Do you know what the US division is called? I'm just curious to look it up and how they did it with the looming TikTok legislation and wanted to compare them but I cant find anything specific to a divestment. Did they license to another American company?

the word you were looking for is "smarter". They smell your bullshit and they're not buying it.

As a kid I could be tricked into working *really* fucking hard for *really* low pay. Took a long time to grow out of that. My kid fell into it too, really pissed me off.

As an American you're taught from day 1 that your life isn't valuable and the only thing that makes it valuable is hard work.

This is, at least to me, not the same as Chinese-controlled social media or networking infrastructure.

It's worth ensuring the control system doesn't phone home or have backdoors - or maybe requiring an open source app so there's less questions of that in the first place, but that's about it.

so that we can start a cold war. Russia has dropped off as a threat now that they can't take a nation the size of California and the GDP of Mississippi. EVs will gradually make the middle east irrelevant too.

Without a threat they'll be a winding down our military spending, so China's on tap. For their part I'm sure they could use a little of the old MIC to keep their economy going. Not the best way to do socialism but I guess it works after a fashion.

Of course there is force.

When your basic needs are tied to employment then you have to be employed to have them met.

Thanks to ongoing improvements in productivity, less work must be done by humans to provide for those needs than ever before, but the owning class has sucked up all of those improvements so that they can make ever more money instead.

If employers are allowed to run off with all those profits and make workers work longer and longer hours then there will be more and more unemployed people whose needs aren't being met. This can, does, will, and will continue to have negative effects on everyone but the ultra wealthy.

Therefore it is not in the best interests of The People to allow it to continue.

The government's job is to ensure the welfare of the people, and if it can't do that then it's worthless at best.

Restricting the number of hours an employer can require you to work is therefore in everyone's best interests, since even the wealthy will lose if the system collapses. They are simply too stupid to realize this.

Windows ME wasn't a memory hog, its big problem was destroying backwards compatibility and making changes for no reason. Windows 8 is Windows ME redux, though.

You're assuming people have enough free cash to buy stocks. Greedflation is killing the middle class.

Of course. You're not even allowed to criticize one particular group of people without being labeled.

It took strikes and actual deaths to arrive at those numbers.

...get a different television.

It has one job - take signals and turn them into images and sound. Maybe not even sound if you have an audio system.

Yep, amazing what a month of guaranteed vacation and a good work life balance can do.

I'm not particularly angry, but I am pointing out in strong language what you are doing. If you want to understand, read David Baddiel's book on the subject.

Now bear in mind you've taken a very few steps to get from me saying in response to a comment about protecting religions "well ethnicity and religion in Jews is not well separated and racists don't care" to taking about Israel, Zionism (which you still aren't clear over) and the genocide. That's massively extreme, frankly.

Why? Why do you think this is relevant? I have no control over Israel. Any random American had more control than I do because they at least have as chance against voting for a representative who would cut aid. I'm not a citizen. I have no voting rights. I'm British.

This is very little different than all the usual suspects bringing up crime statistics, and cherry picking the worst examples of a very broad category in order to taunt the whole when people are criticising the police over violence against black people. You wouldn't do that, so why drag it in to this discussion?

Like I said get the book and read it. It is not long, it'll take your a few hours.

You would #notallmen if a woman talks about sexism. You wouldn't bring up slave labour in Saudi Arabia if a Muslim talked about Islamophobia. If a black person was talking about experiences of racism you wouldnt "well akshually" and start pointing out others who have worse racism. If a Chinese person did, would you segue nearly into the Uyghur genocide which is also ongoing. All I ask is that your extend the same courtesy to the Jews.

Sex education in schools? Oh god no! They wouldn't want children & teenagers to be healthier & more successful, would they? See: https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyou...

There needs to be a way for the average American to become a shareholder so they can benefit from the business too.

There is. It's called buying stock in a company. No one says you have to buy 100 shares of a company in one shot. You can buy 1 or 2 each month and make sure to reinvest any dividends.

The thing about roundabouts is that they're far superior to traffic lights but they require drivers to be aware of each other, be considerate, & be cooperative. They work fine in the UK & were introduced without problems to Spain over 20 years ago.