l23k4

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by l23k4 3mo ago
> Why would I create myself a chore for an end of a month Do they not have direct debit where you live? >If it is auto-charge by the end of month, why not charge it right away? Because there's no way I'm going to keep anywhe
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by l23k4 3mo ago
> Some Europeans meaning people in Germany? I guess, I haven't really kept track, but I've observed this many times from different people. > credit cards are generally associated with companies like Revolut That's surpr
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by l23k4 3mo ago
Some Europeans refer to girocards as "debit cards" and everything else incorrectly as "credit cards"
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by l23k4 3mo ago
In my experience what Paradigm2020 describes is very much the norm around the world. > and briefly worked in a bank in, I suspect this might be where the confusion stems from, if you're thinking of places where people go to banks yo
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by l23k4 3mo ago
>Yeah, you do need daily protein but for most people nowhere near as much as they are taking in. I don't know, USADA is about as conservative as it gets and they certainly recommend a shitload of protein for for individuals trying
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by l23k4 3mo ago
They might be talking about a girocard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girocard
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by l23k4 3mo ago
It is a prevalent view among the lower socioeconomic classes.
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by l23k4 3mo ago
Most people in the EU use debit cards , they additionally use direct debit specifically for utilities, gym memberships, etc.
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by l23k4 3mo ago
If you're going to Paris? Sure, as long as the amounts are relatively small. Try paying with pre 2009 100USD bills in Africa lol. Even banks struggle with this https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/05/30
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by l23k4 3mo ago
>Is that a tongue in cheek reference to my inadvertently weird capitalization of wildcat as WildCat — no idea why I did that, maybe a throwback to my ThunderCats fandom of my youth. No, but that's hilarious. Good catch! I don't
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by l23k4 3mo ago
I suggest you go outside sometimes, you'll see that the real world looks rather different than whatever crypto-obsessed bubble you live in. I really don't think I need to explain the obvious difference between physical US dollar
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by l23k4 3mo ago
I'd argue that the poor capitalization was a core part of wildcat banking, that's not really the case here.
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by l23k4 3mo ago
When you go outside of the nice countries, local money becomes worthless. Nobody wants it, they'd much rather have dollars instead. Stablecoins for the first time offer a reasonable way for the global poor to store value in dollars, or
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by l23k4 3mo ago
>Anyway, unless you actually have stabbed someone before you don't know whether you got what it takes until you're actually in a situation where you find out. A guy tried to rob me, I fractured his skull with my iphone before I
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by l23k4 3mo ago
> This is Denmark, not some Brasilian favela Yet they're dressed exactly like a hit squad in a Brazilian favela! >Especially when they want to preserve evidence which might be quickly destroyed if the suspect sees them coming. So
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by l23k4 3mo ago
>The hate in Europe is driven primarily by an influx of people who were hating Jews anyway You are mistaken, the sentiments are shifting across the board. This is probably driven to a significant degree by the Israeli national policy of
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by l23k4 3mo ago
> but Hamas sure doesn't seem to be in a good shape lately. And who do you see on track to displace Hamas? After years and years of conflict and being "bombed to shit", they're as entrenched as ever while their enemy
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by l23k4 3mo ago
> They’d basically have to attack you first for lethal force to be legal. They just violently entered his home in an effort to attack him, dressed in a way designed to intimidate. These cops were deliberately cosplaying as some sort of a
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by l23k4 3mo ago
In the EU the answer is always "it's unclear". Yes you can, but you also can't. ECHR necessarily guarantees the right to shoot some intruders in some situations, but it's kind of impossible to know which situation
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by l23k4 3mo ago
I'm fully European, would not wonder for a second before plunging a knife into an intruder if I happened to have one near me.
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by l23k4 3mo ago
Surely you're not quoting Eric Raymond with a straight face?
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by l23k4 3mo ago
> Where it's clear from your framing of an "opposition trying to silence you" that you think the industry lobby has at least some right to be heard before the council votes on policy This is an inherent feature of democrac
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by l23k4 3mo ago
Is it really disingenuous to point out "haha, well obviously you guys simply aren't willing to put up enough cash to make this attractive for the rightsholders"? I think it is simply the truth of the matter. The financial inc
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by l23k4 3mo ago
>How is this relevant? I still want to be able to play older games 10 years from now. The cost does not matter. I would even pay more money for the guarantee that the game will be always playable. You can already do that! Contact the rig
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by l23k4 3mo ago
> The ability to be able to play the game in the future is not entitlement, it's a normal thing No it isn't. The cost per hour of games is already incredibly low compared to most other paid forms of entertainment. How is it not
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by l23k4 3mo ago
>If you can give me an EoL in the store page and sell it to me as a license, I'm happy The goal here is to disallow this, as it's obviously what everyone would do if allowed to. They'd just sell every game with 1 year EoL
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by l23k4 3mo ago
> But we are interested in benefits first and foremost since we are consumers We're only consumers when we consume, but that is not the extent of our participation in society. To optimize for consumption is a shortcut to certain doo
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by l23k4 3mo ago
Everything is good policy if you're only willing to list the benefits, and not acknowledge that there are associated costs. Perhaps the audience that would consume these old games simply won't be big enough.
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by l23k4 3mo ago
Surely they must have value at an individual level, for people are willing to pay to engage in those. The time you spend playing games does very little to help the society around you, and might in fact distract you from more productive acti
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by l23k4 3mo ago
Yeah, but you don't get to choose where the money comes from and which projects get cancelled because of this last straw. These things have real costs which eventually affect many, many people who are not billionaire CEOs. It would be

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