Still compiling.

Dies. Mein Haushalt meidet seit 2025 US, wo es geht - von der Festplatte bis zum Wertpapier, vom Online-Dienst bis zur Zahnpaste. Und das macht Schule! Allein in der zurückliegenden Woche erreichten mich Fragen nach europäischen Amazon-Alternativen, KI und degoogled Android. Da draußen bewegt sich was!

Und wenn ich mich recht erinnere ist es auch nur ein Handelsdefizit wenn man die ganzen digitalen Märkte ignoriert.

Fast. Sie betrachten beim Handelsdefizit nur die physischen Güter und lassen die Dienstleistungen einfach raus. Das heißt: Diese Milchmädchenrechnung ignoriert nicht nur die Gewinne der Digitalplattformen, sondern auch des Finanzsektors (ebenfalls ein großer US-Wirtschaftszweig).

Und, ja: Das ist in etwa so, als würde man das Gewicht eines PKW und einer Luxusyacht miteinander vergleichen, aber man zählt bei beiden nur das Gewicht der Bereifung...

Hilarious bad-word filtering of the link right there! For anyone wondering: the link will only work if you replace the "removed" part with the word describing a female dog.

None of them looked into it because facts don't matter to far-right populists and the sheep voting for them. They just make up shit that fits their simple narrative of the moment and makes people angry. And when (not if) it is debunked as a blatant lie later on, they have already captured their audience with ten new lies, so the implosion of all the older lies won't register with them.

I get that perverted 'logic'. What confounds me is that so many people seem to be falling for this shit. I had a more optimistic idea of people's intelligence on average. And: I don't like what this finding means for future-proofing our democracies, if we're going to save those.

Yeah, it's a weird way of spelling "liberation".

In fact, you’re already likely renting rather than owning in many different areas. Your means of communication are run by Meta, your music is provided by Spotify, your movies are streamed from Netflix, your data is stored in Google’s data centers and your office suite runs on Microsoft’s cloud.

Not this one, no.

This one has never had a single Meta-owned account because it values privacy.

It has never subscribed to Spotify or Netflix because it values ownership and control.

It has, since the Snowden revelations, successfully cut Google and Microsoft from its life and replaced them with AOSP and Linux.

It has started to build servers from hardware old and new, running FOSS services that rival and replace most big tech solutions people feel they "need" nowadays.

And it has started to help others take control of their data and computing, move to software and services that respect their rights, and to see value in privacy, ownership and freedom.

It may not be much. It may not scale. And it may not provide "AI" capabilities. But it's a start. It's a lighthouse that shows this dystopia is not inevitable.

We need to answer the push towards centralised consumption with a refusal to consume, and a counterpush towards decentralised cells of resilience. If datacentres aren't profitable, there is very little incentive to only build and sell hardware for them exclusively.

This one has built its lighthouse.

When will you?

With billionaires now openly buying politicians (instead of greasing their palms under the counter), I'd say the odds of such a law have become even worse.

Naw. This is clearly just 1 monkey.

This. Big tech is complicit in the fascist takeover of the U.S. Ditch their services where you can, and where you can't leech and starve them using tech like this.

Right.

So HOW IN FUCK'S NAME is it that Nigel Farage and his party are leading the polls? You know, the very same Nigel Farage who was pushing the lie and admitted on television the very morning after the referendum that it was a lie?! Help me make sense of this, dear UK!