Capitalism is a system that naturally filters out empathy. Capitalism is pure exploitation. It promotes the most narcissistic, cunning, ruthless, and psychopathic to rise through its ranks.

They're eager to appease. They all want to be giant corrupt monopolies and are thrilled at being given the opportunity by the tv gameshow host.

They know if they don't take our political power away, we will eventually dismantle and regulate their tech empires.

I don't think it's Trump at all. Who did Musk have suddenly contact with before veering far right? Who had several meetings with Trump in his first term that no-one was allowed to record? And who is waging a cyberwar of misinformation and propaganda right out of "Foundation of Geopolitics" since at least 2014?

It's Putin. Trump is just the smokescreen. He tries to achieve globally what he did in Russia, aligning all oligarchs under himself with the promise of even more obscene riches. And with the US the first domino has fallen for good. Next he will try to destroy the EU (Brexit was only the trial run).

At this point, only China might put him in check and they will only do it if it helps their own plans of global domination (they seem to prefer a soft approach for now). A truly united EU might also help, but I don't have a lot of hope for that.

I think he was unexpectedly successful in winning the 2016 election.

I also think that by mid 2017 "his" administration had built up collection of "advisors" who have been increasingly calling the shots since then. They give him "on brand" scripts to read, but he's not personally orchestrating much of anything.

Which is a long way to say that Google exists as a prime failure of the government's onus to regulate businesses. Google should never have been allowed to creep its tentacles into so many facets of life.

Just as with most technology, the Feds have been turning a blind eye, and pocketing cash while tech robber barons privatized existence.

I agree with the sentiment, but GCP typically isn't the fail over. Most people will start with AWS and fail over to Azure, or start with Azure and just fail into nothing.

To stop using Google you would need to find every app that used Firebase and ignore them, that would be one of the hardest parts. You couldn't use GitLab or other SaaS tools that work out of GCP. You'd likely need to just get offline to avoid their ads.

AWS is the professional one. Azure has Microsoft power. GCP tends to be less well through of. Alibaba isn't far behind GCP. Even a fistful of smaller providers will collectively have double the users/revenue or more It is usually 30% for AWS, 20% Azure and 10% GCP these days.

Not to say GCP is bad, I like BigQuery as much as the next guy, but alluding that it's the fail over or fallback for professional companies is not accurate.

• Virginia
• North Carolina
• South Carolina
• Georgia
• Florida
• Alabama
• Tennessee
• Mississippi
• Louisiana
• Texas
• Arkansas
• Oklahoma

How dumb. Seriously how fucking dumb do you have to be to go along with something that is so juvenile and stupid. Everything about it is dumb.

They should have a Normal / Maga toggle for their apps

Just a note to add here. Bing maps does exist. And they haven't followed this insanity. (so far)

This is hardly a push. These companies are changing because they want to change. No one is forcing them to change things. He's just giving them cover.

mailbox.org has been pretty good. you can also sync contacts and calendar using DAVx5 on android. They don't have any official apps. but thunderbird mobile works well.

Tutamail. Actually great company values. Company works more like a coop. Diversity and inclusion is part of its message. Encryption is paramount.

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