Escaping the trap of US tech dependence

Post by cudgy » Sun, Jan 18, 2026, 11:22 AM UTC

emptybits wrote: post #60

loeg wrote: post #40

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> [Republicans] [seek] to deport 100 million Americans (basically all non whites), invade allied nations, You think these are statements of fact?

These statements are pretty well supported. Re/ deporting 100 million Americans: The actual number would be 53 million and I'll explain. The USA Department of Homeland Security made an official statement two weeks ago which included an image of a classic American car on a beach with blue sky and the headline "America after 100 million deportations."[1][2] According to the US Census there are fewer than 47 million peo…

Post by cudgy » Sun, Jan 18, 2026, 11:32 AM UTC

shimman wrote: post #7

cmiles8 wrote: post #5

“You told me these were the best engineers in the world!!” “I said they were the best engineers in Canada” (Great quote from the BlackBerry movie). Rings true here. You can’t fight market forces. To push out the US tech you need to build something that’s better than the US tech. Anything else is just wishful thinking.

Is US tech even good anymore? Do none of us not encounter the massive amount of shit from companies like Google, MSFT, Apple, Amazon, etc as users? Truly terrible bugs or user flows from engineers that clearly don't care while everyone is just collecting their own share of blood. I can't think of a single thing that big tech has done to improve my life, or society for that matter, over the last 10 years. All US Tech…

Post by Havoc » Sun, Jan 18, 2026, 12:16 PM UTC

lelanthran wrote: post #95

Havoc wrote: post #53

I really wish the EU leaned heavily into the cloud basic building blocks. There's a lot of stuff in big cloud that is genuinely hard to duplicate especially with network effects, but I don't see why they can't throw a billion or 3 at ensuring you've got a homegrown stack that can do VMs, S3, function, container registry, database, block storage, firewall etc - with guaranteed funding, clear licenses, handful of local…

> I really wish the EU leaned heavily into the cloud basic building blocks. ... > VMs, S3, function, container registry, database, block storage, firewall etc You think those are building blocks? I think that those are the very tippy-top of the tech stack! Because, okay, lets say you have already got those things I quoted. What are you going to run them on (CPU, RAM, storage, etc)? How are they going to talk to each…

Post by bflesch » Sun, Jan 18, 2026, 12:43 PM UTC

cudgy wrote: post #104

bflesch wrote: post #79

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Your argument based on false equivalence bias might work with in a megachurch but not here. Amazon dropping Parler, a shitty US-based right wing social network nobody outside the US ever heard of, is totally on the same level as US waging economic warfare against Europe and laying claim on sovereign countries like Canada and Greenland. /s

Spoken like a true autocrat. Cast the poster as a religious zealot and then claim self-support of the platform for your own view.

Post by bflesch » Sun, Jan 18, 2026, 3:00 PM UTC

cudgy wrote: post #108

bflesch wrote: post #107

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You're projecting a lot, are you by chance attending the same megachurch? Or is it called gigachurch now? Do they also offer drive-in to grab a coffee and soda before service? There's a docuseries about the US called "The Righteous Gemstones" - I can highly recommend it.

Lol … like an autocrat you double down on the ad hominems and unrelated aspersions to distract from your vapid arguments.