Let’s be honest: We knew that Elon was an asshole and totally batshit insane after the thailand caving incident. That was in 2018. Everybody who bought a Tesla after that didn’t pay attention

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/15/elon-musk-british-diver-thai-cave-rescue-pedo-twitter

Buy your locally produced Cola. Don’t start to import cola produced in Germany to Spain or the Norwegian lemonade to Italy. Don’t ship sugar water trough Europe by lorry, we have enough traffic on our motorways already.

You don’t need a kill switch. If you’re flying F35 and the US decides to cut you off, you won’t get replacement parts. Some repairs are only available in the US, so your fancy bird won’t fly much longer

Hey, the rise of fascism in Europe in the 1920s/1930s has complex origins and historians have written many books about it. There are many reasons for Hitlers and Mussolinis rise to power, so let’s not go around and give undercomplex explanations like “the slippery slope argument”

There is an oversupply and China is reducing imports to protect their own industry:

https://www.euromeatnews.com/Article-China-will-investigate-beef-imports-as-oversupply-squeezes-prices/8068

It’s also a great way to mess with Trump (and other conservative governments worldwide) as farmers are some of their most loyal supporters. And since the Trump gov won’t do much against H5N1, it’s also a great way to protect yourself.

Reddit is calculating its MAU differently. They seem to be counting even not-logged-in users coming from search engines - without that numbers like “1 billion monthly active users” really don’t make any sense and even that is a crazy metric, if you think about it. There is no way that 1/8 of humanity is browsing on Reddit in a month. Lemmy seems to count only users who are doing something (submitting, commenting, upvoting)

Suse is a german company and therefore Suse Linux has some improvements for german users. And if you’re doing it to get away from american companies to get your own sovereign OS, that totally makes sense. Better localization and from your country. And the support might also be in German

The problem is that many companies can’t do that as they can’t give you their custom server code. The only solution here would be to change design from the beginning so that devices can work without servers and are also so secure that they don’t need security updates

There is a difference between me reading a book and learning from it and one of the biggest companies in the world pirating millions of books for their business. And it really gets bad when normal users are getting sued for tenthousands of dollars when they download a book or a MP3 and Meta is getting defended for doing the same thing, but in a much larger scale.

Yes, we know that copyright is broken. But if it is broken, it has to be broken for all