It’s so hard to buy anything now-a-days without being tied to some kind of labor violation.

Getting so low the old power bricks laptops often use will make a bigger impact in power use.

That doesn’t make any sense. Currency outside a nation isn’t laundering, USD is used as a trade medium around the world even when not trading with US banks or entities. Idk why you’re saying that “billions a day” is taxpayer money or something and it wouldn’t fix around the country, it’d go into the military like usual.

It’s also just the scale of Denmark. The US has billions pulled from the US every day and it’s not a problem but the US isn’t a small country of 6 million people.

Absolutely. They’ve been trying to increase the retirement age for years now.

It’s actually lower in the poor-er regions.

That’s basically all corporate entities. They’re not beholden to the workers, the consumers, or the general public and instead answer to people generally trying to milk everything as hard as possible.

I’d argue most of us are older but not too old to remember what the internet was as well.

So a mortgage is part of your mortgage? It’s literally not your mortgage, it’s a cost of having a mortgage just like food isn’t healthcare.

None of those are “part of your mortgage” They’re things you pay as well as a mortgage.

Bank pays interest on their income.]

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Oh yeah? https://www.irs.gov/publications/p936

The IRS says you can deduct the interest on your mortgage but I can’t deduct when the rent goes up? Mortgages are usually fixed rates that stay about the same always while rent is constantly going up.

Wait till you find out about all the companies destroying infrastructure and using disinformation.

There’s really no upside either so it’s really just a waste of time. Millions of Americans without proper medical. Congress sleeps. Short form video. Real shit.

But this doesn’t stop anyone from spying on them. Data collection, aggregation, sale, and exploitation is entirely legal so if the Chinese government wants your data they can buy it wholesale for less than maintaining TikTok from Google, Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Discord, and Amazon.

All you’re doing is taking a bunch of blubbering buffoon’s at their word that this is for your protection.

Other platforms with ads haven’t really seen people move off those platforms. I feel like once it reaches that critical mass of being nearly ubiquitous it takes a massive problem to push people off of it. Look at SMS in the US and how it’s refused to die compared to other markets because it has reached saturation and now the only challenge to that ubiquity is iMessage who basically lives off being a fake SMS service.

That’s capitalism for you. They’re not interested in making things better, they’re interested in making more profit.

Just like when users get “hacked” a lot of the time it was just their own lack of security practices and not the service provider. Obviously there are exceptions and I hate defending tech giants but end users are often to blame.

Really the US needs federal ID that are free and accessible through all post offices. The use of birth certificates and SSNs for the private sector is a failure of the federal government.

Identification for some reason is a cobbled-together mess of systems never designed for identification.

Unless it’s good to break the law.