Tbh, it’s not really “their wars”. It’s the imperial war-machine that keeps more or less turning no matter who the current sockpuppet is. it doesn’t really matter if they are overly enthusiastic and into the current war or if they are given their marching orders and reminded of what happened to Kennedy if they get difficult.

Why think of the consumer when you have practical monopoly on online video content distribution. If the creators are on youtube so will their audience and vice versa. Where will any of them go if you squeeze?

North korean are forced to use a smartphone?

I call that a normal day at Google or Meta

I don’t watch star trek and I only use linux on my home server

Yeah because original ideas and ip’s are always risky and there is too much money invested in movies these days to afford to be risky. Half of the work has already been done if there is a fanbase ready and waiting for them.

True, true… The techpriest vibes I’m getting out of this is because it’s a minor to non-existant improvement that might or might not be placebo is achieved by seemingly outlandish cure. As if the angry spirit of the fridge needed appeasing so that it stops haunting your mouse.

This is like the tech equivalent of consulting the village shaman or wisewoman for some serious disease.

There is so much unpaid labor that big tech depends on. If they had to fairly pay for all that work through donations or otherwise they would go bankrupt, every single on of them. Big tech grew so massive because on open source, but it also helped open source grow. big tech will also die because they are increasingly just a leech-like middleman that just sits upon a mountain of free work and whose relative sliver of code contribution in comparison to the total code in a product is getting smaller and smaller and big tech is therefore increasingly a burden and not a asset to societies, economies and other companies.

Governments should be funding the most popular open source software that the world relies on

profits of business have always been dependent on governments funding research and free work done by individuals to turn a profit. Open source is nothing new on this regard.

It should be liberalism and fascism. There is no such thing as a capitalism when it comes to ideology. If you are for capitalism you are a liberal, not a “capitalist”. Also fascism isn’t a different mode of production distinct from capitalism, it’s just liberalism going mask off in a crisis. So it doesn’t make sense even in that way. I know Americans will disagree and hate me for this but that’s just how it is.

What do you mean 120 years. Israel is less than 80 years old.