@IceCubeSoup @Invictus
I trust them to gather all the data they can physically store on me and I trust them to turn it over without hesitation upon request by any “authority “ and I trust them to package it up and sell it to whomever pays them enough to make it worth the trouble.
Practically speaking, it becomes a single point of failure:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/live/cloudflare-outage-under-investigation-as-twitter-downdetector-go-down-company-confirms-global-network-issue-clone
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/nov/17/reselling-tickets-for-profit-to-be-outlawed-in-uk-government-crackdown
..feels like a bread and circuses kind of moment..
I feel like Trump is in the midst of making the mistake that most politicians eventually make.
He believes that people voted for him because of how awesome and smart and wonderful he is, and not because they were sick of the other guys.
Perhaps this is actually what we need. The left self-destructed, now the right can too and perhaps those pieces can be put together in a way that sucks less.
Either that or…
Well history has a lot of options of what the “or” might be and most are unpleasant.
Now? The idea of billionaires being innovative is a joke. Elon Musk gets mocked for trying to hype up his shitty cyber truck or whatever, clearly not even understanding his own products, then he buys a new company and mismanages it. Hell, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates might be seen as the last innovative billionaires and even them I would consider pale imitations of men who came before them. They're all inheritors, they could not build wealth on their own and fuck up everything they acquire, they are not worthy of their influence and do no good with it.