This is the terrifying part. Ads have become so normal in everyday life that people see nothing wrong with wasting their life away being marketed to by corporations. How much of someone’s life is wasted hearing their existence isn’t good enough but if they’d only buy some product they could be happy?

And yet people are fine with:

People should have basic cooking knowledge
People should have basic financial knowledge

I think you’re right on this. People aren’t moving away from MS because of their obnoxious behaviour. They’re moving to alternate form factors and dealing with Apple’s and Google’s obnoxious behaviour instead. People are willing to put up with a metric ton of bullshit so they don’t have to actually do anything for themselves.

Put them back in your friend’s drawer and forget about them.

The US is already feeding on the smaller sharks, and has been for decades. Look at their foreign policy in Central and South America, South East Asia, the Middle East.

The only difference is that they’ve been feasting on other nations and not the West. China and Russia don’t have those restraints. All three of them are horrible, but America hasn’t been horrible to us until just recently.

Yes but they also added telemetry.

And fascists will see an excellent opportunity for eugenics.

My smartphone is a camera, phone, and orbital sander.

Ohhh that’s a finger he’s looking at on the screen. The thumbnail looks like something else.

That’s a sign of toxic culture, not of men wanting to be defined by what value they can bring.

They already treat their workers like humanoid robots, so this tracks.

Unless I opt out of Gmail? Yep, already done.

Step in and do what? Cross the ocean to launch a counter-invasion against the biggest military force on the planet? And how long that would take? It took 5 years until Europe was liberated, well long enough for 11 million people to be executed in the concentration camps.

I’m Canadian. I’ll probably die in an internment camp for Trump Derangement Syndrome when the US annexes us.

It liked your iris.

Yeah, an intercom between you, your kids, and Amazon.

I also think of overthrowing the oligarchy in the shower.

Yeah, they already said “CEO”.

That’s exactly what he’s been doing with all his businesses. And it works. Tesla is still hugely overvalued as a company.