kbal

joined 2 years ago
[–] kbal@fedia.io 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Our prevailing system of electronic payments is an absolutely ridiculous situation that gives Visa and Mastercard more power than anyone should have over the whole world of retail commerce. It's been like this since fucking 1993, or whenever it became commonplace to buy stuff using credit cards on the Internet. It's nice that gamers have now noticed that it affects them but it remains unclear how their efforts are going to help improve things other than by making more people aware of the problem.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 12 points 2 months ago

I had some really good chicken curry today. (Temporarily off the vegetarian diet for complicated reasons, but it was good. Preferable to be alive when something like that comes along.)

[–] kbal@fedia.io 5 points 3 months ago

The Birth of a Nation II: The Rebirthing

[–] kbal@fedia.io 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Further Left than even Obama himself!? Is that even possible?

[–] kbal@fedia.io 16 points 3 months ago

If they make the app sufficiently unusable and unpopular through decisions like this, perhaps nobody will agree to use it.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 6 points 3 months ago

A jug of wine, a leg of lamb

And thou! Beside me, whistling in the darkness

[–] kbal@fedia.io 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

brandishing relocation threats, he warned, “is the worst possible outcome—for democracy itself.”

You're threatening to make their main product illegal in Switzerland. That they might choose to leave the country rather than simply shut down should not come as a big surprise.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 33 points 3 months ago

Instead of zero as a comparison base, the report uses a pseudo count of one, concluding that the risk is 65 times higher

How delightfully nonsensical. I hope the authors were well-paid for their efforts.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 3 months ago

MS Windows and PHP... yeah I can see the resemblance. They're both crufty old tools that are obsolete for more than a decade but still widely used and talked about.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 8 points 3 months ago

That's a rather odd way to express complete ignorance of the whole concept of history, not to mention geography and culture.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not really though. It's drivers and cyclists versus thick-headed idiots who refuse to understand that removing bicycle lanes makes things worse for everyone.

(Just responding to the headline since the nytimes website is too broken for me since the recent changes, archive.ph is givng me a captcha, and my estimation of the quality of the paper itself is not sufficient to make me figure out how to read it.)

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