The case is basically that having a non-tracking paid tier makes no difference, the free tier if it exists can’t include mandatory tracking.

So they can offer a paid tier with no tracking, but they must also offer no tracking on the free tier.

Only if you were involved in the kidnapping, like paying them to do it.

Reading this I’m not sure I’d fault him even if that were the case.

Way it’s going, everything will be Boeing.

And don’t worry, any lost sales from bad press will be compensated from your taxes.

I guess that’s why I’m not planning to move to the US any time soon. The whole “you’re scammed by default” thing. I don’t want to be an expert on 30 different things just so that I don’t get seriously fucked over every other day.

I used to live in a country that was similar in some ways, you had to triple check everything because every glorified “small business owner” was scummy, and the regulator was asleep at the wheel. I like my peace and quiet now.

Where did I say that? All I’m saying is that while the problem that women are underrepresented in politics is a real problem and we should elect more women, since women’s issues also are usually underrepresented, we shouldn’t elect or even cover people because of what’s between their legs.

The Thatcher thing is that for example if the choice is between US Jewish Space Lasers Lady (just so that it’s not the same person again) and her opponent, “voting for the woman” might get you an opposite effect that you expect on for example women’s rights or the over all sanity of politics.

There are a ton of great women in politics, like Sanna Marin, elect more of them. But elect them because of their work, not their genitalia.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a “US bread lines” shill, I’m just saying overdraft fees are criminal and would have killed me as a student.

From what I hear, banks drain US accounts on their own just fine.

only seven of the top 20 most prominent figures in election coverage have been women

That stat only makes sense if compared with the ratio of women vs men in politics. It’s either legitimate, or it’s like someone saying “100% of the coverage in the US presidential election goes to male candidates”. I’m not saying it’s as it should be, it’s just maybe the problem is one level deeper, that there aren’t enough women in politics, not that they don’t get covered.

That said, just based on experience with other nations’ politics (I don’t know enough about the UK), it looks like progressives elect whoever based on policy, and it may be a man or a woman, but conservatives in general like their strong men, so in aggregate there are just more men.

My point is, maybe it just goes back to “let’s fix politics”. And all that said, more coverage may get more women elected, but on the other hand, maybe it all should be more about policy, lest we get more Thatchers.

Why AAA? Come on Sega, you can get it to AAAA, have people pay for time like back in the arcade days! Game starts, you get “Insert coin” and a microtransaction!

Dream big!

Okay, that explains Trump, but Biden?

The question would more likely be, why is it too late to have a different candidate run against Trump?

If the debt was owed to banks, then… heeee hee

We stayed up to watch it here across the pond, made it to 10 minutes.

Seriously, WTF is going on over there? How are these two people the top candidates to represent 380 million people?

The socialist left of Europe wants a UBI, forced dismantlement of megacorps in favour of cooperatives, harsh wealth taxes on net worth, separation of investment and commercial banking and so on. In comparison, Bernie wants a functional public healthcare system, and US oligarchs to pay at least some taxes.

The problem is that it kneecaps the experience for people who newly join, because they get faced with an unopposed blender of fascist propaganda, and may be immediately turned off the whole platform.

It is complicated, because the largest green energy manufacturer on the planet also has the largest CO2 emissions on the planet by far, three times that of the US - one could bring up the fact that they also have a lot of people, but how much of China’s emissions are driven by export vs domestic consumption?

Also, the shenanigans Russia pulled with Germany has the collective West wary of becoming dependent on a hostile authoritarian country for any staple import.

I’m not saying Biden’s perfect, far from it, but a strategy of “let’s go chummy with this big authoritarian country, they can’t attack us if our economies become codependent” has been tried here in the EU, and the results so far are hundreds of thousands dead and a nearly crashed economy.

In either case, it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy, since only the poor would remain in a food desert, if you have money, you have options.

Some people have it as their only choice due to living in a food desert. Imagine how fucked up is that.

That’s my point, I always have a reasonable suspicion of anything I get from the Internet, but I don’t trust any site just because some underpaid functionary or corporate employee in its respective country said it’s good.

That’s the ecosystem. WordPress itself is pretty basic, these things attack plugins, and their often not-very-experienced creators and users. The thing with WordPress is that this kind of vulnerability comes with the problem space, not the particular solution. If there was a different product in the same space, it would not fare better by default.

Also, I’d bet that a ton of CVEs are filed for C++ libraries, yet nobody is harping on about how insecure C++ is.