An unbelievable waste of time and human effort. One of the world’s most useless rackets and that’s saying something.

This is why I don’t like the idea of one device for all my communication and media needs. I have smartphones for comms and dedicated audio devices for music and podcasts, with headphone jacks.

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He sounds just like an inmate.

Same ethos? BP was worse when it was Anglo-Persian or just British Petroleum. Shell is very much European and one of the world’s most immoral companies. Siemens is as German as Samsung is Korean and just as corrupt.

Whoever came up with this meme has never heard of BP, Shell, Eni, Siemens, Spotify or the numerous European fast fashion companies that depend on sweat shop labor to survive.

That’s not even in question. Mobile apps allow for greater snooping and data that can be used to push more product. There are a lot of mobile users who are entirely uncomfortable using a desktop machine.

The Anbernic rg35xx h has served me well. Likewise the Nintendo 2DS XL.

Of course the World Bank is pushing this.

I’m not your “mate”, buddy.

e-stalking is still stalking.

Most of the pizza that I tried in the UK was pretty bad. £100 or £1 I wouldn’t be tempted.

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Par for the course.

How about you read the entire post instead of picking out one line that you do not like.

Phrenology and “Scientific Racism” in the 19th Century https://pages.vassar.edu/realarchaeology/2017/03/05/phrenology-and-scientific-racism-in-the-19th-century/

The familiar paradigm of five human races was born in the year 1795—at the transitional moment between the rationality of the Enlightenment and the emotional fervour of Romanticism—when a German doctor, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, set out the distinct characteristics of those groups he called Caucasians Mongolians, Ethiopians, Americans, and Malays. https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/23/the-science-of-race-and-the-racism-of-science/

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And you found the one example of a monarch being forced to abdicate and ignored the dozens (if not hundreds) of cases of European monarchs interceding in the political process and not facing any sanctions. Or worse, actively breaking the law of the land and then being protected from prosecution as was the case with Prince Andrew of England when his mother ensured that he faced no real investigation into his alleged proclivities. https://www.republic.org.uk/royal_corruption_inquiry_call_following_andrew_revelations

Lords of War: The British Monarchy And The Arms Trade https://theowp.org/reports/lords-of-war-the-british-monarchy-and-the-arms-trade/

What’s wrong with Britain? Let’s start with the monarchy https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/whats-wrong-with-britain-lets-start-with-the-monarchy/

King Charles and Prince William Accused of ‘Corruption’ Over Their Millions https://www.newsweek.com/king-charles-prince-william-document-trove-sparks-backlash-over-their-millions-1979681

No sir, that is a lie.

Modern racism is very much rooted in European pseudo-scientific bullshit.

And those kings and queens do hold power, unofficially, off the books. It’s called corruption when it happens elsewhere but as we know Europeans are too pure and righteous to engage in corruption (at home), they only do it abroad when lobbying for contracts illegally…

Unelected heads of state is clear. I did not say heads of government.

History shows us that racism is to Europe as fish are to the sea.

And all the bigoted right wing European governments are what?

All the unelected head of states in Europe are democratic?

What is supposed to happen and what typically happens when money is involved are not the same thing.