US curriculum.

Never thought about it like that. I think the unanimous voting system could really require policy makers to push things in small increments that can easily be overseen and are often hard to decypher. I’ve always seen as unnecessary rigidity. But I guess it really does have its benefits. Thanks for the change in perspective!

If you are into fantasy, then I need to recommend you the books of Brandon Sanderson, especially the Stormlight Archive series. It’s so epic, nothing else comes close

My GF uses Flo. Can you elaborate why it is spyware? Who is spying? What data are being collected?

Edit: nvm, I was too stupid to see the hidden drop down text

Not a single day without a scandal

Yeah, I kind of agree with you. Bad example from my side.