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Not trying to defend the EU here, but isn't this true of every government?

There's this: https://mobile.twitter.com/Austen/status/1517711416349786112 (first photo)

You said that "people use [androids] to do stuff" as if you couldn't do stuff with iphones.

Even the Pixel software just feels like a knock-off of iOS. Same UI paradigms, gestures, etc but everything feels cheaper.

They use android because they can't afford iphones, not because "you can do more" with androids

> Android enables tons of people all over the world to communicate and do things.

This... sounds like an ad.

I've always used Android, thinking that it would improve with age. But eventually I had to face the fact that Android is always going to suck. On top of that every year it gets more and more locked down. Why not buy an iphone instead? At least it works well.

The globalists don't exist? That's a new one.

In other words you want to freely spread your political beliefs without anybody complaining.

> So they don't have random people scouring through every post of theirs and pulling words out of context, like some witchhunters are doing with old emails.

You think?

> They have a law criminalizing offending religious feelings.

Happens in the first world too! 2018: "In Europe, Speech Is an Alienable Right: [the European Court of Human Rights] upheld an Austrian woman’s conviction for disparaging the Prophet Muhammad."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/its-not-fr...

> Life is best spent in service to others.

[citation needed]

C++ is a programming language.

Well, there clearly is a conflict going on in Ukraine. But I don’t think the media is on my side. They are with the powerful, which have every incentive to lie to me to justify the inflation, escalation of the conflict, etc.

I wish one could believe the media.

Not saying that this particular report is not believable, just that "the media already said so" is not an argument in 2022.

Increasing bandwidth in the last mile is not cheap at all.

That's the joke. People and corporations streaming HD video use a disproportionate amount of bandwidth which require more hardware capacity and peering deals. I think it's not crazy to ask that they pay a fair price for it. As someone who doesn't stream HD video I would like to have cheaper connections available if I don't want to pay for the bandwidth usage of other customers.

I thought that it had existed for decades, but I had confused it for jp2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_2000

"Brainwashing has caused people to believe in network congestion caused by high bandwidth usage."

Reminds me of what Reagan did with the air traffic controllers. A real display of power.

I find this one to be better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL4QfvIrUf4

The fewer power we give to designers, the better for us.

A website is an interface, not your own personal fiefdom to grow your portfolio.

Computers old enough not to have UEFI belong in a dumpster.

>Reading elsewhere in the thread it looks like they have been relying on firms in Pakistan and elsewhere to scour the internet for strings that appear in Hacker Rank and submit DMCA takedowns when they find these strings elsewhere.

Who ever thought this was a good idea? Those firms and the "monkeys" they hire have an incentive to send takedowns everywhere to make it look like they are "doing something".

But since there are no consequences for sending them to the wrong places, I guess they don't care much.

They have failed time and time again. I think that at a certain point we should understand that this is not our fight and leave them alone to do whatever they want with their societies.

There is a legit way: buy a GBA or a NDS.

I feel like this is not the whole story.

Like when you googled "american inventors" and you only got black ones.

When I use it I get in my timeline popular tweets from accounts that I don't follow and likes given by people who I follow (these are not retweets). I shouldn't see either.