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[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0 54 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

While I agree the US does a fraction of what they could: Social Security

Medicare

Medicaid

WIC

HUD

ESG

COC

Department of Education

The list goes on and on. If you think there aren't a LOT of social programs that they can cut, you are in for a very, very rough time.

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

So how exactly were you planning on them making money if they don’t take money from Google to be the default search engine and they don’t take money to place advertisements on the default home page?

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yes, in 2021 they took a $100M investment for a password manager. There's no planet on which they can justify that valuation without doing things to significantly increase their revenue. https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/27/1password-raises-100m-at-a-2b-valuation/

If you've used the product for 10 years like you claim, then you should know very well the many ways in which they've gotten worse. A couple obvious ones off the top of my head because I dropped them like a bad habit after I saw that VC "investment":

  1. they killed off any ability to purchase a permanent license key and forced people into subscriptions.
  2. the app has only improved? How are those nested tags working for you? A feature they had 10 years ago that they broke and never brought back.
  3. Performance on windows has continually gotten worse with every release for the last 8 years.
[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It’s not insane at all. It sucks but it’s completely logical. Musk is just protecting his capital as best he can within a global capitalist system.

No, it's absolutely insane, and short sighted. You know how much his capital will be in the event of WWIII? We won't be spending money on overpriced EVs or sending rockets to outer space on scientific missions to study the universe. Assuming he doesn't get himself assassinated first by people that actually care about democracy. The absolute BEST thing to protect his capital is a strong spending class in the US, which would require the economy to not collapse. You gut social services, there is exactly one logical outcome and it is social unrest followed by either class war or civil war.

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0 39 points 2 days ago (5 children)

DEFINITELY do not go 1password. They took a massive VC investment and it is only a matter of time before they find a way to monetize it. Ignoring the fact they absolutely destroyed the app.

Bitwarden (you can host yourself with vaultwarden) or KeepassXC.

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0 11 points 3 days ago (4 children)

He actually does seem to care, a lot. It's why he always says fake news, if he didn't care about being called a liar, he'd ignroe it entirely. Losing control of the narrative drives him absolutely insane, it's why the whole "weird" thing got him so unhinged.

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

To be clear, Colombia already backed down and accepted all the demands. Which is unfortunate but not surprising. Starting to get "Just give Hitler what he wants and he'll stop" vibes. Surprised folks didn't learn their lesson...

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0 20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

At the end of the day you are either with russia or with usa. Politicians job is to lie to people and get votes but their actions once they are elected are always clear. You are either with usa or against it.

At this point I would say you're either for democracy or against it. The USA has little to do with it, especially with Cheeto Benito currently in charge and doing his best to build his own little fascist kingdom. If you're pro-democracy in Germany, you don't have to like or support the US one bit, but you do need to be against AfD.

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0 87 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (24 children)

Let me make it easy for you: The local CPS agent who has to both uncover pedophiles, as well as deal with the aftermath, would never be caught dead in a shirt like this.

Anyone wearing a shit like this is projecting HARD. Normal people universally agree that pedophiles are bad. The only people that feel the need to advertise it's bad, are the ones who secretly are thinking "But I have these urges so other people must too, so I better put it on a shirt to remind everyone it's bad in case they forget".

There's litearlly no well adjusted adult who thinks you need to remind everyone that pedophiles are bad... that's just a base assumption. If one of my coworkers showed up tomorrow with a shirt that said "Rapists are bad, don't rape people" my first thought would be: wait, were you contemplating raping people before you saw that shirt for the first time?

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0 44 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Bottom falls out on commodity made artifically rare through imperailism and corruption. Is this the part where I'm supposed to feel bad for De Beers?

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0 -2 points 6 days ago

The old food court had a restaurant with a franchise owner who was trying to charge more than the corporate set pricing. Because he didn't have the graphics for the menu and probably was doing this without permission, the only way to increase the price was to put a sticker over the actual price.

I think in 2025 the republicans would say that's Biden's fault.

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“Mission Accomplished” might be one of the greatest all time. And to think I thought that would be as low as it could get for our country.

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