Hong Kong itself as well as the Kowloon peninsula were actual territories that belonged to the UK after they were ceded to them after the opium wars.

It’s only the “new teritories” which were several smaller islands surrounding Hong Kong island that were part of the 99 year lease.

Even if no effort was made to secure the new territories, we could have and should have defended Hong Kong and Kowloon as part of Britiain, as the people wanted to be either independent or remain British.

Thatcher rolled over and sold their futures to appease China.

When I cum I moan the buddy Holly riff

For all her reputation of being the Iron Lady Thatcher really pussied out of standing up to china on this.

Like could you imagine the difference if the UK had someone with some fucking backbone back then that didn’t sell Hong Kong to its Doom?

Are you aware you dont need to understand the actual data to build data on a consumer. Even when its end-to-end encrypted proton still know your IP, the IP you’re trying to access, number of packets (data size) your online times etc.

So while they cant read your facebook messages, they know how often, and at what times you use facebook messenger, netflix, youtube etc. And they can turn that into a profile on you that they can sell.

I wonder if they even know what the fuck a drone is? It’s going to be like flying a drone over an u contacted tribe except instead of spears they’ll have 50 year old AKs

Sponsored by Tesla!

They also subsidise the CEOs salary. And when him, his successor or someone else high up in the company decides that’s not enough for them, that treasure trove of consumer information is going to be awfully tempting to sell if they aren’t already.

Comparing a completely offline software to a VPN that literally routes all your internet traffic through their own servers is completely apples to oranges.

Oh my sweet summer child.

Remember if a service is free then YOU are the product.

Edit: 🤡: no you don’t understand I like this company, so there’s no way they would ever do something underhanded like literally every other company ever 🤡

Emma is just short for Emmental

Hey the potatoes started the famine we just made it several orders of magnitude worse.

“Oh so you want to punish people that work hard to make a big salary, just for the sake of lazy burger flippers?”

“You make less than $400k, does that mean you’re lazy?”

:(

Israel has literally planned to eventually take over the entire region since before day 1 of it existing. Bibi is trying to get the native population out of gaza 1 way or the other so he can annex it.

If people just ignored these obvious trolls the itbernet would be a lot better, but everyone needs to win their stupid internet argument.

Typical American attitude.

When I broke my arm I was given a healthy dose of K intravenously. That was a pretty fun experience, but I felt more like being trapped in a labyrinth of new realities inside my own mind vs acid where I was much more… external? If that makes sense.

Also good shit.

That’s MAJOR Dick Bong to you.

This was what doing acid was like for me. I was already a pretty existential person but things like knowing your just a brain recieving electrical signals and interpreting them as reality didn’t really click until I did acid and changed that perception.

It was like I looked behind the curtain, saw the source code of reality, could perceive the true fractal nature of the universe.

And after I did it once my brain perceived things fundamentally differently, but I couldn’t really explain it I couldn’t get other people to try and it really felt like I was the only person on earth that really understood this truth.

Good shit.

Some groups do more crimes? Oh you mean straight men? What do you mean that’s not the same thing?