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Disgusting Kazhaqstan-centric world view. smh

How dare you?! Obviously [other point on sphere] is the superior point of reference.

/s

That would be the weirdest possible turn of events.

And like, every single supporter of Israel would be stumped, because they would need to think about which Israel to back.

Absolute cinema. Good idea for a fictional alternate timeline.

The point of a sarcastic comment like mine, is to shame reuters for their shitty behavior, that has fallen behind the times.

As the other commenter has demonstrated, finding the study is easy. For everyone, including reuters. The reason they don’t link them is cultural, they are so arrogant to believe they don’t have to. Which pisses me off and sarcasm and ridiculing them is the only tool available to me to maybe make them stop eventually.

No source linked, so that’s just a rumor spread by reuters.

Say what you want, TED taught me to tie my shoes correctly. Because if you align the knots wrong it doesn’t stay tied.

Ok. Finding them is still good news.

Because there is a massive amount of PR and propaganda to “just accept” low paying jobs and being treated like shit.

The work they advertise and show “what is possible” isn’t “owning a bank”, or “being CEO”. It’s the local janitorial service showing how nice they are that they are paying 1$/€ whatever more than minimum wage.

Politicians saying that don’t give a rat arse about what the work is actually like, all they see is tax revenue, economic activity going up and most importantly, young people not getting funny ideas about freedom and protests to demand it.

Like, have you never been to a career fair? It’s bottom of the barrel stuff.

“If you got a ton of money, maybe you can make it happen,” he told Aviation Week. “They went to the Moon, you know.”

That is SO funny.

I think it’s just sameness fatigue.

You have to observe the process for a while to understand the dynamic and when you do, it can appear that everything is just cyclic and boring. So an unbelievable number of people are now “aging out” of the 10-15 year period of exposure you need to understand what’s worth engaging with and what isn’t.

It’s a certain realization that the original utopia of an interconnected places where everyone can share and everyone is interested in a broad number of topics and everyone can be nice for the purpose of discussion, is ending. Maybe I don’t care for the big platform that has everything and everyone, because most of everything and most of everyone is not actually interesting to me. Regardless of whether they’re bots or not.

If it’s entertaining, it being fake isn’t a problem. But if it’s fake AND boring… why stick around.

tldr: the internet hasn’t changed, we have. Or it did, but that’s not the point.

data “center”

• very far away, not central at all
• tiny, so it can’t “center” much
• radio contact only, so other places are probably faster to reach

Ok then.

He’s literally called Brad? huh.

Yeah, what is definitely happening is that the ownership of significant real estate will be transferred from private companies to… probably public benefit associates that aren’t directly controlled by the government but sort of government adjacent. By legal force. I think it’s fair to call it nationalization but the word doesn’t matter that much.

Back to public ownership I should add, it was sold to private companies to solve some short term debt issues after the reunification.

The principle is that whatever the national law says has to be followed, but if there isn’t a national law, the federal country can do something. Also housing is more of a local issue.

There are laws to “eminent domain” stuff, but it has been mostly used for Autobahn and coal mining in the past and only affected peasants in little villages who couldn’t fight back.

Otherwise good question, that’s what almost everyone is asking at the moment.

designed to show off explosions.

EXPLOSIONS??

Let me reinforce this point mentioned by mushroommunk:

There was one game, No Mercy, that really did push things too far. Collective Shout was able to poster child that game and pressure payment providers into pressuring game platforms to delist a lot of NSFW games.

There were a few others and they were justifying and glorifying violence and terrorism. Not satire. Not as political commentary. Not artistically valuable. I recommend you don’t research this further. It’s real NSFL stuff. They were not putting it in fictional universes or anything like that either. It was “commit these crimes”-simulators and justifying it with racism, sexism or whatever, claiming that the victims deserve it. Actually disgusting.

They would be declared illegal, by any customer protection agency or national / government prosecutors doing their job. They were only online and available because those gov. agencies were not aware of them and/or too slow in taking them offline.

And because the steam’s process didn’t check them. Which Valve acknowledged in the sense that they admitted they didn’t and couldn’t and THEN took everything offline they couldn’t and didn’t check.

And THAT also hit unrelated stuff, because valve couldn’t check it and doesn’t want to take responsibility. Which, yeah, understandable.

Create the situation where there is nothing to do except reading.

Make the time. Make an appointment with yourself. Put the books to the place where you plan to read them. Shut off everything else, computer, laptop, music. Don’t put a clock near you. It’s not about “getting through this chore”. Focus on reading. If it’s a room with a window, the rising and setting of the sun will give you enough of a clue how early or late it is.

I just don’t feel attracted to those books.

Boohoo. Do it.

WTF is this headline math.

The annual target is 100%.

5 months out of 12 is 41%.

28% (of the annual) / 41% (What they should expect to collect in 5 months) is 0.68, so roughly 2/3.

In English: they made 1/3 less money than they expected.

FFS. People shouldn’t be expected to do this much math, when being given information. I’m doing the journalists homework here?!

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Ask your local political party (or union) and volunteer for tech stuff for them.

Ask what they use, contribute to that. Or if they use something bad, suggest something good to them, then work on that.