However that has lead to a massive drop off in quality and price/value ratio of all products. Now the brands and the knock offs are in a race to the bottom for the lowest quality product/profit ratio so there truly is no difference and no quality products below "luxury" tier exist anymore.

Even some high'ish tier brands shoes like Hoka/Ons shoes have major quality issues even though they exist at just below the "premium" price point. I had two pairs of the same Ons last year, one lasted 3 months and started falling apart the other pair is still going 1y later. I wore them roughly the same amount switching between them. I looked up online and it turns out both brands avoid long term production contracts to bank profits from the lowest bidder at expense of their own brand they built.

I am not pro FLOCK.

>plant to do a Skip gen trip?

I have no earthy idea what this could mean but they just casually drop it in there. Thats how you can tell what social class you were born into.

I had a school friend whom's grandparents were one of these in the list it seems. The bought him a 3bed/bath house in the suburbs. He proceeded to do coke for the next 10 years and be a burnout,.but all good because he still has a nice house to live in while being a detriment to society. Yeah I'm bitter so what?

The stories have discouraged my from spending my time on it though.

Can they force you to log into another remote computer in another country to examine it? I'm not discussing politics, simply the solution that you can actually do now side of things.

I don't have any hope of this situation improving globally and my gut says it will get much worse over time. I wonder if in the future you will have to not only give them your computer but have some sort of follow up investigation of your "real" computer if you do this two device method.

There is. "Run a query" at the top nav bar.

I'd say that they have valid concerns about being cagey on the copyright stuff despite the obvious hypocrisy of it.

Stealing IP is effectively legal in China so they don't really have the same concerns.

Thats not how AI psychosis works.

People on HN will drop what they think is their trump card. Ie The computer spitting out incorrect info. However, I've worked in banking finance where data was wrong and people in charge just shrugged when I showed them and said something like, accounting will catch it. And here's the worst thing. They were right.