Sure but the problem for Netflix is that there is a lot of trash media that doesn’t cost 20 dollars a month.

Croissants, also from Vienna.

There are massive leaps to be made by combining French techniques with foreign ingredients, it just requires accepting that maybe other places also have good food, perhaps even better food in some cases.

The Italians embraced them much sooner and did a lot more with them. The French were too worried they were poisonous because they were nightshades and only slowly adopted them with the advent of tomato exports from Italy and Spain.

The fact that kebab places are so prevalent in Germany shows the average German is quite open to foreign foods. Even “traditional” German foods get spins from foreign foods, like curry wurst. I’ve also seen quite a few inspired takes on flammekueche using foreign inspirations.

the Korean version is even better.

“We stole half our flavor profiles from them and refuse to admit it, so we pretend like anything we stole is actually just common knowledge.”

French food is under spiced.

Like lots of useful techniques, don’t get me wrong, but, no. The culinary tradition is limited in regards to scope of ingredients and flavor profiles.

At least the Germans are humble enough to eagerly adopt new spices and seasonings.

Edit: croissants are from Austria

Google put out a surprising amount of documentation that allowed graphene to build everything they needed from the ground up. It basically wasn’t possible to do anything as secure and independent of Google software on any other model.

Ironically, the phone Google makes is the only option right now to get fully away from Google. Motorola is working with graphene to release a model that meets the main criteria, but it’s not out yet.

When people ask me about music I just say “I don’t really listen to much music”

I know they’re trying to develop a conception or me, I recognize that they’re trying to get an idea of who I am, trying to start a conversation but I also know they will not draw any meaningful information from the answers I could give. Not because what i like is “too sophisticated and they just wouldn’t get it” but because my taste is completely incoherent. My taste is obscure and trash, and each listened facet is tonally dissonant from the last.

As if any company would do that. Hell, even Ring (the home security camera people) have an open access policy to local police departments.

It’s not just an issue of them giving up the logs, they have to give them over if there is a warrant.

It’s a matter of them not recording info in the first place. A lot of cellphone providers sell data collected from customers to 3rd parties , including location data (even if you have GPS turned off on your phone, they still know based on your distance from towers).

I’ve heard good things about phreeli. Their pitch is that they don’t keep logs and offer a lot of ways to pay that minimize how much info they have about you, so even with a warrant there’s not much they can hand over. They piggy back off existing networks for good coverage. Worth looking in to if you’re legitimately interested.

I mean, the subscription, infotainment ads, and survaliance shit is in new ice cars as well, like all new cars are just like that. The only model coming out this year that doesn’t seem to have that is the slate truck, which, ironically is electric.

The difference is that previous admins have just abused it much more sparingly because they knew that it would undermine the regime’s legitimacy if those powers got to much attention.

Mole people!

I block people who routinely post it.

And it turns out a lot of algorithm driven platforms will stop showing it if you react overwhelmingly negatively and refuse to engage with it and I just stoped using platforms that didn’t respect the signals.

“ upon further inspection, we realize that this is actually just gold color foil wrapped chocolate bars”

They already do that when their preferred candidate looses the primary.

It’s a convenient storefront and discovery system (too an extent). Some games I play rely on its backend services. It’s never screwed me over or antagonized me. They also have really good Linux support without having to think to hard about it. They’ve done a huge amount of work on that front that would still even fit me even if I stoped using steam and I do legitimately appreciate that. I kind of get the feeling that the hardware was an excuse to do Linux support, like it seems to me that people there want Linux to be a viable gaming platform even if the business case is pretty niche.

I don’t like that I don’t own the games, I don’t like the DRM, but there isn’t really an alternative on that front, except for GOG but they generally don’t have the games I’m interested in, which are normally smaller niche titles in categories that GOG isn’t focused on. The fact that they have a majority market share makes me nervous about them getting sold or going public and their practices changing. But them being the biggest kid on the block seems like a net positive given that the people liable to take their place are so hostile to consumers. Like the biggest critics of valve from within the industry (Tim Sweeney for instance) seem like they’re just angry that don’t get to be steam but more consumer hostile.

I’m not going to defend everything they’ve done, I’m not going to say they’re without sin, but the biggest issues with them are universal to the entire industry.

The naturalist fallacy is annoying, fr. It’s tempting to point out that oft claimed “traditional” authoritarian systems are relatively recent inventions and not how humans have lived for most of our existence… but that doesn’t mean that how people did used to live is some ideal to live up to. Shity coercive and extractive systems aren’t shitty due to being unnatural, they’re shitty because they’re coercive and extractive.

Like, we can decide what our priorities are and craft our society in a way that best achieves that. I don’t really want to live on a diet of foraged roots and nuts, and I don’t want 95% of people alive today to die to make that sustainable.