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That's not what's happening here. If anything, this the US flopping it's massive dong on the table and asking if anyone else wants to prove they can dick her down good enough to take over.

The post-WW2 global economic order is built on the security guarantee that maritime trade is secure because the US Navy will fuck anyone's shit up who uses force to interfere with it.

Ironically, the biggest benefactor of this arrangement has been China. That's also who would be most impacted by long term closure of these particular maritime routes.

So knowing that only the USN is currently capable of providing the long term security guarantees for this situation, they are going to make a show of it, or extract something of value their efforts - even if it's just countries voting for some UN resolution that goes against their public statements or political rhetoric.

Please understand that this explanation isn't my personal endorsement, approval, or disapproval, of what's happening, or why, it's just a very high level statement of facts and neutral analysis on the situation.

It's not surprising that Germany is lacking these supplies as their military procurement is... incompetent, or rather, it's a complex web of insane bureaucracy, poor decision-making, and political interference, all under the understandably long shadow of two World Wars and the Third Reich.

But the Leopard II is a hugely popular export model, so I'm a bit surprised that they can't source parts for repair from NATO members and other allied countries that operate it. Many of which have their own licensed domestic production lines and supply chains to support them.

You realize that gig economy is the neoliberal slang for a poverty class work, but without the rights of workers, right?

So you're criticizing people who are forced by the system in which we live, to be ordered around by a fucking algorithm, and then take abuse from people who have enough money to NOT work in the gig economy, but no where near enough to actually own the servant class they get off on abusing.

Not that I'm going to defend the honor or integrity of the American lead neoliberal order, but reading this made me laugh, and loudly:

China’s foreign ministry spokesman on Friday urged Washington to respect international trade rules and market-based principles

China takes all the worst parts of Western capitalism, and finds more ways to make them even shittier. Including enshitifying the already beshitted aforementioned principles.

Isn't the article talking about a "tone deaf Supreme Court"?

He wouldn't. He'd be rewarded for doing it in the home gym while appearing to be doing crunches.

The implication is that Apple's language is very specifically implying this is a fee-for-service product, but that they are waiving that cost for a defined time period. They may extend that again, or several more times, but they are going out of their way to NOT say it's just free, or simply an included feature e.g. FindMy.

If their intent was to have it be an included service, they would NOT include the language about how long it will remain free.

The only context to view their language (extending free year) is that they intend to switch to some form of a paid model i.e bundled or standalone.

I'm not commenting on whether that's good, or bad, just that it's clearly what they are planning on doing. Otherwise, they wouldn't use that specific language.

Did you have healthcare before Russia invaded Ukraine

Yes, I did until they sent me a letter informing me that they were booting me off my Medicare for All plan and converting it into artillery shells for the Kherson offensive.

You just answered your own question. How many users click approve without thinking? How many install Xposed modules that intentionally, or unintentionally, create security issues?

I didn't say rooting will break your security, just that it can. Rooting exponentially increasing the attack surface, which for some users isn't a concern, but for your average user, it probably should be.

In this case, this person wanted to increase his privacy, which is why I recommended what I did.

Also, FWIW, there's a reason why GrapheneOS and DivestOS specifically design their ROMS to NOT be rooted and to RELOCK the bootloader.