[–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

It's as bad as Elon is saying! He's just upset it isn't worse, he was promised it would be worse, and that he'd get a lot of money, but they left him out so he's really disappointed.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    No... It's just laziness let's not sugar coat it. You have the wealth of human knowledge in your pocket, knowledge of how to do absolutely anything and everything for free on a silver platter, all you have to do is prioritize exploring ethical technology choices. Complexity of the problem itself is not a good excuse to not learning to solve it as it continues to become a bigger problem.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Actually, Firefox version numbers were totally independent for most of their history, but Mozilla recently adjusted them to roughly align with Chromium versions to reduce confusion for developers.

    2004 - Firefox 1.0, no Chrome yet 2010 - Firefox 4.0, Chrome around version 8 2011 - Firefox switches to rapid releases 2020 - Firefox and Chrome both around version 85, just by coincidence 2024 - Firefox jumps from 124 to 126 to align with Chrome 126 2025 - Firefox 126+, Chrome 126+, version numbers now track similarly

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago

    They are literally not the same. Lobbying is when you try to convince someone and influence their voting/law making etc. Bribing is paying to set the prioritising and define what is important. However, bribing may also be done for noble causes, prohibiting bribes is limiting the opportunity for all kinds of actors to ensure their cause isn't deprioritized in a harmful way.

    They're literally the same, we just legalized using money to set the agenda and made a new word for it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    All the voting Democrats that still haven't read a history book and still think Clinton was the greatest president of their lifetime, and complete ignorance of how much him and his wife are directly responsible for ALL the deep shit we're in today.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    buying dumped goods only makes the situation worse as it means those players and playing on an uneven playing field

    So let me get this straight, instead of buying a $20k Chinese EV to meet a necessity of modern life, you should pay $60k for a worse car where all the money goes to shareholders and dealership markups so you can be on an even playing field?

    We're not talking about buying the cheap throw away Chinese product instead of the built for life one, we're not talking about consumerism at all. We're talking about taking a 5+ year loan for something society forces you to own in most cities around the world, and making Elon rich isn't a better alternative than having $40k in your savings account.

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