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  • zebidiah@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.worldWhy there’s no European Google?
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    3 days ago

    Because, generally speaking, Europe has this thing called laws, and the government arguably exists to protect it’s “citizens”.

    In the US you have this thing called lobbyists and the government unilaterally exists, only to protect it’s “corporations”

    For example, in Europe McDonald’s French fries contain 3 ingredients (potato, salt, oil) and in the US there are around 20 ingredients… The US adds all that extra shit to make the frier oil last longer, to make it easier to clean, etc. and fuck you for being poor if it gives you cancer.

    Europe has better frameworks in place to prevent robber barons, this is just as true for the digital age as it was 200 years ago.










  • Yes…? I was 14 when I learned how filesystems worked in the mid 90, installing dos6.0, win3.1, and doom wads lol. I grew up in an analog world before that, there wasnt and internet I could fall back on for support, it was a ridiculously expensive appliance and if I broke it I had better figure out how to fix it again before my mother figured out I fucked something up.

    A 14 year old today, I would imagine, would have grown up in a world filled with /bin and /var and /lib folders to explore (and break…)