For me (europe) it is:

• 2,99 = 50GB
• 9,99 = 2TB

Everyone with a family or social life has between 20-200GB photos and videos. Notice how there is no plan for 5,99 = 1TB. You either do not back up everything and pay 3€, or you pay a tener per month to have a cloud storage that is always 50-70% empty but still have to pay for.

I will be the first to leave Apple iCloud if there is a viable solution that works like apples own OS integration without jumping through hoops and losing albums and meta data

Google Chrome’s uBlock Origin phaseout has begun

A russian attack on US civial aviation would remove all brakes on ukrainian aid. They would not even allowed from then on to strike deep into russian territory, it would be a auto subscription to the Best-Daily-Targets-Newsletter by every 3Letter-Agency in the US. How stupid can Putin be?

I was not proficient with this topic, so had to look it up:

The Ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus’s Paradox, is a paradox and a common thought experiment about whether an object is the same object after having all of its original components replaced over time, typically one after the other.

In Greek mythology, Theseus, the mythical king of the city of Athens, rescued the children of Athens from King Minos after slaying the minotaur and then escaped onto a ship going to Delos. Each year, the Athenians would commemorate this by taking the ship on a pilgrimage to Delos to honour Apollo. A question was raised by ancient philosophers: After several hundreds of years of maintenance, if each individual piece of the Ship of Theseus were replaced, one after the other, was it still the same ship?

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It is the same Argument the Iranian and Afghan Goverments use to cripple the freedom of womans. AllahuMaga.

“You love the idea of me”

legal tender

As far as I understood it in the last 20 years, it is only legal tender for debt facing the goverment. No private business has to accept cash. They do not have to accept cards either. If they wish, they could demand payments only in acorns or bottle caps if they wanted to. Only govermental Institutes (eg. for taxes, fines, etc.) have to always accept cash so you can always free yourself from outstanding debits without needing a bank account as bank wiring or credit cards are a private 3rd party business that can not be guaranteed for every citizen (as banks can arbitrary decline service to people).

Okay. Good.

Fuck Putin. If he would only put 1% of his heinous acts against the west into his own country, russia could progress. The west could live happy without Russia. But the west lives rent free in russians heads. Without the west, they would realize that they themself are the reason for the shithole they are in. It is not the gays. Not the Weed. It is their shitty attitude towards everything. But as long there are western countries, they can project their abysmal performance to them.

On July 18, 2023, in partnership with Microsoft, Meta announced Llama 2 On April 18, 2024, Meta released Llama-3

L2 it’s one year old. A study like that takes time. What is your point? I bet if they would do it with L3 and the result came back similar, you would say L3 is „insanely outdaded“ as well?

Can you confirm that you think with L3, the result would look completely opposite and the summaries of the AI would always beat the human summaries? Because it sounds like you are implying that.

Maduro preparing Vzla as a refugee destination for Putin when things go sideways. Some of his Wagner Troops are allready there irrigating the ground with blood for his arrival.

TLDR: Moooneeey

I would watch that Youtube video where every entity in this list is given a short 5 Minute presentation, who they are and what they stand for. I bet it is a can of worms.

Year Top Marginal Tax Rate Congress President

1980 70.00% 🟦 Jimmy Carter

1981 69.13% (🟦🟥) Ronald Reagan

1982 50.00% (🟦🟥) Ronald Reagan

1983 50.00% (🟦🟥) Ronald Reagan

1984 50.00% (🟦🟥) Ronald Reagan

1985 50.00% (🟦🟥) Ronald Reagan

1986 50.00% (🟦🟥) Ronald Reagan

1987 38.50% 🟦 Ronald Reagan

1988 28.00% 🟦 Ronald Reagan

1989 28.00% 🟦 George H.W. Bush

1990 28.00% 🟦 George H.W. Bush

1991 31.00% 🟦 George H.W. Bush

1992 31.00% 🟦 George H.W. Bush

1993 39.60% 🟦 Bill Clinton

1994 39.60% 🟦 Bill Clinton

1995 39.60% 🟥 Bill Clinton

1996 39.60% 🟥 Bill Clinton

1997 39.60% 🟥 Bill Clinton

1998 39.60% 🟥 Bill Clinton

1999 39.60% 🟥 Bill Clinton

2000 39.60% 🟥 Bill Clinton

2001 39.10% 🟥 George W. Bush

2002 38.60% 🟥 George W. Bush

2003 35.00% 🟥 George W. Bush

2004 35.00% 🟥 George W. Bush

2005 35.00% 🟥 George W. Bush

2006 35.00% 🟥 George W. Bush

2007 35.00% 🟦 George W. Bush

2008 35.00% 🟦 George W. Bush

2009 35.00% 🟦 Barack Obama

2010 35.00% 🟦 Barack Obama

2011 35.00% (🟦🟥) Barack Obama

2012 35.00% (🟦🟥) Barack Obama

2013 39.60% (🟦🟥) Barack Obama

2014 39.60% (🟦🟥) Barack Obama

2015 39.60% 🟥 Barack Obama

2016 39.60% 🟥 Barack Obama

2017 39.60% 🟥 Donald Trump

2018 37.00% 🟥 Donald Trump

2019 37.00% (🟦🟥) Donald Trump

2020 37.00% (🟦🟥) Donald Trump

2021 37.00% (🟦🟥) Joe Biden

2022 37.00% (🟦🟥) Joe Biden

2023 37.00% (🟦🟥) Joe Biden

KEY [Congressional Control: Democrat🟦 Republican🟥 Split(🟦🟥)] [President: Republican Democrat]

shamelessly copied from a reddit comment - sue me

“Yes I know the customer learned that product name and has a good connotation with it, but how about we change the name to something completely different?”

My cat is weird. Do you think she might be a republican?

Up until 2019, fentanyl could be bought by just typing it into chinese onlineshops. Since then, China is not diverting the course of being the worlds 1# fentanyl producer and the #1 outlet market is still the USA. But China can not send it straight to the US anymore but is bringing it to mexico and using the already active routes to swamp the US with that deadly drug. The China-Iran-Russia connection would do anything to weaken the west. This is just one of their operations. The british addicting hundred of thousands chinese with opium 200 years ago in the 1830s is still a very big ignominy in chinas victim narrative (Century of Humiliation). Applying this scheme back to “the west” is their tit-for-tat response to pay back. Chinese ambassadors and cultural attaché mention it all the time in interviews in the last 20 years.

I love the post-reddit era, where titles can be changed if they are not correct!

Authoritarians will always lie to the democratic world. They will always get the benefit of the doubt and in their calls afterwards will lough about democracies how weak they are while they can steal, corrupt and murder while getting away. I’m sick of those bastards.

No freedom, for the enemies of freedom!

No tolerance for the enemies of tolerance!