Couple of years ago a friend of mine was planning a trip to Germany and wanted to move between two cities. I’ve check the prices quickly and a trip on a normal train going maybe 100-200km cost ~60€. At the same time similar trip on a high speed train in Spain was about 20€. No idea if it changed but Deutsche Bahn seemed like a joke back then.

OMG! This is sooo me! (the competent one, not the social pariah).

Of course super experienced jumper is more likely to survive than some random dude with no experience but with wingsuits risk of death is high even if you do everything right. Unlike in other extreme sports, many times there’s no clear reason why accident happened.

I don’t know… I know that consumer protection is pretty much non-existent in US but a price of a product is still a price of a product. Let’s say they want to go all-in, ignore the law and just charge everyone whatever they want. They would simply put a price 10% below real price on every sticker and charge you something else at the register. They would say that the price on the sticker is approximate and you have to identify yourself to know the real price. After scanning your consumer cart or your credit card they would show you the final amount. It would be way simpler than to put digital stickers, track the movement of every customer in real time, use face recognition to identify them and adjust the prices close to them. Technically they could do all this but for what? Why develop some hi-tech solution when a simpler solution is equally illegal? People would be pissed either way so they will do it only if they know their customers have nowhere else to go. I don’t see any reason to play a game like that. Occam’s razor: they want to change prices at night.

P.S. Unless they want to change the price for everyone in the middle of the day and the stickers are there so only first 20 customers are surprised at the register and start complaining. The rest picked up the product with the new price already… This makes some sense but it would be done in rare cases like unexpected weather change so they increase the price on umbrellas or something. But yeah, I could see that happening.

It’s way harder to prove that someone set prices above the inflation levels and their cost increase than to prove that prices change while people are shopping.

Not really an issue if the knowledge they expose you to is still more than you can absorb. Classic web search can show you 10x more info but you will just skim it anyway and absorb only tiny portion of it.

I thought about the exact same thing. Exactly like Super-Kamiokande.

(A guy who thought us about Super-Kamiokande and neutrinos at my university showed us his photos with Bruno Pontecorvo taken at some ski resort in Soviet Union after Pontecorvo defected to USSR and the whole world was trying to figure out where he was. He worked on Manhattan project and allegedly help Russians build their atomic bomb. He never admitted to working on it but he did come up with the theory of neutrino oscillation which was later proven by Super-Kamiokande.

My other professor played basketball with Fidel Castro.)

Who would want to live on a parking lot?

Are beowolf clusters still a thing? If yes, imagine one made out of those.

Russia is not planning on invading and conquering the whole Europe. The want to disrupt supply chains and divert resources going to Ukraine. Russia already has a lot of military on the borders with NATO (for example Finland). They are just sitting there not helping them win the war in Ukraine in any way. So Russia would like to:

1. Force NATO to gather more resources on their side of the border instead of sending them to Ukraine
2. Test if NATO members are actually willing to fight to defend each other (we know USA won’t)
3. Disrupt supply chains and destroy factories used by Ukraine

Crimea was overtaken by Russia without officially sending any troops. It was all done by some independent “mercenaries” that went there to protect Russian minority. (later Putin admitted it were in fact Russian soldiers)

NATO is worried same thing can happen in Latvia or Estonia: small number of “mercenaries” engaging with the tiny armies those countries have. Other worry is long range missile attacks on critical infrastructure. So far NATO members did not respond to drone attacks and terrorist attacks on their infrastructure. Russia is checking how far they can go and so far NATO let them do anything without any consequences. It’s clear Putin will keep escalating (why wouldn’t he?) and what everyone is saying is that EU should be ready for the next step: direct attack.

Putin doesn’t have to win it. He just has to divert enough resources away from Ukraine for it to pay off. Every drone that flies into NATO means more air defense systems in EU and less air defense in Ukraine. Same with everything else.

Safety? In BASE jumping? No such thing.

Wingsuit jumpers just die from time to time. There’s no way to do it safely. Every jump is a lottery.

Sadly they only let reports get close to him.

Did anyone lose their legs because of those already?

common sense?

But seriously, nothing can stick out beyond the body of the car (expect mirrors), not even wheels.

Edit: After checking the laws says the fender has to cover the tire to prevent splashing so it may not apply to rims like that. So back to common sense

It’s not about TOS. Changing the price after you put something in your cart but before you got to the register would be straight out illegal.

https://retaildigitals.com/price-accuracy-laws-by-state/

Michigan: Shopping Reform & Modernization Act (2011). Scanner accuracy law with a consumer “bounty”: if the register charges more than the displayed price, the shopper is owed the difference plus 10× the difference (min $1, max $5) on request.

Arizona, Wisconsin, Florida & most other states: Adopt the NIST Handbook 130 price-verification examination: periodic inspections sample 25–100 items; typically 98% must scan at or below the displayed price to pass.

Fail an inspection and re-inspections, fines, or stop-sale orders follow.

And so on…

I don’t even live in US and I know that. Who come Americans are so confused about it?

It’s to change prices during the night, not while people are walking around. This was already covered. Focus on the actual issue (surge pricing) instead of making up some fantasy scenarios.

yes, it was a joke

Looks kind of fake.

And same thing applies to other bans but a lot of people on lemmy seem to think only bans they personally support can ever work. Bans they don’t support will never work because VPN and such.