If I had a cent for every time the Finnish allied themselves with the most Nazi-like regime in a given century, I would have 2 cents, but it’s still weird that it happened twice.

Whilst fear seems to be used to induce hate in many (just listen to the fables of “we need to protect ourselves” coming from the politicians there), I’m pretty sure others just directly hate without the need to be led there through fear.

I think you misspelled the word “hate”.

I think it’s pretty clear by now that per the wishes of America’s elites and even most of their electorate (who voted for somebody explicitly promising that) the only “winner” acceptable for America in an America-dominated World is America itself (which in practice means just a handful of people in America, since the common Americans aren’t actually “winning” anything).

So any article framing the replacement of an American-led World order by a Chinese-led World order as being a bad thing is either ignorant as fuck or purposeful propaganda by one of the few Americans “winning” from the current setup or one of those foreigners getting some crumbs from it - i.e. somebody who makes money from being a “friend” to America and spreading the idea that American dominance is a great thing for everybody.

A fair article would be pretty neutral about it - pretty much “these other guys who don’t give a shit about us are trading places” - with maybe even a “let’s get this over with ASAP” slant since as the saying goes, “when the elephants fight it’s the grass that suffers”, and at this point the “grass” is pretty much all of us in countries other than the US and China as even Canada is now not in the inner circle with America.

Fair point.

The other poster wording it like that does indeed stink of somebody coming at it from a “blame the Race” rather than “blame the Rich” point of view.

Mate, all dictatorships are shit.

No need for Red Scare bollocks - just look at Pinochet in Chile or Putin in Russia which are at the opposite end of the Left-Right political spectrum and you’ll see similar shit as the CCP. Hell, just look at what’s increasingly happening in America and you see them pretty much moving at speed towards that kind of shit.

That however has no relevance on my point that America is nastier for people outside of America in general than China is, if only because America has invaded way more countries and killed way more people than China has and the repercussions of America’s action’s abroad for rest of the World tend to be larger (just look at the current gas prices at the pump if you have any doubts of that, or go read the History of how ISIS was born in American prisons in Iraq).

It just so happened that through most of that time Canada wasn’t a target of American nastiness so it didn’t look like that to Canadians who didn’t give a shit about the rest of the World, but rather it was mainly directed against South American and Middle Eastern nations.

Next to just what’s happening to Oil prices worldwide due to America’s and Israel’s attack on Iran, your single example of China’s interference abroad (the second one, as your first example is not even that since it happened in China) are pretty much zero impact actions.

Even in a 100% Canada-centric perspective, just Trump’s tariffs cause way, WAY, WAY more pain to Canadians in aggregate than two Canadians being unfairly arrested for almost 3 years in China, and China running “Foreign Police Stations” in Canada targeting Chinese Nationals living in Canada.

My point stands that “China is better than America”, not because China is good but because America is horrible. Further, even whilst (until recently) America was treating Canada reasonably well, that doesn’t mean they America wasn’t a horrible nasty nation - they were just did inflicted the suffering on people in various countries amongst which was not Canada - just ask most people living in Latin American or the Middle East how nice America is.

My point also stands that when China does interfere abroad “their impact on the rest of the World is much smaller” than America’s. I mean the immediate example of that is America’s attack on Iran and what’s happening to Oil prices Worldwide due to it, but well before that America was always (almost literally “always”: if I remember it correctly the US was only ever not at war for 7 years in its entire History) attacking other countries and have left enormous piles of corpses in many of them. China did do some pretty fucked up shit abroad (most notably attacking and annexing Tibet), it’s just that they haven’t done in quite a while whilst America has done some of their nastiest things in the last 2 or 3 decades and have done a lot more of that and left a lot more people dead on their trail.

And, of course, your examples of China’s abuses in Canada and against Canadians in China just reinforces my expectation that eventually China will be just as bad as America once it finds itself in a similar position.

China is better than America because they’re way less likely to interfere outside its own borders (yet still do it, hence all the shit in the South China Sea, plus lets not forget Taiwan) and when they do their impact on the rest of the World is much smaller.

That is however, for now.

If things carry on in the direction they seem to be going and China replaces the US as the World’s foremost imperial power (the kind of things History shows us invariably happens and is even roughly on schedule), given enough time they’ll be as bad as America is now.

As somebody else mentioned when quoting (I believe) a Canadian politician, middle powers should stick together. If you look at the EU, that’s basically one of its purposes, which is probably why American Administrations of either color dislike it - it use to be much easier for America to push around European nations, even the mid-sized ones.

Yeah, articles in the Western Press are far too often anchored in a presumption treated as beyond dispute that America are the good guys, something that’s only true in the portrayals of American politicians, military, intelligence operatives and police officers in the films that America itself makes.

Dispute said presumption and suddenly American voters electing a president who treats Western First World nations a little closer (yet, still not as bad) to how American presidents have treated Developed and Developing nations in pretty much all continents of the World including Europe and Oceania (in the latter the small island states being the victims) isn’t exactly a wild idea.

What the current American elected president is doing to Canada basically qualified as a “know unknown” before it actually happened - something like this was likely to happen, only the exactly when and with whom being the unknowns (I supposed a decade or so ago Mexico would seem more likely to be a victim of something like this than Canada)

The idea that some extremely rich Jews support a Fascist hyper-supremacist regime which says they’re superior people because of their ethnicity isn’t at all outrageous.

That doesn’t mean it’s because they’re Jews - extremely rich people supporting Fascist hyper-supremacist regimes of their ethnicity is pretty common in History, quite independently of the ethnicity of said extremely rich people.

Also, some extremely rich American Jews have quite openly supported the state of Israel well after it was clear they were a Genocidal state (which was clear since all the way back during the Nakba in 1947) and which by it’s very constitution is very clearly and unabashedly supremacist: it is an undisputed fact that extremely rich Jews support and supported the Genocidal state of Israel in the full knowledge it’s Genocidal and supremacist.

Let’s not fall into the Discriminatory practice of trying to suppress valid criticism of extremely rich people who support violent ethnic supremacists when those people happen to belong to a very specific ethnicity but not when they belong to other ethnicities - treating people differently depending on their ethnicity is the very definition of Racial Discrimination (i.e. Racism), even when it’s done using a form many Americans have been trained to think is “positive”.

Working your way around stupid obstacles is the Linux way…

Their phones had some of the heaviest custom Android UI back when phones were fairly low spec and budget phones

Yeah, that’s when IMHO they started to enshittify and I turned against them - the over-stuffing of their devices with impossible to remove useless junk together with pushing out ever larger OS updates was their main planned obsolescence mechanism for smartphones and tablets.

Once upon a time, maybe 2-3 decades ago, Samsung was quite a decent brand for consumer electronics such as TVs.

Their “evolution” was pretty similar to Sony’s - started as a very good electronics brand during (literally) the last century and then at some point in the 00s started enshittifying - though if I remember it correctly Samsung went down that route a bit later than Sony (who had already turned anti-consumer and started lobbying for things like the DMCA even before the Rootkit Scandal in 2005).

Anyways, I do agree with you that their memory business sinking would not be enough to take them down, though as a I see it, that’s a big enough and profitable enough slice of their business to hurt them if they loose a significant fraction of their market share plus, more in general, every little bit helps.

PS: Judging by this, their semiconductor division is the only one that showed a profit in Q2 2026.

I really hope they fuck Samsung up, who have been fucking customers up for over a decade now (namelly ever since they started enshittifying their products), not just this latest shit with memory.

I was going to say that there are a couple more companies I would like to see fall even more than Samsung but I started thinking about it and in between US tech giants, most AAA Games companies, various propaganda “Press” empires around the World and the likes of Sony, it does add up to more than “a couple”.

Still, Samsung getting fucked up is a very good thing in itself.

Don’t even care all that much about the cheaper memory, as long as they fuck Samsung up!

They probably have the hardware run in USB-Serial mode (rather than the usual USB-HID mode of controller, keyboards and mice which has no capability to upload any significant data - beyond LED status - to the device) and then just push the firmware into the Serial Device their hardware appears at in that mode.

Chrome supports letting websites remotely access Serial devices on the host PC.

So for the very kind of people who tend to not use Chrome because they’re privacy aware and actually tend to use Ad-Blockers, and who are very likely to be fine with standalone apps, they don’t make a standalone firmware updater app and instead make a Chrome only firmware updater.

I mean, I get it that in Linux accessing a USB-serial device from userspace can require an extra step (add user to “dialout” group), but it’s hardly something that takes more than 1 paragraph to fully explain and you can do the check for access denied in the app and only prompt the user to do it if that error occurs.

So substance is the position that MAGAs adopt towards Trump.

Non-native speakers tend to make mistakes with “its” vs “it’s” because they learn that in English the rule for when to after a “subject” put an apostrophe followed by an “s” is when you’re talking about something that subject has, but this case is an exception to that rule since " it " followed " 's " stands for " it is " whilst talking about something that " it " has is written " its ".

I mean, you can memorize there’s an exception to the rule for this case, but if you’re not paying enough attention when writting it’s easy to make a mistake by unthinkingly following the rule as usual even though in this case it doesn’t apply, and even if you re-read the text to check if it’s alright, it’s easy to miss it because you kinda have the right meaning in your mind so you read what you meant to write rather than what you wrote plus they’re both valid forms so neither stands out as a spelling mistake even when misused.

I have come around to accept my occasional misspellings, incorrect verb forms, not really knowing with certainty when to use “in” or “on” and even mangled or mixed expressions whenever I write something in English (which is not my native language) as a way to show that the text was not written by AI.

PS: My personal top English-language mistake for a number of years was “later” vs “latter” - I genuinely thought that when I saw the word “latter” written, that was a spelling mistake and one time I even “corrected” a native English speaker on it (who should’ve pointed out my mistake, which I would’ve gladly accepted since I would rather be corrected than keep on making such a dumb mistake - as I did for a few more years - but this person was very middle class English).

It’s a “Don’t make yourself the low hanging fruit” thing not a “If they’re trying to eavesdrop on you they won’t be able to” one and even then only if you’re not using an American OS with built-in automatic surveillance or in fact any network connected product from any large US/UK/Israel (at least) Tech company.

Even if the US Authorities don’t give a shit about you, if you’re running Windows, Android or iOS or using other products of those companies such as Chrome or their Clouds, you’re automatically caught in the bulk dragnet surveillance.

In all fairness, I was thinking mostly of European politicians and added the Americans there for completeness.

I suspect that in America the politicians are mainly just bought (via, for example AIPAC campaign contributions) and any blackmailing that’s needed is done by using the recordings made by a Mr J. Epstein.