[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 1 month ago

Because they're the only country with America in their name whereas United States is shared by Mexico

Also in English there's a distinction between North and South America, with the supercontinent being referred to as "The Americas", so America isn't really ambiguous, they're also geologically and environmentally distinct enough that "The Americas" isn't used so much and "New World" is often more relevant to include Australia as another somewhat culturally similar sparsely populated former colonial area.

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 2 months ago

And here I was thinking Arc and storage were the only semi-competitive wings of intel... They just needed a couple of years for adoption to increase

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Are they identical objects?

Ship of theseus

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 5 months ago

it's just a knife that google thinks is kinda fly, not an official name or anything

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 9 months ago

Except Mali and China's crossing is pure fiction and Polynesia's is plausible but missing a lot of evidence you'd expect to find

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 10 months ago

If there's a gold rush, you want to run the railroads, build the houses, sell the shovels and open the general store I guess

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

He was mentioned in a 2015 email but the allegations that led to the email haven't been released in full and so it's entirely possible that it was said to discredit the accuser, and the pictures meant to show him "at an underage orgy" are from a not poorly-attended science conference which I'd expect would be too big to keep anything shady hidden, but this is the best source I could find on it: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/01/04/jeffrey-epstein-stephen-hawking-court-files-claims/

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 1 year ago

"we want to reduce e-waste by forcing everyone to throw out their wired headphones and buy a new set of wireless ones every couple of years when the battery goes dead"

The hypocrisy enrages me here

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 1 year ago

Exactly... The issue isn't spotify taking a very normal cut, it's the record labels taking a majority cut and it seems this bill misses that entirely

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Your car also isn't a private space when the kid you just hit goes through your windscreen because you were doing 10 over the limit while looking at your phone

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They bypassed paying $8, getting full access on the nerfed free version

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 2 years ago

Thing is, GDPR also applies in the UK and CCPA applies in California where Threads is active so legally they have to delete your profile regardless of what they say in their FAQ

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