It's also the reason we have quite a number of average people with secure retirements. Yes, BURN DOWN CAPITALISM sounds good, and given the huge problems of unregulated capitalism in the USA, I even have some sympathy for the sentiment, but in reality, well-regulated capitalism backstopped by robust government social programs is simply the best way to generate wealth for everyone.

Burning down capitalism completely will simply make everyone poor and make life shittier than ever. We need to regulate it.

If you day trade, then yes... the stock market is gambling.

If you invest in low-cost index funds and hold them for a decent amount of time, the odds that you'll make money are almost 100%.

There's no analogously-safe way to use prediction markets.

Well, it makes traveling from where I live to certain places a bit more expensive and less convenient. But that's OK. It's worth it to avoid the USA.

Quelle surprise that Trump supports the gambing^Wgrifting sites.

The exact wording in The Guardian is as follows (my emphasis):

Agent Findley and several others repeatedly asked Tunick to open his phone during the interrogation, telling him they would seize it if he did not.

In my opinion, this means that at the moment he provided the PIN, the phone had not yet been seized and was therefore not yet under the control of the government. Again, in my opinion, this means he did nothing illegal because it's the same as if he'd wiped his phone as soon as the plane took off. In either case, the phone was not under the control of the government and was his to do with as he wanted.

The agents should just have seized the phone to begin with and let forensic investigators figure out how to unlock it later on.

The duress password wouldn't help with that, because once it's used, the gov has a nice clean phone on which it can plant whatever it wants.

That is my policy. No going to or transiting through the USA for the foreseeable future.

We might be dangerously near the Kessler Syndrome according to this article.

Agreed. That would be a bummer for (eg) flights from Vancouver to Toronto, but still. I think it's best.

I had wondered how you even do a long haul trip to Canada from the southern hemisphere without doing a stop in the USA?

It's certainly doable. I flew from Johannesburg to Regina, SK without transiting the USA. The route was Johannesburg to Nairobi to London to Winnipeg to Regina. The London to Winnipeg part flew over the arctic regions of Canada.

From Australia, you can go Sydney to Tokyo to Vancouver to wherever else you want to go in Canada without transiting the USA.

A much better way is not to use any Meta services.

At this point, it's obvious that Trump is a demented nutcase whose only approach to "leading" is flooding the zone with acrimony and vitriol. Best thing to do is ignore the fool. Just rag the puck until his power is constrained by midterms or the next election and let him hurt the USA as much as he wants to.

Why wouldn't it work? The monitor can display whatever it wants; it doesn't have to obey the HDMI signal coming in. Or it can overlay whatever it wants over the HDMI signal with no involvement from the computer driving the display.

If the MFA app is a TOTP app like Google Authenticator or whatever, you can export the secrets and use another device. I wrote an app for Linux that I use when I couldn't be bothered to get my phone while I'm on my PC. It's not that hard.

Do not buy products and services from evil American tech companies

I'm doing my best. Not in Europe (Canada, actually) but I cancelled Amazon, Facebook, Instagram, Netflix 18 months ago. Self-host email and calendar, so don't pay Google anything. I still watch videos on YouTube, but I never see any ads (I have very effective ad-blocking.)

Or loosen regulations and maybe Europe can develop a functional tech economy of its own.

Oh, Europe is being spurred to do that.