SirQuackTheDuck

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SirQuackTheDuck,

“you’ve seen our war crimes, now you’re no longer welcome here”

As if you’d go be a tourist in a country, just after you’ve seen solders of said country commit, or politicians and citizens actively defend war crimes. Plenty of pretty cool other things to see.

SirQuackTheDuck,

The EU is could very much send them right back where they came from, but they don’t

That’s only for the war refugees. Sending people back to, say, Eritrea, would mean they’d be executed for leaving the country (which is illegal there).

Those only represent a tiny fraction of the immigrants though, and they’re not the ones “taking all the jobs”, that’s the worker immigrants.

📄 rule (sh.itjust.works)

alt-textIt blows our hivemind that the United States doesn’t use the ISO 216 paper size standard (A4, A5 and the gang). Like, we consider ourselves worldly people and are aware of America’s little idiosyncrasies like mass incarceration, the widespread availability of assault weapons and not being able to transfer money via...

SirQuackTheDuck,

We have a fee-free bank-to-bank transfer system that is based on pre-digital technology that takes 2-3 business days. We often call it “direct deposit” or automated clearing house (ACH).

Ah, right, kinda like SEPA Credit Transfer. You do need a persons IBAN which is a bit long, but their name is validated so you usually send it to the right person.

Now, we could probably make this payment system instantaneous relatively effortlessly

Ooh, cool, kinda like SEPA Instant Credit Transfer, which transfers money within ten seconds to bank accounts using the above mentioned number.

This is all fine and dandy for most people because they simply can’t imagine doing things a more consumer-friendly way

And that’s why, in the Netherlands, Tikkie took the country by storm. It is an app that allows you to use iDEAL (a web-based payment system, soon rolled out in Germany and Belgium as Vero) to send money to friends. Usually takes one pin and three taps to send it, and have it instantly appear on the account of the recipient.

SirQuackTheDuck,

Wait? Sex work should be regulated to prevent freedom of choice in clients? That seems a little counter-intuitive if you ask me

SirQuackTheDuck,

I would expect that that 90’s car would eventually be able to be converted to hydrogen combustion. That would save on pumping up petrol (if the hydrogen is not generated with petrol) and it would not cost yet another car to be created.

SirQuackTheDuck,

Kelvin: Zero is the freezing point.
Scientists: Of what?
Kelvin: Yes.

SirQuackTheDuck,

No, the title is subjective. It would be something like “court upholds fine”, nof “not hear out a party” since there’s often no room for a defence.

Highest courts are usually acting upon a “this judgement is faulty, because they didn’t allow x” or “… didn’t consider y”. Not “… they disagreed with my opinion”.

Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone (lemmy.world)

I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they’re on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can’t be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...

SirQuackTheDuck,

Yeah, this is likely something that’s configured on an OS level to talk to some server when being sold.

However, note that SIM cards can have a flag that might enable this app (given how much power sim cards have over phones)

Note: no source, just assumptions

Edit: second note: this app isn’t present on my EU OnePlus Nord.

SirQuackTheDuck,

Sometimes I miss the times where you could download Limewire Pro using Limewire

SirQuackTheDuck,

doesn’t show up somewhere

Oh look, it’s a scheme.
You’re 99.5% sure getting screwed over

SirQuackTheDuck,

You missed an important bit:

who in the right mind

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