How long does your pubic hair have to be to qualify as underpants?

All their big multiplayer games have lootboxes and stuff like that.

Eh its not too bad. 43% of study participants regained less than 50% of their lost weight. So i would say its quite effective even long term, just not 100% effective.

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France was also leading the charge in the shutdown of those other encrypted phone services. They claimed that those were only used by criminals but never provided any evidence. They also broke multiple laws during their investigation. So yes the french government definitely is dirty in this regard and deserves calling out.

Yeah thats about what i expected.

That is very interesting 🤔. Thanks!

I was considering buying Risk of Rain 2 on sale yesterday for 9€ but buying all the DLCs costs 45€.

Eh i considered that it might be meant as a horny joke, but wanted to voice my disgust for post death AI slop anyways.

Its true that the dead cant care, but living people like parents, friends and other siblings might. I can absolutely see someone being deeply hurt by this kind of fake technological necromancy.

Its not morbid, its disrespectful. Let dead people be dead.

Even at 1000$ it will most likely outperform any 1000$ prebuilt you can buy. If they market it like this it can absolutely work at that price point.

Which brings us back to the issue of all the empty and unused housing which is used to artificially increase rent levels. There is actually more supply than demand, but the supply is being limited by the gatekeepers (corporate and individual landlords). With proper legislation this would improve quite a bit.

How is this different when every house for rent is owned by an individual?

Obviously there should be limits to individual land ownership too…

In Germany they are called “Heuschrecken” which translates to “Locusts” because thats how they operate.

Only in german: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuschreckendebatte

This is what librewolf translated the first section to:

A locust debate in Germany in April and May 2005 over a statement by the then SPD chairman Franz Müntefering is referred to as a locust debate. This compared the economic action of some “anonymous investors” with locust plagues.

The term “locust” has since been regarded in German political parlance as a derogatory animal metaphor for private equity companies and other forms of equity participation, such as in the public-private partnership model, with allegedly short-term or excessive return expectations, such as hedge funds or so-called vulture funds.

The term and debate have been criticized variously, including as in parts anti-Semitic and anti-American.

The last part is super funny to me, because it just speaks to the way that the defenders of these investment tactics think.

I went and looked at the referenced “vulture fund” phrase and was not disappointed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulture_fund

Yeah no. Last i checked there are 4 times as many empty apartments than homeless people in Germany. The housing market here is completely fucked and corporate housing ownership needs to be disincentivized or outright banned for this to be solved. Whenever people try to buy housing they will be outbid by companies that already have plenty of capital. This leads to an everlasting spiral where the rich people will always have more buying power and normal people are perpetually stuck paying absurd rents to those same rich people making them even richer.

How about an hour? 10 minutes? Would have prevented this. I very much doubt that their service is so unstable and flimsy that they need to respond to stuff on such short notice. It would be worthless to their customers if that were true.

Restarting and running some automated tests on a server should not take more than 5 minutes.

Some phones do still work without, but i think most dont.

some devices will bypass the battery when permanently plugged in. I have an old phone i use as a syncthing node and i log the battery current on it. It never actually gets used by the phone, it only suffers from some very slight internal discharge.

has me reconsidering my use of syncthing

This is about a third party piece of software that isnt directly related to syncthing. The devs of syncthing have however been recommending syncthing-fork as their choice for android, so it definitely needs clearing up.