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Comment Re:Attempted totalitarian idiocy (Score 4, Interesting) 12

Don't kid yourself. This backtracking has very little to do with the Indian people and a lot more to do with the fact that Apple publicly refused to pre-install this app.

Apple wants to build more factories in India and other idealy "democratic" countries in the future to lessen its dependance on China. In other words: India needs jobs, and Apple offers jobs. The Indian governement has no interest in antagonising Apple.

The fact that mega-corporations have effectively more power than governements is not a new thing, and is not limited to the western world.

Comment Re:English (Score 1) 94

Not trolling at all, but fairly typical of unilingual english speakers.

Multiculturalism is as important as biodiversity, and for the same reasons.

Every one that is not part of the dominant cultural landscape understands this, because they've had to fight to protect their language/culture all their life. Those who are born in the dominant culture don't. And I can't blame them for not understanding, but I can blame them for not wanting to understand.

Unilingual speakers all seem to think that languages are just different ways of expressing the same ideas using different sounds. But different languages are reflections of different cultures, and are molded by them. And vice versa. The greatest gift someone can give him/herself is to learn another language.

Comment Re:Indirect impact (Score 0) 64

In my experience

And what, I might ask, is your experience, exactly ?

Anti-DEI people have all kinds of pseudo-rational justifications for their stance, but one that comes up often is that it prevents enterprises from hiring based on merit and qualification. Well guess what ? Enterprises never hired based on merit and qualification.

People are racist pigs, period. DEI is an imperfect solution for an imperfect, shitty, defective-by-design species.

If anyone has a better solution, I'm ready to hear it.

Comment NOT the 51rst state ! (Score 1, Troll) 38

Why would Canada cooperate with the law enforcement of a country that has threatened its sovereignty ? Fuck the FBI. And fuck Trump. And fuck the 77 millions shittards who voted twice for that miserable sack of pus that has antagonized and threatened the sovereignty of the most trustworthy, loyal, and unconditional ally the US has ever had.

Elbows up !

Comment Re:If you are in a first world nation (Score 1) 180

Let me get this straight: You live in a region where the danger is so real that the governement issues iodine tablets in case of accident, and not only do you seem totally fine with it, and even happy about it, but you even pay a premium for the "privilege" of living there ?!?

Would you also pay a premium for the privilege of living right next to an active volcano ?

I knew some nuclear cultists had a screw loose, but JFC this borders on insanity. I'm pretty sure there's a name for this somewhere in the DSM-V.

Comment Re:If you are in a first world nation (Score 1) 180

Don't try to make this about me. YOU are the one continuously making the extraordinary claims that nuclear reactors of current technology are totally safe and that Chernobyl-level events could never happen in the US.

If this is truly the case, and you truly believe this, then you should have absolutely no problem whatsoever signing the contract I mentionned.

Put up, or shut up.

Comment Re:Exxon should just stop selling in California (Score 3, Interesting) 89

Hate California all you want, but California is the fourth largest economy in the world. If you're the CEO of a corporation that refuses to do business with the fourth largest economy in the world, your shareholders will hang you out by the balls and let the California condors have their way with you.

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