unless you for some reason like leftist dictator who would like to rule the world more than the right one, there isn’t really practical difference in this

what he does in his free time is one thing (i don’t care about that), being high when he is working for a government ruining people’s lives and jobs is another.

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i am lucky, my city has excellent public transport, that doesn’t stop people from using cars though. be it because of pure habit, or because public transport is not solution for everything.

so i’d rather if our european car industry wasn’t decimated by the chinese one.

I would say go with whatever company that doesn’t have a CEO throwing Nazi salutes.

I have no doubt most CEOs are psychopaths, but they also don’t own a global Nazi mouthpiece like twitter

So did you mean “CEOs not throwing a Nazi salute” or “CEOs whose Nazi salutes don’t show up on your twitter feed”?

It seems you forgot what your argument is in a span of two rebuttals

You definitely sound like your advocating for musk.

You should work on your reading comprehension then

buy the car that isnt overtly a fascist car.

that isn’t really an argument in favor of china 😂

They make decent “point A to point B” cars

which is, coincidentally, what most people need from a car ;)

i am afraid it is just that most CEOs are sane enough to keep their embarrassing moments for their private life. do you think musk is the only narcissistic psychopath on drugs in the business world?

this is not advocating for musk, but it is important to be grounded in reality ;)

i hate musk, but i am not wild about our dependence on china either, so i am not really sure who to root for in this fight…

Not our.

i talk, and you talk. it is our discussion.

It’s a discussion you are trying to have

i am not trying to have, i am having it. here you are, replying to me. why are you trying so hard to prove that a discussion is not a discussion? it does not make sense.

I labeled as a layman’s guess.

yeah. and since i am more knowledgeable than you in this particular regard, i contributed some information you might not have had. now you do and your future layman’s guess can be more educated. that is how the discussion works. and for some strange reason, you seem to be pissed about it.

indeed it is. it is not very relevant to our discussion though. it is not a “cell tower” and it needs rather expensive end user hardware. limit of proliferation of such hardware among population during some kind of government internet shutdown will be approaching to zero.

also, as any kind of radio communication, it can be locally jammed, which further reduces its usability in a crisis.

oh, then i did misunderstood, but i still don’t see what you are suggesting. maybe if you get assigned address you can have some limited p2p communication with nearby people, but if that is the case, a guy with a megaphone does similar job.

it is far easier to just shut down local peering center and transit for major providers. far less moving elements to take care of than cell towers, which would not even address the whole problem (“problem” from the government’s point of view)

has found that Uber’s use of dynamic pricing has led to higher fares for passengers and lower earnings for drivers, whilst increasing Uber’s share of revenue

so, working as intended…