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I second this. Every woman reaching voting age should be eligible to their own patch of land to live on. As should every man. Let’s expropriate the real estate companies! 🚩

It actually is the special train to Pankow in east Berlin.

When you’re old enough to buy physical media, your eyes have gone bad enough that you don’t need 4k 8-)

I regularly use optical drives for the movies. Why should I pay twice the price to “buy” some movie from Apple or Google? I rather wait 2 days for the mailman to deliver me a Blu-ray that doesn’t only have better quality, but also keeps working when some company decides to stop licensing the stuff I purportedly “bought”. Second-hand discs sometimes cost as much as 1€.

But well, I might be a bit old school, as I just got a few new vinyls delivered to me the other day.

Me, having the same hobbies since 30 years: Maybe it’s because I’m learning-disabled 🤔

The revised version is also great. Most of the content is still the same, a nuclear reactor works just the same way as it did in 1995. But most of the IT topics are updated. Instead of a ball mouse you’ll find an optical one, instead of the CRT they explain LCD screens etc.

There’s also a “new”(2016) book in the same style but for science instead of technology. It’s just as good as you’d expect it to be.

At least Denmark and Canada had Leopard 2s in Afghanistan that were involved in combat. So maybe the “Brits” were just fancy Canadians.

It’s the other way round: I don’t know if it applies to this fella, but /we/ used ** // and __ long before applications knew what that’s supposed to mean. We’ve been using it even on devices that are _physically_ incapable of producing formatted text, so it was the readers responsibility to parse and understand what it’s supposed to mean. Back in those days we’d also type :'-( instead of 😢.

It actually annoys me that markdown got it all wrong, and thus applications using markdown do it all wrong as well:

*foo* should be bold, not italic
/foo/ should be italic, not just /slashes/
_foo_ should be underlined, but for lemmy that’s just another way of saying italic, underlining seems to be outright impossible.

Why? :'-(

Man, these pesky doctors. They always forbid the fun stuff.

Could y’all please stop dieing on hills all the time?! I love hiking, but all the corpses are really disturbing.

I’m pretty sure Google does record way more than they should on my phone. But they aren’t my employer, nor would they stop doing that if it were my private phone.

My employer is not affiliated with Google, so they don’t have any special access, I guess. Just reading my work emails on my phone, using it for 2FA, to chat with colleagues or as a plain old telephone doesn’t give them any private information about me.

I see however, that that would be different for people who work at shitholes like Amazon or some food delivery company. Their mobiles are used to track them during work hours, so there’s no reason to believe they wouldn’t track them after work as well.

WDYM? My employer doesn’t have any right to access my private data, no matter what device I use. Nor do they have the ability (as there’s no MDM active on mytheir device). I live in a country where employees actually have rights. That includes the right to privacy from the employer.

Why not? My company pays for my work phone and the mobile plan. Why should I buy, carry around and pay the plan for a second phone?

My company is reasonable when it comes to contacting me, though. When I’m not at work they won’t contact me. If that wasn’t the case, I could see the need for separate devices.

Ok, then let’s call it 20pm.

Good luck bringing back a treasure to the rightful owner, when the rightful owner has been killed along with his family. Also, usually the thieves would not write “stolen from person X in Y” on their gold bars.

And let’s not forget that a non-negligible part of the pirates were in fact former slaves that either fled on their own or have been freed directly by other pirates. So they basically fought their previous “owners”.

If you steal my food and poison my soil until my family is starving, you shouldn’t be surprised when I come back at you. And don’t expect me to steal the fish back, that you’ve already eaten. Of cause I’ll take whatever I can get hold of.

It weren’t primarily neighbour countries, it were especially European and Chinese vessels that were doing that shit.

They’re not totally wrong though. A huge share of the goods the Caribbean pirates “stole” didn’t belong to their “victims” anyway. In fact, most of it had previously been stolen from the native Americans who had been conquered and killed or extorted from slaves on the plantations. Stealing from a robber isn’t stealing imho.

Another, more modern example are the pirates of Somalia, who originally were fishermen. Only when foreign ships came into their waters to steal their fish and dispose toxic waste, they began to arm themselves to “steal” their own goods back.

Disney on the other hand…

Much simpler: They looked into his passport to see that he’s a man and then they looked into his pants…

A lot of car manufacturer did also produce airplanes in the pre-jet era: BMW, Mercedes, Fiat, Ford, Honda, Kawasaki, Mitsubishi, Piaggio, Saab, and probably more. Some of them later concentrated on one thing or split into two companies.

They were the ones who knew how to build engines, chassis and so on. If you think about it, a 1920s car is not that much different than a 1920s plane. Just wire the motor to a propeller and the steering wheel to the flaps instead of the wheels, weld a pair of wings to the sides and call it a day.