I’m confused. Wasn’t there a secure backup functionality? How are they “introducing” it?

I migrated my signal history twice already… Not three times, because last year the backup always failed at 9%, no matter what I tried for a week, losing the better part of a decade of messages in the process.

Maybe they fixed the functionality?

Usually all data collected gives you a tangible benefit: cheaper (or free) services and devices.

Cough… Washing Machine… COUGH!

THE NEXT CLANKER BETTER DO MY GODDAMN DISHES

Like… a dishwasher?

There’s 14 standards…

Treat yo self!

I’ve heard one their dev once drunk a Pepsi…

Also, making things up to exaggerate how bad things are. Even in the US, there’s more public libraries than McDonald’s. You have parks, museums, community centers, etc. Even if you live in a town that has somehow privatized literally everything, that doesn’t reflect on “the planet”.

Are you suggesting coconuts rocks migrate?

How are the two related? It’s not a zero sum game, there’s new houses being built all the time.

If it’s their only income source I assume they are retired. If they aren’t, you are absolutely right.

If that’s their whole retirement investment (as they said it’s their only income, no idea about us retirement details) if they don’t increase your rent, their net income will GO DOWN. Prices of everything also went up for them, if you think it’s hard with constant income, imagine with declining income.

The value of their house going up is useless to pay for bread.

You should get a bigger paycheck, average wage growth is around 5% in the US, higher than inflation even.

Superpowers!

Tja

You called?

Only to say racist things.

Start a business, emigrate, apply for social support programs, retrain to a job that’s in demand…

I haven’t solved it, it was like that when I came :)

Fair enough. But I also get RSUs as compensation so I own a (tiny) part of the company. And a bunch of others via ETF. So I’m part bourgeois!

I just fail to see this “we must seize the means of production” Motto being applicable to current (western) capitist countries. Plenty of people can do that just by giving their notice and registering an LLC (or SL, or GmbH, or whatever your local equivalent is).

And not only highly educated elites (which arguably in the US is quite discriminatory, in Europe we have free higher education) but plenty of working class jobs can do it.

You want to seize the means of production? Put the pitchfork down, fill form 123abc and godspeed.

As are large swaths of the population. Or can be.

I was a freelancer and went back to “selling my labor” because the accounting, customer management, marketing, etc overhead were not worth the money or the stress. I could go back anytime but prefer work/life balance and stability. Am I proletariat now?