What is the industry as a whole trying to get out of this advertisement craze anyway? In the 80s many people in the developed world earned more than twice of what they needed for living. They had lots of cash to just shop around. Now most people barely earn enough to get by and we’re bombarded with easily a hundred times more ads or more. Sorry, but I can’t afford your millionth AI powered NFT sneakers subsciption model no matter how many ads you throw at me. I just cant’t.

I think you got something mixed up there. The saying does not go:

If you want it to last, buy made in China!

It goes:

Buying cheap is buying twice

And China really sells the cheapest crap there is. It isn’t even a competition.

Phones are becoming the new wallets to the point we need something slimmer to pay with soon again.

Nobody wants it and if amazon/google/microsoft/facebook would be honest about what it really does, the overwhelming majority would decline it in a heartbeat. But corporations do what corporations do best and consumers take it with a shrug. And I kind of get it. Life is too short to learn about everything and make the most informed choice on everything. Often you just shrug it off and never really use it.

Do you see that biceps? He’s clearly a king.

You would think they know how to use a browser but in reality they only use apps. TikTok being their preferred search engine speaks volumes.

I’ve lost to faith in several self proclaimed leftists over this that I have followed (not on Twitter) for years. They cannot let go of what they have “built for themselves” there and refuse to accept their own actions have consequences when they wear their blue checkmark with pride like storm troops wore their swastikas back in the 1930s. Everything is a class struggle except when it would impact them. Then it conveniently becomes a mere transaction between them and a provider and you shouldn’t think too much about it because it benefits them. And if it benefits them, it benefits the cause, right? Right???

Welp, it was ‘fun’ while it lasted. Time for everyone to adjust their expectations to much more humble levels than what was promised and move on to the next sceme. After Metaverse, NFTs and ‘Don’t become a programmer, AI will steal your job literally next week!11’, I’m eager to see what they come up with next. And with eager I mean I’m tired. I’m really tired and hope the economy just takes a damn break from breaking things.

That would be a war against the world and they would break their own agreement.

Tanzania and Zambia about to join the “going to find out about Chinese colonialism the hard way” club. Corruption is cancer to any society.

No one is completely living outside the US. No one. Especially big elections concern everyone on the globe to some degree. It’s also simply interesting, although sometimes in a morbid way.

That being said, if you’re into politics in the first place, the one in your own country should have the higher priority in my opinion. I’m saying this because I know non-Americans who concern themselves more with American politics (it’s flashier and social media is so full of it, it’s easy to fall down that rabbit hole) than those of their own country. I think that’s a problem because it distracts them from problems they face in their own backyards that they might not even be aware of.

And they soon will realize the infinite money glitch is just in games and not reality.

A lot of their voters couldn‘t even vote before. GenZ make up a big portion of extreme right voters because that‘s how TikTok works apparently. The young have a huge media competency deficit.

That must mean China is only months away from major breakthroughs that will replace ASML in their supply chains and show everyone that they never needed them in the first place. They only bought from the dutch out of the good of their hearts. Or so they will claim and tankies as well as some tech illiterates tech journalists will gobble that up like they do every time.

As usual China is the trendsetter of horrific digital developments and they‘ve been using heavy filters by default for so long I was almost hoping we‘d skip out on this one.

I‘m not looking forward to scrolling through family photos soon and barely recognize the people in them because my boomer family forgot to uncheck a box somewhere and didn‘t really notice we‘re all looking like Tom Cruise or Scarlet Johansson lookalikes all of the sudden.

They‘re protecting billionaires first and foremost and she is a billionaire.

You‘re part of the problem then. It only got so shitty in the first place so they could trap people in the Premium subscription that will get increasingly more expensive and less useful.

That‘s where Youtube Premium comes into play for many fools who don‘t really know about adblockers. Google‘s goal isn‘t to destroy the website, but to turn it into a much more profitable Netflix subscription based on user generated content. Sadly the enshittification of the biggest video platform will continue because enough people are willing to pay a lot for it. The site will not improve until there are mainstream alternatives that actually take revenue off Youtube.

Unfortunately your information seems a little outdated. It’s true that Germany did try it for a moment until Microsoft showed up with suitcases of money in the chancellor office so to speak and he announced to essentially move away from open source again.

Though on the federal level, there‘s still some hope. Maybe.

And it isn’t even true in many cases. For example the internet with the dotcom bubble. It actually became much bigger and important than anyone anticipated in the 90s.