Until we get to the point that we no longer need a pound and a half of extra plastic strapped to our faces to see the matrix, I'm fairly certain we aren't living in it- yet.

Any rational doctor would only prescribe Ivermectin if the patient insisted, in writing. Or if the patient had worms along with a tendency to eat grass and neigh to communicate.

Found it, https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/03/26/186217/facebook-accused-of-using-your-phone-to-wiretap-snapchat.

This pretty much mirrors a story posted two or three days ago, that one explored how this came about - emails from Zuckerberg.

not in this world led by "arbeit macht frei"

I believe you are taking that slogan too literally. It was a Nazi slogan posted above the entrance of various concentration camps in WW2, Auschwitz for example.

Intel is going through that process now, with their "Airbus" being AMD.
Back when Intel had the Pentium IV and were concentrating on the Itanium, AMD brought out a new - more energy efficient - generation with 64 bits. Intel then engaged in criminal practices to suppress AMD while catching and then overtaking AMD with processors which subsequently turned out to be vulnerable to Heartbleed. Then AMD reinvented themselves and brought out the Ryzen processors, Intel's response was to appoint a techie - Pat Gelsinger - as CEO in early 2021. Intel shares peaked at just under $70 shortly afterwards, dropped to just under $25 18 months later and are now oscillating around $40 to $50. Gelsinger's reorientation of the company is going to take some time and the stock exchanges are notoriously disinterested in long term planning.
All this reminds me of the "5 year plans" the Soviet Union, China and their satellites used to propagate.

The least necessary loads will be the first to go.

That is a ridiculous statement, they'll raise the prices and sort it that way.

I spent a few days in Sofia (Bulgaria) almost exactly five years ago (I think it was February) and came back ill - the air was too polluted for my delicate sensibilities. They burn all sorts of crap there - tyres, rags, whatever - to keep warm. I'm not a chemist and have no idea how tyres should be disposed of, but burning them has to be about the worst way possible. Occasionally there will be a fire involving tyres in my area, then it is "keep doors and windows closed" time. Anyone who burns tyres or permits tyres to be burned should be forced to live downwind of the fire.

It's just over 20 years ago now, but I was involved in a case when that went wrong.
The main computers were around 9 miles away from the main offices (which were about to move) and there were two paths between the two. It was in the contract that the two paths were not permitted to use the same cables, unfortunately the two fiber lines were in the same trench. The one the backhoe cut through. That trench was even several miles away from the obvious route between the two sites.
The organisation also had two separate networks, one for the offices in the second site and one for the core business (Air Traffic Control) - site 1 was at the airport. You would imagine that the "core business" network would be unaffected, we certainly did.
There was an access point which permitted some groups access to both networks, someone had set them up so that their highest priority was making sure the access to the offices was up. All the access point servers were doing was pinging the offices, there was virtually nothing left over for communication to the towers, Air Traffic Control was crippled for hours.

A couple of years later - after the offices moved - something similar happened near the new site. The core-business ATC network was totally unaffected, the gateway reconfiguration had been a success.

And if, as the study shows- the stress of the 9 months of pregnancy is equivalent to two years of life, and the woman only gets back a large portion of that investment with engaging in breastfeeding- then does a late-term abortion also abort the positive portions of birth and breastfeeding?

That budget announcement is 16 days and a few hours old, I don't know what improvements you expect in under three weeks.

But feel free to keep making misleading posts that agree with your narrative.

raburton's post below is far more relevant in this case.

My previous Android phone had the Samsung browser installed automatically, I'm pretty sure it's optional with my current phone and probably would have noticed if it was installed.
Amusingly, Samsung made the claim that their browser was one of the most popular ones in the world around four years ago, they based this on download statistics and not actual use. I suppose the same could be said to apply with Chrome, I only use it when Android functions call it automatically (or when the Firefox security settings break websites) but it gets updated every week or so.
Those browser statistics you link to are the worldwide ones, and are massively affected by India (Chrome has 88% there). Chrome has around 50% in the US, Safari is second, Edge has 8% and Firefox is around 5%. Firefox has around 10% where I am now.

Venezuela

Is it time to dredge up some Nazi propaganda from 1933-1945, translate it to English and post it on social media? Put up some of that vile anti-Jewish crap which garnered one or two men the death penalty in Nuremberg? Thinking about it, this is probably happening now anyway.
If these people are so determined to enforce unlimited free speech, they can see the consequences. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat, and all that.

Only if you're recycling the plastic into more plastic. And that's worthless.

What you should be doing is recycling it back into fuel for electricity production- but nobody wants that even with all the scrubbers- they made it illegal to EVER open a 2nd garbage burning electric plant in Oregon.