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A lesser standard still applies if it either embeds or redirects to a payment page. Again, shouldn’t mean shit, but still.

Investors are also terminally stupid,

Also, they are mostly bots.

Because the alternative seems to be a Russian intelligence asset.

the only thing the app does is start transactions and check with the server if they’re paid

Yeah, but the whole PCI DSS thing means that the app must still be secured. That doesn’t necessarily mean that it has to be tied to Google Play, but explain it to them.

IIRC they did coupons exclusively in their app a few years ago where I lived (haven’t checked since), and they hiked the price of everything, so if you don’t install the app, you get a 20% surcharge in effect.

That goes for every single shitty chain store as well.

Only seen it once myself, because my Anno 1800 addiction requires the Ubisoft launcher.

Weirdest name for a game I’ve seen in a while.

I’ve started typing up a half page rant, but I kept going on getting sidetracked. With Orbán et al. there is always another blatant theft or scandal that is hard to leave unsaid. Imagine 20 years of Trump, and you get the idea. I’ll try to sum it up in short.

With Merkel, basically what happened was that for decades she covered for Orbán stealing EU money and blatantly using a lot of it for propaganda to cement an authoritarian system, in exchange for said system eroding workers’ rights and continuously inflating the HUF against the EUR to keep wages down for German firms. Basically, Merkel and Orbán made Hungary into a nearshoring centre for German industry.

And now when the market ebbs for VW, of course they are not going to close the Hungarian factories that they broke the unions in and can basically demand unlimited overtime, and can pay wages in a currency at an all-time weak point against the EUR.

Et voilà, this is where the uncritical neoliberalism of the CDU took VW and Germany. Of course they are not going to close the Polish or Hungarian factories, not when they successfully lobbied Orbán’s government to effectively abolish overtime pay and restrictions.

I wonder who the folks in Wolfsburg voted for.

I guess the problem is that app developers write the installers, and they suck at following conventions. Obligatory fuck Snap, as it creates a folder in the home dir, and it doesn’t even bother to hide it, and it is not even reconfigurable.

namely the countries that got upset, or companies that come from there.

I guess the point is that the rich countries and companies are actually happy with this outcome, since less of the pesky NGOs that bother them in the same country can attend.

The point is, contrary to how the article wants to portray it, or you are portraying it, it’s not the rich countries or the companies complaining, but the NGOs fighting for climate conscious policies in those rich countries. They say that this makes it so that the rich countries can control who can go to the conference and who can’t. So this actually helps those rich polluting governments and companies.

Thanks for spamming this to keep reminding me, I am a total slob, and it took me this long to go find my ID card to sign.

or /opt, or a binary in some hidden folder in /home…

You can get some incredible chinesium drones for even less, and it’s still technically FPV.

The range is like 2 metres though.

The actual title is:

Bigger share of COP29 badges for Global South NGOs upsets rich-country groups

And the opposing argument is that the reduction of badges for NGOs from Western Europe et al. effectively makes it so that the governments of the countries with the largest emissions can control who gets to observe the conference from their respective countries. This is coupled with the fact that fewer people can attend in the first place than last time, since the venue is smaller.

To be honest, I don’t know who’s in the right here, but the article definitely feels like it’s taking a side, and the editorialized title makes that bias worse.

I think more observers, and a larger venue, could be justified for the biggest climate conference of the world. I think this event should be more important than “you will own nothing and be happy” Davos for example.

Check out a buying guide, they have the weirdest way of presenting what you get for what you buy.

my child can be part of “every blade of grass”

Being able to imagine your child as a soldier in war pretty much proves you don’t know what war is.

I am not talking about whether strategically it would be a good idea to engage in conventional warfare with the US. I am talking about the fact that how you and a lot of Americans are talking about war means that they have never really experienced one, not in living memory at least.

War is a nightmare. It’s not a valiant defence with plucky resistance fighters outwitting the enemy in the mountains. It’s seeing your buddy still alive and conscious with half his face missing after being hit by a drone. It’s your wife writing “please, it’s the children here” in front of the school in chalk before they are hit anyway with white phosphorus, burning their flesh off slowly. It’s soldiers raping you for fun, even if you are a man, before they kill you.

It’s our gun per person situation.

How many of those guns are effective against artillery? Against even 60 year old tanks? Against remote targeting machine guns with thermal sights? Against attack helicopters? Russia had more tanks per person than any country on Earth, they are still getting trounced. Modern warfare does not care about your semi auto at home.

You remember how hard it was for America to fight Afghanistan in the mountains? Imagine another country fighting America in their mountains lol.

You remember how that war looked? Look at this article. One battle, 18 dead from the occupying side, 1000+ local soldiers killed. Could you bear to read these in the US? Can you imagine how the US would look like after fighting 20 years of this? Let me help you, it would look like Afghanistan.

America has 120 million just on its Eastern coasts.

China has an army of 2 million at peacetime, and it is not maintaining as many overseas bases as the US. The US currently has around 1 million people in the army one way or another. Of course, if it was real, total war as you imagine, these numbers would go up, fast.

During WWII, the Soviet Union had a population of around 200 million. 26 million people died just on their side, of which only 10.5 million were soldiers. 2 million of these people died in a single battle, in Stalingrad. We have gotten much, much better at killing people since then.

This would be 80+ years of war and gun culture ingrained in Americans through countless years in human lives of video games and television propaganda.

You don’t know war. War is hell on earth. It is tragedy on a mass scale, leaving scars for generations on whole societies. Seeing war movies in TV does not prepare you for shit. The US does not even have conscription.

Shit my 7 year old can shoot a soda cap off at 30 yards with iron sights.

Great, what will he do against incendiary rocket artillery at 10 km? You know, the kind which bursts in the air and covers him in burning napalm?

Yeah I think it’s more fitting to use the term bullshitting.

LLMs actually know that some of their answers have low probability to be the right ones, they give them out regardless, and don’t mention the low confidence of it.

That’s easy to say without bullet holes in your buildings and bombs being found every few months in your capital.

IMO the US public is presenting so warlike because they never experienced war directly to a scale of WWII as a populace, especially not in living memory.

War does not look like “let’s use all our guns and go kick commie ass”, especially resisting an occupation. It looks like your hometown burned and poisoned, never to be rebuilt in your lifetime. It looks like people you know and care about dying, being raped with impunity, or just plain disappearing. If you pick up a rifle, you are going up against trained and experienced and also more importantly, quite desensitized enemies who have been doing what you are planning to do for months if not years. And even if you shoot one, they will hang ten of your townsfolk tomorrow.

Just look at Mariupol and Gaza and think whether anyone would thrive in that environment.

Mr Internet Explorer will be horrified when he learns of COVID next year