FreedomAdvocate

Agreements like that are not enforceable, and yeh they’re a red flag for sure.

The cost of living won’t fall unless we have a recession, a biiiiiig one, with massive unheard of deflation of like 25-30% to get prices back to where they should be.

The government won’t let that happen though, and they’d rather create a shitload more inflation by printing money and opening the immigration floodgates even more.

You don’t have to prove my argument correct, but I don’t care if you don’t want to look it up. These books and pictures of them were everywhere for weeks/months, and politicians and parents etc were told to stop reading and showing images from them because they were too graphic when they were appealing to get them removed in parliament and in school meetings lol.

I dare say you already know the books and graphic illustrations that I’m talking about anyway.

Actually fit people sweat more than unfit people.

I appreciate the reply, and I’m not out to pick a fight either :).

I think for the foreseeable future it’s just going to be rinse and repeat of imgur, as an example. A service is created to fit a need/desire, with good intentions of being free and bloat-free, but then starts showing ads and offering paid subscriptions, and takes investor money at which point you know it’s only a matter of time before it’s where we are now with imgur. It’s just the nature of popular services unfortunately - the cost to host them is astronomical, and I am pretty sure that 99% that even a rough estimate of what people in here think it costs is probably off by a factor of 1000x or more. Hosting anything that is used by thousands or millions of people, especially when it involves videos and pictures, quickly adds up into millions per month.

Unless there is some revolution in internet speeds/bandwidth/etc there’s just no getting around this.

Side loading isn’t going away, just “anonymous” side loading. I suspect it will end up being a non-issue anyway, as simply registering as a developer through their portal so you can have your app be side loaded isn’t a big deal unless your app is doing something nefarious.

I’m not “defending” anything, let alone Google. All I'm doing is being realistic. The tiny minority of people this will affect have no alternative, and this change is likely to make very little actual change to those people anyway.

The very nature of discussion boards mean that they’re always going to centralise discussion eventually, no matter how decentralised the user base is.

No one wants to have 25 different small tech communities that all post the same article, so they go to the one that has the most users. It took all of a week after the Reddit exodus for a few fediverse instances to become the clear centralised ones. Me starting my own instance with zero communities and only me as a user does nothing to fix any problems of centralisation, yet is touted as a selling point of the decentralised fediverse.

Decentralisation of user accounts is irrelevant and almost pointless when all of the discussion is centralised on one main instance. The only real way it can be decentralised in a way that matters is if every /technology (for example) essentially merge together and all instantly sync all comments and threads from all instances in real time, with automatic addition of new instances whenever they start a similar community. This brings many, many challenges though, and would instantly take away the ability for most people to host an instance, further limiting decentralisation.

Nah, in fact I sleep better at night knowing those people are angry just knowing that I exist :)

Hilarious you calling anyone else fragile though haha. You’ve done nothing but show how you can’t stand people not agreeing with you, actively trying to tell others people proactively to block me. If that doesn’t scream fragile then I don’t know what does :)

Fragile people get upset and cry for censorship when they come up against people with different opinions. Strong people have no issue debating and conversing with people with differing opinions. You’re the former, I’m the latter.

The type of people crying over this are not moving to iPhones lol. You know it, I know it, everyone knows it. Google know it, which is why they know they can do this with no issue.

I forgot governments don’t co-operate with foreign governments. GDPR certainly doesn’t have to be followed outside the EU, right?

By “a lot” you literally mean one when responding to someone trying to “gotcha” me yesterday hahaha.

Quick questions - do you think vaccines should be mandatory? What should the punishment be for not getting them? Which ones are mandatory?

What other things with your body does the government get control of? Should the government be able to mandate abortions if, say, you already have 1 child and they want to implement a 1 child only policy?