Enkrod

Man, I love the EU.

Spaniard here

German username and uses the word Arschloch

English comment

This is the world I want to live in!

Steam actually developed an entire toolkit allowing developers to price their products fairly. Even as far as by purchasing power parity or market strength per country. This was done after Polish gamers complained about their games being the same price as in Germany.

https://partner.steamgames.com/pricing/explorer

But it is up to the sellers to use those tools, Steam does not compell pricing.

And I just looked it up, this might have been broken in the past, but they updated it recently: https://youtu.be/Nz4FOKZRX_8

Still, developers need to use this.

The people who manufacture the drugs that make you go peacefully have embargoed the USA, because they don’t want their drugs used for state sanctioned murder.

• Manufacturer Bans: Pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer, Baxter International, B. Braun Medical, Fresenius Kabi, and Johnson & Johnson, have established policies to stop their products from being used in capital punishment.

• EU Export Restrictions: In 2011, the European Union passed anti-torture measures that prohibit the trade of goods used for capital punishment.

When France and Germany did not follow the US under G. W. Bush into Iraq in 2003, the language used did not differ significantly from the language about not following the US into the Straight of Hormuz.

Obama had SOOO MUCH to make up for and wasn’t able to rehabilitate the image of the US… and then everything got EVEN WORSE!

You’ve been like this AT LEAST since Regan. Trump is not the cause, he is a SYMPTOM of a sickness that has festered for AT LEAST 45 years, not only in your politics but in american society.

I imagine it’ll take about the same amount of time to change the american people back into a nation that can be respected instead of feared and loathed.

Trump is nothing, he’s unimportant in the grand scheme of things. The real enemy is the mindset of a majority (republican or democrat) of americans.

Yeah, I think all religion is superstition and all superstition is a negative force on humanity, but even I think that some religions and denominations are worse than others. And yes, evangelicism is among the very worst.

I think when it comes to taking money from magats, I’d have the ethical flexibility. My problem is I can’t interact with them in any way without losing patience and damaging my eyes from all the rolling.

Polymarket clains there is no house, but they still act as “betting against” on some outlandish bets.

https://youtu.be/A654vzQTGbQ

Drummer and Ashford (tv)! Belter idols!!

Vaultwarden is a self-hosted, fully FOSS implementation of the Bitwarden API that works with all Bitwarden Apps and Browser Addons.

Been using it for years and am extremely happy with it. It’s fully client encrypted so the server only works as storage for fully encrypted blobs

“Prediction markets” are casinos in a transparent trenchcoat and exist mostly to circumvent gambling regulations and taxes.

They are also tools for funneling your money to rich insiders.

https://youtu.be/A654vzQTGbQ

Hamster!
A dentist!
Hard Porn.
Steven Seagull

Warrior
this rifle
in me
the fishmaster!

my god fishmaster is nearly 20 years old!

Not if boss wants my name (and thus responsibility) on it.

Tried that, result was shitty documentation and as someone who reads other peoples documentation for a living I will NOT subject other people or my future self to that.

I told my boss I wouldn’t use AI to help write code and sign off on the commits with my name. He told me to use it to write the documentation… it was bad. Essential concepts were not mentioned and obvious shit was explained five times in slightly different phrasing. I am now writing our documentation as an obsidian vault myself again.

I only have it compile a change log from the commit messages of commits and merges on the main and development branch. I know our commits are well written (because I established the standards for them in our repo myself) and that’s concrete and rigid enough that it can’t fuck it up enough to matter.

But honestly there are build tools that could do that for me, I don’t need to buy tokens for that.

Who the fuck is still polluting the internet with Stonetoss?

Oh, yes, nazis obviously, okay, point taken.

The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which the scorpion replies: “I am sorry, but I couldn’t help myself. It’s my character.”

Surveillance systems are able to differentiate between identical twins. Even if they look the same and have the same genetic code.

Good surveillance software can recognize you by the folds in your jeans and wear patterns on other clothes. It’s not a good forensic method, but it’s just one of many data-points for a stochastic analysis. And if you try to wear anti-surveillance-fashion (it’s a thing) this is just another data-point on your profile. Anti-surveillance fashion honestly makes you more recognizable to the system, because you are “more different” from other people.

Disappearing would also mean that you never carry any identifiable electronics, (like a cellphone, not even a google phone or a smartphone, ANY cellphone).

Also the LACK of identifiable electronics would in and of itself be a VERY identifiable data point. Or, if you gattaca that too, the person you would try to impersonate would have to stop using their devices while you use them.

Lastly the surveillance system doesn’t even need to connect your profile to your or any real ID, the profile it builds will be build on the things you do, wear, say and how you act. It can be connected to your ID post-factum.

Gattaca relies heavily on a lack of technology that we do have today and the in-story over-reliance on genetics (for example there are no security cameras in that NASA-building, because they rely completely on genetic identification for everything security related).

Unsurprisingly, a movie set in a fictional world is not a good guide to today’s very real privacy concerns.

Oh shit, that sounds exactly like Lekvar or Powidl, that might point to a mostly eastern European, maybe German but more likely Slavic origin.

I think the biggest difference is that many european states have parliamentary democracies vs. the US’ presidential democracy.

This, combined with proportional representation voting systems, that more accurately represent the will of the populace in parliament, leads to a need for governmental coalition building, necessitating a more concilliatory and a little more non-partisan politics. While usually allowing for a more effective government, since the head of government represents a legislative majority.

It does have its own challenges and is far from perfect, but I think the current US government is a fitting contrast of a minority elected, non-concilliatory, highly partisan government that might become completely and utterly unable to do any governing by the midterms.

The US is also a good example that the age of a democratic system doesn’t mean it’s a good system. In fact I far prefer the very young post-WW2 german system to the very old american or british systems, though it could stand to learn some from the nordics, especially Finlands open list voting system.

With the compact taking effect, your vote would matter again, every vote would matter.