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I thought it was amusing that you said Apple was a "stupid American company with American values", even though you're actually complaining about a UK law. You do know this isn't a thing in the US, right? Just your country?

Is there a way to resize windows with this gesture as well?

> we use taxes as a process to crowdsource funding more effectively

Effectively? It doesn't seem to me like most western governments allocate this funding "effectively" at all. How do we increase the accountability?

Actually, the description of that video says the production line was in Hungary.

But there was still a lot of electronics manufacturing and assembly in the US during the early 2000's as well, including iPods and iMacs.

Since when did public (government) schools become run for profit?

$300 USD per month sounds insanely expensive

You don’t need politicians to help you keep your personal data to yourself.

Why do European government websites do the same thing then? They’re also spreading propaganda?

Probably a Swift wrapper for the Chromium Embedded Framework.

This is the opposite of a steelman.

You do realize it still needs to be transported from a port to customers inland, right?

It just seems like the only things we should be importing from across the globe are things that absolutely cannot be produced domestically. For example, I've heard that coffee beans only grow in certain climates, so that would be a commodity that makes sense to import.

Pretty much everything else, including this supposed Tunisian olive oil, just sound like luxury goods to me, and should be priced accordingly.

Why do you think it's a good idea to buy olive oil from Tunisia instead of from California? Are you aware of how much CO2 is released to ship a trivial commodity across the atlantic ocean?

> The current descent into a quasi-fascist state isn't enticing either.

> In the meantime, I guess I'll learn some basic Mandarin and spend more time in China.

Uhhh....

Who is stealing from whom in this scenario?

> Formal education just works better for some of us than video tutorials or self-paced learning

I don’t agree with this at all. Anecdotally, the autodidacts I’ve met are way more knowledgeable about subjects they’re passionate about compared to those who received a formal education for it. This applies to both computer science, but also psychology majors who I’ve met who can’t even tell me the difference between Freud and Jung.

You should consider getting a hobby.

This is such a deranged take, I can't even tell if it's satire or not.

> When it came to the vote, Ukraine’s version passed by 93 votes to 18. The US voted against, alongside Russia, marking a major shift of its position on the conflict and previous votes.

> The US version was also adopted (93 in favour, eight against and 73 abstentions), but Member States also voted to add the European Union amendments with 60 in favour, 18 against and 81 abstentions.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1160456

I don't understand what makes the US "The Bad Guys" in the same sentence that mentions North Korea and China?

Thanks for sharing this! I'm working on a very similar project, and the bit about disabling sleep/built-in services was very helpful.

Did you know there's a website where they're documenting everything? https://doge.gov/

$100 million to do what?

Restrict access how? To imports?

> However their lifestyle and ideology is inherently dangerous to workers and life on earth as we know it.

Wait until you hear about China.

> After Dorsey sold Twitter to Elon Musk, selling the platform out to the far right for a crisp billion-with-a-“B” dollar payout, the FOSS community shouldered the burden – both with our labor and our wallets – of a massive exodus onto our volunteer-operated servers

I don't understand this sentiment at all. "We hate billionaires, but we need them to operate our servers because we don't want to"?

If anyone's looking for one of these in SF, my favorite place is Delah Coffee[0] near Yerba Buena. They're open until 11pm. Try the Kunafa Cheesecake!

[0]: https://delahcoffee.com/

> As you admit, “The US has its own problems”, so it is not successful

That's not at all what I was saying. I believe the US is wildly successful in integrating immigrants, since it is a nation of immigrants after all. Even the native population, which, despite what you said, was not entirely "killed". The indigenous population today owns a significant portion of land in the US and many tribes benefit significantly from using it or leasing it out (speaking from personal experience, the Agua Caliente and Apache tribes). Whether or not those tribes are "flourishing" is another fascinating story, but they certainly have the resources and potential.

Right, exactly! I personally felt much less safe in Paris than anywhere in the US (including Chicago and Oakland), which is not to say "I'm right and you're wrong", it's just entirely subjective and often the result of having not traveled extensively enough or lack of understanding.

With respect to your lived experiences, as a fan of the US I would just like to say that it is a country of 330m+ whose physical presence spans a majority of a major continent, so I would encourage you not to generalize us based on what you saw in Columbus. That would be like me visiting Paris (a city I particularly did not enjoy) and generalizing all of Europe!