People shit on China all the goddamn time here but they’ve done a prolific job becoming the tech and manufacturing leader in a handful of decades.
Blame it on tech espionage if you want but there’s a reason the US is deadset on targeting Chinese imports, and it’s hardly for any of the security reasons they might be tempted to claim it to be. The US is about to be left behind and it’s noones fault but our own.
I’m so curious about those two downvotes
This is… this is really antisemitic… right? And Islamophobic…?
This is definitely some nazi shit
This has to be a copypasta
No matter how many Palestians get killed or schools and hospitals get bombed, when it finally stops, the US will parade around that brief moment of peace as some great, masterful example of diplomacy.
There will be no retribution or justice for the Palestinian people.
Tinytina coyly laughing behind her hand actually made me angry
This article was about what strategies and campaign messaging the opposition used to sway voters, and your takeaway from the article was ‘they voted’?
I’m not convinced you read it.
"…Are we the baddies? "
Hey if you find value in paying a subscription go nuts, I won’t throw shade
but i used spotify for almost 15 years. Averaged out to $8 a month that’s more than $1400, and how much of that music do you think I own?
You can do what you want with your money but I’m not paying another dime to subscription streamers. For discovery there’s still radio and youtube and ad-supported streamers, and I still find new artists at music festivals and local venue concerts all the time.
Spotify is a solution in search of a problem.
Idk if I owned as many cds as I’ve spent on music subscriptions I’d own more high fidelity music than I’d know what to do with
Yea I figured, no worries
You’ll own nothing and you’ll like it
Platform agnostic = you own the mp3/FLACC/ect file, and can play it through whatever client you want
Platform Locked = you do not own the files, and they are DRM locked to their proprietary media player (see: spotify, kindle, ect)
Of course there are ways around those locks, but it’s illegal to remove DRM protections (in the us)
I’m realizing that was unclear.
I meant google’s maifest v3, not firefox’s implementation of it.
Maybe it’s my tinfoil hat but if any part of this is related to their google’s pursuit of ad revenue, I don’t imagine a v3 compliant Firefox will work with adblock for long.
At the very least they would probably make using it a huge headache
edit to make it clear who I was referring to
YouTube started throwing playback errors for me this last week on pc (Firefox with ublock and pihole).
I was able to get around it by opening links in a container tab without being signed in. New container for each link
A strike means things stop. A protest vote means things go backwards
Think of everything leading up to the election as the strike, and the company going bankrupt from the strike as the result of the election.
Maybe in a particular light, but I’m personally of the opinion that intellectual property and patent law is antithetical to good social policy… so idk. Ideally we’d all benefit from the knowledge and ingenuity of all mankind but in a capitalist economic world-view there’s no place for egalitarianism so…
If they can take the same tech and make it better/produce it cheaper then I think that’s great, go nuts.
But that’s obviously just me.