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Penalties for DMA is 10% of global turnover for first offense and 20% of global turnover for subsequent offenses and, eventually, further penalties like the prevention to acquire companies.

DMA is not a joke (and I <3 EU, DMA is a very balanced law aggressive on the big player and not impacting small players)

Sure, it’s less bad. It’s not good though.

If I did accounting (or even just cooking, really) for the Mafia would be less bad than actually going with a gun to tether or kill people but it would still be bad.

Why? Because it still helps an organisation which core mission is hurting people.

And it’s purely out of greed because ChatGPT doesn’t desperately need this application otherwise they will go bankrupt

I looked in queen Romana… always fascinated to see cult leaders and what make their followers believe. Facts don’t matter there, emotions do. The darker the better because only the leader can solve the issue triggering the dark emotions…

It's quite a speculation. Democrats haven't lost (or won) any 2024 election yet.

That said, let's try to think how elections are "stolen". First of all, i define stolen as irregularities in counting votes. People voting twice or on behalf of someone else is unheard in the...human history (why? Because it's hard, a villain needs to find, one by one, millions of votes for making any meaningful impact on elections)

For counting irregularities it takes two things (1) that the primary system for counting is corrupted and (2) control mechanisms are corrupted and/or ineffective.

Only incumbent can influence (1) because only incumbent has power at the time of election while (2) is even more complex and, by design, neither incumbent (nor opposition parties) have full control of control mechanisms. So, realistically, only incumbent may have a chance to corrupt the system. In 2020, indeed, incumbent (Trump) tried to influence the counting system and failed because of the control mechanisms (e.g. state officials, even republican state officials, refused to comply because they knew their internal control mechanisms would not have allowed them).

Now in 2024 the incumbent is democrats so, if anything, only republicans may speculate irregularities.

But anyone can say anything. I may say that i am billionaire but not for this reason the bank must give me 1B$ cash. I have to demonstrate to be billionaire.

So, to recap, in 2024 onoy republican can reasonably accuse of irregularities and, in that case, they must demonstrate that there were these irregularities.

Didn’t it die together with all other 3rd party clients?

VSCode + Foam + gitea (+ hexcalidraw if you want to draw)

I would like to learn more on a sentence you casually dropped

it’s basically universally accepted that porn is harmful to children

It would be interesting to read some studies and what is the definition of “children”.

In other word I think that assertion is undebatable for a 6 year old… but what about a 14yo? And a 17yo?

And not refund...

I was more thinking about using the matrix <> WhatsApp bridge for avoiding the pop up. It’s impossible to migrate people (especially strangers)

Yeah… the result is that now I have WhatsApp, signal, telegram. 99% of my contacts are on WhatsApp, maybe 20% are on telegram (and a number of group chat are there) and 1% take it or leave it has signal (and no group chat).

In practice the only one I can get rid of is signal (that is also the one I would like better 🙄🙄)

The real question, in EU, is not Facebook (or even Instagram). It’s WhatsApp. Business talk with WhatsApp, family talk with WhatsApp, meet a person in a bar? Yep WhatsApp or you are the weirdo

As soon I got the banners, I uninstalled the app and switched to friendly. Not sure if I have such luxury with WhatsApp…. Maybe time to explore matrix? 🤷

The question is not what Google does now but what it will do in 1month, 1quarter, 1year.

It has been years that more and more petty measures have been taken.

FWIW I would make a spare account

Hardly a stupid manages to become a bishop… it’s like saying a stupid becomes Senior Vice President of a huge corporation. It just doesn’t happen “accidentally”.

What it is more likely is that he was in the conservative side of the church (pope Benedict nominated him). When a “progressive”, (relatively) young and healthy as Francis went on power he realised that he couldn’t become any more senior in the church (before retiring in 10years) so he tried to accumulate as many “donations” as possible from the most gullible people in his neighbourhood (MAGA supporters). He just did what trump does: be an anti establishment (while well inside the establishment)

I am 100% sure this dude will not die in poverty

FWIW I use foam. It is a visual code extension so you piggyback on all Visual code features and extensions (e.g. git, md lint, etc). And I sync with my self hosted gitea. It doesn’t have a mobile app but I use obsidian with the obsidian git plugin

Picking skin is a symptom of something much deeper (and possibly darker).

The fact that you want to get rid of it is great but as someone mentioned you need help.

I would suggest reading "The body keeps the score" it may give a glimpse of the issue... But you need a professional

Good luck dear internet stranger and remember that you are lovable and loved

Disney+ abonament can go up 80% and nobody cares. Union asks for 25% raise...and it's shocking

(And, yeah, regular household needs to face much more than just the Disney+ fees)

Dude what are you talking about? This is in UK

Thank god it was cancelled… people would have discovered that china uses ai for controlling their citizens (and possibly others). Something that is totally not known to anyone

Next step: “we are a nation of smokers and millions of us smoke daily. We are making the life of these people easier. Stop to the No Smoking areas. If a pregnant woman is present she can go eff herself. Stop to taxes on tobacco.

Because Google is like 90% of the market.

It’s not the bidding part per se the issue, the issue is that the bidding (and possibly other effective strategies) are so successful that Google is almost a monopoly.

The illegal part is that google is a bit too successful AND it uses these not-merits based techniques 🙂

The idea is that if you really want to become almost a monopoly you should not play these games. And being a total monopoly would be illegal in any case