What do you think crowdsourcing is?

Federating knowledge sourcing/entry/moderation (without a central authority) to the users is what made Wikipedia what it is today.

until a wire breaks, a tree falls, a bird shorts it, bad weather, and all the unknown variables you have to account for.

Trolly buses were the highlight of my childhood but talking about it with a few engineers, they're very high risk and maintenance. You have to have something predictable, disaster resistant, time tested, low maintenance, cost effective, and idiot proof.

Hopefully some battery tech comes in that doesn't require slave-mining but trolly buses are not the uncertainties.

tf did that come from?

China and Mexico are better for Novellas?

Least deranged US "I served my country" and "freeze peach" racist psycho.

The idiots who never bothered to learn more than the man's name think "big company killed whistleblower" are showing just how little they understand things

And you have supernatural powers to understand all things? Don't act like you've got it all figured out, big guy.

Bandwagoning tiny shit like "credit card fees" is not going to change the number of deaths he has funded. But that never was your concern tho, was it?

It's about "Biden does good thing for us so we can excuse a genocide he's causing"?

Come back when you grow up and you're done circlejerking on petty little things that your team does.

It's downloading an app off of an app store and turning it on. Stop trying to force your narrow perspective onto everyone else.

People who are subject to censorship, in time find a workaround. Downloading a VPN app with a big green button to turn it on is not rocket science.

There are probably lots of VPN companies targetting "tiktok" as a keyword to advertise and increase their user base. So they come up first on appstores and search results.

Now, go ahead and call people searching google is not average tiktok user.

But where that data goes after you turn the VPN on, is a different topic on its own. Maybe China itself is running a whole lot of VPN networks from shell companies.

I should start posting ads and sponsors as my signatures with every comment. This is totally not the start of something awful. It makes me happy, it's free and doesn't cost anyone else anything.

Next I'm gonna post an image ad and randomise it. Maybe code bots to upvote it to the top. Ayy, you're on to something. 🤔

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The vast majority of religious workers are akin to workers at a scam call centre. Selling you "thoughts and prayers" and guilt tripping you to give them money. Basically fooling you into something non-existent.

Scammers also give a lot of their time and resource and work full-time. I guess they deserve a living wage too, huh?

The only thing they need is run a pretend-charity, community service and food drives?

You sure seem to like your make-belief system where you think they are net-positive to the community. I'm sure a you would feel the same about scam call centres, if only they could upgrade their PR with some charity. All that without all the violent history.

But oh no, they're brown people in a third-world shithole… so that's a pass. I love my own pretend-charity cult with supreme people.

We just need a rock slightly bigger than our moon to collide with it, giving it a flick to start rotation on its axis, then, in time, we can send in the dinosaurs for a trial run, just to be safe.

So this is why they dropped multiple flutter devs from the team. RIP Flutter!

US PR Department is right on it.

"Some mistakes were made… but we're sending the next shipment of weapons tonight."

-USA

People get outraged and go out to protest. Why is this kind of defeatism bs upvoted? You live way to privileged to even think about being desensitized, while the people in some parts of the world even struggle to survive.

Enjoy it while it lasts.

The world could care less if it is Trump or Biden. But your supposition that stopping one genocide supporter is rooting for another fascists is not the worlds fault, but your own. Democracy as you still would call it.

Stop trying to claim to be the police of the world, while at the same time also sell weapons to the half of the world including despotic regimes and genocidal ones. A very good business model, but the world is seeing through it.

We all know where your priorities lie, and it isn't Human Rights.

You must not be paying enough attention because your first point can be easily disproven by visiting any major news source and viewing the stories about the mass protests on college campuses all over the county right now.

Yes, the protests got more news time than the actual ethnic cleansing. Tells a lot about the populace.

It's fine that genocides are happening over other countries with your blessings, But hur dur… we… we don't want what we do to other countries happening to us. 😭

It's about time you face consequences of your actions.

learn

That's the secret! They aren't going to

They're outsourcing many of their workforce abroad. Like Microsoft, I expect more of these "isolated" accidents to happen.

I mean yaaay! but not drinking alcohol piss water for self-gratification works out well as well, I'd say it's even better for your health.

China's use of opensource isn't exactly in the spirit of open-source though, is it?

As an example, most companies in China don't even release the linux kernel source code after they modify it, as they are required by GPL.

So they're building mega-corps on the back of opensource, just like the western counterparts. That's capitalism 101.

Leader of the program says their products are awesome. News at 9.

At the minimum, to show that Android is not a locked down walled-garden of a system and you're free to choose what you can do with it to the point you can install a different OS on it?

we sell weapons to probably half the world

The level of deflection yanks go to is astronomical. I'm not sure if it's lack of education, logic, common sense, or just swallowing propaganda wholesale daily.

It's not US fault when it supplies weapons for ethnic cleansing or genocide, or does one itself (multiple times), but as soon as some country's name comes up in the inventory of weapons to Russia, they're exactly like Russia, guilty of crimes against humanity and ready to be sanctioned off.

Also cars are not sold primarily to kill, you dc.

We all know any progress is Biden's doing but every failure is "that's not how it works" bullshit.

If you're tired of not electing war criminals or those that directly support one, maybe do something about it than cry about it on the internet as truth smacks you in the face.