The industry got too big and too reliant on subsidies. A reckoning will occur at some point, it's just a matter of whether it's announced ahead of time or surprises everyone.

You're technically describing the downsides of authoritarianism, bordering on dictatorship, not communism. That being said, I don't believe communism would work either. Communism isn't the only system at play in those scenarios. Again, not defending communism as a good thing, just that the given reasons aren't actually due to communism but other parallel systems that were implemented at those times.

I'm skeptical of any claims when they're only touted by the one selling it. I'll wait to see if it actually gets implemented anywhere and is verified by a third party.

Still about some Canadians. You are still splitting hairs. The lessons aren't specific to Chinese heritage people.

Oh boy, reddit is gaining in numbers on lemmy it seems. They can't have folks supporting lgbtq, amirite? That sounds just awful. Fuck people looking for acceptance and inclusivity. The "average hater" (not average lemmy user, let's get that straight) doesn't want to hear about that.

Let's keep this hate off Lemmy, OP.

I mean, MSN is just a portal and I doubt there's much behind it besides what domains are popular. MSN "published" this the same way Google News published articles. It sounds better to say Microsoft did it, but it's from some news site called Race Track and it was simply scraped by MSN.

Ok, but the number of people that think defederation is in anyway going to prevent this is fairly high.

To make it clear, the form is virtually the same as before with one additional question. It just asks you to state you read the note that is the same as the note in the post above. The application is virtually identical beyond that. But, the biggest difference, is like you said, an admin needs to approve it.

The first pilot literally had them talking about how weird it is to have a woman on the bridge.

Sent messages "through Google"? Like Chat? Email? That's such an ambiguous statement.

E2EE has been a available approaching three years now. I'd imagine if they were lying and defrauding the population, someone would have found out by now. This announcement is just that it's on by default for everyone.

Bland and nails on chalkboard? That's like the opposite of bland. Not great, but definitely not bland. Bland is blunt and flat. Nails on chalkboard is shrill, sharp, and grating. I just don't understand how you can believe both at the same time.

The GOP has gotten to the point that I can't even accept the "I believe in fiscal conservatism", or "I believe in old school conservatism", etc as an excuse for voting Republican. If you vote Republican, I simply lose faith in you as a person. There is no justification for supporting the hate that is pouring out of that party. Not even ignorance is a justification as it requires willful ignorance at this point. Maybe pre-GWB, but his re-election kind of was the death knell of any "acceptable" reason to vote GOP. Since then they've been literally saying the quiet parts out loud. They aren't pretending to be about anything else anymore. No one has an excuse to be fooled into thinking there's any good in the GOP.