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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I would strongly assume Protonmail will be doing this automatically soon, there's no manual day-to-day verification necessary.

Writing to the Blockchain is difficult and takes processing power, reading from it is absolutely trivial though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Spoken like a true 20 year old who has no concept of what health at 75 looks like. The alcohol hangovers will last multiple days, you might have a lung condition that prevents you from smoking, your circulation will massively shit the bed off stimulants (think racing heart, cold sweats, feeling weak, anxiety) and opioids... well, opioids might be mostly okay except for the constipation I guess. Withdrawals might incapacitate you for months though.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's more likely to be down to incompetence. I can't imagine the party UV lights are more expensive than the fuck-you-up UV lights.

EDIT: Someone else mentioned these might've been used during COVID for sanitation, and are extremely cheap leftover wares now that the pandemic is "over", which would actually make them a lot cheaper.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You absolutely can, but trademarks need to be domain-specific. And the social media platform and the window system don't have much overlap in their respective domains.

Another window system couldn't come along and call itself "X", but a microwave manufacturer very well might be able to.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

At they very least, I think short-distance flights need to be made way more expensive. Like a 70€ minimum ticket price on all flights.

There's no way in hell we're getting through the climate crisis when a German can pay 20€ for a flight to Mallorca and back, but pays 200€ for a train to the other side of the country.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Most spine-possessing influencers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

No one is immune to ads.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Qwant is unfortunately owned by Axel Springer, truly one of the worst German companies in existence. They're the publisher of the most popular (and unfortunately highly politically biased, filled to the brim with dishonest exaggerations and occasionally straight-up lies) German newspaper Bild.

Whatever comes out of Qwant if it actually becomes popular, you can rest assured it will be nothing good.

Just use DuckDuckGo and be done with it.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

Currently largest and most successful YouTuber on the platform (by a wide margin), started out by doing challenge videos about himself (24h in ice, that kinda stuff) that he'd invite friends to as the goody sidekicks causing mischief and making his challenges a little harder/more interesting.

These days, his stuff has transformed into a media powerhouse, all of it is still kinda falling into a challenge category. Now with far higher stakes and involving other people in competitions against each other - think "kids vs adults - group with most people still in the game after 5 days wins $500k" - where several days (sometimes months) of filming all gets cut down to one 10-20 minute long video.

There's also just "look at this thing" videos like "$1 to $10,000,00 car" where him and his friends check out increasingly expensive cars until they eventually get a whole bridge cordoned off to drive in the most expensive car in the world.

He does some philanthropy, like his "plant 10 million trees" campaign and makes money through sponsorship deals and advertising his own brands - they're currently running their own line of (fair trade?) chocolate bars that are available (in most places?) in the US, which kids will buy because of the brand recognition, leaving them with a ton of profits.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I asked which ones. Denmark has a surplus, but that's accidental and no one's trying to keep it that way.

And if you're about to give Qatar as an example, the point is moot.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Which countries are running on a profit, exactly?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The Russian "justice" system has a conviction rate of 99.3%. It's safe to say they're giving large swathes of completely innocent people the death penalty here - people who are someone's father, child, or friend.

Is that the system you see as exemplary for the west? Are these the Russian family values I'm always hearing so much about?

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