Sure yeah I could be wrong. If America scares them more than China it’s a major turning point because they are European.

What I initially got from their comment: They are more concerned about actually real threats in their life like Google, Meta, or Apple which are American and are probably what they are using at work and outside of work given they live in Europe. They are less concerned about china because they don’t use chinese phones daily or hangout in weChat (I hope).

Where I can of course be wrong about this: They are actually using Tiktok and don’t care about the possible spying. They could be using chinese tech and simply not know. main concern is if they are on some tech stack at work or their ISP has equipment from chinese companies known to phone home.

thats not what they said did they? they said they are more concerned about American companies harvesting their data as they live in Europe and don’t have as much affinity to China.

piracy causes harm to the concept of projected profits and “lost sales” which are neither rooted in reality nor coming from a well grounded expectation of success.

Being greedy causes all this entitlement to things that “could have happened”

i do think you’re wrong, but I am not willing to spend time to prove it so yeah i agree with you.

piracy is not the same as stealing. You having a copy of a bible as a PDF is fundamentally physically different from having a physical book.

Publishers have perverted the concept of ownership by hiding the fact that there is no scarcity of digital items compared to physcial ones.

Don’t say this here. The people here don’t like charity from rich folk. While I agree it is worthwhile to point out that taxation and good governance is better than rich people charity. these folk are a bit too angry for their own good.

I see one: he actually did something instead of a council that blows all of the money on meetings

having their wheels stolen

I am pretty sure in the car parts thievery guild, showing up with something from a Tesla is sure to get yourself excommunicated and even banished.

Because it’s made out of cheese

The west mocks homeopathy but practices it with it’s own food.

I pay a subscription to nebula and most of the creators i want are on there.

Mythbuster showed 20 years ago that doesnt work

You think flushing doesn’t sprinkle toilet water everywhere?

Shhh… we don’t ask such things around here… it just works ™ that way…

This comment of yours immediately evokes the idea of the right hand that doesn’t know what the left hand is doing.

The right hand is the security theatre that the west is showing its citizens against foreign adversaries who hack their devices and introduce vulnerabilities.

Meanwhile the left hand has been doing mass layoffs and moving manufacturing off-shore ever since the 60s and 70s and trying to fuck over it’s own labour forces to make exponential profits.

Whats funny here is that you guys are bitching about “foreign adversaries” while also handing over the blueprints of your entire infrastructure to said adversaries without giving them anything valuable in return for their cheap labour cost and weak laws.

What did you expect to happen?

I am sure you’re a “genius” who thinks people are poor or living paycheck to paycheck because its only their fault. But you wouldn’t know anybody.

Thats a deluded take.

Must be a sysadmin who wants time alone with his server.

Why are you inventing some kind of signal jammer?

Hey I don’t see any garbage men going on cruises in the bahamas or the carribbeans.

Maybe you should try to do the job of the trash collectors for a week and see if it’s really honest to say “Its unbelievable people go to work and choose not to do their job anymore”.

Most jobs have lunatics in leadership positions who think people can survive on exposure or gift cards or a minimum wage that cannot afford 3 healthy meals a day.

“Unskilled Labour” is a lie told by business people to swindle money from hardworking people. Most of the rich people on the planet are scoundrels.