OfCourseNot

Oi! Some of us like to keep track of our expenses, it’s a good budgeting practice.

Not just Western Europe, it’s the whole of it. But also Asia, and the Americas. And Africa as well. Quite a tribal species we furless apes are.

So this is the kink your other meme is about, isn’t it?

First, this is, indeed, terrible. If it were up to me I would just abolish prisons altogether.

Now. The article reads like ‘they are treating women in prison as if they were men! How they dare!’ which, 26 years into the 21st century, is honestly appalling.

Well, not with that attitude!

There’s no such a thing as ‘middle class’. The working class is paying all of it.

interest payments on the debt are expected to exceed $1 trillion this year

If my finger-counting math is right ye yanks, on average (including children), are paying ~$250 a month just in interests… I ain’t no economist but that seems like a lot.

There’s an argument to be made that it is, in fact, not ‘reading’. The training of the model could be considered a lossy compression of the data. And streaming movies in a lossy compression format is not fair use, is it?

A big eared monkey with blood diarrhea.

No it doesn’t. But yours dilutes a bit the complicity of most (all, maybe) other states, many of them directly. Without them they couldn’t have done all this shit for these many years. They raised a very problematic pit bull, and when it mauls a bunch of babies the might go ‘oh! No! That’s very bad!’ But tell the parent that the baby scared the dog, and the other parent shouldn’t have approached so fast, while cuddling it. I also get your point, it very well might be that the dog cannot be rehabilitated. But states aren’t really dogs, they’re more like parasites to society. They may seem harmless or benign to a host when the conditions are right, but they can get super nasty in other context. But I agree that we should try to expel the parasite from the host whose life is in most danger first, even if at the cost of putting another parasite in its place. But sooner or later they all can become malign, even this much.

you should hate the israeli every state and oppose its existence

There, ftfy.

We’ve had them for quite some time. They don’t change price for individual customers, I don’t think they change the price in the middle of the day either. But, I guess, they can change the prices just before opening, like if the wether service forecasts a rainy day they could rise the price of umbrellas and raincoats. Cold? Hot chocolate and soups. Hot? Ice cream and cold drinks. Certain asshole died overnight? Champaign and confetti cannons through the roof. And so on…

In Spain we’ve had those for years now, and prices are as stupidly high in the stores with paper ones…

What trade ya wanker?

Since he started with the tariffs I’ve been trying to find a product labeled as ‘Made in USA’, no success so far. American brand tools are made here in the EU, Mexico, or China. Cars? No. Food? Nope.

What about our products over there? Well, Spanish wine and olive oil are mainly labeled and sold as French and Italian, respectively, so…

As a Spaniard, no he doesn’t. I can’t help to loudly chuckle every time I see the press call him a ‘Socialist’ (not that I’m a commie either, mind you, but I’m not in a very different way than him) because the ‘Spanish Worker’s Socialist Party’ (lol) would be even slightly to the right of the American DNC imho, their a monarchist party after all. This is just an (quite fortunately) easy political win, and a diversion from all the shit the PSOE, and Sánchez in particular, have right now in their hands.

U.S. abandoning leadership on the energy transition

Uhm? How the fuck does one abandon something they never had??

No I’m not saying it’s the developers’ fault, they’re not the people making these decisions, just building whatever they’re paid for. But in this case it is this dev’s own site, and they’re defending their decision here.

The users…I don’t know how much they (we) are to blame. We all end up succumbing to the pressure sooner or later, and even though I really wish more people would put a bit more of a fight, when I see myself using smartphones, lots of these apps, WhatsApp, windows at work… sometimes I think whether maybe the ones giving up early or just straight up embracing the crap are the wiser ones, because resistance does sometimes seem futile.

Fuck this.

The state of the web, and software in general, is fucking abysmal. And it is in no small part due to this kind of shit. You want this recipe/news/whatever? Here is a hundred mbs of frameworks, trackers, spyware…

What’s even the point nowadays when every website, sorry, ‘wEb ApP’ is going to make me install their crappy app to give me full functionality? Then the app is just a web view (when not a wrapped full fledged web browser) to present their shitty web but with more privileges.

If you have some fos licensed software it will be foss forever, that licence is a contract and doesn’t go away. Now the author(s) of that code can license it to other people or release the newer versions with a different non-foss licence.

Knitting and crocheting? eMacs does have a package for everything…