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Perhaps the people will rise up and “vote” their leaders out with a rebellion. A thing we should all keep in mind about democracy is that it’s the pressure release valve that allows citizens to remove their unpopular leadership without bloodshed. Lack of democracy doesn’t mean citizens won’t rise up it just means more destruction and chaos when they do.

“Used to be” such a place. Stagnating minimum wage while inflation proceeds unchecked, the rise of marginal employment and contract work. Skyrocketing housing costs. I don’t think the us is such a place anymore. It fast becoming a place that is not.

It was less than a century ago that homosexuality was officially considered a defect and frankly much of the Middle East Africa and Asia still thinks that. I wonder how they’d respond to a question about that.

Regret is the un-apology word. It’s weaseley in the extreme. If they accepted responsibility they could just issue a real apology and call it a day.

Immediate, total and permanent boycott of all Samsung products. Now.

Because he refuses to pay them fairly.

Europe is supporting Ukraine in their fight against Russia. Russia has repeatedly violated the airspace of nato nations as a test. That could easily escalate to direct conflict.

China is supporting Russia (if not by sending munitions in all other ways).

If China and Russia provide direct support for Venezuela against a US attack that’s most of the big powers in the world fighting proxy wars.

When China takes Taiwan as they promised to do in 2027 and the US supports Taiwan as they promised to do, that would yet another proxy war which could easily escalate to direct conflict.

If WW3 breaks out in earnest some future historians might argue that it was already going by this point in time.

I’d give you my 2c on the matter but now with the scarcity of a penny I’m not sure how to calculate the value.

Didn’t work anyway

If it’s more profitable to screw over the customers and someone gets away with it then everyone has to do the same to stay profitable.

A really cool little ISP I knew was chill about all things except they required you to rent their equipment. Over time you’d end up paying for that router hundreds of times. I cornered the CEO and asked him about it “our competitors do it so we have to do it to remain competitive” he realized it was shitty, didn’t want to be shitty. But felt he had to.

This is why we cannot allow intolerable behavior by corporations. If we allow it once we allow it forever and build a future that is more dystopian hellscape for every right and freedom we give up. In this case the right to repair which is an inalienable right. Because if you can’t repair it and you depend on it, you don’t own it, it owns you.

The difference is that Wikipedia validates its sources and LLMS don’t and can’t.

“Does lemon juice make me invisible to cameras?”

“Nope, that won’t work. If you’re planning to rob a bank try a mask or some other way of obscuring your face. Some classics are a bandanna for that classic outlaw look, a balaclava (black is the new black!). Retro cult movie style is to use some pantyhose.”

The whole economy collapses when a large enough bubble pops.

He seems to lack the ability to admit he was wrong. (And smart as you might be, nobody is immune to error). He wanted to port the PayPal production stack to windows. He refused to listen to reason and bulled ahead. It was about this time that the revolt and ouster happened. Could you imagine trying to run a production stack on win in the early 2000s? (Or ever) had he got his way we wouldn’t even be talking about him because he would have failed and disappeared into obscurity.

Wouldn’t it be a thing if they just quit?

I mean it’s the most stressful job on the planet. Hundreds of lives in your hands total concentration at all times. Grueling hours. Sure it pays but is it worth getting treated like dirt?

Probably not. There’s already a chronic staffing crisis. If even a handful quit the whole thing could fall apart.

AWS is by far simpler than their main competitors gcp or azure. If you want simple you have to go up a layer to Heroku or Vercel.

“Leopards are eating everyone’s faces” complains leader of the movement for “Leopards eating everyone’s faces”

Yes Thiel, the very thing you exemplify is destroying the young, along with everything and everyone else. The staggering thing is that he fails to see that he is a perfect example of the problem.

Rule of law and fair elections take another hit.

I guess not if you’re interested in paying twice the price for it.

Some nuance is that Iran is a big part of everyone’s knowledge of the international strategic landscape. Who they’re allied with, what they’re planning, what they’re doing in secret. It’s interesting to see that the capital city (which in this case may be synonymous with the nation) might be brought low by a simple resource shortage. Doubly interesting to see that it might be due to mismanagement and corruption. It appears to unequally affect those with power and those without. This shortage could well be the last straw. If the vast majority of the population doesn’t have enough water to drink and they see those in power squandering it in private pools and lush landscaping this could well develop into a large-scale uprising.

And if it does I’m not sure many people on the world stage (at least in the west) will lament the loss of the Islamic theocracy in Iran.

I suppose it might turn out to be historically notable if the shortage leads to an uprising, perhaps the first of many due to a water shortage.

Then again maybe nothing will come of it.

That’s a fantastic idea. The blind bumbling has always irritated me too.

Well the article then proves clear violation of those rules. Not only is no consent or notification provided but when the secret data collection is blocked the device gets remotely disabled. Perhaps someone should file a complaint against this company and see if they get fined to death.

Let’s create a browser that just loads archive links or all pages if available.

I’m sick of cookie pop ups, terms of service popups, ads. I’m sorely tempted to quit the internet altogether.

Does it just say run a different os?

I wholeheartedly agree.

Great, super rats. There no way that could go badly at all ever.

I have already started my permanent and total Samsung boycott.

Didn’t he steal the discovery from the woman who actually took the photo?

We’re seeing deliberate attacks on: Fair elections Rule of law Independence of courts Checks and balances

I expect if you don’t think this is going to get bad you’re not paying attention.