Be a normal person around them without trying anything. If they like you, you’ll notice it.

… usually randomly 5 years afterward.

Yeah, the last 6 months has really shown what Libertarians are made of. Fucking disgusting hypocrites.

I’m not encrypting my stuff because of people who can legally punch me in the face if I don’t comply. I’m encrypting them against some dude who steals my backpack when I’m commuting.

I’m not saying that all authorities are great but if your biggest risk is your local authorities, you need to change something in your life. Possibly your place of residency.

Fine point. Irony as a default mode of conversation is toxic. Apologies.

Ditto for me for most things here. Fun fact also is that I was initially motivated to buy the car for environmental reasons and so that fascist Russia wouldn’t benefit from me buying and burning gasoline.

I bought it used so technically Musk didn’t get money from me. And by keeping and driving it, he keeps not getting money from me (unless something breaks that needs parts, I guess).

Great car, weird CEO. If his recent successes continue, perhaps he’ll off himself or something. Or perhaps the shareholders will finally grow a spine and boot him instead of giving him billions.

So instead of just risking anti-Musk people burning the car, you will now also have the pro-Musk people who might burn your car.

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So your position is that their system is “Fascist Corporatism,” but also… that’s fine, actually?

Great point. That was a mistake from my part. So what China is doing is indeed not fine at all, even though it kind of works for them.

I mean if we were to sort of steelman this thing, there sure can be database relations and queries that hit only 60k rows but are still hteavy as fuck.

I’ve used local hard drives from like 1992 and I have never ever gotten them to overheat.

I’ve yet to find any such person who’s actually willing and capable to engage in a discussion of “what should they do/have done economically” as opposed to just bashing them.

I didn’t say they weren’t doing fine or that they shouldn’t be doing what they’re doing.

I just said that they’re not communists. This is not a bad thing! But lying about it is of course somewhat distasteful, especially for those people who think themselves as being communists.

What does it mean though? China’s gini coefficient is higher than Europe’s, and they have a growing number of billionaires.

What do they do in China, exactly? It looks like single-party fascist corporatism. If it’s communism, why do they have a rising number of billionaires and worse conditions for workers than many european countries?

Fascism vs communism is a prime example of a false dichotomy.

Sir, this is lemmy. Moderate politics are highly upvoted and deeply resented here.

Bonjour.

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A cynic might say that we’d then just have a slightly more powerful and even less innovative IBM.

Microsoft, because I lived through the 80s and 90s.

Most companies become evil after they grow big. Some companies become big by being evil. Microsoft is the latter.