Absolutely fucking correct… You can maintain locks on my so-called smart devices for as long as you maintain your services… You want to pull the plug, you should be forced to open source and expose the tech so that we can keep it working on our own private servers. Proprietary tech is a bullshit excuse as well… The vast majority of these devices are about 10% of in house code riding on 90% of open standards, protocols, and packages. None of them are building the wheel from scratch.

For fucksake most of these devices could easily be implemented on decentralized architecture, if it wasn’t for all the pesky data mining they are doing

Looks sort of like a sphinx moth

Last thing we need is another invasive species wrecking the local ecosystems some where else in the world.

Cathartic?

I was convinced about 20 years ago that at least 30% of humanity would struggle to pass a basic sentience test.

None of that was said in my comment, but sure okay let’s go with it. What I said is that if the US was trying to bully Ramaphosa or South Africa, it would in fact be able to do so. Ramaphosa is unnecessarily posturing and name calling because he is a deeply disingenuous person.

US: We are concerned about the inherently racist motivations in your recent policies and we are going to review whether it is appropriate to be sending you all of this money we have been giving you for free for all of these years. Ramaphosa: WE WILL NOT BE BULLIED!

Later Ramaphosa: Hey Elon, please tell Trump I’m sorry…

The correct response would have been more along the lines of: We have heard the concerns raised by the US government regarding our latest policies and we believe we will be able to dispel these concerns after we are able to discuss these complex issues in depth with the US. We appreciate all of the support and look forward to the continued partnership with the USA.

Jingoistic is a bit of a stretch but sure. Chauvinistic definitely not.

A country cannot claim to be bullied by another country whose only action against them is that they decided to stop giving them money that they have been giving them in charity for decades, no matter the context of why they made that decision.

Like an angry teenager filing charges with the police that his mother is abusing him because she decided to withhold his allowance since he refused to clean his room. Only in this situation it’s not an unkempt room but a despotic racist stealing property from people through the force of the state. Wait a moment, I think there is a better word for this… Oh yeah… That’s it… Ramaphosa is a fucking bully.

Lol, won’t be bullied… Bitch, please. What you aren’t going to be is paid. The USA hasn’t even begun to bully you. Keep flirting with human rights violations and I can assure you that when the USA decides to bully you that you will find out that you indeed and factually can be bullied. FAFO.

I actually think you are both right… But it’s likely some one is using an AI translator that is trying to reconstruct the original picture with the translated words substituted in the original words place.

I didn’t wake up expecting to hate someone today