tomiant

And on any Intel hardware the true root account belongs to NSA anyway.

An early metastase of the cancer.

It's like that quote, "you can fool some people some of the time, but you can't fool all people all of the time"- thing is, they don't have to. They fool most of the people most of the time, and that is all they need to impose their agenda. The fringe cases, like people rooting and installing alternative OS's, don't matter if 99% of the world's population go along with whatever the corps dictate. The sheer inertia of that will keep pulling the tech where they want it to go, as global industry pulls the same way.

The EU will, at some point, cave to the interest of global capital. I am proud that they have fought as well as they have these past few decades, but as long as capitalism rules the planet, capital will always supersede rule of law and democracy in the end.

America is about to, if it has not already, succumb completely to that state of affairs, and once that power is consolidated by the capital, EU will be (one of) the next targets.

Lately I've been thinking that what it is, is people trying to eliminate that overwhelming sense of existential dread which springs from all of this, by buying into it, just like fascists do- "if I join them they won't come for me". They start telling themselves that "maybe it's for the best", that "maybe good things will come of it", and once someone makes that jump it's easy for them to become zealous or fanatic, not only because it gives them an even greater sense of empowerment because they're now part of an ingroup or a club, but can also get off even more on perceived moral or intellectual supremacy over others.

These are extremely uncertain times, and uncertainty makes human scared and anxious, and scared anxious humans latch on to anything that gets them out of those feelings, in this case like surrendering before this gargantuan machine that they can neither understand nor control.

It's like with cultists. They crave the comfort of someone telling them what the truth is, to give them certainty. I don't know, something I thought about.

The worst part is, the vast majority of people will opt in by default, and when 99% of people do, that impetus will pull everything else in together with it. Us privacy and liberty minded fringe cases won't matter, because the tech will keep moving in whatever direction is dictated by the giants because they will have ensnared the global population in their schemes, and it will pull us along with the drift.

It's pretty god damned bleak. We need to seriously organize and coordinate resistance.

And compared to the genocide in Myanmar it's wholly unimportant! Let's focus on a single thing at a time, that's the path to progress!

Thank god there is any pushback on anything these capitalist godzillas are perpetrating on humanity.

Now, someone tell me how it's going to fail and is just a hype attempt by the fascist coalition to gear up the fourth reich.

Yeah there's been a lot of engagement on /r/vibebricklaying lately

Are we debating whether we like or dislike the particular flavor of the chosen symbol for consumer activism? "Maybe if it was cornflower blue?"

"You criticize society, yet you partake in it. Curious!"

[...] two tech giants say the [30%] fees are necessary to protect user privacy and security

Bruh...