So we're just ignoring the privacy and individual freedom problems with this, with zero to gain for it?

That's just SaaS by another name.

Google Maps isn't even as good as any OpenStreetMap-based options in North America.

Discord is still what happens when you order XMPP off of Temu.

The lack of moderation, the forced centralization and lack of self-hostability have Telegram on the fast track to be the next 4chan. Obviously advertisers see this, too, since the only advertisers on Telegram are for the scammiest things ever.

but I believe everyone involved in this story should die.

Not necessarily. By population or area, Texas would still be the smaller player. It's just so much larger that in the raw numbers, it would be larger.

That said, what will annoy Republicans is that their fantasy world butted up against reality and lost, again. Trump is merely symptomatic of the brain damage endemic throughout the far right that the Republican Party has wholly and irreversibly embraced, curable only by (preferably violent and public) death.

The Salvation Army is neither NGO nor charity. It's a church. It's only a church. It's a really really grifty church that depends on deceiving people for support, but it's still just a church.

Given the high positive correlation between child sexual abuse and religious leaders, Roblox is really going out of its way to prove that they're just completely uninterested in taking youth protection seriously.

The Democrats are pretty right-wing all by themselves, being about on par with the Tories and more right-wing than the Conservatives in Canada. Groups like the Republican Party and AfD should be illegal for the same reasons that the Nazi Party is illegal in much of Europe. Just put a bullet in their ear and call it good.

Oh fuck off. The heritage foundation and project 2025 are known values and the Republicans have been using it as a checklist. Congrats on being completely ignorant of reality, though.

So just fuck the welfare of the American people, huh? Maybe shift the tax burden back to billionaires and corporations where it properly belongs instead of onto sales taxes, turnpike and transit fares, and use fees for parks.

leave your waymo doors open.

They took the long way around reinventing the trolleybus, but worse.

You pretty much nailed it and also pointed out why autonomous trains are possible but autonomous cars aren't.