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Why would Google care? Their business is making an appearance of providing useful information, not actually providing useful information.

American culture descended from Christian fundamentalism, not Christianity. It’s a huge difference and it shows all over the place in how bigoted US laws are, compared to most of Europe.

This is not enough. We need to mainstream using fake data whenever possible.

That’s a fascinating take, given that much of what Catholicism actually is is defined by the lies it’s routinely using for all kinds of purposes, from providing a safe heaven to child groomers to spreading the hate speech.

It doesn’t. It just requires them to follow the law, like other countries do. The problem comes from the fact that American companies are used to buying their way around the laws, and in this case they can’t.

Let me guess, it never occurred to you to ask what Chinese say about this. You just trust your own propaganda instead.

>There is precedence of American companies not allowed to operate in China.

Not true. They can operate, they just need to obey the law. Same way other companies need to obey American laws to operate in US, eg enforcing copyright or providing Lawful Interception mechanisms.

Not true, American companies like Google are still the de facto monopolies in Europe.

You might also check out how China is draining Russian economy - instead of focusing on making an appearance of doing so. But yeah, this is one aspect where I do agree. I’m really happy to see USA being the good guys again.

Similar incentives and assumptions lead to similar results.

Twitter hired private spooks to track journalists and Elon is still living off government grants, so yeah, obviously.

We should also shut down all the US-based media in Europe then, for the exact same reason.

You’ll get the exact same snappiness with xterm running on xserver (with no desktop or WM), despite all the Unicode and font rendering support.

Now imagine if those people worked for some Chinese government agency instead.

That’s why everyone should own a Baofeng.

Siberia is way more significant than western Russia. That’s one of the pieces we’re commonly missing: Moscow is a hollow parasite.

RedHat business is selling support, not making a usable operating system.

Current Russia has plenty of sub-identities though. It’s the worlds last colonial empire, and the division lines are obvious to everyone there. The only thing keeping it all together is the army and police.

(Cf https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1600551806429544452.html)

We had USSR split up 30 years ago, and it turned out quite well. Why assume making it happen again would result in something terrible?

Covid moved much of the trade to internet; its easier to use littlebiggy than to find an actual live vendor on a street.

Sure there is - peer to peer. Spotify, and music streaming in general, is useless from technical point of view, thanks to cheap storage.