Linux = Freedom.
Android is not "linux". Android is not free.
(From experience) downvote all you want.
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Android is not "linux". Android is not free.
(From experience) downvote all you want.
a) You are being mean, with no reason. b) He is stronger than you.
a) Yes, everything is indeed pointless / "pointless".
b) Think about what "pointless" means. It requires an agent to assign and remove importance. Who is this agent? Is it you, is it society, is it what you have been told since born? What's his goals / values / pov? Why exactly is something "important" or not?
c) Fck "saving the world". Fck "there is a point in this". See it, start, simpler: Do you enjoy eating some specific food? That's the meaning of life. Do you enjoy taking a dump? That's the meaning of life. Do you enjoy chewing gum? That's the meaning of life. Do you enjoy saying some arcane joke? To yourself or some random person you just met? Even if they dislike it or don't understand it? That's the meaning of life. Do you enjoy scratching your @@? That's the meaning of life.
The "purpose in life", is to eg scratch your @@, and for 2 seconds, say "I liked that, and I currently feel good".
It may sound ridiculous, but everything comes from that. If you eg say, "I was thirsty, it's hot, and I enjoyed this cold glass of water", you are on your way to be happy, and also on your way to save humanity. If you want to do that. ..Don't believe me that everything comes from that. But, pls, do enjoy the one second of today, that you felt well doing whatever.
That's the meaning of life. That's the purpose. And when you internalise that, you will find something that is nice for two seconds, and, eventually, you will find the "purpose".
Merit, is absolutely important. But freedom, is equally and more so.
Generally, people have a tendency to be biased towards themselves, and their kin.
What you say, is the "correct" solution. The good, the improving, what helps society. I agree with you. But it's slow, fragile, and you should acknowledge that your established, strong, opposition, may play dirty.
And you are correct. But something different was being said: Unconstrained capitalism, leads to monopolies (or oligopolies). And that's true too. Read your own words. "monopolies are good for the monopolists". Isn't that another way to say "shareholders' profit"? There you have motive. And in a pond of fish, doesn't the bigger, eat the smaller, becoming even more big in the process? That's the process.
Sure, but the problem is that unconstrained free markets lead to monopolies.
The big fish eats the smaller fish. The big fish becomes bigger and more difficult to attack. (New competition.) And so on, and so on, until there can be only one, or an oligopoly.
"Bad", is relative. "Bad" for whom? Deere or the farmer? Follow the money / power.
Simple. It's not being abused. It's working as intended.
It is becoming the first, past-human society. There are "entities". Powerful entities. And some other things, we don't care about.
It is the first to realize in a social context, the halting problem. That imperfect rules imposed on an extremely huge social canvas, are not Turing complete. The limits of discreet rules. Which in a social canvas, has also to include in the description, "harsh", "absolute", "cold blooded", etc.
In societies where you still have humans running the show, you don't kill -9 kids.
Yes, "I" (for some values of "I"), am the most important thing in the world ever, "I" am the law, and "I" am a powerful entity, but show some "dignity", "humanity", "judgment", and "honesty" about what we have been in the past ourselves.
It's a great decision for the banks, and the politicians that got their cut. It's (only) a bad decision for you and me, the tax payers, who are being raped.
Which greece never sees, and the money go immediately to bailing out the german and french banks that created the problem in the first place. (Courtesy of the tax payers, with a cut for the politicians, with the past gains of german and french industialists, and the present and future gains of the bailed out banks.)
There is a lot of survivor bias in that.
There is no "germany" and no "greece". A german person, is not the deutsche bank. Likewise, a greek person, is not the greek national bank. "Germany vs greece", is just a simple "we vs them" plot, to hide the banks between the mass of the people.
What is happening is that ALL european tax payers, are essentially paying for the german and french banks.
You should go back in time, and read the "details". The debt was owned by german and french banks. What essentially happened is that those banks were bailed out with the money of all the european tax payers. (Greek, german, french, etc.)
When you hear about, or say, "greeks don't pay their taxes", you should also get informed about how much that taxation really is. That's extremely difficult, even for someone living here. To give the slightest of many examples, you may read that income from real estate is taxed with 33%. That's true, but it glosses over ~30 more "small" taxes on real estate, and many other general laws that affect it. ..You read "I don't pay my taxes of 33%", my what-really-happened, extremely simple, just did a division, calculation, is 90%. ..Have a good day. Cause I'm having bad years.
You suppose that they don't know that. You suppose that their motives are to improve your survival rate, ie to protect you. You suppose they are uninformed, erroneous, lack historical knowledge and sophistication. That they are basically unknowledgeable, and uninformed. That they opt for (unattainable) perfection, destroying unwillingly freedom in the process. Basically, you assume they are "stupid".
That's, (without you wanting it,) arrogant on your part. "They don't know/understand". You don't give enough credit to the enemy. Things get much clearer, all over the place, if you suppose instead that the people in charge are NOT actually "immature", "stupid", "uninformed", but instead that they target your civil liberties in the first place, for personal and their sponsors' gain, and that caring about you and me, are just convenient excuses.
Because central banks (CB) print money out of thin air. That "money" is debt. You print 100, you owe 110 counting interest. How can you pay the 10, if you only printed/exists, 100? You can't. You, me, everyone, is a debt slave. "Times are good" = CBs print a lot of money (out of thin air). A lot of non existant interest too, but you don't notice, cause more money/debt is printed. "Times are bad" = Enough is enough, CBs stop printing, you have to pay/give back, what doesn't exist, ie the interest. Defaults are unavoidable, and the people on top, pick up whatever they want on pennies to the dollar.
To put it simply: You print 100 out of thin air. There is no more money in the world. Next year, you owe 110. Where can you find the 10? (Spoiler: You can't.)
Walking speed taking twice as usual? Possibly bad health.
Beyond the obvious about who you know and hang around with (both, often, at the same place), what your interests or politics are (every friday, he is the vicinity of that ACLU gathering place), etc, etc. ..And I haven't even tried.
Welcome to freedom and democracy, and all that.
a) We don't "win". We just "don't lose". Yet. b) You are doing a great favor to them, thinking they are "idiots". The truth couldn't be further from the truth. They just have different goals than we have.
Freedom is important. Really important. Everything else, are just excuses.
Some day humanity will realize that the freedom to say and pursue a different opinion, is not the same as "competition".
The freedom to a diff opinion, and pursuing it, is good. Cooperation and sharing, is good. Competition, is bad. It focuses on "wining" and not on solutions and improvement.
PS: Yeah, I know, I live in a wrong, fucking, century :-(