These companies absolutely do need proper competition, but any classification of them as ‘American’ is shortsighted. These are truly multi-national, global corporations who exert their power across the entire planet and harm people across the entire planet, including in America itself.

It’s only thanks to non-American, non-European countries that I can still afford to buy some things every now and then.

At this point, it doesn’t even make sense to refer to Microsoft, Google, etc. as ‘American’ companies any longer.

The central destructive forces in the world are truly multinational. Multinational corporations, billionaires buying entire governments. Just referring to them as ‘American’ implies that these organizations, themselves, have some loyalty to the United States.

They don’t. They hate U.S. institutions, so they bought them. They hate American citizens, so they take from them and harm them. The genuine threats to all of us, everywhere, are capitalists, and they have no loyalty or regard for anything other than themselves.

This is so good.

1990s TNG had a good heart.

Other than the paltry poverty-wages they pay employees, almost every dollar that locals spend in a big box store leaves town and travels straight into some billionaire pocket.

I’d love to see a user-friendly, easily-implemented FOSS alternative to the entire Android system.

The options that exist now often can’t get past all the defenses that Android and phone manufacturers put into systems to secure their own data collection/revenue. I have an older Motorola phone that I literally can’t install another operating system on.

We desperately need a stable, user-friendly, and hardware-adaptive replacement for Android. I don’t want that shit on my phones any longer.

Right there with you.

This episode is beautiful: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Darmok_(episode)

It is about communication.

Inchworm by Danny Kaye.

Figure Eight by Blossom Dearie

Payback by Slayer

WILL YOU SACRIFICE YOUR OWN DESIRES TO MEET THE OBJECTIVES OF THE OWNERSHIP?! YOUR OWN LIFE IF NEED BE?! THE HIERARCHY IS LISTENING AND WILL JUDGE YOU ACCORDINGLY.

Is this a free trial followed by a monthly subscription?

Pirate everything. Pirate streams, torrents, whatever.

Pirate. Everything.

*unless it’s an independent artist of some sort. then, just buy some merch from them or something.