I’ve been employable at a time when most wouldn’t give me the time it day

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Freedom ™️ finally came to China.

That sucks though. I hate that Android, which used to be the pride of nerds due to its customization options, is locking down more and more year after year.

Even if people don't care for their phones/tablets, ok, but the "trusted" default companies are all dogshit. Now google is implementing shit that seems like it will effectively eliminate custom roms in the next few years by making it impossible (or very hard anyway) to use apps that use their "security" shit.

I use android and ios (because I'm a freak) and it makes me sad to think that the only reason for using android at all (and I'm not trying to do a fanboy war. I literally use both OS) which is the ability to install basically whatever the fuck I want might be gone someday soon. This mostly matters day to day (and I suspect this is the REAL motivation here) in apps like modified YouTube, Spotify, Twitch, Twitter etc. all for the purpose of removing annoying/no-one-asked features and, of course, the endless deluge of ads. I know "the end of Adblock!" fearmongering has been a constant for at least a decade now, and I'm sure longer, but as these corporations lock down operating systems and apps further and further we may actually be approaching that moment for real. It's very clearly in the interest of the corporations to do it, but obviously consumers hate it, so they've been slow boiling us and at this point maybe finally they're letting it boil. I suppose we'll see. Google still makes the Pixel series for now, but the changes with the trust system (I forget their name for it. Safetynet and all that shit) make loading custom roms possible but increasingly impractical. Just hate to see it.

"China builds an island with a small town that utilises the capitalist system of economy, allowing them to spread communism to the rest of the world, and capitalism becomes all but destroyed thanks to the town's preservation project."

Capitalists don't like it when China "steals" their IP, but never seem to want to pay back royalties on gunpowder, paper, printing, and the compass.

Curious.

Libs be like: IP laws suck and should be abolished unless my political enemies want something I have

Turns out it was tech transfers that these dumbasses were signing all along. Meaning they made a deal...they got to exploit China's labor force and China got legal access to their IP.

Signs away IP

"How dare they steal my IP!"

They really can't be stealing tech from us companies. In almost all cases they just bought it from some college. Our tax dollars paid for it and companies have it represent that value of it being stolen. If China takes it and makes better products we can buy that us actually a good return on investment for us.

It is just a usual expression of Western ego. They ignore the shoulders of giants they stand on, the collective humanity which has enabled them to add their grain of sand, and then demand to be recognized as a god for their miniscule contribution to this millenias long process.

I'm honestly amicable at this point to the conspiracy that the pig fuckers faked the moon landing. It wouldn't be the first massive deception they have committed.

And even when capitalist countries invent something useful, 99% of the time it is done in the PUBLIC SECTOR 🙄