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  1. Nightwish

    Steam's new currency change for Argentina and Turkey created a big price increase for certain games

    No. It works for a few export economies, everyone else pegging their currency inevitably runs out of easy access to the global reserve currency, mostly because its fluctuations aren't in their interest. Even export led economies mostly trading on the dollar can have serious issues with demand...
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    Elon promises to pay your legal bills.

    But, but, I was told 'murica was great because of at-will employment and none of that worker rights socialism! Guess we found the one thing the holy market doesn't solve, huh. Thoughts and prayers.
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    What do you think is more harmful to the world? Racists, or religious fanatics?

    Yes, it literally meant pre-judgement of a person, and when applied to the ethnicity of a person, it's the very definition of racism. Couldn't be clearer, really. Bigots couldn't care less about the individual, it's his life job to prove he is different from the image they have in their head...
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    What do you think is more harmful to the world? Racists, or religious fanatics?

    Same thing, they believe some version of gospel othering that someone made up, a few others updated through the ages to fit some political agenda, and everything that contradicts it, including non-mythological history is heresy that they shall not show reading comprehension of. While far from...
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    No the energy department did not confirm covid19 leaked from a lab

    It obviously wasn't, but it also wasn't know; what was known was that it quickly overwhelmed care capacity, boomers or no boomers, and it did so again and again. Yes, everyone expected a MERS or SARS (and for those taking notes, those are just two of this century's close calls) which was both...
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    Anybody following the fall of the FTX crypto exchange?

    Up and down compared to what? 1$ will always be exactly equal to $1 of tax obligations, and 1BTC will always be exactly equal to 1BTC of digital blackmail, the main drivers of anchoring the value of each (that and gunboat diplomacy by other means). That the flows go faster and faster from the...
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    Digital ID... Would you be fine having one?

    I mean, we do have the possibility for all the functionality, if not the functionality itself, all over Europe, and actually working, without a warmongering middleman selling your information. So, no. Fucking Thales? Hell, no. It's a shame it's not on the blockchain, we could rest easily...
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    Let's talk about suppression

    Both. Sure, some things are technically illegal is some vague ways in some places, but that is some enticement fantasy land. And there are certainly kicks from education, but really not sexual; certainly not compared to controlling what people do and know. Seriously? Teenagers, man. You know...
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    Let's talk about suppression

    Not only is that nonsense, but, last I checked, kids have found a way to see, and often enough do, "worse" well before the internet, with only adults being able to explain consent, the difference between love and lust, that pregnancy could be a result, and all the rest of it. Speaking of...
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    Isn't it hypocritical to force people to take jobs while unemployed?

    An example? Life. Try to be creative with little money while thinking how are you going to pay medical bills and feed your kids and pay rent, and you might find yourself a little bit distracted, even if you sleep well and the medical issue is actually solved. As to history, I'll leave it...
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    Isn't it hypocritical to force people to take jobs while unemployed?

    Dear Loki. If that's the argument, it worked much better in the backwater where the state gave back a bunch of things that made them better off and more productive. It still didn't work in the long term because both freedom and material well-being are kind of important for innovation. But even...
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    Isn't it hypocritical to force people to take jobs while unemployed?

    "Isn't it hypocritical to force people to take jobs while unemployed?" Why hypocritical? But, no, not really. Someone has to make the real stuff that you consume. Maybe if you can trust people do produce something that is needed by someone else (even if delivering purchases or cleaning the...
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    Application of fear on general populations by mediatic exposure to maintain power

    To some point, that is always true. But also not new, the world was still capable of moving from the Yellow Peril and the Red Scare all the way to... a new Yellow Peril and a new Red Scare a century later. I'm sure The Specter will show up again too; I mean, someone in this thread thinks a...
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    Razer's RGB face mask will have a beta test available later this year

    And now you'll get to decide whether to take it or lose your job, because your employer only cares about the bottom line. Or replaces you with an automated line. #freedom Never let a good crisis go to waste is the neoliberal motto, after all. Why not pretend you give a damn with a product that...
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    The benefits of Brexit - the future of the United Kingdom

    My tears of... wanting to be made clear neither the Euro, nor the single market is necessary for a successful open economy, as well as the stupidity of believing in the collapse prone tourism industry as a path to comply with treaties? Even with Boris at the helm. Just take care of your health...
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    The benefits of Brexit - the future of the United Kingdom

    Well, the UK can now do whatever it wants (well, more things) to support business and workers as it saves people. Some of their former colonies have some ideas on that. That neither party cares is up to you. Covid will still ravage your country, but that was always a choice. You might get your...
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    What are: Alternative economic indicators

    I think you need to check your math, as well as the conditions attached to the measures. https://www.sinistrainrete.info/europa/19311-thomas-fazi-lo-spieghino-il-nuovo-mes-riformato-e-peggio-di-quello-vecchio.html And, sorry to say, constitutions have been ignored or temporarily suspended in...
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    What are: Alternative economic indicators

    Kind of irrelevant in the land of scharze null uber alles so that people don't want things out of the infinite money that needs to be injected so neoliberalism continues (as economists including those Taleweaver mentioned say). It's even less likely that the single market changes than the tame...
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    Portuguese government makes it "mandatory" to install COVID app on phones

    Not really. I just wish they would say what measures they would prefer, for once.
  20. Nightwish

    Portuguese government makes it "mandatory" to install COVID app on phones

    Heh, don't get me wrong, I love surveillance capitalism as much as the next informed person, and Doctorow slapped me into me into acknowledging that adtech is a lot of empty marketing air, for now. And I know it doesn't substitute manual tracing, but I was still hoping it would be enough avoid...
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