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Well yes, but it is relevant unless you believe policy makers will only work towards a world that is how it should be. That’s why i started with mentioning i don’t disagree with you. We surely can blame them for the results of their choices, but i don’t think we can play the ‘omg i’m totally surprised’-card is what i’m saying.
no matter what state it is operated from
Not disagreeing, but if Trump hadn’t won a second term there really wouldn’t be a dire reason to avoid the US. Sure they would be better of choosing a local or at least European provider, but most politicians (naively) didn’t see the current hostility coming.
That’s be true even if he ‘only’ got $10K.
Not necessarily, TikTok now delete accounts they believe to belong to children under 13. They could have chosen to do age authentication the British way but i suppose they had a big reason not to. Microsoft might understand they could lose business if they force users to prove they’re not children. It’s not like everybody would trust MS with such data.
Humanity is a corrupting force.
There is a reason we put locks on our doors and have insurance in case someone does break in. Sure this is an issue that needs to be addressed but it is one much smaller than getting the people in power to put things in motion. Once that happens (and we’re getting there) there will be funding and a public awareness campaign for sure, especially once the first politician gets hacked because they were using non-proprietary software because he wanted to kick Big Tech out…
Just came across this post (https://piefed.social/c/PLT/p/1702345/have-hope-comrades), very applicable to this ‘conversation’ i had here:
I’d argue in this situation waking up yesterday would be a lot better than waking up today, but also better next week then next year. The more people get awake the bigger the critical mass needed to turn this shit around.
That is a good quote, but i hope you don’t believe your comments are the result of your power of accurate observation lol.
Guess you’re only here to provide the cynical take, if you’re at first saying people doing nothing is a problem and then switch to saying people doing something is a problem. You must have a very hard life if you look at everything this way.
Alex Pretti is an example, so is Renee Good.
but doing nothing has never changed anything for the better.
Who’s doing nothing? I’m confused
There was a neighborhood in the Netherlands near the beach that was being flooded by tourists looking to park their car, they complained about it but the local government didn’t listen to their concerns. So then they decided to take matters into their own hands and came up with a plan to continuously report road construction to Google. The result was that Google Maps no longer directed tourists into the neighbourhood, but this led to parking problems at the beach entrances but instead of building more parking spaces the municipality created signs telling drivers to turn their gps off.
This could also lead the opposite way, having traffic be redirected so they can do their razzia in peace…
Your comment has 5 times the amount of upvotes the previous comment has, so i’m stating the obvious by saying you’re right; this is the way. I’m rooting for you guys and support you when you take the next step. Fuck ICE.
I’d register a @hotcopilot.com email though.
You could definitely be right. I believe current day US behaves a lot like 1938-ish Germany, which makes that my expectation on how we will look back on this time is influenced by how we looked back on ww2 in the first decades after it ended. The current regime could easily take another route than Hitlers Germany did.
Protest level: Hong Kong
(via https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/reader-center/hong-kong-protests-gillian-wong-insider.html / https://archive.is/6IApR)
My cynical take is in 20 years you’ll have a day of remembrance and in 80 years your grandchildren will have official apologies, unless this current administration ends doesn’t get thrown out within 5 years - then it will take even longer. My less cynical take is that these people aren’t losing their lives or ability to see because they want official recognition or honour, they want freedom because that’s the thing really matters. I do agree though, once the freedom (and rule of law) is back, these people definitely deserve some kind of official recognition or honour.
The Spotify model sucks despite throwing money at it for years, so my guess is they surely can give you some reasons why 85% of your monthly subscription can’t be given to the artists you listen to.
They’re just following a simple set of rules for when you did something bad: reflect attention by creating an enemy that is smaller in size than the group who’s attention you’re deflecting. Since he isn’t important and doesn’t have the influence to pick a new enemy, poor guy has no choice to jump on a bandwagon. Current option in the us is “illegals” and “trans”. Yes his actions are deplorabele and need to be countered, but let’s not only pay attention to his deflection but also try and figure out why he feels the need to speak out against trans people. If he was just a biggot he could have kept his mouth shut too, if he was just kissing the butt of some trans-hater he would likely done so sooner. There could be another reason he is doing this now.