He may have a large value on paper, but I don’t think he actually has access to most of it anymore. He’s been removed from every single important role in any of the companies he owns.

and is currently a visiting professor living in Japan at the moment if I recall correctly.

Tell that to Jack Ma

Laws don’t apply to the ultra rich in the US.

Because most of the Hamas leadership isn’t in gaza. They’re protected in other countries that are funding and arming Hamas.

The Republicans have been caught entirely funding the green party in multiple swing states.

They absolutely use their money to sabotage the democrats

Capitalism is fine, we just need to tweak regulations for it to better incentivize the result we (humanity) are looking for.

It really doesn’t hurt to keep asking. Nobody that matters is going to be offended by it. Eventually someone will tell you, but just be aware that different people may have different reasons so don’t assume feedback from one employer applies to all employers.

Wrap it before they tap it?

This isn’t quite the right analogy. The traffic between you and the VPN is quite visible, so it’s more like the windows on the vehicle you’re using are blacked out so that nobody can tell what’s inside while it’s moving between those two points.

The big difference is that VPNs encrypt all traffic between your computer and the VPN computer, while this is usually not the case with a proxy. The lack of encryption and decryption can make a proxy slightly faster, but obviously less secure if you’re tying to hide what you’re doing.

ELI5 version:

VPN - You write a note in code, pass it to your friend who then decodes it, and then gives the decoded note to your crush. Your crush doesn’t know it came from you, and if the teacher caught you passing the note to your fiend, they wouldn’t be able to tell what it was.

Proxy - You just pass a note to your friend, who then hands it to your crush. Your crush doesn’t know if came from you, but If the teacher catches you, they can read it. It’s faster than having to write in code and decode.

The correlation between people who deal drugs and people who make poor life choices is pretty high.

Everyone should get off X, I stopped using it the moment that Muskrat bought it. It wasn’t great before, but it’s turned into an absolute dumpster fire now.

Piracy has nothing to do with global supply chains crashing.

Almost none of it.

The amount of data flowing through undersea cables around the world is insane compared to the inter-satellite links available.

That being said, a lot of data that you use as a consumer on a daily basis doesn’t pass through any undersea cable at all. It’s more of a business problem than an individual problem.

The majority of the websites or online services you access are locally hosted on your own continent. Netflix, Facebook, Amazon, etc. all have local servers. Even for video games, most of the traffic is local just due to lag issues caused by too much distance.

What would break? Banking and financial institutions transferring money to or from overseas institutions to complete investments and loans ,Communications (Like e-mailing or calling a factory in China from the US, or contacting your Grandma in Thailand), International shipping, Flight tracking, etc.

While the satellites could take over for some of that, what would likely happen is specific companies would bid up the price for that limited capacity, and less financially valuable uses like being able to look at the latest lemmy posts from European submitters wouldn’t work.

Removed by mod

Removed by mod

Actually, that’s exactly what age of consent is. The age at which you’re allowed to do things with an adult of any age.

Romeo and Juliet (or close in age) exceptions are for the situation you’re describing, and are usually tacked onto age of consent laws as an exception.

In Canada, there’s a pair of these. At 14 and 15 it’s less than 5 years older, and at 12 and 13 it’s less than 2 years older.

Canada only changed the age of consent from 14 to 16 last decade.

Technically the state reps and congressional reps need to be voted in too, so the voters have some power, even if gerrymandering makes it less than it should be.

Of course there is, be White and Rich.