In my world there is a non-trivial difference between pointing your phone in someone’s general direction and just having inconspicuous looking glasses film everything implicitly.

Do none of these horrible cunts that yearn for that dystopia ever read history books?

Don’t you just love it how the people that want him gone most, are inadvertedly extremely good at promoting this man.

It’s the whole entire point of these glasses so this surely cannot be a surprise.

I’m just waiting for bans on these glasses now, because that is inevitably where this is headed as the public at large simply cannot be trusted to handle this kind of technology responsibly.

And the harder these glasses become to spot, the broader the bans will be, undoubtedly right up the point where they’ll just straight up refuse anybody with any kind of thick framed glasses.

AI’s against AI’s. Apps against apps. I want to get off this planet at the next stop.

Fair retort. In hindsight I shouldn’t have used the word inflation, because i’m actually just referring to the cost of living of Joe Average which I incorrectly assumed would be contextually obvious.

But I love that you want a source for that bit, and not the whole entire premise of this topic.

People hear socialism and immediately think Stalin, that’s one problem. Another problem is thinking having a capitalistic system and socialist services are somehow necesarily mutually exclusive.

Capitalism works fine in some area’s. Socialism is needed where it won’t. Healthcare is a case in point. Everybody needs it when they need it, so there’s really no reason to leave that shit to any “market” and therefore chance. Investments in public transport, taking care of the livability at the bottom end of the economic ladder are other examples.

Capitalism is dogshit whenever you have deal with things you just can’t, or morally shouldn’t, attach an ROI to.

I get it but I highly doubt most people actually do these expensive lunches daily. This is also not strictly speaking what is the text of the OP, assuming the text is correct he’s questioning people getting a 28 dollar lunch full stop.

Also, food is 1/3rd of the things that keep you alive and healthy. Food taking up a large part of your money really isn’t that wild. Things like rent taxes and utilities taking up more than half, that is wild, and really the only reason why 28 dollar lunches could be considered questionable on that income.

The world is also just what it is, incomes have been trailing behind inflation for a long time now. Because of these same people. I’m a cheapskate but I can’t get my groceries under 150~200 a week for just myself and my wife. Not without sacrificing health at least, the only way to get cheaper is taking a deep dive into canned and/or highly processed food, but that just isn’t happening.

People that can impulse buy outragiously expensive watches and cars shouldn’t be lecturing the plebs on what to splurge on.

Especially not food. Food is one of last big joys of life for the commoners. Any splurge here is entirely valid.

These people need to stop getting platformed. If you’re in such a position, please just enjoy your privilege in silence and leave us the fuck alone.

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Open source software comes as-is and without warranty but that doesn’t mean you can’t criticize what people are doing in this space… In fact i’d argue it is integral to it.

I think there’s something beautiful about people getting from music what they look for in it, even if the lyrics litterally counter it.

They’d have to make Android propiatary for that and that also means that all the contributions made to it by everybody else will stop. Don’t see that happening.

They are working on their “own” phone which should alleviate a fair number of concerns with what Google might be doing to sabotage them.

I remember that staistic from decades ago. I wonder if it still holds true. The Dutch have been undergoing their own neoliberal fleecing of late. Rents are skyrocketing. Deregulation and union busting has taken their toll.

According to some cursory googling it is. But you are also correct with the rest you’re saying here ofcourse.

Yes, please. The more users we have on Graphene the harder we are to ignore as a user base.

I’m working off of the assumption they are, but you could be on to something.

You can function in today’s society just fine, it’s just less convenient.

But the problem here is not only that you need a smartphone to begin with, but also one specifically from either Google or Apple. Having something else (like a phone with Sailfish or GrapheneOS or any other custom rom) also doesn’t work.

There’s isn’t even an actual relationship between paying people more money and the price of the product to an individual. Not like that at least, and especially not with high volume fast food where the amount of time an employee takes to make a single unit is neglegible.

Big Macs in the Netherlands are in the same ballpark as in the US, price wise, despite higher wages for “buger flippers” and better overall benefits, job security and working conditions.

No no. We don’t do obvious solutions.