Google is not a very good competitor to Apple, but crippling Google will make Apple's market dominance worse faster.

If you are going to fight trusts, don't create a bigger one while doing so.

Yep. The world is a gruesome place. And people can be nasty. Also shortsighted. And ignorant. Those kids that they are allowing to live in poverty are going to cause problems for them. Eventually those kids will empower some psychopathic dictator and the first thing they will do is go around murdering what's left of the upper middle class along with the educated. You see it every time a dictator comes along and takes a bunch of hopeless people being abandoned and tells them they're going to get their problems solved.

A lot of them I think might even know the dictator isn't going to solve anything but when nobody else is even having the courtesy to lie to you it's like Trump himself said, what have you got to lose?

With The thin Blue line there is a lot more under the surface going on.

If I had to guess they are probably going to structure this so that it targets poor neighborhoods who are less likely to have the resources to sue. You can do that by breaking up a city into subsidies or parishes or what not. Which is exactly why you see that so often. Rich people like to have the services of a large city but they don't like the pay for them because well you don't get rich paying for things you get rich making other people pay for things for you. So wealthy people will split their part of the city off so they don't have to pay taxes while enjoying the services of the rest of the city

As always it's a big club and you ain't in it.

How much did they bribe the local politicians to allow this travesty? Because every single one of those fuckers is out of office the next cycle and they have to know that so it had to have been enough money but it was worth more than a current political position they have.

I am so sick and fucking tired of stupid people letting stupid shit happen because they're stupid. If people would pay attention to voting and stop worrying about trans girls in sports or whatever nonsense you are currently being distracted with shit like this wouldn't be allowed to happen.

I think it's just cultural although that's a problem. Even their language emphasizes hierarchy and otherness with the honorifics and how they work.

But they've been doing right wing economics and policies since the 90s and have been in a permanent recession since then. It's the definition of insanity.

And they basically just elected Trump in a dress.

I know the Yakuza there are used as Union busters. I used to wonder why they didn't have any push for unions like we did here and that's why. In America the unions cuddled up with organized crime to get the muscle they needed to push back against the Epstein class but Japan didn't have that because the upper crust got to the organized crime first.

In America we use racism and homophobia to divide the working class along with certain religious divides but I don't quite get what does it in Japan. They are ridiculously homogeneous. Then again I sometimes meet people from Maine who are racist against black folk and I know that they come from towns where the only time they see a black guy is when a new Michael Jackson album came out

When you radically increase the number of interactions with police you slightly reduce crime and you greatly increase the risk of innocent people being killed and the incidence of them being killed.

This is just a fact. If you want to reduce crime you fight it with social solutions like fixing the economy and fixing wealth inequality and more education not by sending more cops to beat the shit out of people.

All more cops do is broken windows policing which is where the cops constantly bust people from minor infractions which cause them problems in society leading to more problems and more crime. It's like the whole thing where Batman is creating his own villains.

You need a handful of police to stop crazy people with guns and they need training in de-escalation not military assault. You also need a handful of police to prevent people from doing dumb things in cars because public transportation is for weenies.

The basic problem we are all dancing around is that we heavily militarized police and then we trained them to believe they're in a war zone. Seriously go look up some cop training especially the stuff they get after the academy and it's basically military training but more ridiculous and extreme. The cops view themselves as an occupying force in constant danger. They are trained to think of themselves like soldiers in Vietnam surrounded by Charlie...

So since we can't reduce the number of police and fix all the social problems because voters won't go for that people have been trying to reduce the number of times police interact with the public. It's an incredibly stupid way to solve a problem but as the saying goes America will always do the right thing after it's tried everything else

They have a massive database with social credit scores for everybody. So the cops can check that and find out if you're wealthy or not. That way they only kill the right people.

So check your bank account if you've got at least 10 million in there you're probably okay. Although you probably need to multiply that by a factor of 10 if you've got the wrong skin color

Every piece of information that people have gleaned from you goes into a database that a private company maintains with your name on it.

Police have access to this database and when they pull you over they run your plates, pull up your name and check the database to determine how dangerous they think you might be.

So far I don't think there have been any death because of it but realistically it's only a matter of time and statistics.

One of the things I've noticed is that when it comes to threads like this you never see the right wing show up and comment. They avoid these threads like the plague. Because a mass surveillance Network run by the people at the top of the hierarchy who they worship for being at the top of the hierarchy doesn't gel with their worldview.

That's kind of the problem with being a right winger. It's the old joke, reality has a left wing bias. So if you're going to be all right winger you've got to stay in safe spaces and avoid threads like this where your ideas might be challenged by reality and facts. Basically go back to Ben Shapiro who tells you that you have the facts after all.

Critical infrastructure to the internet. But it's good for corporate profits when we do that because it means you can have remote monitoring on a dirt cheap Network. And corporate profits matter more than your water supply.