The person who makes a claim has to back it up

[citation needed]

I’m fine with some funding for other people who are running things for public benefit. The difference is a meaningful one, since governments have rules about how they do contracting work. It ends up with companies that focus on government contracts that know all the rules and have the connections.

A couple of people running an open source project don’t have the same restrictions

China blocks ESNI and DoH. You have to find a DoH server that is not well known and have to fake the host name.

But if you actually do that, lol

I use brave, but only the search

Funding an existing project like Lemmy is different than hiring people to create a lemmy

It’s not necessary

You think email is a human right? It’s a box to send password resets. If websites all used one time paaswords, I wouldn’t need my email. You don’t actually send messages to people over email, do you?

We have things like Signal and Matrix to facilitate actually communicating with people.

Last time I sent an email to someone it bounced. Imagine spending time writing a letter and the mailman returns it to you

Who said anything about essential services? It’s the nonessential services that I have a problem with

What is the search engine your government hosts? Or maybe they do email? Do tell

I’ve been to half a dozen countries after COVID.

That included a 16 hour stay in a Canadian hospital because they just don’t have enough doctors to get around to you if you’re not dying

I trust neither

The government, running a service that doesn’t suck? Call me when it happens

My monitor only runs its firmware

Programs clearly understand words from context. Try making it do translation tasks, it can properly translate “tear” to either 泪水 (tears from crying) or 撕破 (to rend) based on context

Just because meta sucks doesn’t let apple off the hook for anticompetitive behavior

I thought Men in Black were awesome in 3D. I don’t understand why more movies were not released in that format

People voted for him because he was a war hero and said fuck the banks. As a result, when he was elected he paid off the national debt. I don’t mean he didn’t run a deficit, he paid off the entire balance.

If you think Trump is comparable, just look at the deficit he left us