Career politicians tend to be rich themselves, they can’t even imagine someone being unable to afford a flying car.

Blocking any domain that has “consent” in it is never a mistake.

It’s only a part of the fascists’ playbook. The really dangerous part is where they use the system against itself and destroy it from within.

Get yourself a very long stick to push away any sneaky billionaires trying to climb on your island. You might also want to invest in naval mines in case they arrive by yacht.

Yes, in that case, it most likely was using an insecure channel to directly dial into the conference. Still, the entire certificate infrastructure is mere security theater, unless you’re actually going through the trouble of checking every individual certificate yourself.

If you’re looking at who is allowed to issue trusted root certificates in common browsers and operating systems, nobody needs to accept nothing to have every possible man in the middle from every major country’s intelligence services already in there.

And that does make sense - butter has to be made from milk

cries in coal butter

But his name doesn’t come from Scheuermilch, it’s rather an abbreviation of “bescheuert” - bonkers.

␛⃣ :q! ⏎⃣

Great, now consulting a search engine on questions about vim the text editor will yield equally awkward results as consulting a search engine on matters concerning latex the typesetting system.

It’s more like German politicians love donations from the big money launderers and tax dodgers so much that they continually make sure to systematically underfund, understaff, and disempower any authorities tasked with investigating and prosecuting financial crimes.

Anti money laundering agency right next door to a bunch of giant industrial money laundries? That’s German efficiency.

They don’t even need to leave their building, just sit in the front door and arrest every suit that walks past.

Yes that’s the only point in this debate, but what kind of person Putin is and what kind of state he runs has been well known for quite some time. Navalny’s death is just another data point in a long history of awfully convenient and totally natural deaths of Putin critics and/or other dissidents and defectors.

His fate was sealed the moment he returned to Russia, I am honestly surprised that they let him live for so long.

If only the media could stop parroting every shit those vile people say, it’s playing right into their hands.

The social fabric in our society is ripped in such a way that old people often feel “left over” whereas in other societies they remain an integral part and can still have meaningful interactions, where they feel able to provide to society and be respected for it.

Western Societies have now been bombarded by incessant neoliberal propaganda for decades. A lot of that propaganda takes the divide and conquer approach to make cutbacks to social security and workers’ rights palatable to the public. One day it’s the unemployed who are at fault for cutbacks to pensions, the next day it’s the pensioners who are too expensive to finance proper unemployment benefits. This has been going on and on for decades, with ever changing marginalised groups being played against each other. Meanwhile boundless egotism and individualism has been lauded as the ultimate life goal of “freedom”.

The result of this is a society of egomaniacs who are only looking out for themselves and hate arbitrary people for being in the arbitrary drawer they have been stuffed into by the currently prevalent propaganda.

The thing is that enslaving people is a crime in most countries. Wouldn’t it be great if companies had a person responsible for their actions who could then be held responsible for crimes committed in the name or for the benefit of said company?

Unfortunately, nobody seems to be willing or able to prosecute the CEOs of big corporations.

And the enshittification continues.

But Apple makes overpriced ego boosting lifestyle products anyway, so anyone who thinks they need their crap deserves it.

Which big corporation that operates internationally has any morals?

I wouldn’t buy a VW vehicle based on their decline in quality and affordability during the last few decades alone. If you don’t want to buy products that contain components or materials made by Chinese, or really, any, slave labour, you’ll have a hard time buying any industrial product. Of course, the usage of slave labour by corporations needs to be stopped, but as an individual, that’s hardly possible, because often you don’t have any choice. This problem needs concerted action by governments, ideally with personal consequences for the people responsible.

If they build crappy cars of their own, they have no need to import crappy cars from abroad. Indeed convenient.

In its correct pronunciation, it sounds like an English expletive that can be used on Putin. So all is not as bad as it seems.