I live in south east asia and motorbikes are the dominant transporation tool here and yes fast e-bikes are absolutely motorbikes. They would be treated here the same way and law wise but the adoption is very low because compared to a motorbike it’s mostly a meme/entertainment vehicle as good ol motorbike is far superior and actually cheaper vehicle.

What is there to understand? It’s just a decentralized protocol - in fact, you don’t need to understand to use it. Just connect to chat server like you’d connect to one in discord.

Not the same thing. Every european country already has domestic Troy.

You know what’s weird is that in reality there are no China apologists like you see on the web these days. I live almost full time in Asia and even Chinese here (that can speak English as I don’t speak Mandarin) are aware how fucked their government is and don’t even bother justifying it but some tankies in high income european countries are spamming .ml of how amazing CCP is.

It has but no one’s paying attention. It’s a country where you can’t even type “LGBTQ” in a private text message - that’s bare minimum litmus test and China has always been failing it.

Lol

I’d imagine that’s how all black market spies work these days. Sell product and buy protection while making everyone complicit. What is CIA to do - they could not work with him “ends justifies the means” and “our guy’s there need protection” basically means that everyone’s in it to some extent at least.

Any social influencers of this level obviously have indirect power and anyone who claims otherwise is delusional.

That being said, I do think it’s possible that ceremonial representation can be beneficial. I’d love states start electing purely ceremonial roles more as it’s a really powerful social tool for uniting people and can be done right.

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In the US, CFAA is so draconian that in certain aspects it can be very illegal to reverse engineer code behind explicit ToS which whatsapp make you agree through click-wrap agreement (meaning explicit I agree button press) upon installing the app. So Meta could easily sue you with very good chance of winning. I work in security and reverse engineer a lot of stuff but just because my company has lawyers that will protect me (also I’m not an american) but generally americans are super fucked here and there are many stories of people being sued and even imprisoned for breaking ToS.

How do these people feel about paying big chunk of their GDP (10% in Kosovo’s example) to appease a foreign king? Crazy.

Auto upload to cloud that someone bas access to. Even Google photos with shared partners will automatically download your partners auto uploaded videos and photos. This should be more than enough until nazis take full control.

Yes, my point stands.

Nothing beats rye multi grain. Put some butter and cheese on it and I can legit live straight on it for days

This is not directly on Microsoft as you have to be either ignorant or special kind of stupid to upload your encryption keys to US cloud. The government can request access to any data and a company can’t do anything.

The only way to resist this is to not store anything unencrypted from your customers which is quite doable but clearly microsoft has no interest in this.

All of these grifters tend to be so incredibly ugly which kinda make sense thst ugly people in power would be in so much hurt that they lash out and burn the world with them. It’s basically like incels

Same way a single benevolent godlike dictator could be incredibly efficient and good thing but completely unrealistic and would never happen and whenever we attempt this we get millions of people killed and set humanity back by decades. It would be such an easy fix though - we all low key want it.

Some strategies simply don’t work due to lack of self correcting and self correcting a few keys that control the world is very hard. This is exactly what’s happening today - social media gave us the power to express the need for self correcting some aspects of our society and people holding the keys have decided to not allow this. Yet again leading to conflicts that have millions of people killed and set us back by decades.

Exactly what I meant - each billionaire is our collective investment. We invest 99% of our wealth into a few billionaire projects which might trickle down to other smaller projects but trickle down is mostly a myth we can’t accurately represent and control with our current tooling.

Yeah yeah “both sides are the same” yada yada - keep doing nothing in your eternal defeatism and preferably keep to yourself rather than spread this disease.

So tired of this tbh - I just don’t understand how anyone thinks wealth consolidation to few could be a good thing.

Even if you ignore ethics and assume the billionaires are benevolent - it’s just a bad investment to invest majority of resources to a small number of investments. Does any successful large project hold 99% of their investments in few projects? It’s absurd.

It makes absolutely zero sense no matter how you look at it unless you’re truly full in on delusion that benevolent dictators exist and are impossible to corrupt or overtake.