Just to point out, but producing goods in exchange for pieced of paper is a weak system, especially if it's focus is export and not internal consumption, see Germany, Japan, Italy or China, all slowing down due to their reliance on exports.
To stay strong, you have to keep exercising your muscles or they will atrophy. To stay smart, you have to keep exercising your brain. To be able to produce stuff, you have to keep producing stuff no matter which country it goes to.
2022-11-28 - “About 2.6 million Uyghur and Kazakh people have been subjected to coercion, “re-education programs” and internment in the Xinjiang region of north-west China, which is the source of 40-45% of the world’s solar-grade polysilicon. A report by the United Nations office of the high commissioner for human rights three months ago found Xinjiang was home to “serious human rights violations”, and the US has listed polysilicon from China as a material likely to have been produced by child or forced labour.”
It's convenient the Islamic countries don't seem to mind their coreligonists being persecuted here, especially as these people haven't launched military invasions of neighboring regions.
Many Hamas members had day-jobs as “journalists”, meaning they worked on producing content for Hamas. Many of them took part in the invasion of Israel on Oct 7th taking selfies with and clips of the gruesome massacres as they were unfolding.
I mean I don't exactly have great news for you about the human rights situations in major oil-producing countries either. Not to do whataboutism, but if your energy source is going to implicate you in human rights abuses either way, you might as well take the clean renewable one.
3. Types of Data collected
Among the types of Personal Data that this Application collects, by itself or through the listed Data Processors, there are:
Unique device identifiers
Approximate geographic position (city level)
IDs (package names) from installed apps
Usage Data
Cookies
Yeah.. I used to use Niagra because it really is a great launcher but I don't like the data collection. A great FOSS alternative is Kvaesitso which doesn't have the exact same layout but it is search based. They also managed to implement a native search that in my opinion is better than Sesame.
Amen. This is some of the best descriptions of the current mid to upper class mentality in Europe. Frankly, I think only the common man feels what is really happening here.
This is a personal item size bag for under the seat. The max size on Ryanair is 24 liters. You are thinking of the cabin bag which is more like 44 liters. This Decathlon bag is great because it maxes out the personal item size really optimally.
Hmmm. I flew last week and it was fine. They were checking most of the bags (they now have an incentive to find bags above the limits) and asked me to put mine in the metal case. It went in (reluctantly) and after shaking the whole device to get my bag out I was let go.
"This is a classic ChstGPT gotcha". This and the gaslighting "Exactly, now you see why A!=B" when it was ME who pointed out his wrong A=B assumption are driving me crazy.
They f*cked it up. I am convinced ChatGPT will be a classic case of an early prodigy which gets surpassed by the better, second generation products. History is full of those. I think Tesla is another, recent one.
Indeed, while it's anecdotal, I find Gemini give me right answers at first attempt, while sometimes I can't get ChatGPT to get it right in two-three comebacks.
I am absolutely certain seemingly little things like these icons, the Liquid Glass fiasco and iOS/macOS abysmal quality slowly shift the option on Apple from "Steve-Jobsy pedantically perfect" to "just another Microsoft".
It's hard to argue Apple isn't enshitificating themselves.
To me, it seems like Apple’s traditional culture is dead. On one hand, while I like the classic Mac OS and Tiger-Snow Leopard Mac OS X, Apple’s UI guidelines aren’t sacred scripture; they should change as we discover new insights about human-computer interaction, and I’m open to changes that improve my productivity.
Unfortunately, in my opinion it seems that Apple’s software promotes form over function. It’s been this way for over a decade now, but macOS 26 and iOS 26 are severe regressions. It seems that there isn’t anyone at Apple in charge that is aware of what makes Apple distinct from its competitors. It’s more than just sleek visual design; it’s how the interface works. A long time ago Apple had people like Bruce Tognazzini and Don Norman. When Jobs returned, he was a major influence. Apple today, unfortunately, has neither advanced its platforms to lead the way in human-computing interaction, nor has it upheld the traditional Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines. Instead Apple is on this weird luxury brand path.
Apple’s saving graces these days are its excellent hardware, the state of Windows, and the Sisyphean nature of the Linux desktop ecosystem’s development. However, the Linux desktop works for many people, and it’s increasingly gaining ground this past year as an alternative to Windows and macOS.
I wish there were a company that pushed personal computing forward again, much like how Apple did in the pre-iPhone, pre-Cook era.
The difference is one set of protestors support US/Israel intervention for regime change.
The other group of protestors are protesting against this. There is a segment within this group that are ardently pro-Regime. The other segment (which I think is the majority of the group, and Iran, but I have no evidence and so this is purely anecdotal based on my various discussions with Iranians) is that they do want regime change, but not from any outside influence - they would ideally like an organic democratic process that Iranian citizens control.
The death toll and the pictures and videos that are coming out that these people don’t even dare taking their usual positions and try to just mitigate it. It’s that bad.
Usually these deflections mean that the IRGC has indeed killed 3 year olds. Thanks for confirming it.
Tomorrow when Islamic Republic falls, people will get their hands on the list of every one the registrar has funded and sent overseas. A day of judgment will come for all the innocents.
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