Horses can go places cars cannot. You have completely missed the point.

Everything on planet earth is finite, without exception. At the same time, everything can be renewed. The question of renewability is more about how much effort it is to return something to its original state to be used again. Iron is comparatively easy to refine back into its pure, usable form.

The US cutting off the rest of the world first does the exact opposite of this. No matter how big the US is, there’s not a chance in hell the US can both compete with China and antagonize the rest of the world at the same time. This is pure fantasy.

They’ll order your food and find the best deals on shopping, swipe your dating profile, negotiate with your lenders, and generally anticipate your every want or need. The only ingredient they’ll need to realize this blissful future…

blissful future ??? This sounds like some nihilistic death where you stop participating in society. WTF is wrong with people.

After Ukraine, the value of deals offered by the US is less than nothing.

Post-truth society sucks.

Are you here because you believe in something and actually want to see it happen, or are you here just to stroke your own ego. Ain’t nobody got time for that second part. Get real.

Learning ESPHome has been the most liberating thing. Take back control of your home. Local first. Privacy respecting.

This isn’t a hate crime, it’s terrorism, since it was politically motivated.

The 2017 one was based. All the other ones are a big fat meh, especially the 2024 one.

I am one of those. I ditched Signal and went back to the stock sms app and adopted matrix. Haven’t looked back since. The reality is that Signal dropping support for sms wasn’t going to stop me from using SMS. For that, other people need to be convinced to stop using it at the same time. Signal didn’t have nearly the market size needed to make that happen. And now that card is played, and nothing has changed. Signal is just another messaging app among hundreds. At least matrix offers a real paradigm shift.

Headphones do all this already. No mind control is a nice little benefit too.

Aye. Mini Wheats are actually, and surprisingly, one of the better cereals nutritionally.

Whataboutism and a straw man in the same sentence. Smells like speed running trolling.

Not backsliding into feudalism?

The point, in one sentence:

If you are the product, not the paying customer, then not only is there no incentive to cater to your needs, there exists incentive to make the product worse for you if it means the paying customer extracts more from you.

Users of freemium software are basically nothing more than willing cattle. Housed and fed for free only to be slaughtered.

Maybe people just can’t help themselves? I fear we can’t have a fair and free market if people are so easily manipulated.

There are other benefits of NAT, besides address range. Putting devices behind a NAT is hugely beneficial for privacy and security.

How about we ban software in cars in general, beyond basic engine control.

You expect to own your body? Hah, that’s cute.

Just wait for the enshittification of Neuralink.

This is what happens when stack overflow is used for training.