It’s not necessarily imaging as in optics. Could be OPIR, encrypted comms, space to space ASAT, or any number of other things besides just earth imaging.

Those are amazing!

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Ah, so you are a Trump supporter, then?

So what happens if on the off chance someone decides to use the government purchasing system for COTS purchases and convince the SCIF to use one of these HP printers, and then try printing TS//SCI or other highly classified national security documents on the printer? Asking for a friend.

Highly recommend Firefox with uBlock origin, and there’s an addon called bypass paywalls clean which does exactly what it says.

Is it “freedom to choose” when a restaurant tells black customers “we don’t serve your kind”?

And if it’s a one-horse town and there’s no alternative clerk?

It’s not about Europe. It’s about the massive fuckton of TS//SCI shit shared directly with FIVE EYES and NATO, which shows the exact locations of US strategic nuclear weapons, strategic weapons protocols, intelligence gathering techniques and sources, etc that can almost immediately be sent directly to Russia and China as soon as the US walks out the door. It’s about the first line of defense missile detection radars, the cryptologic keys, Global Campaign Plans, Contingency Plans, PBNZ coordinates, non-overflight coordinates, FLAGWORDS, etc.

And that’s not all - you also lost all international trade, everywhere, forever. Bye-bye middle eastern oil and Chinese manufactured goods, because all your oh-so-friendly shipping lanes and freedom of the seas is now contested waters full of could-be-privateers. If the EU, by pure necessity, pivots Eastward into a pan-Eurasian bloc, that’s game for the US.

Do you want more unions?

Yes.

Not forever - maybe - but until then, government employees trying to log onto government services like iFTDTL or NSIPS or half a dozen other sites, as well as students logging into their university email or corporate employees logging into enterprise networks are stuck on Google apps or Google-adjacent like Edge.

• School/university online classes and messaging/collaboration

• Business enterprise messaging/collaboration locked to Google services

• Business enterprise sites locked to Chromium based browsers

• Government sites locked to Chromium based browsers

Why not switch to Linux and FOSS alternatives?

With the post-scarcity caveat firmly in place, it would work great, actually.

That ratio says otherwise.

Deuteronomy 20:16-18

16 However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. 17 Completely destroy[a] them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your God has commanded you. 18 Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the Lord your God.

דְּבָרִים

טז רַק, מֵעָרֵי הָעַמִּים הָאֵלֶּה, אֲשֶׁר יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ, נֹתֵן לְךָ נַחֲלָה–לֹא תְחַיֶּה, כָּל-נְשָׁמָה יז כִּי-הַחֲרֵם תַּחֲרִימֵם, הַחִתִּי וְהָאֱמֹרִי הַכְּנַעֲנִי וְהַפְּרִזִּי, הַחִוִּי, וְהַיְבוּסִי–כַּאֲשֶׁר צִוְּךָ, יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ יח לְמַעַן, אֲשֶׁר לֹא-יְלַמְּדוּ אֶתְכֶם לַעֲשׂוֹת, כְּכֹל תּוֹעֲבֹתָם, אֲשֶׁר עָשׂוּ לֵאלֹהֵיהֶם; וַחֲטָאתֶם, לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם.

Not just the US military - any military. Plus the designs for nuclear weapons, bioweapons and chemical weapons becoming public knowledge. How would you like some plague and radiation for breakfast, white phosphorus for lunch, and then nerve gas for dinner?

Technically a Page 13 in a government/military setting is an NDA. Now in your ideal world, sure, you’d never need to keep secrets, but in the real world, you probably don’t want a potential invader to know your exact defense systems, capabilities, guard locations and the best and least guarded places to come in and out.

Even assuming a completely peaceful world, you probably don’t want to be sharing the passwords to critical infrastructure or the private medical information of people on a hospital database.

Mods on Reddit work for free, and have worked for free, for over a decade. They’re still working for free. Same with admins on Lemmy. Not everything is profit-driven.

One Starbucks I went to in California wouldn’t, they were “fully cashless” and proud of it. I tried, they just wouldn’t accept it.