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  • ...also because they're the highest earning tier of the upper middle class, and Cessna's are an extremely common manufacture with a lot of relatively low cost options.

    Most of their customers are probably upper middle class types, very small regional airlines, and people who run charter businesses.

    I'd assume that between the professional pilots, and the hobbyists, you'll find the former has lower crash rates.

    It'd be more surprising if their was a lot of garbage men, or teachers, who crash Cessna's, or any plane.

  • Of course they did, they're the FBI. The same way nearly every FOILED "terrorist plot" since 9/11 has been instigated by the FBI, and Federal informants.

    FBI agents honey trapped lonely brown boys with fake online girlfriends, who then pushed them hard to commit acts of terrorism.

    Do I think Congressman Dumbfuck is speaking in good faith, or even with a generally firm grasp on reality? Ha, no. Clay Higgins is easily one of the dumbest people to ever serve in Congress.

    But that doesn't mean he's wrong about this one specific issue.

  • Ship building and shell production are on the polar opposite ends of time requirements for industrial capacity building....the fact that you used ship building as an example here makes me wonder if you're being intentionally disingenuous....

    Also, you don't seem to understand how these funding programs actually work if you think this is being allocated to build out Ukrainian domestic production capacity.

  • Munition factories aren't typically outsourced, but a lot were decommissioned after the Cold War ended. That problem is especially acute within European NATO member states.

    But, in the context of NATO, as a whole, just supplying Ukraine for their existing conflict, production isn't the limiting factor.

  • Industrial production is not a significant issue the collective West has within the context of supplying Ukraine armaments and ammunition.

    The issue is a lack of, or decline in, domestic political capital in key member states, cohesive unified policy, and a long term strategy.

    Now, if the United States was completely removed from the equation, then industrial production capacity constraints, especially around munitions, may become a real issue.

  • I have a mix of smart and dumb TV's.

    All of them show me the same number of ads: zero.

    All of them have the same level of access to networks (LAN/WAN): none.

    Worst offender is a legacy Roku that keeps up it's direct connect WiFi broadcast, but it's on its own isolated VLAN.

  • No, yes, maybe, but probably not.

    Also, only do this if it's a passion project for learning, because the odds that it works out the gate, and doesn't require multiple repurchases, are very slim.

    The odds that you never quite get it to work right, or at all, very high.

    If you're sure you want to do this, start by reading the technical documentation to get a grasp of which parts might, or should, work together, and how. Do this before making any purchases.

    If that doesn't sound appealing, then buy an "digital signage" or "enterprise/business class" TV, or find a dumb consumer TV, new or used.

  • I have both paid and accounts with Proton and I have no idea what you're talking about.

    Yes, they make it clear they offer suite of services, and notify you of new services being launched, but my screen isn't saturated, and my workflow isn't negatively impacted.

    ...and they are nothing like Google in terms of self promotion, to say nothing of Google's business practices.

  • VPNs don't prevent tracking, especially when you're logging into services.

    They can help obfuscate your identity to varying degrees, but honestly this is a pretty odd decision. I'm guessing it has more to do with malicious activity, or some other type of activities that Reddit is trying to curtail, and they feel blocking VPN IP ranges will help them.

  • It is the privilege of the oppressor to decide when history begins.

    I'm paraphrasing a fictional character from a book, but the point stands.

    You're saying that their history and beliefs don't matter because it infringes on a public good, but you leave out the context where these "public lands" were stolen from the indigenous people through a multigenerational campaign of genocide, and racial subjugation.

    So... you find this meager apology and repatriation of some sacred lands to the wronged party here to be intolerable, and unjust?

  • The topic in question here is not about government abuse of data, it's corporate abuses, but okay, let's set that aside.

    You've said that it's safer to roll your own VPN using a VPS service precisely because you can't trust any VPN providers, or auditing organizations.

    But you're now saying that you can trust a hosting provider based solely on which jurisdiction they reside in.

    You're just arbitrarily picking which companies to trust with your connection traffic, but with added complexity, and significantly reduced egress locations for your traffic, which itself dramatically impacts any privacy benefits you were looking to achieve.

  • The irony here is that you're a cliche anti-Apple fanboy, and I don't even use Apple products.

    So blinded by your dork rage, that you missed the entire point of this little comment thread.

    What's even funnier, is that you also unintentionally proved mine.

  • Moving goalpost?

    You said he didn't contribute to technology, so I pointed out that he's responsible for Apple becoming what it became, which itself transformed technology.

    Now, you're saying he shouldn't get technical credit for...making the iPhone?

    Okay...I never said he should...but it you want to go down that path, he was very hands-on with in the design processes for two of their most pivotal products: the iMac and iPod.

    Again, he was a grade-A douche bag, who died a fucking hilariously stupid death, but that doesn't erase, or override his impact.