[-] Humanius@lemmy.world 56 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's absolutely infuriating and flat-out an insult that Ukraine and Europe would not be allowed a seat at the negotiation table.

Ukraine not being allowed to decide about their own fate is ridiculous at best.
And Europe was just as much a partner in aiding Ukraine as America was, if not more.

All I can say is that this whole thing reminds me a lot of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact

[-] Humanius@lemmy.world 58 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I agree with the sentiment, but I don't think a military alliance with Russia is even on the table. That'd be replacing one abusive "ally" with another.
Just because America is suddenly untrustworthy and a risk, doesn't mean that Russia isn't a threat anymore.

Imo, Europe is better off forging its own path, only collaborating with countries such as China when it is in our strategic interest to do so.

[-] Humanius@lemmy.world 57 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That is indeed the goal, but there is still a PR battle to be had on the issue.

To my knowledge this is the first time that congestion pricing has been implemented in North-America, and how people react to this will decide whether other North-American cities are willing to take the risk and do the same thing. Over the next couple of months there will likely be a lot of opinion pieces and articles that try to make you think that the congestion pricing is a failure and should be reversed.

Edit: typo

[-] Humanius@lemmy.world 48 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

While this is nice, I do not really see any places where one can now cross the street?
Some cut-outs for pedestrians would probably be helpful for people who need to access a building on the other side.

[-] Humanius@lemmy.world 38 points 9 months ago

I like to think that these videos are the only thing keeping Patrick Boyle sane from his career in finance.

His channel is great. I love his dry sense of humour.

[-] Humanius@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The German state doesn't recognise Palestine as a state currently, so probably not.
Only a few countries west of the former Iron Curtain recognise Palestine (Iceland and Sweden, and as of this year Norway, Ireland, and Spain)

[-] Humanius@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Please please please don't vote the orange man into office.. good God.

[-] Humanius@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago

Guess I'll be contacting my MEPs, and looking into which MEPs support and oppose this plan.
Though I am glad to see my country at least has stated it finds the proposal unacceptable.

[-] Humanius@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's because back when smartphones and Whatsapp were new, unlimited text messaging plans were either expensive or unavailable in much of Europe (and I would imagine other places as well). From my understanding these kinds of plans were much more common in America.

When your cellphone plan has limited text messages, but sending messages via Whatsapp takes so little data that it might as well be unlimited, the barrier to early adoption becomes very low. So people start using Whatsapp, and get their friends to use Whatsapp. And once that ball is rolling it becomes very hard to stop.

These days people use Whatsapp because everyone else uses Whatsapp.
It's the assumed default.


Edit: Heck.. even to this day I have limited text messages.
My current cellphone plan is for 12 GB, Unlimited calls, and 500 texts.

And I've not sent a single text message in months, if not years.

[-] Humanius@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

It's a form of protest. He's clearly not actually aiming to get elected.

[-] Humanius@lemmy.world 46 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Firstly, I'm happy to see Sync return.
I made sure to subscribe to help make developing the app financially viable.

Secondly.. With the Sync beta just going live, I'm already running into my very first bugs.
What would be the appropriate place to report these bugs?

Edit: My question has already been answered by OP:

Oh and please note that bugs should be reported in #sync-support-and-bugs in the discord: https://discord.gg/qYWxqva

[-] Humanius@lemmy.world 52 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That hasn't stopped me from using other Google services like Gmail, Docs, or Drive either.

If I ever decide I want to opt out of Google's ecosystem I'll just serve them a GDPR data deletion request.
That's what I did when I deleted my Twitter account as well.

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