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  • You might think I'm being the self-righteous one. I actually think its the other way around. In a country with democracy and rule of law giving up on the belief that murder is wrong as a matter of principle just because it fits your narrative. What would you say when a person you ideologically support gets murdered as they caused violent protests that align with your ideology. Would you be opposed to that.

    What am I even getting at. Murder and chaos like this has no place in society. At least not in one where the people can make sovereign choices.

  • One assumption I made is that there will be a continuous demand for self build PCs which will be an entry point for a lot where you can run your own operating system and own choice of hardware. My next assumption is that custom ROMs are gonna stick around or at least Linux phones will become usable in the future since tech savvy privacy people are interested in this. Then I hope the EU will continue to step up and the administration after Trump will support certain right to repair legislation. It doesn't need a giant group of people for a viable alternative to exist and I think there can be compromises between going stallman or giving up on ownership. Media servers and NAS for example are also really loved in a specific subset of people and I do not think people are willing to give up what they have. I get why you think the way you do and maybe I am too optimistic... I just think I'm not

  • Didn't they vote on it? If you were member of the democrats couldn't you have voted for him in primaries? I honestly think many people in the US just aren't progressive enough even if they'd benefit from it

  • You don't get the be the biggest ensurer that offers the most affordable plans by just focusing on your clients experience as its really the companies who decide for their employees mainly. I do think a company who doesn't engage in this shitty behavior has it harder in this market thats clearly not regulated properly

  • Wait sorry about the last sentence. I phrased this completely different than what I wanted to say. Thats on me. I do NOT want the discussion to simmer down. I don't want this death to have been for nothing and I do want change.

    Still he became CEO 2022 and many of those denial policies have been enacted internally before that. Hitler was the dictator and above the law. He made the law and was the only instance of power. If Brian Thompsons primary objective was to kill then I'd support it. But I don't think it was. I think this system is at fault for it all the the politicians need to change it likes stated. But I don't think we'll reach a conclusion here honestly. You think self-justice is justified. I think its not. Thats the point I'll stick with.

  • The people in the government will now have to follow Trumps orders since he has the power to fire them and he wants to use it widely to replace them with yes-men. Yes the people working in the government are serving the people not the president. But you know he will get rid of people who won't show him loyalty and for 4 years he's kinda their boss. Collaborator makes it sound like the republican party is occupying the US illegally which it is not since they won (sadly).

    The citizens of the US (the free people you're talking about) voted him into office by their own volition

  • Maybe you could take a two way approach. Have a small set of default instances and then a button that gives the option to choose in the beginning. Like a mixed approach but I don't like the idea of consolidation on the fediverse

  • The EU. I don't use google search. I use a degoogled android rom firefox and only use the bare minimum of google search engines. I think the government should promote conditions where fair competition against google is actually possible.

  • I'm all for legislation that properly makes companies price in external effects. What I do not support is the state taking an active role in the market. Legislation is created for a reason but needs to be reformed and slimmed down once in a while. The government does not adjust fast enough imo and I think it should focus on core tasks instead of creating search engines.

  • So much for having a reasonably discussion. Calling me a hopeless nerd. You sure must be fun to be around.

    Its not just an server name since the moderators there remove stuff that doesn't fit their narrative and people with according ideology often are on these servers. It makes a real difference. You can check it out because users that find an instance that fits their personal beliefs create their account there and its a Marxist Leninist community. But you don't actually seem to care.

  • Look, the goverment is good at providing a good starter set of things you need for life. Infrastructure has no real competition so the infrastructure needs to be state owned since we can't have it fail. I would look favorably if the government funded an open initiative to build a FOSS search index... but I think a search engine isn't something like core infrastructure that can only reasonably exist once.

    Besides... SearxNG is just a relay engine and if every european used it and relayed the search request to other search engines without them getting a dime I don't think that would be fair.

    Lemmy also isn't developed by the state. It might get funding from the goverment but thats a very different thing - Core research that doesn't have a straight up ROI is also one of the things where everyone benefits of it long term falls under something the government should do. I just don't think the government is good at running an economical business and I can't imagine living in a country where every company was like state-run with a top-down system. Competition is good, what we have is a lack of competition

  • I have switched away from google mostly. Most people can do so too. Yes they do have a monopoly on search and I think the government should take steps to ensure fair competition but I don't think the ban hammer should be wielded this lightly. If they pay the fine. Searxng is just a relay search engine and I doubt it is legal for such a big instance to use search engines as back end, have them run it for free and then have the people use Searx instead.

  • Based on personal believes I wouldn't like perform for Trump if I was in Snoops position. But there's no denying that Trump is legitimately the president starting this evening and by your logic anyone that works for trump directly or indirectly as part of the government legitimizes or serves Trump as president in one way or another

  • List a country with a decent population of like at least 50 mio people that competes with companies successfully and fairly. Countries with a smaller population don't have as much of a bureaucratic overhead. But even there... where do they offer a better service in a fair competition with companies