Of course. If you upset the overlords, you don’t deserve to live. But they wouldn’t admit it publicly (for now), so they go the roundabout way. Next, they could cut off your electricity too, maybe ask your bank to freeze your account, cancel your cards, oh and maybe Sony can take over your house too.

Not just that, but around the same time we saw significant service fragmentation and price hikes.

I can only check transactions. Any actions require the app.

Some banks require you to have a phone app now. I know mine is app only.

Unfortunately with security apps like banking, being able to run android apps is only one of the roadblocks.

It won’t outside small niches. If people can’t use their banking apps, it’s dead before release.

The north of Thailand is much less hot and humid. I actually prefer it.

10mbit fiber? That exists?

I just moved from Germany to Denmark and for the same price in finally getting gigabit 🥹 I feel like I travelled to the future.

If you think the average person understands watts, you live in a bubble, straight and simple. You have a very skewed notion of the average person.

How can you outlaw something a company in another conhtinent is doing? And specially when they are becoming better as disguising themselves as normal traffic? What will happen is that politicians will see this as another reason to push for everyone having their ID associated with their Internet traffic.

More and more not complying with digitalization will get you into trouble. I don’t think it will be mandatory but expect to run into delays, similar to how you technically have the right to refuse the x-ray-like machine at airport security, but doing so is time consuming, everyone will hate you for it, and cause you significant delays, on top of making you look suspicious.

And it sucks.

Does a man need a reason to dig a big hole? Some men collect pervy plastic dolls, some collect holes. That’s all.

It makes sense because we don’t eat enough of the soy and TVP. And we also stuff soy oil is tons of shit. I’m not saying it’s an easy problem to solve, but it all comes down to our over-consumption and refusal to do anything even mildly inconvenient. Eat more whole foods and less meat and a lot of that solves itself.

I’d challenge that. The whole bean is edible by humans. Tofu is literally just the protein of soy beans without the oil and the startch. I’m sure, if we wanted to, we could just make tofu or TVP out of soy meal.

I also just dislike this “it’s a byproduct” argument. It’s like how whey powder is a “byproduct” of of cheese making. It’s not a good argument. We could also do with less soy oil in the world anyway.

At the same time, I’m also vocal about fixing farming. We need to stop destroying nature to grow food. Fortunately the divestment from animal farming will already significantly improve this because it’s more efficient to eat soy directly than to grow soy, feed it to pigs, and then eat the pig. However we need to fix monocultures by moving to regenerative farming and agroforestry.

The meat and dairy industry receives vast amounts of subsidies which would be better allocated to plant based food sources. Meat is an inefficient way to feed the general population. I’m vocal about this because of two reasons: animal suffering and climate/pollution.

I’m not naive enough to say we should just cut subsidies to animal farming cold turkey, because I understand people’s livelyhoods depend on it. But I would want to see a progressive public divestment from meat in favour of plant based whole food proteins (not fake/lab meats, those can survive on private investment alone).