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Comment · 17 hours ago
It won’t happen overnight, but I would love to see the source on those figures.

Trump is cancelling rallies left and right in key states as we speak, because he has put himself and “that Hitler shit” on the midterm ballot, and it’s not going well.

The man claims he doesn’t know who David Duke or the KKK is, like we’re all that stupid.

All while he sends Americans to die in Iran for “nuclear weapons” while ignoring North Korea’s heist of $5B in crypto to do the same. Giving Russia billions of U.S. tax dollars for a few days worth of diesel just prolongs the Ukrainian defense against their invasion.

How’s the national debt cost per American trending since the start of the 2nd term? Has the massive taxpayer funded budget increase been worth ICE detaining 500 American citizens and killing at least three citizens without any shred of accountability?

You may be right that 75% of ~50% of voters approve, but the negligent spending without accountability will only be allowed to go so far. Fiscal conservatives will step in when their stock prices tank.

Comment · 17 hours ago
As a guess? The same amount of customers that left Gmail for Proton vs. those that signed up for Proton without ever having a Gmail account.

I’d wager that most of their current customers have left something else to sign up for Proton in the first place, because of the privacy and security offering.

When Proton leadership abandons those values in favor of “move fast, break things, lay off engineers”, their customers are more likely to follow the people that take privacy and security seriously.

The CEO and CTO have made it clear that they want vibe-coded product updates without pentesting before exposing their customers to whatever may happen.

If you bought into Proton for privacy and security, that’s a red flag and a sign to find an alternative.

Comment · 23 hours ago
> There’s investors out there that would support Proton’s original engineers to fulfill Proton’s original mission

Compromising on pentesting and security reviews is not in line with their original mission. Their customer base (including employees) knows this.

Comment · 1 day ago
At what point do constituents of Republican Senators have an influence over them?

Democratic and Republican voters are suffering equally.

At some point of rising costs of living, Republicans will break with dying Trump. They’ll blame his old age, and as Lindsey Graham put it “that Hitler shit.”

Comment · 1 day ago
The thing with tech products is they could just leave and start another company. No need to go through union-busting behavior.

Every discussion of Proton leadership shortcomings shows a market of users looking for a better run company.

And if it’s all AI developed moving forward, why not? There’s investors out there that would support Proton’s original engineers to fulfill Proton’s original mission, without the AI psychosis abandoning security as a top priority.

Comment · 1 day ago
Like I said earlier this week, this re-alignment of the people that built and maintained their products is also resulting in a re-alignment of their customer base.

Hopefully we’ll see those talented engineers leaving to build an alternative to Proton products now that we know corporate leadership at Proton can’t be trusted.

The board should really oust the “loser thinking” CEO and CTO if they want to minimize the damage to their brand.

The company not providing even a written statement in response to 404 reporting speaks volumes. They don’t see themselves accountable to their customers.

Comment · 1 day ago
Even if they weren’t, they could buy a few Trump Gold Cards for U.S. citizenship.
Comment · 1 day ago
Companies themselves can’t be economic bubbles. Amazon survived the economic bubble it was in, but many others didn’t.
Comment · 1 day ago
Sucks that most of the country didn’t vote for the $100 billion, but will be left holding the bag. Are we witnessing the fall of an empire?
Comment · 1 day ago
And that's going to take another year?
Comment · 2 days ago
With 20 seconds of audio, I can make MLK Jr. say whatever you want.
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The interstate highway system is also a hugely expensive endeavor, but boy am I grateful for it. Maybe we should privatize that too?
Comment · 2 days ago
Why would I want them to worry? Are you insinuating they did something wrong?

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