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Windows 11 OneDrive that just decides to backup files without consent was certainly daring.

Look I am computer savvy enough to "fix" Windows I can live with it but I advised my mom to get an Apple laptop.

Corporations never want to pay for the problems that they cause. They would rather go bankrupt and start a new company.

My brother used to have a highly paid corpo job.

Then he realised he didn't want to spend the rest of his life as a corpo drone and now he works 3 days a week. Ofcourse in Euro land that still gives you a pension and healthcare package. And he was lucky that he bought his apartment before the neighbourhood got gentrified.

The things companies can get away with in America is insane. Amazon really feels like Weyland-Yutani.

Windows 11 gives me a giant warning if I actually want to run something.

Computers nowadays are so weird.

By the 1970s Japan and Western Europe came back online.

People got what they voted for.

But Milan is a sure bet? You know that you'll make the money back.

Backwards regions are subsidised by the cities. Sicily can be made into a tourist resort for pensioners.

Honest question. Is Sicily actually economically important enough for such an expensive mega bridge? To my mind it would make more sense to invest that money in Milan.

I read once that UK submarine commanders had the authority to launch if they couldn't contact London and the BBC was no longer broadcasting.

Makes sense the idea that your entire war plan hinges on one guy is stupid.

It's the economy stupid!

The US before WW2 was a regional power. After WW2 it was the only country still standing. This led to decades of unprecedented GDP growth.

I try to warn people about what it means when Asian countries have 30 years of GDP growth of 7% year on year but it barely registers.

I don't mind Amazon using the water if they pay for it just like the rest of us.

Unfortunately companies tend to negotiate special deals. And for what? How many local people actually get jobs in a date centre? A few security guards, cleaners and gardeners?

I've seen these things they do everything remote and if that doesn't work they fly in a team.

Dutch people live under sea level but everyone trusts in the engineering.

I'm sure they also did it for the nuclear weapons program.

My own country never wanted nukes and they discovered large deposits of natural gas so that was it. After all nuclear energy was never as cheap as they envisioned in the 1950s.

If there is one resource that America has in spades it's empty land.

My own country every m² is valuable.

Google is still held back by the fact that their Pixel line isn't selling. They can't dictate terms to Samsung or Xiaomi. Apple owns the hardware and software.

Our modern Western culture was made by the Victorians. They invented everything middle class. Charles Dickens literally made the Christmas we know today.

A good point. The people who sit in parliament are very often just machines of the party. Yes yes TECHNICALLY they are elected by the people and have a mandate but your career is over if you speak out.

You have to be a very special kind of person to break rank.

It's not really the innovation part. The Chinese actually put research into mass production.

At some point when Americans were still denying climate change the CCP looked at the massive environmental destruction around them and decided to do something about it.

Tricky. Yes you'd think that playing China and America against eachother would be a smart move.

But Americans have a proven track record of killing South American leaders and invading their countries.

Perhaps one day, god willing, the Chinese will be in a position to send aircraft carriers to Panama.

It also ignores the fact that empires can decline.

(Although I think the moon landing is ridiculous there is no scientific reason for it).

Here in the Netherlands immigrants are starting to protest about their near slavery conditions.

As time goes on you have to start importing people from further afield.

Reading about Argentina's history made me lose faith in humanity lol. They just keep voting for populists constantly telling themselves this time will be different.

Internet was supposed to be a communication network if the East Coast was nuked.

What it turned into was Daedalus from Deus Ex lol.

The owners of polluted industrial sites always manage to disappear when it comes time to clean them up. Socialise the losses and all that.

I never understood why these things had to be forced.

BitLocker and secure boot are great for corpo laptops but a bloody nightmare for consumers.

We already have this in the Netherlands. In order to deter squatters you can hire a student to live in your property. You can kick them out on short notice.

Yep the recent Windows update broke a videogame that I was playing.

Windows used to be about backwards compatibility. Microsoft was proud of it. Twenty year old software ran on it.

Now it is all about AI stuff that I do not give a fuck about.

The only thing the current admin wants is to land on the moon again to beat the Chinese.

I personally like ESA- they are purely in it for the science not flags.

If HN had existed in 1800 abolitionists would have been banned.

Society does not progress by people being nice and hugging eachother.