“Our cloud analytics tell us that everyone uses cloud to print, so we are removing SD card slots from our printers.”

This goes further than just pirated entertainment. Think of patents. “Nice chip you have there Apple, would be a shame if it were public domain now.”

The US’ most important good is intellectual property. They rely on other countries to protect their IP. If you no longer rely on them for trade because theyre tariffing the shit out of your country, you don’t need to appease them anymore by protecting their IP.

To be fair, we mostly have examples of how free trade reduces prices. But this reduction in prices usually wasn’t instantaneous and perceivable by ordinary folks. Because corporations wouldn’t hand out the savings to consumers until the very slow market force of competition forced them to. Tariffs will make everything more expensive and even if they are eventually culled, stuff will not become suddenly cheap again.

At least the desktop app of proton shows you the state or even city where the server is located. For Germany I can even choose between Frankfurt and Berlin for example. I know that for us servers I was able to specifically choose New York.

Edit: In the android app you can go to countries then tap the three dots next to united states and select a state to connect to.

Ah that’s really cool. So maybe similar to how turbulence can form at one point while the preceding flow remains laminar?

But you didn’t choose to have the thought did you?

Quick think of a city and then explain to me why you didn’t pick Cairo

I want to rebuke you but you name is even more triggering. There is no linear chaos, you need non-linearities or discontinuities for chaos.

Not executing it would also be predetermined. The only thing you can do is pretend to choose.

Why 2027?

What a stupid piece. You don’t need anything quantum to recognize optical illusions. An optical illusion as they talk about it means that an image could be recognized as two things. This can be done by just adding some noise to the image. Sometimes it gets recognized as one thing and sometimes like another, just like humans would.

It’s meant to be said in a sarcastic tone

Sounds like you need to give Google more private information