All the songs I listen to on Spotify I downloaded to have offline. There are a few apps out there that actually rip from Spotify instead of finding the song on Youtube or other services, and I actually have all in Opus 320kbps quality. Ofc I share a family subscription with my friends. If they were to give me just a week, I would simply start downloading anything I have not downloaded yet. For anything else I could rip from youtube, and once a year, buy a month of subscription just to rip all songs in higher quality and cancel again.

There is one job as old as the human race, and even though there are machines now, they will never be able to fully replace humans.

Are you trying to solve a technica, or political/moral problem? Let's Encrypt doesn't create, see, store or log your private cerficates. So, even if they are in the US, I don't see a risk, and otherwise, the other parts you use in general are probably vulnerable to the problem even if non-US.

For ex. the US could simply order browsers stop validating any certificates not issues by US companies in browsers. And whoosh. Having a non-US certificate won't help much there either.

You can't demand anything from open source becasue I can just change the demands myself. Linux is free from this nonsense.

How much does the stock of MapQuest depend on good terms with the US government?

No law, you're right. But they have an internal policy to follow the federal agency official naming + they show data depending on the country so they can isolate the change to only US.

So why did Google then show Lake Ontario before instead of for ex. Lake Google? Can't they then just write like... whatever they want?

But yes, I was wrong. They simply have an internal policy to follow the federal data. So, in a way, they don't need to be but they will follow what they decide.

It is only in US, and all other parts of the world still see "Lake Ontario". Also, they are following the law they have to follow. So... there are plenty reasons to de-google, but this ain't one.

I have either a pair of socks or a pair of shoes in my hands. So doing anything else besides sock/sock shoe/shoe would require me to put things down only to pick em up again a second later which would be stupid.

Or I can go shoe/shoe and then sock/sock and watch the whole world burn.

First, please don't use the word 'hate'. Like, at all. We have enough of that in the world, it never made anything better, approachable or appealing. It's at best clickbaiting.

Secondly, it's easy to say "things need to be done". But nobody wants to pay more taxes to build alternatives. Nobody wants to waste half of their vacation traveling by slower means. Nobody wants to wait decades for alternative infrastructure to be built. Nobody wants the alternative infrastructure built near them.

It's funny that people who want high speed rail instead of plains usually railly up to block building it nearby - "yes, we want it, but not here".

I don't like Nintendo, and even here they totally failed their communication because there was 100 ways to put this more user-friendly, but they are right in not issuing refunds. Things can go on sale, you don't go and ask for refund because you bought it a few months before at full price and sue companies for not telling you in advance there will be sale, when and for how much discount.

It's just a different analogy but the point is the same, why not ban poisonous ingredients? It implies poisonous mushrooms also, but doesn't criminalize cooking.