It is interesting how different ppl think depending on groups (and age). Iphone by the ppl I know (25-65) is either forced on you at work or you are tech illiterate and do not care (some even pick it because of the esthetic). What you wrote throws me back to 2010-2014 haha

All the smart ppl I know do not understand iphones which is even funnier when it are supposed to be the easy to understand option. Nowadays do I mostly see only older ladies and some random ppl with iphone, most got Samsung or pixel.

Yes definitely, I have been on your side all along on that part. It was a wild ride reading it all. I thought you only wanted to talk about the political part of it. Not his very rambling weird and bias view on the world where he only points to things that can kind of be used as examples but are very weird examples, like the ones you picked. I would not work for him and I am not his customer.

My take away from those two is that he is a mix of a liberal, capitalist but heavy/mostly leaning anarchist. He has very strong views about freedom, does not trust humans with taking care of themselves or others and he do not want governance and think the internet is the perfect example.

One beautiful example of anarchic organization (but in a limited domain) is the internet. The internet is not run by a company. No government is in charge over it. It’s a lot of entities connecting their networks together for mutual benefit. Individuals, businesses, universities and non-profits build and propose standards and protocols. The others adopt them or not based on merit, reputation or practical considerations. The whole vast system, comprising a significant chunk of global GDP, and being essential to the functioning of almost everything, is running on decentralized, organic, bottom-up, voluntary anarchy.

I kept seeing ppl talk about it but never looked into it, apparently he wrote a blog post about why he did it. It was an interesting read actually, in his words was it about activism and not about the party, he wanted to protest and that party happened to be the tactical one. He sounds like an anarchist in the post which surprised me a lot. But I still think it was stupid of him and my mixed feelings for mullvad is still there.

I am with you, I think ppl think to literally with that saying and also use it too much… It is dismissive of them if someone tells them about their shity situation and they try to encourage them with “what doesn’t kill you…”. It also only works for some or takes a lot of time and effort and help for it to make them stronger, I think you should only use it in a jokingly way and nothing else.

Sky is the limit means nothing is impossible, so they say pretty much the same thing about aiming high.