I understand the sentiment but payments are quite a bit more complex that people tend to realize. For most companies, handling payments directly without an intermediary is far too expensive, complex and risky.
Fuck MasterCard and VISA btw.
Source: I work for a PSP.
Iran doesn't respect Ukraine's sovereignty, so Ukraine doesn't respect Iran's. Simple as.
Going against the grain here: YDI.
It's clear there's a disagreement on what constitutes US politics. It's clear that jordanlund takes a more "US explicit/internal politics" approach, versus your "the US supports Israel, so whatever Israel does genocide-wise is also US politics". I can understand your position here, but given that the distinction is being made to keep the contents of a community focused on a specific subject, I fear your interpretation widens the definition of "US politics" so much it becomes largely meaningless, as the overlap with the world news community becomes extremely large. If Mexico arrests some drug baron, does this also belong in US politics since a lot of US policies affect the cartels as well? In jordanlunds position, a narrower definition is taken to focus the posts subject-wise.
Regardless, it's okay to disagree on things, especially those as trivial as "which community should this article be posted in". On this matter, jordanlund has taken what is basically the mildest of actions possible: a simple message redirecting you to the world news community, so it can be posted there as they deemed it should go there instead.
But instead of just posting it there, you've posted another 5 articles with the same kind of link to US politics, which jordanlund obviously also removed. Despite repeated reminders to post in world news instead, you kept going and this eventually landed you a short temp ban.
I disagree with your assessment that you're being "silenced", since you were asked to post in a different com with similar levels of engagement. Your visibility isn't suffering because of that. Posts with the same viewpoints, but a more direct link to US politics were kept up (and jordanlund even complimented you on it, saying it was a very good post). Additionally, jordanlund has expressed very similar viewpoints as your own regarding US complicity in the Gaza genocide and assorted Israeli warcrimes. Your only real disagreement seems to be the definition of US politics (and as a consequence: what goes in which community), but there doesn't seem to be any dispute regarding the facts or even a meaningful difference in views on the genocide. Frankly, you calling them a bad human being because of such a frankly petty disagreement seems like an overreaction to me.
I think it's fine to discuss what constitutes US politics and perhaps jordanlund should also further clarify the rules to remove the "politics" ambiguity. But the actions from the modlog are consistent with their explanation of the rules, you were very mildly handled and even in this thread jordanlund has managed to stay (mostly) civil towards you.
Not every mod is perfect, and jordanlund certainly has made their share of mistakes before, but in this case I'd lean more towards YDI than PTB.
Even Microsoft hasn't put ads in the terminal I think.
Enterprise Windows does not get all those ads. I haven't seen a single ad on any of my Windows machines.
Read over that in the article, thanks!
Why is the man's name not capitalised anywhere in the article?
Most banks don't yet. German banks were lagging behind on implementation so the launch was delayed.
Same ineptness, but it makes the Iranians more dangerous and the US less invincible.
"Twelfnd"
And the actual longer term conflict started in 1947 when Palestine and the surrounding countries plain refused to agree to a UN resolution, again due to pseudo-religious nonsense.
There were various reasons to reject the first UN resolution, none of which were "pseudo-religious":
The whole reason the conflict started in the first place is because Zionist movements started carving out a new Jewish state in already populated lands, supported by pseudo-religious nonsense claims.
Note that all subsequent attempts by the UN to settle the conflict were also violated by Israel, most notably the Oslo accords. The ongoing settler violence on the west bank and in Gaza also hardly makes Israel a "peaceful" democracy.
I understand the strong emotions here, but it's generally a very bad idea to go for physical punishments like chemical castration or a death sentence. Innocent people will get hurt by that, and that's imo an unacceptable injustice. Denying people's rights for whatever reason will be misused or abused.
The average user just gets frustrated and tries to boot back into Windows. I've seen it first hand. Linux is basically all the same in their head so why bother distrohopping because if one is broken they're likely all broken. They consider distros to be much more like the different Android variations, even though those are much more similar to one another than Linux distros are.
Average users just expect things to work. They don't want to tinker or do long setups or navigate 600 different distros, they just want a clear good option and for it to work. It's part of why Windows has this huge inertia behind it; there's always one upgrade path, setup is basically automatic and in the vast majority of cases any issues are handled either automatically or don't show up in the first place (in large part due to manufacturers providing support for their model PC/Laptop, not because Microsoft is amazing at support). And because the majority of their friends and family also use Windows, there's usually someone around who can fix what is truly broken.
I genuinely think a user on a hypothetical Dell or HP or Lenovo laptop with Linux preinstalled would have a much better time on average than anyone trying to install it themselves.
(Your link doesn't work for me, not sure where it's supposed to go? I get a proxy verification page but nothing else).
My initial link addresses the age bit as well, it's mostly lower for higher ages because those people have less long to live. When corrected for that, higher age = higher risk to reoffend.
One issue with the current 25y studies is that a lot changes regarding correctional facilities in 25 years. Most of those studies are a fair bit older; modern studies find lower rates, likely due to improved prisons and therapies.
Regardless, it seems wrong to start imprisoning or chemically castrating people on the chance that they might reoffend, especially now that modern studies confirm that the recidivism rates aren't that high. I mean, for other types of crimes the recidivism rates are considerably higher, yet we don't take severe preventative measures there either. We also know that shorter sentences lower recidivism rates and that therapy is much more effective than prison as an empirical fact. And then there's the somewhat horrifying implications for the minority of falsely convicted folks. So I'm not so sure if extreme punishments for these people is a wise idea.
Linus didn't shit on Linux as a whole, come on. Last time he tried Pop was over a year ago, he figured something might've changed in the meantime. And he did research what could be causing the issues (and found a fix for L4D2), and did also mention that overall the system was intuitive, installing it was fairly simple and he enjoyed not having his data being sold. He also said that all his devices were plug-and-play, no driver downloading shenanigans required. But of course he is going to highlight the issues he runs into, it's kind of the point of the video to show that not all experiences with Linux are seamless, and you can get radically different results depending on your chosen distro.
That's definitely not what he did though. He did research on the internet, going through various websites and articles listing options, and asked ChatGPT. That's imo more than what the average user does (or is even willing to do).
He then picked the distro that he saw was being recommended most to him. He installed it with default options, which ended up being Cosmic. Which is improving fast these days, but it's still a bit unstable. But the install process won't tell you that.
Pretending that these users are "bad users" or that highlighting these issues that regular users run into is disingenuous or somehow irresponsible is just unfairly dismissing a valid perspective.
The whole "Linux just works"-shtick just isn't always true. And the sooner the community learns to accept that and works to help these users with their issues, rather than stomping their foot angrily whenever someone shows up highlighting problems. I'm pretty experienced myself with a job in software development, but even I needed to reinstall Bazzite 2 times when installing it for my sister because I somehow messed up something when mounting the hard drives, getting Bazzite stuck in an unrecoverable bootloop (none of the recovery options suggested online worked either). I hate Windows as much as the next guy, but I've never been able to manage that on a Windows install (once running Bazzite ran fine btw, just the setup was frustrating).
Most sex offenders reoffend. So they either need locked up forever or be required to take drugs to reduce libido or something.
I was interested and looked it up, but turns out this doesn't really ring true. In fact, only a minority of sex offenders actually reoffend, and when they do it's most likely for a different, nonsexual crime rather than a sexual one.
There's a lot of interesting summarizing being done here: https://smart.ojp.gov/somapi/chapter-5-adult-sex-offender-recidivism
It's hard to get exact numbers though, as sex crimes remain underreported. It does seem however that psychological treatment for these offenders actually helps reduce recidivism rates.
It gets different when you get to repeat offenders; they are much more likely to keep offending after release.
Don't believe your lying eyes I guess. A shaky 144p video is definitely proof the rotors stayed perfectly still though.
I was hoping the video would show a clearly painted image but the visual evidence just doesn't support it.
Payment Service Providers sit in between companies (eg webshops) and payment methods/banks/card schemes. So as a webshop, instead of having to integrate with a bank to do transfers or with PayPal, you only integrate with the PSP. A lot simpler to do, and instead of having to chase each individual payment method for your money, the PSP will handle that for you. They can also provide additional services like a unified dispute view, credit management, small loans, etc...