TitaRusell

Ha yeah just last night I had Samsung television make me agree to some new terms. Its bloody annoying when you are watching Netflix. And ofcourse they actually want you to read it.

My country banned all hyperscalers. Has nothing to do with China- I live in a densely populated country that doesn't need the chump change from Google and Microsoft.

Ugly giant buildings that take up valuable land and require lots of infrastructure meanwhile providing no jobs are a very bad deal.

The Pittsburgh steel mills provided jobs and a sense of purpose to communities.

Something that tech bros fundamentally oppose.

This is exactly all the stuff normal people don't care about.

If your system requires any basic intelligence or interest scrap it and go back to the drawing board because you just lost your customers.

Security people don't care about usability. They genuinely think we are all CIA field agents.

Look I remember my PIN everything else is in Firefox password manager.

The US is trillions in debt pal. Talk about unfair advantages!

Carrier locked phones haven't existed in my country for decades. I'm quite happy with eSIM- my fine motor skills don't work outside of videogames so replacing SIM was always a pain.

And this is exactly what many Americans cannot admit to themselves. China is not stealing American research they are inventing stuff.

They can invent it. They can build it. And it is only a matter of them before they can scale that last barrier of American hegemony- market it.

If everyone is a serf who buys the products that the elites want to sell?

Palestinians? Israelis are loathe to admit it but that country wouldn't last a year without support- from non Jews!

People are perfectly content to accept pollution if it provides actual jobs not just money for tech bro douchebags living on a yacht in Tahiti.

Instead of buying politicians if you want to build a datacenter start sponsoring the local high school gymnastics club. And for fuck sake never talk about how much you hate society and want to put people out of a job.

Silicon Valley is so terrible at PR. They could learn a thing or two from the industrialists of the early 20th century.

I helped my mother buy a new laptop a few weeks ago and I advised one with 16 gigabyte of memory. She does not close tabs in Chrome...

There will come a point were countries are forced to choose between China and the US. The choice may shock some Americans lol.

Mandatory testosterone testing!

At the end of the day people want to impose their morality on on others. Whether it is crazy Christians or leftist eco warriors- don't let them take away your freedom. Keep on buying shit from China.

I will never forget that CEO in the Netherlands who sold her shares weeks before the IPO. At heavily reduced prices. At least someone knew the emperor was butt naked! She became the figurehead of the dot com bubble and the insane 1990s. All completely legal- some rich folks who lost not insignificant sums of money did unleash their lawyers but let's face it you can't have a stock market without fraud.

Oh and you have to be a stone cold psychopath. I swear she should have gotten an Oscar.

Ultimately the only protection for that is cultural. If a majority of the population is atheist and refuses to subjugate themselves to authority it doesn't matter what data is leaked. Will that day ever come for America? Unlikely.

Running your world empire as a NYC real estate company.

And I bet marketeers got paid a lot of money to come up with those.

If GDP rises the country is not economically stagnating though.

If they were unaffordable they would not be selling. Don't underestimate just how much money people can conjure up. Most parents don't want to be buried with their money Egyptian pharaoh style.

The Netherlands is a culture of incredibly pragmatic people who when they see a problem think of ways to solve it.

I find that in many different cultures nobody actually wants to talk about reality- painful, excruciating, undignified and soul crushing death. As if you collectively ignore it such things do not exist.

Suffering in silence is not a moral victory.

Building a data center in my country is so expensive only Microsoft and Google do it.

The paperwork and environmental laws just aren't worth it.

Wait were does irrigation water come from in the US? They don't use tap water?

You cannot reduce tourism unless you literally stop the free movement of people, close the borders and prosecute airliners/cruise liners and train operators.

Amsterdam has been bitching about visitors for decades but unfortunately for them they are the national capital so they cannot stop Dutch citizens from vomitting on their precious canals.

Well I am not against pardons but having a single person parsing them out instead of parliament/Congress reeks of the kingly powers that the Founding Fathers correctly opposed.

But it is difficult to make a system Trump/asshole proof.

Trump was famously elected as the big isolationist candidate and we know how that went...

A business has one boss who decides everything and is personally responsible if things go to shit. The employees pack up and leave to get another job.

None of this is applicable to a government- unless any American wants to find out what it means to be a refugee at the Canadian border.

I never understood the presidential pardon. It's like America is basically admitting it has no faith in their own justice system. Or want a cheat code to skip it lol.

None of the elected representatives have the balls to actually go after the DOD or the security apparatus. And that is assuming that they will actually get access to the budget anyway.

Much easier to just gaslight everyone saying the money goes to black single moms or liberal homosexuals or whatever the latest cause is.

The ability of people to completely absolve themselves from the actions of their government without doing a single iota to protest said government.