Tar_Alcaran

According to Russia at least

Honestly, as long as we leave him up, I’m willing to settle for any body part.

Well, The Netherlands, so yeah, pretty much.

And lets not forget, by buying it from NVIDIA, they enable higher profits, which generates money that NVIDIA can invest into OpenAI to buy more stuff from NVIDIA.

And also, if you’re going to soon have more stuff, you can take a loan on those assets that you will soon own to buy more assets that you will soon own!

That has to be a joke

time is the one resource Big Tech steals that we can’t ever get back.

That’s an odd argument, since DIY takes significantly more time than just buying a solution.

By… Stepping outside and talking to people? I think all neighborhoods have that ability, even if we don’t really use it much.

Because you, and everyone, is in a huge bubble.

Normal people don’t give a shit where stuff is hosted, or if it’s hosted at all. The vast majority of people couldn’t care less what happens to their catpics if their phone gets crushed and they don’t want to use a separate messaging platform just to talk to you.

The things you think are important absolutely don’t matter to them. Most people don’t give a single second of thought to where their documents should live, and will just download it again on a second device instead of synchronizing anything.

It’s really nice that these things exist, but why would someone do anything with them if they literally don’t have a purpose for it?

Joke’s on you, my country is tiny, so I can just visit them frequently anyway

Sounds like a nice bribe for a life in Russia.

Wero is basically iDeal+, so yeah, they’re mostly going slow to ease consumer into it. Remember, your grandma only just got used to iDeal in 2005, so we can’t rush things…

Anyone able to fill me in on what the sort of “steelman” argument would be for such a punishment?

I’m having a hard time understanding the expected outcome - I guess just hoping he leaves the country, without actually kicking him out? Why not just kick him out?

These are two entirely different cases. One is a private company not wishing to deal with a private group due to fundraising for Cuba. While that’s a legal thing to do, it’s also perfectly legal for a bank not to want you as a customer. If the DKP thinks they’re being discriminated against, they should sue the bank. The government is totally not involved here.

The second example is a dude who is literally a paid Russian propagandist. Putting them on the sanctions list is much more effective, since they’re not actually in Germany most of the time, but base a lot of their work out of Turkey. Kicking them out would do nothing.

Dogru (…) was previously a key part of Red Fish, a platform financed by Ruptly, a Germany-based outlet partially funded by the Russian state-controlled network, RT. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Dogru closed Red Fish and started his own independent outlet (red. media)

Quite a few Russian propagandists are using the antifa label and Palestine support to get away with their propaganda work. In the case of Dogru is not even well hidden, he went straight from openly paid Russian propagandist to barely-covered propagandist without even bothering to change the name much, or the media channels at all.

The last few times, at least the corporations showed a real interest. This time, the US government just kind of assumed.

They know one thing: Trump’s support won’t last 18 weeks, let alone 18 months, let alone any real timeframe.

And the US produced more oil than Saudi Arabia, Iraq and the UAE combined in 2024. You can probably add Qatar and Oman on that pile too for 2025…

I bought a Brother B/W laser printer with a USB-A connector about a decade ago. It ran through just over a full box (2500 sheets) of A4 paper on it’s preinstalled demo-toner before I needed to insert the full toner that came with it. The most work I ever had to do on it was when I tried to print on slightly-too-thick paper and it decided that it would rather make confetti instead. Spent an hour pulling out individual fibers of paper, and it never acted up again.

Nah, religions mostly reflect on others, not themselves.

The US probes women and children all the time.

Oh. That’s not what you meant.

Welcome to 2026, where “kill”, “obese” and “predator” are swearwords.

Google search, youtube and android at least make owners money. ChatGPT just burns dumptrucks full of cash just to create the option to burn more cash.

Oh, you wanted code that actually works with your existing codebase? Sorry, here’s some additional sludge sprinkled on top of the previous crappy answer.