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  • Didn’t really mean it’s fine. More that I’ve accepted it. I really hope it changes but almost nobody cares enough about these things to stop using Google. Even when better alternatives exist, they rather have the convenience of default options.

    Microsoft built their empire on simular foundations. Made a product that is pre-installed on all computers, forcing everyone to pay them money to own a laptop. It’s brilliant financially. Windows is even free now, and it’s funded by the collection of people’s private, sensitive data.

    It is 1984 but we don’t actually care. :)


  • If you look at how many things Google is dominating, it makes sense. You probably don’t even think about how dominating they are, but they have global search, global email, global Android, global maps, global tracking of cars, global video service (YouTube), global language translate, global chrome os… It’s really hard to even see anything Google is not dominating.

    Apple… What, makes the best hardware and makes it’s own operating system? That’s about it.

    The amount of data Google has on us is much worse than that science function has imagined. They are the big brother, knowing every intimate detail about billions of people.

    And they have ties to the US intelligence service, and probably have given them direct access to all that data through some patriot act or whatever. It’s fine but make no mistake here, apple is nothing compared to that.




  • I don’t watch the news, because it’s not like you get unbiased facts - it’s the entire behavior of the news anchors and the people, and the editing, that creates a form of programming of people’s minds.

    It’s also almost 100% negative. And you can’t affect anything.

    I guess people watch it because they are scared of not knowing what’s going on? I don’t need to know what’s going on. If I lived in Thailand, I would miss all western news and it wouldn’t matter at all. So why not act like I live in Thailand.

    Let me know if the news ever help someone feel better about themselves, or how to get better relationships, how to love people more. Because that’s what my life is about. And how to have fun. :)














  • Not to me, it just sounds normal. The reason people feel apathy is because there is a difference between expectation and reality that is very big for them.

    It’s the thought of “I need the world to be different for me to feel good” that is causing the apathy. You can change the thoughts on this and feel much, much better by being very grateful for having so much choice as a human being to find things you enjoy.