Some real axis of evil shit going down. Anyone who questions if they’re the baddies at this point is intentionally being obtuse.
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Yeah, that part is super fucked up. I have IoT in my ceiling fans. I had to call their support line to have them remotely turn off the beeping that accompanies a button press.
The feature can’t be deactivated locally. I literally had to have my ceiling fan join my Wi-Fi network so that support could remote in and disable a beep that no one could possibly want.
Oh yeah, my oven has Wi-Fi. What possible reason could there be for my oven to have network access? It’s beyond ridiculous.
And then there’s the subscription model. Where you don’t own or even license software. You just continually pay rent.
She has 4 ears.
Well, you're on the internet. And it's pretty much just a series of tubes.
I went to Germany in '96, and was amazed how on time the trains were. If the schedule said "7:52 arrival" then set your watch by it.
Now? Not so much.
At this point, it's startlingly clear that de-industrialization is wide scale corporate raiding.
Can anyone point to a country that de-industrialized and maintained infrastructure?
The quotes listed here sound 100% like the kinds of statements from Western Marxism that are evisercated in this article. Very good read which nails the "no country has done REAL socialism/communism" critique common among the western left.
https://socialistchina.org/2023/10/13/china-and-the-purity-fetish-of-western-marxism/
I gotta get the book the article is based on.
The unquestioned, purity fetish grounded, and Sinophobic assumption of Chinese ‘authoritarianism’ and ‘lack of democracy’ also prevents the Western Marxist from learning how the Chinese socialist civilization has been able to creatively embed its socialist democracy in “seven integrated structures or institutional forms (体制tizhi): electoral democracy; consultative democracy; grassroots democracy; minority nationalities policy; rule of law; human rights; and leadership of the Communist Party.”[4] It has withheld them from seeing how a comprehensive study of this whole-process people’s democracy would lead any unbiased researcher to the conclusion Roland Boer has arrived at: namely, that “China’s socialist democratic system is already quite mature and superior to any other democratic system.” This is a position echoed by John Ross (and many other scholars of China), who argues that the “real situation shows that China’s framework and delivery on human rights and democracy is far superior to the West’s.”
This explains why it's virtually impossible to buy a "dumb" TV anymore.
Verhoeven has always been great with the satire.
Showgirls is brilliant if you realize it's cutting satire.
I can't imagine someone like Verhoeven getting allowed to make big budget Hollywood movies now.
Rape and possibly murder.
Sounds like good cop, bad cop.
Love this story.