Xatolos

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Sorry about that, I just had done a quick check on Wikipedia which declared (and I quickly accepted):

joined the Prussian-led German Empire in 1871 while retaining its title of kingdom, and finally became a state of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (13 children)

I feel this isn't quite the same though. When a country has a complete change in politics/ruling of the nation, then it really isn't the same country anymore. (French Revolution ending in 1799 shouldn't be still considered the same country, even though the name is the same. England still allowed the royal family to have power over the people and politics until 1957 so wasn't a "full" democracy, Bavaria I became part of Germany in 1949, etc....) The US has for its entire time listed has always been an elected government that followed the constitution, meaning it's been the same country.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Forcing employees to rely on tips to get above slave wage is generally not a thing in Europe

It is in England (which while not in the EU, it is in Europe). And unlike the US, they will try to guilt you into a big auto tip.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

their right mind

Those on the political right

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

It could, but it might also lead to something harmful for the deer at the same time. I'm not sure if the gene affecting the deer's eyesight is known, but it could be a pleiotropic gene (a gene that influences multiple traits at once).

If that's the case, and the other effect is negative and somehow spreads through the population, it could become a future issue for the deer. Think about humans—we lost the ability to produce our own vitamin C. Almost every other mammal can produce their own (except for hamsters). When this happened, it didn’t harm us right away, so it spread through the population. But over time, it led to issues that weren’t a problem before, like scurvy.

Same could happen to the deer.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Playing older games means you are not contributing to today's quarterly results.

It's the digital/video game version of forced obsolescence.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Comics don't have to be funny, they can be used to show a message/point of view. A great example I can think of is "Maus".

And if you don't like/get the message, that's fine. To each their own.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

From the article: "In October, students at Assumption University in Massachusetts allegedly lured a 22-year-old man to campus, called him a predator and chased and attacked him when he tried to escape, according to a police report. After reviewing the man’s Tinder messages, officers said the man had thought he was meeting an 18-year-old student, not a 17-year-old, as the students had alleged."

Thats how. You lie.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Yeah, no one wants to buy a swasticar or a deploreon anymore.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Possibly the fact many customers don't want it. According to three Apple CarPlay site:

With digital car keys and the already seamless experience of Apple CarPlay, there are more ways than ever to take your iPhone on the road. With car keys, you can unlock and start your car with iPhone. And CarPlay gives you the ability to safely use what you love about your iPhone while you drive.

I don't have an iPhone, so from all the marketing blurbs, it's pretty much saying "Spend a ton of extra money for something you can never use." I'll pass on spending $1000+ on that useless"upgrade". And since Apple is notorious about locking iThings to Apple only hardware (or just not having full functionality when they do allow it), I doubt I'm alone in this thought.

 

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  1. Renaming and Restructuring: The Trump administration plans to rename the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as the US International Humanitarian Assistance (IHA) and place it under the Secretary of State.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (6 children)

It's "sudo yum".

 
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