No more different from wearing a Kluxer suit.

Doctorow is never wrong.

Because their other friends are on them, and the celebrities they follow.

Copiers and messengers are going to be useful again.

Technically you can disable automatic updates for it. However at anytime the rights to Nova could be sold to anyone else, and not just a data miner some are talking about.

System of a Down - The Prison Song

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=m4L20t8Dvlg

Being in uniform plus body armor and padding adds more to intimidation.

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Yeah, but that’s not for everyone else, unfortunately.

Nah, PCs are easier to install anything we want. Corps trying to lock out Linux would be like shooting themselves in the foot.

Phones are what they would like to get a tighter leash on, because it has become a device that nearly everyone buys more than PCs due to them being more usable and cheaper, and thus a bigger revenue channel.

but to someone from a third world country it’s still much better than what they can get at home.

The hourly rates are what entices them, much more than they could earn in a month. Why some are willing to do tedious dirty work that others push away.

Given the current state of things, they’re being more entitled assholes.

One empire to collapse, but for another few to rise to fill the void it leaves.

And those few are not so much more merciful. I’m trying to imagine what the world would look like if it’s only Russia and China on top, while the US implodes like the Balkans.

It also does help to check the app if it uses ads and it’s not crippled. Unfortunately most people tend to just jump in because the app looks shiny or because their favorite celebrity uses it.

You’re looking at a Jollibee product.

What in your country/area is totally normal but visitors get excited for?

This is so mundane fried chicken for me, just comfort food in the Philippines, but no thanks to some influencers, tourists flock to this specific fast food restaurant expecting it to be some culinary treasure.

In his essay, Umberto Eco is correct in his assessment that fascists will never be satisfied until they get rid of all of they hate, and achieve their own absolution and realization of their power fantasies, a world shaped by their warped concepts of purity and ego-driven heroism.

Eugenics, segregation, Ford’s assembly-line technique, and manifest destiny.

Also, they want streets full of Kluxers.

They’re scared of self-governing NGOs and free fonts of knowledge.