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by pell 5y ago
Only Maps. But ditching Maps has been really difficult for me. It's just vastly better than the competition here where I live.
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by pell 5y ago
>[..] but Western governments at all administrative levels are more busy bullying their citizens than providing comfort options like East-Asian administrations and companies are. I love complaining about the lack of effiency in the EU an
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by pell 5y ago
I'd love to hear so much more about how it was to work in this kind of environment back then. (Apart from those bomb threats.)
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by pell 5y ago
Your description of either projects says a lot more about you than about any of the events you are attempting to describe. Regardless, both Firefox and Thunderbird are and remain open source.
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by pell 5y ago
That and most corporate Windows users simply can't switch to the OS of their choice due to rigid IT department rules.
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by pell 5y ago
Obesity is in itself a sickness in many cases. I think the implication that people "do it to themselves" really ignores the large pile of evidence that shows that it's really difficult to treat it effectively. Similarly other
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by pell 5y ago
>On account of them being tiny, they aren't a threat to freedoms outside of their own country. SA has been directly involved in funding terrorism(1), they're fighting a war in Yemen for their own national interest(2), they are
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by pell 5y ago
I really doubt the problems here come down to some attempt at evading accusations of racism. Please go to the streets in Berlin where both families reside. Police are everywhere, people are stopped frequently, people who happen to have the
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by pell 5y ago
Germany needs better racketeering laws. Right now it's way too simple for people involved in these groups.
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by pell 5y ago
From what I understand OnlyFans has essentially no other product except for this type of content though. So I would have assumed negotiating with one of these processors for a somewhat more reasonable contract despite higher fees would stil
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by pell 5y ago
Why would OnlyFans not simply move to another payment processor then? This all seems a bit strange.
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by pell 5y ago
It's open source, if you know how to make those modifications you can actually make it happen! I definitely like your idea with the seven.
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by pell 5y ago
Plants don't have a central nervous system or a brain. What science generally understands under pain and suffering plants simply don't have.
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by pell 5y ago
I think you're playing a bit of a semantics game here. Obviously media, NGOs and academia can be detrimental to democracy. So can elections or the judiciary too (e.g. Hitler's rise to chancellor of Germany was legal and Democratic
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by pell 5y ago
I fail to see how using spyware against journalists and critics is in any way linked to a failed uprising from 1956 or how his successful efforts to establish a media landscape that largely backs him is supporting "the real purge"
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by pell 5y ago
I am really not sure where this notion is coming from and I've seen it repeated in this thread multiple times now. The reason Orban's government is considered dangerous within the EU context has never been because of his stance on
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by pell 5y ago
>Orban is seen as hateful or radicalising because he is against illegal immigration. He has made a big marketing point about this. I'm not going to go into the topic of migration and the "legality" of it. But the reason Or
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by pell 5y ago
> How do we, as a society, start accepting rational self-criticism again? You might want to start with taking critique from the people you deem to be "triggered" seriously. That would be a first step in rational self-criticism.
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by pell 5y ago
Especially when the public often paid for said research at least in part.
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by pell 5y ago
I remember when downloading 10MB would sometimes take multiple tries. Maybe the internet felt so much more exciting to me back then because it was so much slower.
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by pell 5y ago
>And it wasn't planned, but evolved. No plan, no developer. Hard to imagine. Explains all those bugs and bad design choices, doesn't it.
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by pell 5y ago
>Privacy and Ads are antagonistic concepts. They didn't use to be. There might be room for competition by avoiding the modern day advertising shenanigans.
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by pell 5y ago
I think you're giving Musk too much credit here.
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by pell 5y ago
Trans people are a group that isn't as safe as others: https://www.hrc.org/resources/violence-against-the-trans-and...
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by pell 5y ago
Intel has enough cash to finance a possible comeback down the road. I'm shocked at how people seem to minimize their future options.
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It might sound like a "lazy excuse" for someone who hasn't been in their shoes. As lazy as commenting one's gut reaction even. It might be worthwhile to actually give this one some thought, maybe read up on it, talk to p
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by pell 5y ago
> Discord has 14x more active users than Slack. From what I understand Slack's model is based on selling plans to teams and companies. Within that framework users are actually representing a real monthly recurring dollar value. I do
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by pell 6y ago
The necessity of B12 supplementation isn't really hidden in vegan spaces. That said, omnivores often lack nutrients too, including B12. It's seems veganism actually forces you to be conscious about it.
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by pell 6y ago
The SVP was considered a xenophobic party a long time before Twitter existed. Here's an article from 2000 about the referendum on the migrant quota. You can read about the SVP's initiative and reaction here: https://www
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by pell 6y ago
The SVP is a very strong party in Switzerland. It is not a stretch to call it xenophobic. Switzerland - like any place - has many faces. It hosts great institutions but yes, it also has its share of societal xenophobia.

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