Accurate but also not. PewDiePie came out in favour and PirateSoftware lied about it. But I think Thor lying created a huge burst of coverage about how he’s wrong and really created lots of noise about it.

Look, folks, I’ve been hearing a lot, a lot, about this thing called Linux. Ever heard of it? Sounds European, doesn’t it? Probably invented in Brussels, or Sweden, maybe Russia, I don’t know. Total disaster. I call it Socialist Windows, because that’s what it is! It’s chaotic, no one’s in charge. Total mess. Bernie Sanders running an IT department, terrible. Meanwhile, Windows, great American company, by the way, very successful, very strong.

Yar-har, fiddle-dee-dee!

And wasps will kill any fly that dares come close. Only thing they like more than sugar is protein.

First off even for regular checkups I have to pay extra cuz a continues 1/5th of my pay isn’t enough

That is so wild. The US has the most expensive system in the world and often not that great service in return and somehow so many are convinced that their broken system is so much better… I guess that’s partly explained by an also broken education system. That’s something that always has been broken as far as I can remember, but now it’ll get sooooo much worse under Trump.

Plus I’m brown enough to live in fear of getting an accidental deportation parking ticket. Here, you hit the wrong car and they can apparently blast your front door. How does any of that even help me?

Aaaaaand another thing that’s getting sooooo much worse under Trump. And all paid for by your taxes.

I’ll emphasize though, the problem isn’t taxes, it’s a broken political system where 0.01% of the population pay for 50% or more of political campaigning and the people have allowed their representatives to create a system of government that fucks them over for reasons that appeal to their basest instincts.

My Take-Home in Germany is a little less than two thirds of my pay.

The difference is that I’m happy with it, because I get my moneys worth in return. Holy shit healthcare alone is just so goddamn cheap compared to what all my health issues would cost extra in the US.

Yes, rich assholes not paying their fair share is a problem over here too, but far less than in the US and honestly, for my personal happiness it’s far more important that I can see the positive impact my taxes have on me and in my community.

I think that’s the biggest difference, are taxes levied for mutual benefit or to funnel money to the mayors/governors/presidents daughter’s/brother’s/buddy’s company and thus are a means to rob the populace? Over here it’s overwhelmingly for mutual benefit.

Kids of today are doing alright, they’ll go to the shitter, look at their phone and smile when Discord pings them with

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From a riddle-speaking butterfly, a unicorn learns that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the truth behind the butterfly’s words. She is eventually joined on her quest by Schmendrick, a second-rate magicia…

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Study after study has shown that the ROI for foreign aid is positive and indicative of an overall positive effect for the country giving the aid.

I’m only writing that to express that there are no moral and no economical reasons to reduce foreign aid. Even the right should be in favour of aid, as it lessens the amount of immigration and asylum and has a positive effect on GDP.

The only reasons to reduce foreign aid are populism, a change in political culture of the receiver (for example giving less money to Israel) and to shuffle it around in the budget, for example what Germany did with its infrastructure costs… declaring them a military necessity to be able to increase the military budget to appease Trump while still repairing our roadways.

But that is afaik not happening here… this is stupid populism.

AfD already has a track record of russian support/money and chinese spies.

Here’s an article about it.

Solingen aporoves

Thank you very much

Oh, that sounds awesome, can you point me in the right direction?

No, they don’t know what they are talking about.

@teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone has enough knowledge to dunning-kruger themselves into the valley of informed-misinformed but not enough knowledge to truly understand how shit works and get out of it again.

Tell me you don’t know how cookies and user tracking work without telling me.

This is blatantly false. Facebook-cookies can only be used to track you on websites that sent requests to Facebook (for example by displaying a share-code). Without making some kind of request to Facebook servers, cookies are simply little text snippets doing nothing.

The problem is that so many websites have in one way or another introduced code-snippets from Facebook or Google or Instagram or Youtube. Those snippets then fire requests to their servers and boom, that’s when your cookies can be used to identify you.

But Lemmy does not include any code snippets from Meta or Alphabet, so the only way to track you going here is through referrer when clicking on links.

Yeah, well the DMA wasn’t going to cost most EU politicians much of their good ol’ corporate lobbying monies. But switching the EU off of Micro$oft would definitely not only lose those funds, but also introduce way more vigorous counter-lobbying.

One pro of the EU’s glacial pace is that they frog-boil the shareholders, meaning most counter-lobbying activities are relatively tame.

But damn, do I wish they would just give the finger to all those american corporations and start a 4-year transition to OSS.

So…

(4/6)m > (5/6)l
m > (5/4)l

Which means Marty’s pizza is more than one and a quarter the size of Luis’ pizza. We can comfortably just compare the area, since we can assume a flat disk with equal height for a pizza.

Assuming Luis’ pizza is a Domino’s Classic size of 25cm that’s an area of:

(25cm / 2)² * π = (625cm² / 4) * π = 490.874cm²

So Marty’s pizza should be more than 490.874cm² * 1.25 = 613.5925cm² for 4/6 of his to be greater than of 5/6 of Luis’, so:

sqrt(613.5925cm² / π) * 2 = 13.975426964cm * 2 = 27.950853929cm

Since Marty’s pizza is greater, let’s go with 28cm diameter… which happens to match exactly a Domino’s Medium size.

That’s a very realistic scenario and the teacher is an absolute idiot for not understanding.

Gotta LOVE the EU, they’re working at a glacial pace but sooner or later (most likely later) it changes the landscape for the better.

If only enshittification would happen slow enough for the EU to catch up to.

We can’t? Why not? I can. Most people do! Everyone could… some don’t. Fuck those assholes.

Ah damn, the one making Ben Shapiro cry was Andrew Neil.

Where should we be putting our efforts? Where should we be putting our focus? I’ll tell you where our enemies are putting it. They’re putting it on the kids.

It’s no wonder, with that kind of intense training and discipling, that those young people are ready to kill themselves for the cause of Islam. I wanna see young people who are as committed to the cause of Jesus Christ as the young people are to the cause of Islam. I wanna see them as radically laying down their lives for the Gospel as they are over in Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places, you know, because we have… excuse me, but we have the truth!

Becky Fisher, Jesus Camp