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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Correction, Europe must hurry to develop itself and don't rely on US for anything, US is lost. It's just crony capitalism and dumb people these days.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Cool, looks a lot like mine :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This, I've just installed it this week and I think it's better than Google (though I'm suspicious of the "free" service.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I live in a shitty house from the 50s in Poland, poorly insulated AND I walk around the house on a t-shirt if I want... the problem is the energy I have to spend. Heat-pumps are not a miracle if your house is poorly insulated.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (14 children)

Let's be clear in one thing:

  • There's no free lunches.

That's it. Everything in the Universe, including you, has a "price" on energy. Now outside of all crony-capitalism craziness, we should all consider having a open, distributed, fair price Internet and it's resources.

I'm calling Louis.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Portuguese here:

  • There was compulsory male military service, that would be the only place where you could "handle" military grade hardware, aka assault rifles.
  • Currently IIRC, guns are accessible if: you're a military or law enforcement agent, a hunter (rifle or shotgun) or go through a process for a fire arm license due to professional or business reasons (e.g. a goldsmith) for self-defense.
    As well hand guns are limited to "non-military" calibers... for instance 9mm is for government agents solely.

Of course there's black market and use by shady actors...

As for people's personal relationship with guns, most people doesn't care to have one as there's not much violent crime to justify said behavior.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

“With CalRx, we are getting at the underlying cost, which is the true sustainable solution to high-cost pharmaceuticals,” Newsom wrote in a message explaining why he vetoed the bill on Saturday. “With co-pay caps however, the long-term costs are still passed down to consumers through higher premiums from health plans.”

Makes sense, when you block a corporation by increasing taxes, they will always pass the "new" cost to the consumers, in this case the "competition" will provide true lower costs...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, but when a title says "here's what you need to know"... immediately a red flag to not open the site.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They just buy good ideas to monetize the shit out of them without giving users new features, and when the revneu stream dies, they kill the app and but the "next best thing".

Essentially, Google is killing creativity, expansion, usability and profitability for small companies just for the "ad revenue".

I'm de-googling as fast as I can.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's a duality...

  • In Europe, you can get a hefty fine if you are a public figure and slander someone else without evidence, see the two examples below on the same politician, a MEP (former):

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-angola-dossantos-portugal-idINKBN1ZG29K

https://www.portugalresident.com/former-mep-tv-commentator-ana-gomes-condemned-over-crook-tweet/

So it's not like in US where the "first amendment" allows you to derail everyone and everything without consequences...

At the same time, EU wants to fight criminality, e.g. drug cartels, money laundering, terrorism, human trafficking, etc... by removing encryption that makes investigation "more" difficult...

And if you think about it, most people use encryption and other security measures not because they are criminals, but because they are essentially "owned and spied" by big tech...

As some douchbag once said, the government doesn't care which porn sites you visit or with who you go to bed with...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Every now and then just throw a "miau", in the conversation... 🤪

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