China is the most capitalist country on the planet. The only thing they openly worship is money.

I disagree. What matters is power, and money does grant a lot of it, but in China especially this isn’t as direct as it is in the US for example because of party politics.

Party officials made their fortune first and were then forced to join the party, the party doesn’t make their fortune.

That’s a very broad assumption, and in some cases is true, some it is not. China has over 1 000 billionaires, over 100 of them are in the parliament, so it’s a bit of a chicken and egg thing, they go hand in hand because of the power thing.

Please spend some time there and we talk afterwards, if you stick to your opinion.

Yeah walking the streets of Beijing will give me ample opportunity to meet & greet Chinese billionaires and CCCP top brass.

Ahahah the eagle with the cat, that’s hilarious

You’re forgetting all the companies that hold on to your data forever. Yeah I bought a $4 shenanigan 5 years ago, do you really need to keep my full name, phone, email, CC details, tax number and address, stored plainly in some poorly protected, internet accessible DB?

Party official billionaires are much better than sketchy “self made” billionaires.

Party officials owe their fortune and allegiance to the party, and we’ve seen some high profile cases of billionaires being brought to their heels very quickly.

Capitalist billionaires are the end result of a selection process that chooses the most self serving, greedy, ruthless bastards.

I’ll take #1. Fight me.

This is kinda of my experience. The type of people that I see getting mistreated are the “I am le touriste, entertain me!” kind.

Americans especially tend to fall into this category a lot, they tend to be loud, brash and self centered, especially towards staff.

Look here you pot of lard, you bought a 2€ croissant, not my fucking soul. You want something, ask nicely and I will gladly help you. Act like you own me, I’m gonna piss on your food.

Don’t you think the goggles would be useful?

In any case I looked it up, seems like apple will just lent them out if you have a solid pitch for a VR APP:

https://developer.apple.com/visionos/developer-kit/

Probably the dev would have to spend more, usually Dev kits come with a bunch of handy features for debugging/testing, but including SDK and licensing yeah, more money.

A perfect fit for the EU then, is what I’m reading…

EU needs to formally invite Canada to the union in response.

The scary thought here isn’t that they’re actively listening in.

It’s that they know enough about you to know that something will be of interest to you before you even realise it yourself…

That’s the most unlikely story I’ve heard in a minute… Even assuming there’re some deep rooted kernel level shenanigans, which no one has found yet, how would you fiddling with some settings expose that?

Probably just got a dropped call, and it resumed the playlist in shuffle, I’ve had it happen where the music comes out as if in a phone call (messes up frequencies) for a few seconds before it goes back to normal. Occam’s razor and all