goobatrooba

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by goobatrooba 8mo ago
Blocking a propaganda outlet by a hostile foreign government is not censorship and certainly not "general censorship that is normalised." If you know that a foreign actor intentionally tries to undermine your government you honest
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by goobatrooba 8mo ago
Ah yes, there is a foreign government sponsored campaign to deligitimise and spread lies about your country and government. And because you are a democracy you should just accept it and let lies and propaganda flood your country? Can't
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by goobatrooba 8mo ago
I read through this drivel and it's nothing more than conjecture and anecdotes from someone who seems never to have been to Europe. Nearly every example of his critique is of the UK, not Europe as a whole, and each of them has plenty
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by goobatrooba 10mo ago
The post you link, and the following comments, directly contradict what you are saying.
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by goobatrooba 10mo ago
You confidently state that EU fines relative to global revenue, but you are wrong. The case linked above is an Italian competition authority, so I'm any case, no EU level calculation. There are various legal bases applicable at EU leve
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by goobatrooba 10mo ago
I know you're making an analogy but I have to point out that there are many points where Nazi Germany could have gone a different route and potentially could have ended up with a stable dominion over much of Western Europe. Most obviou
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by goobatrooba 10mo ago
Unfortunately you are wrong. Most scam centres are Chinese owned, though they are usually based in other countries, e.g. Myanmar or Cambodia. There were various in depth investigations by media and law enforcement across countries, here is
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by goobatrooba 10mo ago
I feel there is a point when all these benchmarks are meaningless. What I care about beyond decent performance is the user experience. There I have grudges with every single platform and the one thing keeping me as a paid ChatGPT subscriber
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by goobatrooba 11mo ago
Thanks for promoting russian propaganda (I mean the framing and source). Unfortunately tolerance has to stop with the intolerant. For anyone actually interested in the substance of why she is banned it seems rather clear and reasonable from
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by goobatrooba 11mo ago
Do you use it regularly (20 min a day or so)? If so, how is your monthly consumption - does it beat the subscription costs for either service?
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by goobatrooba 11mo ago
They didn't use the EU, they put pressure on companies in other countries, notably Germany, which then did the rest.
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by goobatrooba 11mo ago
The funny part is that many banners are already now not required. But there has been much propaganda by adtech around it, to rule people up against tracking protections and promote their own "solutions". That's the reason you
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by goobatrooba 1y ago
Just reacting to your first sentence: as a man I find it understandable that the protective laws are focused on protecting women and children as it's a simple fact of our reality that the vast majority of violent crime is committed by
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by goobatrooba 1y ago
Maps and routing errors would likely lead to masses of deaths, an entire motorway population rather than individuals not paying attention.. Like the various "unfinished/broken bridge" deaths that have happened with Google ma
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by goobatrooba 1y ago
Kuka must be one of the three biggest strategic mistake the German governments made in 30 years (the other being gas dependence/NorthStream and keeping coal running rather than investing the same funds in renewables). Really sad but ir
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by goobatrooba 1y ago
Government intervenes to stop parent company from milking and killing this local subsidiary. Does seem like a consistent and sound decision that every government (should/would) have taken. For me a clear YES this means a sound regulato
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by goobatrooba 1y ago
While humans and the first basis of culture evolved in Africa, many of the key cultural/technological innovations happened outside Africa, notably the invention of agriculture and pastoralism which happened 3-6 times independently (mod
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by goobatrooba 1y ago
I use these for various European Amazon (often cheaper to buy from the Amazon next door - and shipping is still free) and it's astonishing how bad they are. It's the new Amazon systems of vouchers (in € or %), temporary offers etc
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by goobatrooba 1y ago
It is really surreal to see the Americans on here jump to the conclusion that prices should rise everywhere else, rather than that their prices are simply unnecessarily high as there are no proper pricing mechanisms in the US. If you do hav
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by goobatrooba 1y ago
This theory that American prices subsidise the rest of the world has really caught on in the US but I have never seen any evidence for it. Most common drugs are out of patent anyway, so there should be no barrier to low cost production anyw
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by goobatrooba 1y ago
That's the reliance on gas turbines....
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by goobatrooba 1y ago
Not sure which country's perspective you are taking but you may wish to consider that the largest part of the subsidies building renewables are EU subsidies which to the largest chunk are financed by Germany which makes a contribution
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by goobatrooba 1y ago
I vacillate between Logseq, Obsidian and paper. Nothing really pleases me fully, though I'm just a boring office worker keeping track of thoughts, meeting notes and todos. Basically I want it to be easy to carry around and searchable (
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by goobatrooba 1y ago
I think your take is a bit unbalanced 1. You cannot expect a public body to take a legal conclusion with significant financial impact on the basis of a single citizen report or in reply to that report. This takes analysis, technical and leg
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by goobatrooba 1y ago
Not all need a river to cool but every single nuclear power plant needs a consistent water source 1) to actually generate the energy (steam!), 2) to cool, 3) as emergency safeguard when things go wrong. If you followed the news about Russia
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by goobatrooba 1y ago
Seems like an economics problem? Is farmland cheaper than buying some otherwise less usable land? Or is there now much land available and a huge unmet energy need? And there are also models to use solar that still allow some farming below (
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by goobatrooba 1y ago
I don't doubt your experience but this is not at all mine. I live by, cycle by, and work by windmills and there is no notable noise from any of them, even the older ones don't make a noise that I'd hear through a wall. And th