I see a lot of people recommending removing the DRM, honestly, if you bought the book in Amazon (or Kobo or Barnes & Noble) I don't see an ethical issue with sailing the high seas to get a DRM-free version of it that you can properly backup and read anywhere.
The fact that the USA only helps right wing "rebellions" is pure luck, right?
Those regimes weren't "as bad as the previous regime" as unexpected result, those resulta were exactly what the US expected.
Year 2 of Trump's regime, how will things be in year 14? Do you think there would be much difference from China?
They are both authoritarian governments, the only difference is how much they actually control, China just had more time, give it to USA and won't be any different.
PS: I am pretty sure black people and now trans people in US know very well how you felt living under authoritarian regimes..
Trans and black people in the US are disappeared for speaking critically of their government? This level of hyperbole is dangerous for those who employ it; cf. the boy who cried wolf.
This a silly counter-argument to a comment that literally ends with:
>People will argue if and when these gaps can be closed. I think they can be in principle, but it’s not going to happen anytime soon.
You are replying to someone that says "currently is not happening" and using someone else saying "it will never happen" as if that was some kind of gotcha.
It is not appealing to you, because it specifically blocks the installation of browsers, so 50% of what you just stated as your needs would jot be covered (and cannot be done afterward by yourself, again, they BLOCK the installation of browsers).
It specifically mention both Whatsapp and maps as being available, but to me the dealbreaker is blocking browsers.
When I am out, I use the browser a lot, need to find if this is a good restaurant, or a good product to buy, what was actor form the 80's tv show?...
Like I understand why the would not have one preinstalled, but preventing me from installing it??
No way, and then add the pricetag... I do hope it fails just because I don't want people to think that the solution to today's walled gardens is "differently walled gardens".
If that's what you need, you can simply buy a conventional smartphone. Conventional smartphones are available in flip-phone form factors, although I personally consider trying to browse the web from one to be a gigantic pain.
Oh God, what a sad day to know how to read.
"Why should I favor the people that at some point had struggles like mine and has better chances to understand and empathize with me over the people who cannot understand what the expression 'paycheck to paycheck' really entails?"
Thinking that multi-millionaires/billionaires will "understand their privilege" or that they will be "magnanimous" is beyond naivite and goes straight to stupidity. Have you read any news in the past decade‽‽
The generation of elites fostered by academic "meritocracy" have little achievements and clearly are unable to solve or even perceive modern problems. In contrast, those who were fostered in closed patronage networks navigated their countries in times of great uncertainty and built many of the institutions we rely on today.
Do you really think that someone will willingly go through 9 months of pregnancy to abort "the day before" just because???
If someone is aborting the day before they ate due after dealing with everything for 9 months, you can believe that it was the best decision no matter how you look at it.
Most -if not all- late term abortions are carried by people that WANT the baby but learn that is better (for the baby, the life of the mother...) to not carry it to the full end.
Read his take on Spain. If all his guides are the same... Better don't read them.
As libertarian (he is the one mentioning it I did not have to look for it), he spends too much text -wrongly- analyzing the politics. His comment about socialized healthcare is an example of someone having "only one appointment per month" as a big failure of the system, that's rich coming from someone from the Country in which people die because they have to ration their insulin.
And apparently Spain is more radical because communists get a few seats every election, but somehow America is less radical despite 30% of the population consistely supporting the fascists. He notes the far-right party without realizing that their platform is almost 1 to 1 to American Republicans... And I am going to stop there, but his takes in general are awful.
