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I absolutely think piracy eclipses the Fediverse in popularity.

Atheism isn't a religion, but there are definitely forms of antitheism, such as New Atheism, that qualify as pseudoreligions.

Not available to non-yuppies though.

State level systems. Some Canadian provinces had universal healthcare before Canada had it nationwide.

Because it's entrenched, and any other platform that can provide the reasons YouTube got popular (PeerTube cannot) would run into the same issues eventually. Most of the best YouTube content nowadays is by people who rely on it as at least a secondary income, so it provides no real benefit for creators to post content elsewhere.

Trump was a much better speaker in 2016 than he is now. Maybe his speeches didn't make much sense, but to get people excited you don't have to.

DeSantis was never a good speaker.

We know there's been a lot of big corpos stealing from the IRS, because the IRS has announced a crackdown on high income earners. This means they won't be getting away anymore hopefully, but they were for a very long time.

USA.

I'm pretty sure most people would agree USA now is a worse place than USA in the 80s/90s, but austerity measures that hurt almost everyone now but helped the economy in the short term are a big reason why the 80s and 90s were prosperous for many. We're finally starting to turn away from austerity and unions are growing in strength, but that's not to say that (relatively speaking) the economy is good here, inflation is hitting hard, and who knows if Republicans win 2024.

The biggest existential threat to the country is the attempted hostile takeover by theocrats, which has been well over 40 years in the making, is nothing short of conspiracy, and quite frankly I think secession talks should get serious if Trump wins in 2024, even moreso if Rs get a majority in Congress. Maybe this comes off as panicky, but there's a reason women, LGBT people, and non-whites are the biggest buyers of guns now. I can't afford one.

At this point whether Republicans or Democrats will win 2024 feels like a coin flip. Biden's polling worse than Trump (neither is polling great) but also Democrats are winning most special elections (usually special elections go to Republicans) and a slue of anti-gerrymandering court decisions are taking effect, not to mention Trump could be in jail (and a bunch of other politicians from both parties are getting sued.)

Enthusiast grade = Most powerful, most features

Professional grade = Most durable

Executive grade = Schmucks think it makes you look important

But most iPhone sales are in a region where WhatsApp is irrelevant.

But still, if you have an Android and someone you want to text has an iPhone, you're using SMS, not RCS.

I do believe RCS-compatibility for iMessage would make take a chunk out of iPhone sales honestly.

I agree that all the stuff iMessage has that RCS doesn't is gimmicky, I'm, an Android user myself...but if you have an Android and someone you want to text has an iPhone, you're both using SMS.

Encryption, photos are higher quality through it (this is where "Android cameras are bad" came from,) typing indicators, sending messages over Wi-Fi, iMessage games, and message effects.

No, and I say that as someone who doesn't see a Civil War as an impossibility. The situation just isn't particularly comparable to Israel-Palestine

I agree, but the problem when it's from government is that government can define "atrocities we're doing" as "misinformation."

EU residents along with Canadians are the LAST people who should count on government continuing to be reasonable.

I wouldn't take issue with this if X, Meta (for Instagram,) and Google (for YouTube Shorts) were getting sued as well. But I don't think TikTok should be singled out.

Meta.

Amazon I'd advocate for the nationalization of, at least of AWS. Meta caused a genocide and just needs to go. There's nothing they can provide that another company can't. Yeah WhatsApp is entrenched in much of the world, but it doesn't have to stay that way.

Teslas and cars that are trying to copy Tesla (Mustang Mach-E for example.)

Would maybe work in some places. I at least get the angle of encouraging people to order online less, if this were the situation I think more people would prefer to buy things from brick and mortar stores if they could find it. But in areas with car dependency problems it'd make life worse, particularly if the company decides it's not profitable enough to put a package vault in a town or in reasonable distance of it, which I could absolutely see happening in rural areas of non-densely populated places.