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Sounds like African automobile tariffs when you put it that way

hilarious to the point of tears since we've been enabling the opposite for decades

I think we've breached second-order simulacra at this point https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-order_simulacra

Is Anime a Japanese government psy-op? And Techno for Germany?

We may even start replacing streets named after European explorers with people who killed them like Lapu-Lapu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapu-Lapu

The Philippines is one of Facebook's Internet.org countries where any link tapped on Facebook isn't charged against your phone's load/balance. (the country is largely pre-paid accounts and balances)

Maybe if they LARP hard enough, the PNW will get their own version of Freetown Christiania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania

Charter Cities sounds like the old Open Door policy but with extra steps https://blog.prepscholar.com/what-was-the-open-door-policy-c...

I hear DC/VA/MD with the contractor industrial complex is a good example

I'm getting the same vibe from EARN IT, no military grade encryption for us civvies.

Its kinda ironic that their offices lead out to Salesforce Park

I've barely convinced a close circle of friends to use Signal after using it for years. The latest cash injection from the former WhatsApp founder led to plenty of updates that my friends love, like the "encrypted" (iirc?) stickers made by the community.

I use feedly myself which pulls in articles via RSS. I even got into this thread with an RSS link. Frankly, it's a great resource to keep up with different blogs and sites without having them all live in your bookmarks bar.

we're in 2020, get a faraday hat for goodness sakes.

also, ever notice those new stair gates with the large screen ads on elevated MTA stops lately? wonder what kind of sensors are running in there.

This is why I apply a personal philosophy of "separation of powers" when it comes to browsers, operating systems and their ecosystems.

is there a non-hetronormative analysis available as well?

I was thinking it was a transit of some other celestial object in front of our vision.

Has anyone introduced you to the concept of 'induced demand'? https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/09/citylab-unive...

but is it a bloodless revolution or is bloodshed involved? that matters a lot

this is partly why I have reservations about installing TikTok

>Then there’s the cyclists that think it’s appropriate to ride on the divider between the bike lane and the car lanes instead of in the lane itself.

People don't want to get doored. That's the main reason why I do this and deem this necessary. There are well traveled bike lanes out where where you do need to ride on the margin of the lane because it wasn't built parking protected and there was no space buffer set aside for car doors.

The China part of the argument has more merit as they have been exporting the infrastructure supporting their "social credit" system to other nations since the Beijing Olympics in 2008

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/technology/ecuador-survei...

differences in built environment and land availability

Sounds like what landing at Hong Kong's old Kai Tak Airport back when it was still in operation. You could see into people's homes from your window when landing there.

It doesn't help that in China down to Southeast Asia, the tanner your skin is, the less respect you get. That being that those who are more tan are people who work fields historically.

Vox has a great piece on how the NYC MTA got to its current state of affairs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COLMODzYX7U

The first Apple Store was also in Tyson's Corner in Northern Virgina

In contrast, keeping your environment clean and respecting it is ingrained in Japanese culture and respect for nature was born out of the Shinto faith which believes that there are "kami" or spirits in everything from nature. Instead of creating institutions that perform the work of cleaning, they should instead change the culture to compel the populace to respect their environment and to "leave no trace" instead.

I bet you could get sacked from Tesla for even mentioning the Union of Myanmar

When I visited my family in the Philippines, I was asking my younger relatives what social networks/apps they used. When I asked about Snapchat, they said nobody really used it. It made sense in the way how data plans are structured over there, along with how Facebook's Internet.org has really gained a lot of usage in the country in their partnership with the carriers.