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- Comment on Norway adopts tourist tax to combat overtourism 1 hour ago:
Infrastructure can’t bear it, only so many people can fit in one place. Also, a lot of these people, especially on cruise ships, spend exactly zero money at the place they visit, as they have lodgings and food on the ship, and are only there to sightsee.
IDK about taxing lodgings, but maybe there are too many hotels for the place? I’d guess AirBnB made it impossible to regulate the market by controlling the amount of permits issued.
I think a small flat fee is usually better at solving this, as you would need to get rid of the people who visit but don’t pay, but that might be hard to implement if you can’t close the place off like you can in Venice for example.
- Comment on I've got something special for you 7 hours ago:
Depends on the layout. My QWERTZ has ! on shift-4 and " on shift-2.
Lots of bilingual peeps have multiple layouts on hot-swap.
- Comment on Om nom 2 days ago:
Why make the post then?
To be honest, the level of self-censorship on social media is giving me serious dictatorship vibes.
- Comment on Workers' rights in free fall as unions face unprecedented attacks, report warns 2 days ago:
Class war is heating up isn’t it
- Comment on Om nom 2 days ago:
Why is the meme censored into illegibility?
- Comment on AI Training Slop 5 days ago:
Bots make up 50% of internet traffic.
I’ve read a study that claimed ads were 50% of traffic by data volume.
Is anyone actually still using the internet, or is it all ad networks sending crap to bots?
- Comment on AI Training Slop 5 days ago:
But your likeness does belong to you. Try making money off of an AI movie featuring Taylor Swift.
- Comment on Russia accused of staging attack on Putin's helicopter 5 days ago:
it could be as an excuse to assassinate Zelensky.
Like they need one, they have been trying for years now. Remember the GRU death squads in Kyiv in 2022?
- Comment on UK to ban sale of disposable vapes in response to soaring waste and safety risks 5 days ago:
Importers and manufacturers need to be liable for the full price of waste disposal for their products. It will keep happening.
- Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech 5 days ago:
Oh they’ll force you to use it. It will be shoved into every service you use, also ones you need to use. You will not be able to do your work, access government services, or live your life without going through them.
Late stage capitalism has killed the free market a while ago.
- Comment on What're they gonna do about it? 1 week ago:
What’re they gonna do about it?
They will happily take the investor money for the inflated user count.
- Comment on Activists turn Paris fountain red to denounce Gaza 'bloodbath' 1 week ago:
That looks metal AF.
I’m also happy we are becoming less complacent about genocide just because the US said it’s okay.
- Comment on German court sends Volkswagen execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal 1 week ago:
no state should have the power to execute people
I would present a counterargument to that, as all states in the world ultimately have this power, only the circumstances differ. I mean, grab a gun and try to shoot at armed police anywhere in the world. You will be killed, and nobody can sue the state or the police who shot you for unjustly executing you. Killing you is always fair to protect other people from being killed.
From there, we are arguing whether states should be able to kill in cold blood, which is a different conversation, and my opinion is that we should keep making penalties for “financial crimes”, which usually kill more people than any mass shooter or serial killer could, harsher and harsher until there is a clearly visible deterrent effect.
The case of the lady in Vietnam is not even a direct “cold blood” case by the way, as the state agreed to spare her if she puts at least most of the money back, which means that lives lost because of the absence of that money might be spared. In my view, this is analogous to shooting at an active shooter, and an okay thing to do. Lives are being saved by doing this.
- Comment on German court sends Volkswagen execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal 1 week ago:
That is a very good argument, however these financial crimes are on the one hand much more trackable than direct violent crime and can affect more people.
My opinion is that we shouldn’t execute serial killers who kill dozens of people, because usually it’s hard to prove beyond doubt to the point such an irrevocable act can be taken and the process takes very long and is very expensive and is not that useful as a deterrent since these people are usually mentally ill in the first place.
But with the Boeing CEO whose actions caused several plane crashes, it’s pretty easy to prove since instructions had to come from somewhere and the buck stops at the top, it has deterrent value, just look at UnitedHealth, and the crime is much more severe than that of a serial killer, as most serial killers don’t kill multiple hundreds of people.
- Comment on German court sends Volkswagen execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal 1 week ago:
I would love to see counterarguments to this instead of just downvotes
- Comment on BlackRock is Suing UnitedHealth for Giving “Too Much Care” to Patients After the CEO was Murdered 1 week ago:
I am also wondering that, you know, to make up something when the people who Extract all the value from society, Extinguish all alternatives to their monopolies are Eliminated.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 1 week ago:
Honest question, why do people pay 50-70k a year for school? If it was higher education, I presume that’s worth it for the connections you get there, maybe, but this is high school. Isn’t it possible to get into the best unis from a good state school?
- Comment on George Floyd Murdered (2020) On this day in 2020, a Minneapolis cop murdered George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes. Floyd's death became the catalyst for protests around... 1 week ago:
He’s built different.
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 1 week ago:
We are not talking about the inherent danger of driving, but the danger caused by people either physically or psychologically unfit to drive. The problem is not highways with speed limits of 130 kmh, but the people driving 240 on them, or the people driving drunk, running red lights, etc.
And as SUV sales show, most people are not comfortable with higher death rates for themselves, but are okay with endangering others. Ironically though, SUVs are more dangerous for their drivers as well, so apparently people are going for a perception of safety rather than actual safety even for themselves.
- Comment on Comfy cozy 1 week ago:
That’s one way to look at it, but I think it was more of the Reagan-Thatcher generation killing off the left and the rot set in. I wouldn’t discount the achievements of leftists as just concessions from capital. They don’t give an inch if they don’t have to.
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 1 week ago:
We could increase the training requirements and oversight.
I wish.
And who’s going to tell all those people that they are not going to drive again, ever? In pilot training, even showing signs of bravado or machismo is grounds for getting failed. The problem is that if you do that those people will go and vote you out, especially in this climate.
One of the main campaign promises of the idiot who got the most votes in the last Dutch election was to put the speed limits back to 130 kmh from the reduced 100 kmh on motorways. People like to be dumb.
BTW it would take minimal effort to enforce highway speed limits with cameras checking entry and exit times and distances. In some places with road tolls, it wouldn’t even need any more data collection. A single SQL query would return all those people doing 100 kmh over on the motorways. Wonder why outside of a few outliers, nobody does it.
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 1 week ago:
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 1 week ago:
IDK about trains, but the problem with cars is that we let people operate them with minimal training and practically no oversight. You see shit on roads daily where if the driver was flying a plane, they wouldn’t even be let on as a passenger anymore ever.
- Comment on Comfy cozy 1 week ago:
Yeah I’ve been in a few places around Europe, and it really seems that in Western Europe, labour movements made big gains in like the 1970s and neolib governments have been squandering that ever since, and we are nearing the point where it all turns fash.
- Comment on The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million 2 weeks ago:
I mean you can get a licence for 20-30k, the maintenance is deadly on a plane though, you could buy a very nice car each year on that money.
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 2 weeks ago:
I know they are doing very well, trust me, I’ve seen the inside of the beast. It’s not Microsoft either, any megacorp will talk to you in terms of how much they lost by not fully monopolising a market segment.
And that is my point, not that they don’t make insane amounts of money, but that it will never be enough.
- Comment on SAG-AFTRA Files Unfair Labor Practice Complaint Against Epic Games Due To A.I. Darth Vader 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but Epic broke the contract. Union has to sue or it’s not worth anything. Simple as.
That said, the union could have gotten something else out of this if Epic did the lawful thing. Even the fact that Epic acknowledged they need to follow the contract would have been valuable.
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah but imagine if they could collect licence fees after every AWS server as well.
The world is not enough for these companies.
- Comment on Apple is placing warnings on EU apps that don’t use App Store payments 3 weeks ago:
No it wouldn’t need to be Apple.
If a payment processor won’t comply, you can ask for a chargeback at your bank, and if it keeps happening, the payment processor can be blocked from accepting EU payments at all.
- Comment on USDA Reverses Course, Commits to Restore Purged Climate Webpages in Response to Farmers’ Lawsuit 3 weeks ago:
Viornzirgizuetunkuszt
If anything that sounds more Hungarian than German, with the lack of diphtongs and the “sz” at the end, but funny thing, Hungarian does the same thing as German with compound words, except it makes it even worse with turning prepositions into suffixes.
For example:
legösszetettebbszóhosszúságvilágrekorddöntéskényszerneurózistünetegyüttesmegnyilvánulásfejleszthetőségvizsgálat
meaning
Examination for the treatability of the manifestation of the syndrome of neurosis caused by the compulsion of breaking the world record of the most heavily compunded word.
Technically this isn’t correct, as you should put a hyphen in there somewhere between the two main parts to improve readability if it’s more than 6 syllables. Good luck finding the “two main parts” though. Maybe:
legösszetettebbszóhosszúságvilágrekorddöntéskényszer-neurózistünetegyüttesmegnyilvánulásfejleszthetőségvizsgálat
But you can also go crazy with suffixes, the often cited example is megszentségteleníthetetlenkedéseitekért, which is not at all a compound word, it means “for your acts of repeated demonstration of your beliefs that you are unable to be made unholy” (with a plural you).
And finally, you can just do an infinite loop to construct arbitrarily long words using suffixes, like this:
úszik - swims
úsztat - makes someone or something swim
úsztattat - makes sy/sg make sy/sg swim
úsztattattat - makes sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg swim
…
úsztattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattat - makes sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg … make sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg swim
