Safety and quality? Have you never driven an American car?

Ok, that is their choice. Don’t like it? Don’t work there and don’t buy their product.

“I refuse to do my job, but you also aren’t allowed to do my job.”

That is known as wanting to “have your cake and eat it too”. Most people learned this fact before they hit middle school, but apparently these guys missed that day.

As someone who lives in a country that formerly had a nationalized phone company in the internet age, and currently has a nationalized power company and airline. Dear God fuck no!

I don’t use Uber because it is cheaper, I use it because I know the fare ahead of time, I don’t need to dial a dozen different cab companies, and the vehicles are generally nicer. I don’t use streaming because it is cheaper, I use it because I don’t need to worry about time shifting, and can access much higher quality content than on cable. As for the cloud? You can pry my big iron from my cold, dead hands.

Hikvision also has some serious baggage from the Chinese govt. Hanwha is really good stuff, South Korean, a spin off from Samsung.