Sure yeah I could be wrong. If America scares them more than China it’s a major turning point because they are European.

What I initially got from their comment: They are more concerned about actually real threats in their life like Google, Meta, or Apple which are American and are probably what they are using at work and outside of work given they live in Europe. They are less concerned about china because they don’t use chinese phones daily or hangout in weChat (I hope).

Where I can of course be wrong about this: They are actually using Tiktok and don’t care about the possible spying. They could be using chinese tech and simply not know. main concern is if they are on some tech stack at work or their ISP has equipment from chinese companies known to phone home.

if you want an academic discussion about world war accelerating events you will have more luck pestering your local professor rather than demanding evidence from someone who isn’t intending to apply too much rigor on a lemmy post.

thats not what they said did they? they said they are more concerned about American companies harvesting their data as they live in Europe and don’t have as much affinity to China.

oh nuanced! you’re so sophisticated! first don’t dismiss others as if they have no idea. acknowledge you may not be the smartest in the room. Otherwise you come off as a clown.

critical thinking is when you can differentiate a multimillion dollar corporation defending itself vs. pilots and crew who have nothing to gain and a lot of risk coming out about how bad their ex-employer screwed up and swept it under the rug. this sort of stuff is not uncommon from corporations.

I am more likely to believe that Air India was screwing up because they have a history of this. If a lot of people complain about smoke coming out of places it shouldn’t be, then i would listen to them rather than the owner who pretends everything is fine.

username checks out. You should leave the critical thinking to people who aren’t born yesterday

only if you deliberately bury your head at evidence or on Boeing payroll.

that was a horrifying read as a software engineer but also as an Indian.

piracy causes harm to the concept of projected profits and “lost sales” which are neither rooted in reality nor coming from a well grounded expectation of success.

Being greedy causes all this entitlement to things that “could have happened”

it which universe is crime illegal but you don’t have a system to catch and punish people because you expect people to be flawless or an agent of circumstance?

One cannot be entitled to castles in the air just because they imagined it.

edit: if some person spent some effort and got a copy online for free, were they ever considered to be a prospective customer in the first place?

i do think you’re wrong, but I am not willing to spend time to prove it so yeah i agree with you.

piracy is not the same as stealing. You having a copy of a bible as a PDF is fundamentally physically different from having a physical book.

Publishers have perverted the concept of ownership by hiding the fact that there is no scarcity of digital items compared to physcial ones.