@freeschool Rich people have more power, so for an equal measure of asshole you might argue they do more damage on an individual basis. But there are is also far fewer of them, so collectively this balances out.
In reality I'd say the huge masses of poor to middle class assholes do equal societal damage overall when compared to the very small number of rich assholes.
@freeschool Its not the rich who are oppressing us. Everyone oppresses us, rich, poor, middle class. People are just assholes.
@stux In many places there simply are no biking lanes. The road is where the cyclist is **supposed** to be, even though they block traffic.
It is like that in philadelphia, almost no bike lanes, the bikes are expected to occupy the same lanes as the cars.
@stux The hate for cyclists is well founded but also doesnt apply to the netherlands for one important reason: infrastructure. In the netherlands bikes and cars are completely separate except when maybe crossing over the road for a turn or something. In other countries the bikes and cars share the same road and same lanes too. This means a car behind a bike needs to go at bike speeds,, so naturally it pisses people off.
@koherecoWatchdog The truth of the matter, for good or bad, is that people will often prioritize convenience over privacy. If people didnt we probably would have far fewer privacy concerns.
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@koherecoWatchdog Most people dont **Want** to print their own checks, so low demand. Most of us want digital solutions. I think this is one reason crypto has some support, its digital but its also community run.
@Dreamer9177 I was brought up poor, many in my family were rich. Both me and the rest of my family were all taught the same way.
@Dreamer9177
I was raised poor as well, only becamr successful because a rich stranger gave me a generous
oppertunity at a yung age. In fact id have to tha k quite a few rich people for helping me get out of ploverty
@Dreamer9177 To be honest, hasn't been my experience. I've found both the poor and the rich to be equally shitty and equally kind.
The idea that power and money corrupts is only half true, it just gives a means for corruption. The poor cheat and steal just as much (maybe more so due to the neccesity), they just have less power to do so successfully or at large scales.
@Dreamer9177 Not always, but often so sadly :(
@Dreamer9177 You're right, as do the democrats sadly. Therein lies the problem.
@mur2501 Thats a lot to unload, im not sure I have all the answers. Let me try to answer this more properly later when i can do a proper write up
@mur2501 You would need to be a bit more specific. What about them?
@2ck You need callouses for it to work. I have heard of people putting superglue on their fingertips to simulate callouses
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I'm thinking about switching from google drive to dropbox, due to safety reasons (I don't want any suspicious AI spy on my files). Today I noticed the Hetzner Storage box and mountain duck.
Hetzner storage box offers 1TB network drive for 3.2 EUR per month, and mountain duck offers a way to mount that network drive on Windows, with a 39 USD one-time fee. The software is made in swiss.
Due to the god damn GFW in China, the speed can't go over 100KB/s without proxy. Thankfully, with my proxy server set up on the Hetzner FSN datacenter, the upload speed is faster than 4MB/s, which I think is the limit of my network. The download speed is also not bad: 8MB/s at the beginning, drop to 2MB/s, sometimes stuck at 2Mbps. Not sure who should be blamed for this, since there are too many participants involved: mountain duck, my transparent proxy, my network ISP, the proxy server on Hetzner, Hetzner storage box, I don't know. But with WebDAV, it supports random access, which means I can stream a video and scroll back and forth without waiting for the stupid client software to download the entire file (It's you, Google Drive Client).
The price is also the cheapest. Hetzner's price is equivalent to 38.16 USD per TB per year (BX11, with BX41, you get 24.246 USD per TB per year), while Google Drive (2TB annually) is 49.995 USD per TB per year, and dropbox (2TB annually) is 59.94 USD per TB per year. The proxy server is kind of required no matter which service I use, so that's not a big game changer.
I will try this configuration for a while. If I think it's good enough, that would be a great deal.
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