Yeah keep moving the goalposts, I never claimed you said Starlink was better than all ISPs I simply clarified ‘better’. I’m white-knighting for the rural users now? No I’m pointing out how stupid it is to cheer for the regulators that are supposed to work for you instead shitting on you, because the corporations have lobbied them to and a very corporation-friendly government is in power.
Your response: cheer for the big corporate ISP (what do you think Starlink is exactly)? Gtfoh.
This is not entirely true, dams are feeding grounds for methane-producing microbes which cause climate harm. Aside from that, even small scale dams damage local ecosystems significantly - at the scale China is planning, their dam will be incredibly damaging.
https://www.science.org/content/article/hundreds-new-dams-could-mean-trouble-our-climate
https://earth.org/dams-economic-assets-or-ecological-liabilities/
https://www.dw.com/en/five-ways-mega-dams-harm-the-environment/a-53916579
Because letting extremely biased ideological groups dictate worldwide policy is always a bad thing that comes with negative consequences.
I’m not personally familiar with any of the games in this ban wave, but Steam’s stance prior is that these games are free expression of art, made by adults and it’s not Steam’s job to police art. If a group does want to impose limitations on art on a worldwide storefront - that should be a national limitation performed by an appropriate body - Australia already has a stringent games rating system, and if these games do not meet any approved standards they would be hit with ‘Refused Classification’ and thereby restricted to be sold (banned from sale or import) to Australia and Steam would region block them for sale to Aus. As is the case for many games already.
However, this group deemed following the appropriate channels too much work, so instead went for a Karen smear campaign of the payment processors on social media - stating that they supported the sale of rape and incest games (simply by working with Steam), thereby pressuring the payment processors to put lobby Steam to remove the games entirely as the easiest path for Steam to avoid financial processing impacts.
They use GiveSendGo, which is the same thing. It’s founded as a Christian alternative payment platform and the CEO and CFO have gone on record numerous times to defend indefensible scum.
GiveSendGo used to use Square which actually does run CashApp (so your joke is not far from truth), but after pressure on Square they seem to have dropped GiveSendGo, whom now use Stripe. Stripe has not responded to queries regarding the Shiloh Hendrix case (awful lady who called the kid at a playground the n word and went on to raise nearly $800k), and continue to work with GiveSendGo.
As a totally unrelated aside, major early investors in Stripe are Elon Musk, and Peter Thiel.
The payment processor is Stripe, and while there is a boycott going on regarding this, so far Stripe’s reaction has been complete silence.
Stripe has major early investments from (and likely key stockholders) Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, by the way.
Starlink is only ‘better’ (in some cases, certainly isn’t better in all nor at all times as its speed is highly variable), because your US cable and ISP giants have lobbied for decades to remove any oversight the FCC may exert on them - up to and including banning local communities from building their own networks, and ensuring that they have more or less monopoly control in many rural markets.
The only way to fix this is with the hammer of the FCC regulation. The ‘free market’ cannot fix a monopoly.
So when you laugh at your rural citizenry getting shafted by FCC policy changes that will benefit nobody but the large ISPs & cable companies, because you’re in a city and have lots of optiond with the competition that high-density living affords, you’re shooting your own regulatory powers in the foot for the sake of spite.
This is all setting aside of course than a huge proportion of rural Americans are not MAGA.
So yeah that’s why it’s a crappy take.
Dumb take. When the Trump supporters can’t get good internet speeds from their local broadband infrastructure thanks to crap like this, they turn to Starlink, prop up fascist Elmo, and to boot they have it reinforced to them once again that the ‘government is useless, only the Free Market ©® can provide good quality services’.
Literal sternly worded letter.
That’s where we’re still at.
I watch a fair bit of YouTube and definitely some scientific video content is consumed and always in my feed… Who is this person? Never heard of her.
Or fridges.
But I suspect we’re over-thinking this comment. Its more dumb right wing attitude more than actual link to the ozone hole.
Environmentalists point out the massive damage done by expanding the beef industry - through deforestation, effluent pollution of water systems, methane release, etc. Conservatives: stupid greenies are blaming cows for their problems lol.
I think that they meant to write something like:
I don’t think adultary means “sex while unmarried” I think it means “sex outside of your marriage”. Big difference.
If you want one that has a calendar and supports inviting other people to events and accepting other people’s invitations - there’s really only Proton.
I tried mailbox.org, they use OX App Suite (Open-Xchange) on the backend which is full of holes with regards to calendar invites/reception support. I also tried Tuta which does not even bother to attempt trying to support accepting invites from other services (iCloud / exchange online / gmail).
I have a piezoelectric doorbell.
The bell part plugs directly into a wall socket. The button part is completely wireless and batteryless and is affixed near my front door.
Been working like clockwork for a decade to let me know when someone is at the door and I’m home.
If I’m not home, the postman or delivery driver leaves a note to go to the collection center for my package. If it’s a small package not requiring signature, they just leave it at the door or in the mailbox if it fits. None of that changes with a camera.
Why overcomplicate life.
Counterpoint: this is just some random blogger and you don’t need to follow any of their advice.
So are you…
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I like it. Lots of buzzwords that warn me off the article.
Like a brightly coloured bug - message received little guy, I will not touch you.
Looks infected. I’d get that checked.
‘Parliamentary Privelege’ mate, they lie often and it’s perfectly legal. Politicians can technically raise a complaint of ‘contempt of privelege’ if a lie is serious and caused “an improper interference with the free exercise by a House or a committee of its authority or functions, or with the free performance by a member of their duties as a member.” As some may argue this lie did. In our history it has happened exactly zero times (meaning, it’s toothless).
Making it illegal sounds great to me though, I don’t believe any reasonable person would say that you should be able to lie in order to “debate matters of importance freely” which is the current line of horseshit we are expected to believe. If we start asking loudly for it now - we might get a watered-down version in about 20 years give or take, if the federal ICAC is anything to go by.
More eloquent info: https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/should-lying-in-parliament-be-a-crime/
I’m willing to bet it’s option B. Bet someone in management decided it would be best to cheap the fuck out now and then beg forgiveness later, and sell it as increasing security, than ask permission from the beginning.
If they wanted any games banned all they had to do was talk to the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) in Australia, where they’re based. Any of the games listed would have likely been added to the ‘Refused Classification’ list and thereby banned from sale and import in Australia. If they wanted them pulled from Steam or Itch entirely they could have talked to those platforms.
But they didn’t want to raise objections through appropriate preexisting channels, they wanted to push their Christian-based ideology on the whole world by going Karen on the social media of all the payment processors.