Allegedly, the product was virtually indistinguishable from butter.

Well it says

Margarine made from them was found to be nutritious and of agreeable taste

Doesn’t sound indistinguishable to me.

Bard defeated by tickling.

Which messenger? Signal and WhatsApp support it.

Edit: saw your reply below, it’s Facebook Messenger. Yeah, that’s a whole other problem of its own.

Fuck Chrome, too.

has a ahape that makes it easy to figure out

May I introduce you to USB C then where it doesn’t fucking matter how you plug it? I definitely prefer mini over the micro abomination but it’s not “the best”.

NZ doesn’t even show on like half of the maps.

Did you have a different experience? Or none at all and just assumed it only works for some?

And lots of that crap is anti piracy propaganda. Stuff, that actual pirates never see.

They don’t because they don’t have to - they are not very highly taxed (in Germany business profit is taxed at 30%, private capital gains at 26% and salaries by up to 45% - and the rich don’t have salaries).

Once you start a policy that is exclusively paid for by the actual rich, they’ll either prevent it or find a way to net profit via their contacts in legislation, or they will just change their main residence to one of their vacation homes. Plenty of German rich folks have done so already.

Your calculation would make sense - if all of your taxes went into the welfare system. In Germany the contribution rate is only 2.6% though (paid on top of your taxes) and with that your whole career might not be enough to pay for a single year of unemployment.

Also, the payment that arrives on your account hardly is the whole cost. There are up to whole ministries of government to pay for with thousands of tax-paid employees. Every pay-as-you-go system only works if the vast majority pays and only a few get paid.

I was happy to pay my taxes before I needed it, and I’ll be happy to pay my taxes after I need it. This is temporary, and it’s important that people get the help they need when they need it.

Problem is that the cost vastly surpasses the taxes you paid and will pay. And since the really rich always have the means to weasle out of the system, the middle class is bleeding until it can’t any more. Countries like Germany are squished by the cost of their welfare system.

And nobody actually looks at the TV.

It’s pretty apolitical. It’s about the music (and getting drunk).

Of course there’s some legitimate use case to it. Just like every privacy rights undermining bill helps “the children”. Doesn’t mean that’s the only or even the main goal.

I’ll miss traffic predictions and live traffic rerouting

That’s the only feature I’m using it for. The car’s built-in navigation is sufficient for “dumb” routing.

I’d really hate if they fuck up Maps since there are no alternatives on the same level but since it’s the last of their services I depend on, I could degoogle for good.

The major difference is that we don’t see an influx of insanely overvalued startups nobody heard of before.

That was the norm in the dotcom bubble and nobody remembers the “major players” of that time now.

The AI boom is pushed by the well established big tech which are also highly profitable and can afford the AI expense. Dotcom startups never were profitable.

I don’t like jokes that leave you disappointed. I’m hungry now.

Being 5-10 years from mean life expectancy does count as pretty old though.

Every banking system has some kind of credit score. Social scoring is what’s relatively new and has to keep us on edge because also governments of mostly free societies have a natural interest in such systems.