There you have it, the reason we’re in this fucking mess.

Oh god the male baby boomers will never recover from this.

More great news fot Tesla stock!

Social media hug of death or wrong link?

If the state can’t protect its people from the damage that technology and capitalism can do, they have no right to prevent people from protecting themselves.

Fix climate change. Tax billionaires. Address the housing crisis. Then we can talk about taking away privacy in the name of upholding the law.

First day on Earth, huh?

I wouldn’t call it a conspiracy theory any more than saying Facebook is free because you’re the product. To each their own though!

I guess what I’m getting at is if you buy a phone outright, you have no incentive to keep using it…other than of course wasting your money. But there’s no additional penalty keeping you from leaving the Pixel ecosystem, the financial damage is done.

On a contract, you have a financial penalty for the act of leaving early. So it disincentivizes leaving before 2 years or whatever the length of the contract.

So Google can say to carriers "Hey, we will subsidize our phones for you so you can give them away on contract. You get a captive customer, we get good odds of 2 years of valuable data.

I don’t know if I’m right about any of this, but it explains a lot of questions I have about why Pixels are far and away the best value you can get on contract with any provider, where I am anyway.

I don’t think so. Better to have captive customers on contracts if that is their goal, no?

Maybe if you’re buying them outright?

Where I am, you can get them (with a contract obviously) for 0 dollars up front and like 4 bucks a month for 2 years. And no other similar phone has the same deals. So it could be between Google and the cell provider.

Pixels are dirt cheap because Google is harvesting massive amounts of data from Pixel users, so they give them away.

GrapheneOS lets you have a cheap Pixel without Google knowing everything about you, and those near you.

Just throwing it out there, and for the record I agree with you, but if you’re going to criticize people’s intelligence, you can’t make an egregious spelling error like that.

Populace.

And who is hearing those voices? How is that going? When’s the next one?

Not my country pal, and if it was I’d sure as shit be doing a lot more than attending a protest every few months. You can call me a liar or coward or whatever you want, I know what the truth is

I can’t speak for anyone else, but I wonder how much of that is “you guys need to do something more than protest” being interpreted as “go out and kill people”.

There is more that can be done that doesn’t involve violence. But every time it comes up, there is some excuse for why it can’t be done.

Lots of Canadians, like me, are frustrated and tired of watching America sleepwalk into full blown fascism. And while I respect people for protesting, I’m at the same time appalled that this was not the largest protest in US history.

So good on everyone who tried but shame on you as a nation if that is the best you can do.

Lol what?

👍 have the country you deserve!

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Exactly. Wow at least one American that gets it. Mostly. The part where elections happen is for some reason a big mental block that almost everyone seems to have. You keep hope I guess but no way is that happening on this trajectory.

That’s why I said “you better get phone numbers”, ir the protest itself is toothless, so hopefully everyone was making the most of it.

I fucking love seeing all the downvotes when reality bites. Just so you know, downvoting on social media is not going to save your country, and your eternal optimism (read: blatant naivety) will be…nay, IS… your downfall.