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byVlad_the_Inhaler
nuary 24, 2026 @04:14AM
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Attached to: California Becomes First State To Join WHO Disease Network After US Exit
I've heard of a fat Nazi who got rich on California's subsidies, but decided he should not pay taxes, so he chose a disease-ridden shit hole to escape to.
Name names, or it didn't happen.
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byVlad_the_Inhaler
ary 16, 2026 @04:31AM
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Attached to: Boeing Knew About Flaws in UPS Plane That Crashed in Louisville, NTSB Says
I believe Airbus was started as a project backed by several governments - see https://www.britannica.com/money/Airbus-Industrie - and even now, three governments own a stake of approximately 25% in total (France, Germany, Spain). They appear to be doing something right.
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byVlad_the_Inhaler
nuary 15, 2026 @05:08AM
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Attached to: Beijing Tells Chinese Firms To Stop Using US and Israeli Cybersecurity Software
It takes time to migrate away from the Microsoft (or any other) ecosystem, the time to initiate the process is when you see the need approaching on the horizon. Office365 has group collaboration options that afaik are only matched by Google Office (or whatever it's called) and that particular migration path makes no sense if you are reducing dependencies on the US.
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byVlad_the_Inhaler
nuary 15, 2026 @05:01AM
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Attached to: Beijing Tells Chinese Firms To Stop Using US and Israeli Cybersecurity Software
Think about what you wrote there, if Beijing is using such software to monitor internal traffic, so can other bad actors - which in this case includes the US. They will not have any problems with this in a lot of cases, but have no interest in company secrets being relayed offshore.
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byVlad_the_Inhaler
anuary 14, 2026 @10:06AM
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Attached to: Europe is Rediscovering the Virtues of Cash
Maybe it's time for Europe to establish their own payment network
There are 27 countries in the EU, most of them have their own banking systems and some have their own currencies. I believe there have been several attempts at establishing trans-EU payment systems, a new one went online recently - it covers a few countries and they are trying to add more. Most of my financial "dealings" are within one of two countries - only rarely between the two - and I have bank accounts in both.
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byVlad_the_Inhaler
anuary 14, 2026 @09:57AM
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Attached to: Europe is Rediscovering the Virtues of Cash
Resilience worries also drove the decision after Spaniards facing nationwide power cuts last spring found themselves unable to buy food.
That makes excellent sense.
I spend a lot of time in Germany and cash-only businesses are far more frequent that ones which ban cash altogether, the only "ban cash" places I know are in a food court in a shopping centre in Frankfurt and one Chinese restaurant. Germany as a whole has pretty much rejected moving away from cash.
The UK is not as extreme as Sweden but they have gone a long way down that road.
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byVlad_the_Inhaler
uary 13, 2026 @01:43PM
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Attached to: Scott Adams, Creator of the 'Dilbert' Comic Strip, Dies at 68
Pointy-headed man (PHM) was my bosses boss back when I read those cartoons. My immediate boss was an alcoholic who had been promoted because he had organised a company party, and because he could not become dangerous to PHM by displaying excessive competence (rather short sighted, the alcoholic later attacked someone at another company party while his BAC was more of an ABC).
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byVlad_the_Inhaler
cember 18, 2025 @01:56PM
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Attached to: Anthropic's AI Lost Hundreds of Dollars Running a Vending Machine After Being Talked Into Giving Everything Away
Doyou trust WSJ journalists?
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byVlad_the_Inhaler
ecember 17, 2025 @04:43AM
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Attached to: Volkswagen To End Production At German Plant, a First In Company History
Is "high energy costs" a hallucination or a troll?
I'm going for "troll" although there are industries which are suffering from high energy costs - certain industrial processes require lots of power. You'll notice that AI computer centres are springing up in Germany, and if there's ever a business which should suffer from energy costs it is that one.
VW used to have a plant in Westmoreland PA, it was active from 1978 to 1987 and they closed it because it was losing too much money. There were two main reasons it was losing money:
1 - Ronald Reagan's administration raising interest rates to ridiculous levels, something which made the Dollar a very expensive currency.
2 - The main car built there was the Golf / Rabbit, and the US market prefers a different body shape - the Jetta (not sure what it was called tn the US).
Factor 1 was something VW had no control over, although interest rates were dropping when they made their decision (and a lot of US industry moved abroad at the same time for the same reason), factor 2 was stupidity on the part of VW's board. Even factor 1 had a stupidity component, although I have no idea how viable the plant would have been with the lower Dollar.
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byVlad_the_Inhaler
ecember 17, 2025 @04:18AM
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Attached to: Breach At South Korea's Equivalent of Amazon Exposed Data of Almost Every Adult
The last time I left a company, I had a high (but not unlimited) level of access there. On leaving, I had to return my access card, my tamagotchi (the device which gave me the 6-digit code I needed to log in, the code changed every 10 or 12 seconds) and my laptop. I did forward my emails and phone to my private account, partially so I could tell people who asked that I'd left and partially to see how long it took them to delete them (it was almost exactly 3 months).
Why did Coupang not have similar security in place, especially for high-access network specialists? This is not rocket science.
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byVlad_the_Inhaler
ember 16, 2025 @05:51AM
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Attached to: PayPal Applies To Become a Bank As US Loosens Regulatory Reins
I used PayPal for a while 10 or 15 years ago, back then they were a bank - at least in the EU.
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byVlad_the_Inhaler
mber 15, 2025 @01:23PM
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Attached to: Google To Retire 'Dark Web Report' Tool That Scanned for Leaked User Data
Another tool retired because they couldn't see a way to monetise it, obligatory xkcd reference.
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byVlad_the_Inhaler
mber 15, 2025 @12:46PM
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Attached to: Scientists Thought Parkinson's Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water
A friend had it, but he's gone. He lived mostly in Germany, then rural France.
Someone I know in the US (Phoenix area, now somewhere between Kansas City and St Louis) has it really bad.
A family member has it, England.
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byVlad_the_Inhaler
mber 14, 2025 @07:00AM
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Attached to: Germany Covers Nearly 56 Percent of 2025 Electricity Use With Renewables
Can you understand my scepticism given that culverts are also recyclable but they don't do it? How much does it cost, isn't that their go-to excuse for not recycling?
It comes down to who - and where - "they" are, because in Germany that kind of behaviour would lead to very hefty fines. That - and the bad publicity - would skew the "costs" argument completely.
I'm trying to imagine the conversation if something like that was found in the woods. "Those 20 metre turbine blades must have been brought there and dumped by criminals from Poland", and they also faked the serial numbers".
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byVlad_the_Inhaler
cember 13, 2025 @04:21AM
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Attached to: US To Mandate AI Vendors Measure Political Bias For Federal Sales
Your side shot Charlie Kirk and got Nick Fuentes. You shoot Trump and you get ?
So what about the attempt to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer? What about the attacks by Vance Boulter in Minnesota? What about the attack by David DePape in California?
DePape claimed to have been radicalised by conspiracy theories (no arguments from me there), you swim in the same pool so maybe you could tell us where these theories originated and who propagates them?
Trump is saying that
developers should not "intentionally encode partisan or ideological judgments" into a chatbot's outputs
. I have no problems with that if it is really applied that way, but I think it highly likely that the definition of "partisan or ideological judgments" he is envisaging are viewpoints which diverge from his.
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