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by basisword 4mo ago
I'd rather they didn't waste time worrying about ATM's. I have used one once in the last 5 years. Almost everywhere I visit regularly doesn't even take cash now. The problem being every requirement you add to something l
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by basisword 4mo ago
A vast majority of card transactions in the EU are done via debit card. Credit card accounts for only around 25% vs debit. And the only place I've swiped my card was once, in the US, about 15 years ago.
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by basisword 4mo ago
Aren't your transactions with your bank already hooked up to your identity? >> This is just another shitcoin no one asked for. Giving Europe independence from US payments processors is a huge deal and very necessary.
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by basisword 4mo ago
They’re not dropping in price though. PS5 is 25% more expensive than at launch six years ago.
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by basisword 4mo ago
Why is that a step too far? e.g. the PS5 price has increased like 25% and it's a 6 year old product now. Similar for other consoles. It feels much more acceptable to me on something like a Mac that's less than a year old (and goin
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by basisword 4mo ago
This is idiotic. It’s like telling someone they should be grateful the electric company has banned them because artificial lighting will mess with their body clock.
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by basisword 4mo ago
Tbf the point was to prevent the EU 'overreach' i.e stopping us violating our own peoples human rights. We can violate them freely now. Success.
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by basisword 4mo ago
Yeah I've seen similar stories a few times this week and it's always one of the dodgy regional media sites. Shame it's getting so much traction here.
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by basisword 4mo ago
Nothing new unfortunately [0]. Happy to trust the science as long as it suits them. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nutt#Dismissal
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by basisword 4mo ago
How is that happening? In the UK fringe nationalist parties are typically given as much airtime on main stream media as the governing parties. They've also setup their own 'news' stations to further spread propaganda. Any not
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by basisword 4mo ago
It's easy to blame the governments in this - and some of their decisions are idiotic - but most of the blame should go on the tech companies. The fact they think "our ToS says you have to be over 13" or a popup asking "a
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by basisword 4mo ago
Does Amazon likely have the power to hold this up indefinitely or will it easily be moved to another studio?
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by basisword 4mo ago
Are you sure you haven't got a faulty pair? Mine switch seamlessly between devices. I bought a bluetooth speaker recently and using it is hell on earth comparatively. The number of times I have to find the device it last connected to a
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by basisword 4mo ago
>> The moment I start talking to someone, automagically the NC is paused as well as any audio you were listening to. This is one of those features I thought would be great and unfortunately had to disable in minutes. If you ever liste
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by basisword 4mo ago
It was intended as a lighthearted comment, hence the smiley face :)
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by basisword 4mo ago
>> Almost everyone has a "racist uncle" type story IRL I've never met one real person that has a 'racist uncle'.
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by basisword 4mo ago
You think you do. You're just not aware of how many people are dodging you to prevent collisions :)
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by basisword 4mo ago
>> It seems equally likely to me that other factors are driving increased social anxiety Social anxiety thrives on avoidance. It's a feedback loop. So likely it's correlation + causation. Your anxious so you wear the headpho
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by basisword 4mo ago
>> I try avoid inviting weirdos to complain about minorities or marginalized people from someone who has driven away anyone close to them. I would suggest that it's your avoidance of talking to strangers that makes you think this
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by basisword 4mo ago
I definitely think it's generational. Every person I know over 50 could talk to a brick wall for hours. The people I know 30-40 it's a struggle for at least half of them. Under 30 and it gets much worse. Even the older introverted
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by basisword 4mo ago
>> trying to hold a particular company legally liable for a chatbot saying "come home to me" is beyond absurd Talk about misrepresentation. Either way my comment didn't mention the legal case. I was simply pointing out
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by basisword 4mo ago
>> the amount of money they're going to make from their investment will more than make up for it Not if the USG locks models down to US citizens. The market will be too small and the model companies have already pumped in far too
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by basisword 4mo ago
These AI 'relationship' type bots are everything wrong with tech. >> Megan Garcia had no idea her teenage son Sewell, a "bright and beautiful boy", had started spending hours and hours obsessively talking to an onl
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by basisword 4mo ago
This seems to completely miss one of the main selling points of Letterboxd - unlike IMDB its UI isn't dogshit.
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by basisword 4mo ago
>> Some cultural cliches may never change. Let’s just gloss over the monstrous amount of copyrighted and pirated material the American labs trained on. China bad. American good. Some cultural cliches never change.
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by basisword 4mo ago
>> The reality is that the vast majority of kids aren't interested in learning video editing or movie directing Also the idea that they can't do these things without social media or YouTube is absurd. The people actually int
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by basisword 4mo ago
That's how it works everywhere with lots of other things. Drugs, alcohol, gambling, etc. Given the amount of money that's gone into making social media as addictive as possible and the majority of mobile games really being gamblin
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by basisword 4mo ago
>> Aussie law did not affect her ability to access socials while in Australia I think that's expected. >> Apparently the age checking there only applies to newly created accounts Social media companies had to try and identi
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by basisword 4mo ago
It would be great if we could test the harms of social media societally. Hypothetically if a democratic country with a free press was able to effectively ban Facebook, X, etc for a few years there's no doubt in my mind that the divisio
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by basisword 4mo ago
The tone gave it away before he finally disclosed but - shocker - the author is on the board of a social media company. Social media has been a pretty clear net-negative for society. The opinions of a guy in away connected with the industry

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