Realities like this one are forcing entire nations to move to FOSS, more accountable systems, etc., which is a good thing for many of us, but bad for those who are in jurisdictions that they just can’t get enough of Microsoft et al.
A far journey ahead but at least we’re getting there!
I do this with my hair. They all look so stunned when they see me with a new haircut. Wears off after a few weeks though.
Had a similar conversation over in Mastodon recently and yeah, this is a very fair point. The indiscriminate scanning and publication of copyrighted books shouldn’t have happened in the first place, especially when there are existing ecosystems for ethical lending/leasing/borrowing of books already in place, which benefit and are working with authors/publishers already.
The amount of money billionaires spend on political campaigns should be proportional to the amount of votes their bets lose to their opponents.
PACs included 👍
What's unfortunate is a significant number of people don't like hearing this and instead choose to project onto other countries. Most of our governments aren't our friends, regardless if you're American or not.