UBI, socialism, communism, anarchism

we sure do twist and cram so many things into a capitalist framework, if only there were another way

They’re saying they might ask to collect this additional information. A lot of the information, as others have pointed out, is also common and necessary for some basic operations of a service like this.

This is an overreaction, there are many good reasons not to like this app but misunderstanding their data policy isn’t one

oh yes I’m not excited about humans being replaced by bias amplifying machines with corporate morals

I think it’s unfair to call it poorly-developed, the rush to market it and apply it in every corner is driven entirely by capitalist speculation, the engineers and scientists working on developing these systems are not to blame

I feel like the effort to make such a repo and make it popular enough to be cloned and rehosted is a lot more effort than someone manually checking the results of an automated filter process.

The “effort economy” is hugely in favor of the mirroring side

Only you know the truth!

Also don’t go outside or let the Google car drive by your house or have email or throw documents in the trash

It’s also still relatively easy to tinker with windows to remove things you don’t like while still getting to use all of your software. Linux requires a lot of tinkering too but it’s so that you can use your software in the first place. It’s easier for me to tinker to eventually remove bloat and disable features I don’t use than it is for me to have to tinker to use my software and features in the first place.

What do we need ISPs competing on if the infrastructure is run by the government? They can’t increase speeds, they can’t increase service availability, they’ll just be getting a profit margin on top of what the government is charging them to use the communications infrastructure. I’d rather just pay the government the pre-profit amount

I’m so tired of this nonsense argument, is capitalism your God to which you give credit for every human accomplishment? How did capitalism help to raise the Russian serfs to the status of a world superpower? It didn’t… How did capitalism help Russia get to space before the United States? How did capitalism help human life improve before the 16th century?

I wonder what you even think capitalism is. I wonder if you comprehend that technological advancement, markets, money, and trade aren’t synonymous with it.

You love democracy but when it comes to matters of economic decisions you are bootlicking the petite dictators that control every aspect of your economic life. You are employed by people whose means of acquiring wealth is to skim off the top of what you’re producing and steal it from you but you are too busy making eye contact while you suck them off that you don’t see their hand in your pocket.

The world is burning and there’s plastic in your balls because of capitalism, you are such a good submissive little peasant.

Everyone that works for a company is poorer, every company is scraping by and making cuts, but executives are making more and more money

The myth of capitalism is that it improves things for the consumer. It’s very obvious that it only improves, at best, the next quarter’s returns for the investor. Once that husk of a company stops “line going up,” the money goes elsewhere and we repeat.

If the line can’t go up through creation it’ll go up through destruction.

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What’s the connection between Uber and China, then? I thought it was somewhat common for tech companies to be unprofitable for very long periods of time backed only by capital, but it may be China. Has anyone looked into this? Does Xi know what I like to order on weekends? Why haven’t we banned this yet

Lol I hope that’s a poor choice of words, maybe you MIGHT have a point if you specified the US government though even that isn’t true https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

Only Western manipulation please!

We have different ideas of what the left is, I guess

I’d argue that’s true in some cases, for example web apps might work well enough on modern device hardware but they’ll never meet the performance of even mid-tier native apps

It’s less about individual developers writing bad code and more about whole inefficient frameworks gaining popularity because of ease of use or deployment