Message from @devpav
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Clearly, this guy has no qualms with Chinese-levels of censorship and control.
as long as they are doin the censoring
People are going to keep buying Apple's shit.
Tim Cook could say or do just about anything and people would still camp outside the Apple store for the next gizmo.
I find it funny that the people who buy Apple's shit, are the ones who claim to be against everything they do
Same with the people who will buy Nike for that one commercial.
These people see only what is in front of their faces, and don't see beyond it. They are easy to fool as they are already blind.
Been on a bit of a cyberpunk jag lately, and I've realized that we're far more dystopian today than they ever realized. Cyberpunk protagonists had ways of fighting back.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions
The only alternatives to Apple for mobile devices are Google and Microsoft. We're at a point where Microsoft is looking like the least evil (largely due to their relative incompetence).
Of course, there's always forgoing mobile devices altogether.
But there's no guarantee that retreating into the world of the Luddite will protect you.
"Four Pinocchios"
You have to live under the power of a state, the state is under the influence of the tech giants, and the tech giants are hard lefties.
"Let’s put $21 trillion in context. The entire national debt is $21.8 trillion. According to the Congressional Budget Office, total defense spending from 1998 to 2015 was nearly $9 trillion. The CBO estimates $7 trillion in defense spending from 2019 to 2028.
In other words, completely defunding the military for the next decade would yield only one-fifth of $32 trillion. That’s a much better way of illustrating the cost of Medicare-for-All."
Even WaPo is shaking their heads at AOC
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Heh, I thought antitrust laws were written specifically to prevent market power from being turned into political power.
>all of Android is Google
Pardon?
OwO whats this
i swear at first sight i saw tim pool
Same
https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1120265_trump-administration-plans-to-end-electric-car-tax-credits
Lol. Some comments are so triggered.
some bring up a good point, can we end oil subsidies?
@Grenade123 Depends. When they say subsidies, they also include externalities, which really aren’t subsidies. There are some policies that do support oil/gas, but I don’t know by how much.
how about...we just start ending government aid to large companies across the board?
@Grenade123 spicy. I like it. It would piss them off though because they want support for the things they like, but not for the things they don’t.
Or at least some of them.
it would piss off everyone
thats why its a good idea
lmao
republicans beholden to oil, so they don't like it. dems using green energy as a political weapon wouldn't like it.
and large companies wouldn't like it because it means they need to start competing again.
I’m really not sure how beholden any part is to any particular source of energy. The decisions don’t match the rhetoric a lot of the times. @Grenade123
Have you done the math to determine how much the government makes back from oil subsidies by taxing the value added to petroleum by the rest of the economy? (Petroleum is an input to almost freaking everything.)
@devpav the EIA has shown that the subsidies that started fracking have already been paid back + a billion too.