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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Random idea: a federated alternative to Amazon Prime built from independent shops?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We had this in Greece and it was great. Then you could order through the aggregator itself. Then it got its own delivery service that shops could use (still better than all other delivery companies). Then shops were added that don’t have their own site nor a physical shop. Now it’s trying to expand to other countries and there is a subscription that gives you lower delivery fees. It’s still good and most people buy stuff from there but it’s clear it’s trying to become Amazon and I’m afraid most similar centralized services will go this way sooner or later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does life have less value to people in Latin America?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is entirely speculation but the fact that there are active wars in the continent might affect how the data is classified. I don’t know how the article you posted defines homicide. There are some rules here www.unodc.org/unodc/en/…/iccs.html and it seems that deaths during war conflicts might not be counted as intentional homicides. Latin America hasn’t had many wars but had/has many conflicts involving guerrillas, cartels and political groups. Is it possible that many of the resulting deaths are counted as homicides whereas similar violence in Africa is counted as, for example, civil war deaths?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Countries/Cities without Walmart's/Giant super centers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently Walmart has a location list here corporate.walmart.com/about/location-facts. It says it operates in 19 countries so there are many places that do not have Walmarts. Many of them probably don’t have other big stores either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia bans under-16s from social media in world-first crackdown⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The same age that should get a childhood I guess

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia bans under-16s from social media in world-first crackdown⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  …or cars. But even if it’s safer that doesn’t mean kids are allowed outside more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia bans under-16s from social media in world-first crackdown⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think most parents do not want their kids to go alone outside

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia bans under-16s from social media in world-first crackdown⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you think most kids do not want to be outside? This law has nothing to do with protecting them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to answer someone who accuses you of being a bot because they don't like what you have to say?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well shit, it had me convinced. I don’t remember what the argument was about so can’t really find the post to verify.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to answer someone who accuses you of being a bot because they don't like what you have to say?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw a comment recently that answered with “would a bot do this?” with a photo of a post-it note saying Not a bot :). Was kinda cute

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who shops at small businesses?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I shop from small businesses when it’s more convenient (which is actually more common than you’d think when you don’t have a car).

  Mini markets are closer than supermarkets and stay open longer so I’ll often get groceries from there even if it’s more expensive.

  When looking for a specific piece of equipment there are some things that can’t be delivered or they’d take an eternity to arrive so I find which stores sell it and go to the physical store, which is usually a smaller local place.

  I don’t know if thrift shops count as small businesses but they’re also more convenient than going to big clothes shops.

  And I guess most restaurants are local businesses too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does "DNS" work on the dark web?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From the link, since I think this is the part most equivalent to DNS.

  The Onion Service assembles an Onion Service descriptor, containing a list of its introduction points (and “authentication keys”), and signs this descriptor with the Onion Service’s identity private key.

  The Onion Service upload that signed descriptor to a distributed hash table, which is part of the Tor network, so that clients can also get it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many instances have you been orphaned from?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can still see that on lemvotes.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s very European of you to say

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also this ad is hilarious. “BLACK FRIDAY” “-80%”. It’s 4$

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wearing a helmet and a hat while biking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re wearing jeans you can also strap it onto the belt straps. If it’s on the side it shouldn’t be too uncomfortable