@dbsb3233@CryptoHog6@Chase13167253@whitepizzaolla And that's a direct symptom of those corporations gaining larger and larger market-shares
The only ironic thing here is that you're defending this as some kind of immutable fact of life
@Incorrectament5@headtuber@AnAverageGamerX You're talking about physical parts on the supply chain. We're talking about, say, NVidia being valued higher than the GDP of Japan
@lorus77@tonio1098@SBlockspy@unusual_whales That's a neat little observation
Too bad that it has no bearing on the fact that housing yourself is much more expensive than it was before
@kangaroobixcube@histofevery_yt2 It's both to a degree. It provided aid and was a vehicle for political influence and spycraft
But he is correct no matter how you feel about any of those things. USAID was a key part of how the US influenced the world, and dismantling it only weakens our position wrt China
@samikshassotd@VeryFewApples Then why are you defending it? It's very telling...
You'll follow THIS line of logic centered around general privacy and agree. But as soon as someone uses the word "women" your brain short-circuits into reactionary culture-war mode
@stevanzetti Meaning not searchable?
That's a product of the way they were scanned, not the format itself. There are optical character recognition tools for that
But PDF is incredibly flexible, and that's a good thing. Better to have a bad version of a document than none