Fucking hell. I mean we all suspect it and anyone who’s opened anything can see what’s inside but when you hear it from someone first hand it still hits different. Thanks for sharing!

The AB op is underway.

People got upset and said I wasn’t supporting american entepaneurs stores they setup.

🙋 That would have been me some time ago.

Lucky bastard. 😄 I hope health treats you well for the remainder of your boycott!

Thanks for reporting the results! TIL about cryfs.

Same. Rona’s American private equity owned, so also a Trump supporter.

Keep in mind when engaging. I’ve had conversations, when I still hadn’t noticed that, where I’d discuss in good faith, that account would reach a pount where they don’t have a good comeback, only for another account to restart the argument with slightly different framing in an attempt to reach a different conclusion. Also group up/downvoting my comments during discussions. It’s crazy. I only ever engage with these accounts in case someone else reading is taking them at face value.

I’m sorry you think that, but I’m not the one with half-dozen accounts spamming China-bad all day, every day:

Username	Start	End
tardigrada@beehaw.org	May 2022	Dec. 2024
0x815@feddit.de	Apr. 2023	Jun. 2024
thelucky8@beehaw.org	Apr. 2024	Jan. 2025
0x815@feddit.org	Jun. 2024	Dec. 2024
Anyone@slrpnk.net	Jan. 2025	Apr. 2025
randomname@scribe.disroot.org	Jan. 2025	–
Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org	Jan. 2025	–
Scotty@scribe.disroot.org	Aug. 2025	–
Sepia@mander.xyz	Nov. 2025	–

From wiki:

A combination of the Great Depression of the 1930s, the end of prohibition, and World War II severely dampened Cuba’s tourist industry, and it wasn’t until the 1950s that numbers began to return to the island in any significant force. During this period, American organized crime came to dominate the leisure and tourist industries, a modus operandi outlined at the infamous Havana Conference of 1946. By the mid-1950s Havana became one of the main markets and the favourite route for the narcotics trade to the United States. Despite this, tourist numbers grew steadily at a rate of 8% a year and Havana became known as “the Latin Las Vegas”.[49][50]

This was also common before the depression, as far as I read.

I recall how happy I was with my stars-and-stripes Stanley FatMax tape measure when I bought it years ago. Back when we were still all-in on the US love affair and the China-bad train.

Yeah I always forget about that. I’ve yet to internalize that prison labour is an integral part of Anerican production, especially in certain sectors.

The vast majoriry of manufacturing in China has always been done by Chinese companies. Goods we buy from Walmart aren’t made by Walmart factories in China, employing Chinese workers. Walmart finds the cheapest Chinese manufacturer of trays then orders their Great Value branded version, shipped straight from the factory to the Walmart distribution hub. Walmart is the middle man. We cut them. The existing employer of the Chinese worker making the trays remains unchanged. There’s no hypocrisy. We’re cutting the most profit-hungry middle man from the supply chain is all. We know how things work.

I haven’t. Us cutting the US middle man can only affect my fellow Chinese worker positively since there’s more money left from the transaction without that middle man and less leverage to depress her pay, ceteris paribus.

This is a super important point. You go to Home Depot and you see something with the American flag on it. You turn it over - “Made in the USA with domestic and global materials.” Read - a lot of Chinese inputs, parts and subassemblies. That along with a small markup for the fellow poorly paid American assembly worker, and a huge markup for the corporation owner. Cut the middle man and let the American worker deal with him many-on-one - something that has to happen anyways, if this shit is to ever get better.

High time we stop buying weapons from the US. The only reason paying the wildly overpriced gear is to have them provide military support when needed. If that’s not happening… then it makes no sense spending that money. Build it locally or buy it from the cheapest supplier.

Exactly. My plan as well. When’s the debate BTW?

I’m guessing the libs don’t want to risk retaliation by the US, as well as they don’t want the anti-communist part of the party to see them as supporting commies.

If they maintain power till after the midterms, there’s hope they won’t become an American brothel again.

This is actually shocking.

Yup. VeraCrypt is also portable but it would play badly with web-backed storage that uploads/downlaods whole files. Would only be usable on local NAS storage. That said, I’m curious to see how Cryptomator performs on local NAS for high-perf applications compared to VC or LUKS. E.g. if you want to have a large photo collection with Immich on top of it. 😀 Sadly I don’t have NAS anymore to test it out.