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by seszett 3y ago
> is it just to cause a nuisance by causing target accounts to incur fees? Most likely, they give money to a random email address using a stolen card, then dispute it and receive that money back, but now it's clean money because i
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France is actually one of the main producers (in Réunion - where the hand pollination process was discovered - and French Polynesia) but I guess the others are just doing some import/export.
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I don't understand what you mean, but I might be missing something since school shootings aren't a thing here. Are you saying that parents don't care when their children are killed in a school shooting?
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> modern society can't seem to tolerate even a single dead children You mean parents can't seem to tolerate even a single dead child. And that's true, especially when most parents only ever have one or two children. Ob
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> It’s fairly standard practice for triathlons to dump a whole bunch of bleach into a lake or river to make it safe to swim I'm not sure where this might be standard practice, but this would be very illegal in most of Europe. So t
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> PR stunt of a socialist mayor Although the mayor who actually does it is socialist, it was initiated by a right-wing mayor (Jacques Chirac, who went on to become president) famously announcing he would himself swim in the Seine in th
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> If you arrive by boat, you must use public transport (or good old feet) to get around. I understand that it is a a surge in demand, but I am putting money in to the local economy. Public transport is usually run at a loss, and at lea
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> isn't npm / yarn being installed basically the same as having make / cmake installed? Not really as npm and yarn are whole package managers that work in parallel to your distro's standard package manager. They pul
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Well I never said Apple was better, and in fact I think there have been a number of antitrust charges against Apple as well, maybe not directly related to "messaging software" but at least one of them was about opening iMessage to
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> Slack filed a complaint with the EU in 2020, claiming that Microsoft was "force installing [Teams] for millions, blocking its removal, and hiding the true cost to enterprise customers." I'm pretty sure force installing
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Nice, I had been thinking for a long time about writing such a tool that adjusts all commits on personal projects to be outside business hours (although of course that's not going to be an acknowledged use).
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House ownership is very different among the European countries. I think it's somewhat rare in Germany and Austria, but you don't need to be very wealthy to own a house in France or Belgium for example. And you are allowed to ins
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I don't think the point was about being able to travel some place or not, but being able to settle it. Even humans can travel to Antarctica but won't leave a trace there. Also, we're discussing prehuman civilisations so dismi
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I think you're talking from a human point of view, but you know nothing of the similarity of Antarctica compared to the other continents for this hypothetical sentient species we're talking about. If they can't bear positive
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We ourselves would likely try to colonise an exoplanet similar to Earth around a nearby star before we even think about settling on Mercury. I think they have a point on heat management, too much heat can easily make a place totally uninhab
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I can't get used to either Twitter or the fediverse, but they don't work differently on the discoverabilty aspect. One would likely just subscribe to your city's hashtag for large cities or to your town hall's account fo
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Apparently Twitter is used by 11% of the population here in Belgium, so that's certainly better but... how many of those follow accounts of the government? I suspect it's very low and most people probably don't even know all
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I suspect this depends on the country. Here it's mostly fire departments and town halls that have the sirens, and they are controlled by the town hall, département (one level above) and the interior ministry, so each of these level can
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by seszett 3y ago
Well for now I don't bother having Twitter open on my laptop just in case my government would want to tell me something, so I don't see how this would be much different. The main difference I see though is that since Mastodon prov
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I think that's the point I made on the meaning of "degoogled". It doesn't have to mean "Google-free".
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It's not really a secret since the application is open-source. I find their relaxed approach to a paid open-source application very nice.
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It probably depends on what you mean by "de-google", but if you simply do not want to host your data at Google or depend on Google services, it's quite easy. As far as I can tell, the only place you really need to be logged i
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That amount is only got the US though. 3M is paying about 500 million euros for the same kind of PFAS pollution here in Antwerp and although I was thinking that is a ridiculous amount compared to the $10 billion, after all it's more pe
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> dozens I find it funny that "dizaines" (tens) got translated to "dozens" (which would be "douzaines", but is rarely used except for eggs).
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> * Most of my use of degrees is either in cooking or weather. Having a larger scale means more accuracy, seeing as we don't use decimals in either.* That's your choice though. Outside temperature cannot be measured precisely e
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> the west > “Dating? I’m not sure, we have only started sleeping together a month ago. They might still be seeing other people.” This seems specifically American to me, and I think this is a weird thing to most Europeans.
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> who's looking at their air quality map from two different countries? I do it a few times per week while I commute from Belgium to France and when I'm doing my groceries in whichever country is best for what I need. I'm i
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Linking your research to CO2 or climate change helps in getting funded, the parent comment is sarcastic but it brings up a good point IMO. It doesn't even mean the authors think there is any actual implication for CO2 or that they are
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> Normally you’d focus an enlarger visually, perhaps with a grain focuser—maybe at this point you’d be focusing manually with the grain focuser in the visible region and then making some calculated adjustment for UV Yes, I have some ex
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> Wouldn't that just mean you have to wait longer? You would have to wait much longer with a standard enlarger, probably several days and that's without taking into account reciprocity failure. In practice, it just wouldn&#

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