Putin maybe, Kim-Jong definitely not. Just Meta’s net profit (let well alone revenue) is well over NK’s entire GDP. Even if he literally owned the entire country which he certainly does not, he wouldn’t be nearly as wealthy as Musk or Bezos.

Idk (I’m not op) but I think when people say “can I install Linux on this” everyone knows they mean gnu/Linux. Yes, if I’m picking a container base image obviously alpine is also Linux, and if we’re talking about kernels then Android is too. But if we’re talking about desktop OSes then I think it’s close enough.

Netanyahu is an evil fuck, but this isn’t his war, Israel has been doing slow and steady ethnic cleansing of the region for 50+ years.

No amount of infrastructure fixes a drought lmao

Those few top people are assholes who love the enormous power they wield over PhD students, postdocs and junior faculty, and they are usually editors on those big name journals. Unlike the people who actually do the work, they are getting paid from this system.

Nope, you just can’t get a job unless you suck it up and publish in these journals, because they’re already famous. And established profs use their cosy relationships with editors to gatekeep and stifle competition for their funding :(

99% of people will buy the cheaper TV with tracking, it probably not sustainable to sell the expensive one without. This stuff just needs to be banned

Doesn’t have to be a conspiracy to have that effect or reflect that view

Overestimating it a little, the construction workers just need to be good. But there are indeed literally thousands of PhDs working on it for decades, from all over the world.

The chance that it’s compromised is small but unfortunately the chance that it would be noticed is pretty small too, nobody is reading all the source code of all the apps on fdroid

Wow, I thought the anonymousejoker was deranged but you are at least as crazy if not worse. I guess it makes sense that a niche privacy community would attract such weirdos but you’re (both) making it really hard for people to get quality information.

There is no issue from graphenes side really, Google wallet doesn’t work because obviously Google doesn’t allow it to. nfc payments always worked if you are lucky enough to be with a bank that does it through the bank app itself, there’s nothing intrinsic about the os that stops them. There are a few of those online banks/money apps offering this now, some people have said PayPal works? And various other services. If you Google a bit you should find some suggestions. I don’t think the convenience is worth the privacy invasion of mobile payments, it defeats the whole point of having a secure os tbh.

It’s a credit card/payment processor thing, i.e. ultimately it’s visa/mastercard, but it’s up to the bank to offer to individuals. It’s often available in other anglophone countries if your talk to your bank but I’m sure in some places they wouldn’t do that. But yeah, years ago is too long anyway.

They actually don’t, on average they actually become slightly more progressive. However, rich people are conservative and rich people live longer.

Yeah, I know it’s got way more expensive here the last few years, but it’s still much cheaper than in the US or on the continent

Now that’s a paranoid take lmao

Groceries are very affordable in the UK if you’re buying simple ingredients like this. Those Italian hard cheeses and the 2 kg of chicken are the most expensive things, probably 3£ and change each, the rest of those items are like 1-2£ each. This is most of a week’s food for like 40£.

I dont think that follows, people can have different needs for different products even if they think in the same way (but i agree with your overall point)

Not to mention projection

Yes, of course there are plenty of workplaces this bad, but they still wouldn’t write “voluntary mandatory”