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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • The plan all along was to monopolize tracking for themselves; to maintain their data harvesting advantage, while limiting other ad tech companies.

    The reversal is likely a response to the various antitrust suits — potentially losing chrome &/or android — killing the advantage for Google search and putting them in the same boat as external ad tech companies and data brokers.

    Could also be due to gov/political pressure, as most mainstream political parties are using big data and analytics to run PsyOps on voters, especially fascist/conservative parties like the MAGAzis.




  • People are looking for more manual, less complicated places to live …

    They could not find a single light switch in the entire home.

    The problem has nothing to do with a rejection of the tech. It has everything to do with vulture capitalism and regulatory failure. It’s the same reason why most average people haven’t committed to smart homes; nobody wants to use a dozen apps — a dozen walled gardens — to control their devices, lose manual control of core functionality, or commit to spending hundreds/thousands of dollars on a company or system that could be abandoned within years (or a products usable lifespan).

    This is a prime example of corporate greed shooting itself in the foot. If an open standard like matter was established (and committed to) from the start (10-15 years ago), the industry would be hundreds/thousands of percent larger. Now it will be an uphill battle, as most people interested in the tech have been burned by the greed.














  • This is only “doom and gloom” if you’ve given up and resigned yourself to inaction.

    IMO, the worst possible response is ignoring reality and entertaining the fantasy that an election 3.5 years away could overthrow a fascist dictatorship that is doing everything you would do if you never planned on facing accountability, justice, or (fair) elections ever again.

    IMO, the worst possible response is believing elections or bi-monthly protests are the only plausible way to remove a fascist dictatorship. There are many options, and Americans are already at the point that warrants a permanent general-strike. The corruption, authoritarianism, and treason to their constitutional oath is on full display for all to see. There should be a million people camped around capitol hill and every single Republican politicians home and office — every single SC justice — right now, PEACEFULLY demanding their immediate resignation/abdication, and new elections.

    … and if the above fails, and the fascists resort to violence and terrorism to crush the protestors, that’s when the gloves should come off and the protestors should be prepared to forcefully remove the fascists, by any means necessary. That is literally the entire reason the 2nd amendment exists at all.

    Every tyrant in history has proven that they’re either paper tigers who collapse (usually by fleeing) under the weight of opposition (often internal)… or choose violence, and should be met with violence.