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Cake day: October 20th, 2023

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  • People are stating as if it is the same issue, while I made a point in everything past the first sentence why it might not be a valid comparison. Also, people are not making comparisons, they just drop words along the lines of “x company also does that”.

    Ps. I don’t hate Apple (I have been using their stuff most of my digital life), I just don’t cult around a behemoth of a company pretending they have my best interests.




  • Whataboutism doesn’t justify anything. There are quite a few nuances. For example that Android and iOS have way higher adoption numbers than game consoles, and that these OSes play a crucial role in people’s everyday lives. In addition, do these platforms have a duopoly, so perfect competition doesn’t exist on that level, and like elboomy states, does Apple have a monopoly on its own platform. Apple forcing a piece of the cake is thus merely a power play which is enabled by the imperfect market of smartphone OSes and their app stores.







  • Germany was steadfastly opposed to the Iraq war. A fairer solution would be that European countries which joined that war, like Poland and the UK, take all the Syrian and Iraqi refugees. They helped cause the problem, it’s only fair that they should help solve it.

    Cause the Iraqi war is where history starts and the only cause of migration?

    Some of the states around the world have deep problems from events that happened far in the past. Specifically colonisation has played a role here.

    Additionally, if Europe wants to reduce migration, it should invest in the areas that see high migration, instead of dropping a bag of cash at the nearest African dictator to “take care” of Europe’s problems or forcing developing countries in even greater debt and problems through conditionality via the IMF and World Bank.

    At the same time will we only see an increasing demand for labour and instead of being the populist now, we should establish proper immigration systems.