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"I know I'm wrong, but still I have to double down on this to save face"

I understand you want to highlight this, but you don’t have to begin your sentence with "It's interesting that..." because this is not interesting or novel in the slightest.

Do not consent when asked or, better yet, do not use websites that implement these techniques.

You can’t have a good teaching programme when there is a variance of 40 points of IQ among the pupils.

Loaded language, it can’t be “spying” if the user consents.

Gauging someone’s abilities is meany mean.

The choice citizens would make every single time is to see the website without ads. Of course, publishers aren’t happy about that, since they would have to close shop. Maybe the EC should consider both sides of the equation.

>You can make more than that working at McDonald's near me, and nobody would claim that is a living wage.

Hey, good for you. But 30k per year is a very good salary in European countries such as Spain, where the median salary is just a bit over half that.

Damn, where is Mastodon getting €1M from?

Also where do you get from that you can't retire with €1M. It seems very feasible as long as you keep a frugal lifestyle.

Use Google to find what happens when the government introduces price controls.

It’s amusing that censorship in social media is preventing you from posting what you want to post and yet you are asking for censorship of something else (or at least that’s what I understand by your calling this “dangerous”)

God forbid people ask a chat bot for things and receive what they ask for. We need to put a stop to this. Only American bigcorp speak allowed.

Even worse is that Samsung phones, at least in my region, come with a "Samsung Global Goals" app installed by default; an app that serves to push a certain political agenda that many find unpalatable. Imagine if your new Xiaomi phone came with an app telling you how good the CCP is.

Because you can bypass the wall with archive.is or other tools. This website is closed tight.

That pong set is kitsch as hell. I WANT IT!

What would happen if it changed in a way that repulsed you?

“The government already has too much power, so let it take even more” is not convincing.

The actual danger is that you’re creating a system where the government will have the power to tell you what you can spend your money on.

Is this the usual "we must stop the big corporations" argument, pretending that those who work at them and those who depend on their products will not complain? Or maybe you are thinking concentration camps and mass graves.

But, not letting infected Africans into Europe would be mean.

Mine also came with a bar but my motherboard didn’t have the appropriate holes for it.

If you are poor, you should be terrified, because what those policies mean is that the rich are pulling the ladder up behind themselves now that they’re rich beyond their wildest dreams.

I have yet to see a single Apple hater who’s ever used Apple devices and knows what he’s talking about.

My 4090 is so heavy that it was starting to bend downwards because of gravity, and I was concerned the connector would end up snapping. So I started looking around for objects of the appropriate size I could use to stop this from happening. Long story short, my computer now has a Rubik cube lodged between the gpu and the psu.

Google doesn’t abuse anything. They have a better product that people naturally would rather use. But you can write laws to say it does and extract money off Google and other companies, which is exactly my argument.

Same as there are American corporations such as Walmart that are only profitable because of SNAP, there are entire European industries that are only profitable because of the money they steal off American companies that European citizens would rather use instead.

The same people who tell you that GDP means nothing to the average person and that investments only go to the rich will tell you that Brexit was bad because it reduced GDP and investments.

Cool, but it's anything but libertarian, which is what we were discussing in this thread.

Regarding democracy, we have pretty severe failings, which you won't hear about because the EU is busy with Poland/Hungary/other conservative countries.

Spain is an extremely socialist and big government country, to the point where there are 0.5M more people living off the government than working the private sector: https://theobjective.com/economia/macroeconomia/2024-09-16/a...

They want you depending on megacorporations or, even better, the government.