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by mcv 28d ago
I have bad experiences with recaptcha. It also increases user effort, and they might not bother either. AI doesn't get annoyed as easily.
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by mcv 28d ago
Or maybe we should all just stop using Google. If Google is widely known to be unable to find these fan wikis, maybe people will finally stop relying on Google.
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by mcv 28d ago
Can we just get rid of reCaptcha? It was fun when it was new, but now it's just pointless busywork to let Google know who we are. Does it do anything other than that? I don't for a minute believe bots can't solve that anymore
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by mcv 28d ago
> There's never been a Russian threat in the first place. Have you really had your head in the sand, or are you just desperately trying to sell a transparent lie here? The Putin is not exactly careful about his threats.
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by mcv 28d ago
Perhaps, but they don't seem to believe in free speech anyway. They're actively going after media that criticise the government, and are restricting government-funded scientists from using specific words that suggest research that
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by mcv 29d ago
> The US is going to be at peace with Russia, and still pumping anti-Russian rhetoric into Europe to keep them buying US LNG. The US isn't really a source of anti-Russia rhetoric. In fact, the US may be the biggest source of pro-Rus
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by mcv 29d ago
I think calls to violence usually only count as threat when they're targeted at a specific person. To me, hate speech is about creating an unsafe, threatening or oppressive situation for a vulnerable demographic group. Like saying a sp
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by mcv 29d ago
Sad to hear about the Tunis port police. High speed train to southern Italy is otherwise an excellent idea. We'd probably also spend some time on Sicily, which has been on our wishlist for a while. Tangier is absolutely also an option.
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by mcv 29d ago
I don't think absolute free speech exists; there are always some limits to speech. Ideally not too many, but there are kinds of speech that I don't think you have any choice but to restrict if you want to have any kind of decent,
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by mcv 29d ago
Requiring pork, beef, etc to come from the actual animal sounds completely reasonable to me, and although I do like vegetarian products that try to taste like them, they should also be easily identifiable as not being the actual meat. But b
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by mcv 29d ago
True. I try not to fly, and prefer to travel by train. We saw this eclipse on Mallorca, and we got there by train and boat. I don't know how viable that will be to get to Tunesia from northern Europe, though.
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by mcv 29d ago
That was because it was just before sunset; it was going to go dark soon anyway. I think it's more spectacular overhead. I also watched an eclipse in northern France long ago (it may have been 1999), and that was overhead. Unfortunatel
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by mcv 29d ago
We used to. Contactless payments from my phone didn't require Google Wallet a few years ago, but now they do. My bank passes suddenly say VISA and have credit card numbers on them which they didn't have a few years ago. European b
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by mcv 1mo ago
Possibly. The content can be saved and posted on a variety of other platforms. While this is very heavy handed censorship, there are plenty of ways around it.
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by mcv 1mo ago
Yeah, but do you control international banking the way they do? That's ultimately how they're able to do this.
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by mcv 1mo ago
I planned for this year's eclipse two years in advance, and it was a bit disappointing: the eclipse, just before sunset, disappeared behind some wisps of clouds just before the totality. Now I'm wondering if this is as good as it&
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by mcv 1mo ago
Is that an executive order overriding a law? Is that possible? I thought executive orders only affected the federal government. I'm all for breaking the stranglehold of those big 4 meatpacking companies, but make it an actual law, not
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by mcv 1mo ago
Expect the meat industry to lobby against being allowed to call it meat, if it didn't involve real living animals. In Europe they managed to get words like burger, nugget and sausage to only be legally applicable to meat. They'll
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by mcv 1mo ago
I've never heard of WJS being center-left. But then I don't read it, I only come across what is occasionally shared online, most of which sounds insane.
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by mcv 1mo ago
I've heard that even experts can't tell those superclones apart from the originals anymore. Are they equally reliable?
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by mcv 1mo ago
I'm afraid the only ethics some of them believe in is the Friedman Doctrine.
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by mcv 1mo ago
Yeah, it feels it might be a bit skewed to produce interesting results. My first attempt, despite a life expectancy of 31 and a 34% chance to reach 40, lived a glorious 65 years. Then again, my next two attempts died at 4 months and 4 years
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by mcv 1mo ago
I'm fast. I've been clocked at over 40. 40 is crazy fast. Most cyclist go 15. The fast ones 20-25. The very fastest maybe 30-35. 60 is a wild exaggeration. That's what sprinters do in the Tour de France.
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by mcv 1mo ago
You don't need to move furniture every week, so you can always rent a van for that. Using a car for the 500m to my nearest supermarket seems a bit silly, but these days our groceries are delivered to the front door. All of this is a ma
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by mcv 1mo ago
Halved? So you could go 60 on narrow city streets? In Netherland, the speed limit in cities used to be 50, and even in the 1980s, people were complaining that that was too fast. Most residential streets have been 30 (or less; the street I g
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by mcv 1mo ago
It's an executive order, not a law. There is absolutely no reason for Google, MapQuest or anyone else to change the name of the lake in their map. Google chooses to do so, MapQuest chooses not to. That says nothing about the speed of t
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by mcv 1mo ago
I was also a fanboy once, but a straw broke that particular camel's back a long time ago. I already wasn't planning on ever giving Google any money, so they're not losing any income from me.
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by mcv 1mo ago
That doesn't make it any less disgusting, though. And there are also companies that aren't quite so eager to comply.
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by mcv 1mo ago
That's exactly what every executive order is: it's what the federal government uses. It's not binding for anyone else. It doesn't have the power of law. Google is under absolutely no obligation to do this. They do it exp
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by mcv 1mo ago
Disgusting. At the very least drag your feet a bit. Just goes to show how on board those corporations are with this sort of narcissistic authoritarianismm

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