When Musk bought "Tesla" it was two guys and an idea. It's bigger now.
bullshit how?
Too many people would change their minds based on what the sign says.
Does you reaction change if the sign read: "Black Lives Matter" or if it read "Back the Blue"?
Or one that says "Trans women are women" vs "trans women aren't women"?
Or "pineapple on pizza is ok" vs "pinapple on pizza is the work of the devil"?
Another reason the feds ensure inflation, it makes their workforce cheaper.
Fallout reference
But then again I’ve heard there’s monopolies for that in the USA, instead of actual competition.
Government granted monopolies. It's the worst. City / county/ state signs deal with ISP X and give them exclusive rights. Then for some reason they don't spend a lot of time updating anything because they have no competition because of the fucking morons in the government.
I use NFS with caches (cachefilesd) on a local SSD. Works great.
Also if the wildfires that started naturally were allowed to burn (if not threatening the public) then we don't get that huge build up of dead wood getting dryer and dryer leading to a super scorcher that nothing can stop.
because a bit faster short term
Waaaaaaay more than "a bit". Like "imperceptible render time" vs 2s for firefox. That adds up a lot.
is worth sacrificing you freedom long term?
What freedom did I lose? I used chromium mostly.
Firefox has performance now, where it did't in the past. So I don't use chrome now.
See, I use the best tool for the job I can find, and that changes over time. For a while the was Chrome.
they’re actually just drafting Russian citizens who happen to work at Unilever
This. Someone needed some rage bait.
I dunno, the CIA and NSA are both shady as fuck too.
Fuck all 'em TLAs.