Kid got rich by streaming and shitposting. Ultimate hero for 14 year olds.
Never. You can block that in Firefox by default.
It's a synthetic saturated fat, so basically a synthetic margarine. Butter is made from milk. So the headline should read "[...] makes 'margarine' out of water and CO2", but everybody hates margarine, so I get why they chose butter instead.
We had something like that in Germany, if you opted out of military service, you had to do civil service instead, i.e. you had to work in an institution that provided some benefit to the general public.
Most of those jobs were healthcare related, such as working in a hospital, as ambulance driver, kindergarten teacher, assisted living helper etc., or working in a supervisory rule for a company that employed people with disabilities to make sure they don't get injured in the workplace.
Both my brother and I did it (they later scraped military service, and the civil service as a consequence), and it was really amazing. He went to work in a food factory where people with mental disabilities were employed to sort raw ingredients (think removing debris and washing fruit and vegetables for juice, yoghurt & pickling), I worked as a nurse in a hospital.
Gave both of us a good twist for our careers, he moved on to study education for people with disabilities and now works as a special ed teacher for an integrative school, I went on to work in the development aid sector all across Africa and Central Asia for years.
That's correct, but most of those calculations were based on theoretical figures used by artificial aging methods and computed failure rates. Now we have real world data from panels that actually aged that long.
Yeah I'm done with spotify.
Back when it was a fiver, I could get the appeal and had a subscription myself.
At 11 bucks it comes at the price of a CD per month, every month. I didn't buy that much music annually, ever. So right now we are entering a territory where streaming is exceeding the price of my regular music consumption patterns. I'll go back to buying physical media and torrenting whatever old stuff is no longer available and can't be found on ebay.
Fuck 'em with a cactus.
Vor der CSU-Parteizentrale im Münchner Stadtbezirk Schwabing-Freimann haben sich am Nachmittag laut Polizei 30 Menschen zum "Ankiffen" bzw. "Smoke-in" versammelt. Unter dem Motto "Liberalitas Bavariae statt CSU-Verbotsirrsinn" zündeten sie sich um 16:20 Uhr Joints an. Die Uhrzeit – im Englischen 4:20 Uhr – hat Symbolkraft. "4:20" ist ein Codewort in der Kiffer-Szene unter anderem für das Rauchen von Marihuana.
War ja klar, dass die Kollegen nicht um 4:20 aus dem Bett kommen 🙃
In tomorrow's news: Russian ambassador kicked out of Poland for failure to show up.
And the day after: Putin threatens nuclear attack on Warsaw over anti-Russian actions.
Anything taken before 2023, yes. I had a former colleague who's boyfriend was a photographer, and he took a shitload of pictures of her in various random business suites and situations, close-ups of her holding pens, mugs, papers, glasses, etc. etc. and published them on some stock portals. They don't pay a whole lot of royalties for multiple use images, but every now and then someone buys an exclusive license, meaning the picture is afterwards removed from the stock archive, and that pays several hundred bucks.
So it's really a numbers game, the more photos you dump on the platform, the better.
Anything published since last year has at least a chance to be AI generated. Should be tagged as such, but well. Should.
Opera was effectively the first software I bought, back when they had a trial version in 2001. They had tabbed browsing and mouse gestures, a solid DECADE before they came to any other browser. Lightyears ahead of the competition and worth every penny. I think in 2003 they made it free, and I wasn't even mad.
I was forced to switch to Firefox at some point when a website I had to use for work was incompatible due to some Java applet that wouldn't load properly, and then slowly migrated over.
Shame to see what happened to this amazing piece of tech.
You're not forced to use smartphones. I happen to live in China, and there are people without them.
You can buy tickets at the counter or vending machines, you can text or call instead of sending wechat messages, you can pay bills by card or direct debit, and supermarkets all accept cards (Chinese ones, that is) or cash.
People use wechat or alipay out of convenience. Just like people in the West use whatsapp, signal, fb messenger, telegram or whatever else there is. And some of those are testing payment service integrations (whatsapp pay for example is live in India since a few months ago).
You don't like it - don't use it. Nobody will force you. But if it takes me 7 seconds on my phone to finish a task vs. 2h in person, guess which one I'm choosing.
Edit: Typo
Disappointed, but not surprised.
Putin wouldn't have come if that wasn't clear from the onset.