daniskarma
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- Comment on EU Commission meets behind closed doors with Ubisoft, other corporations, and exhibits blatant corruption. 1 day ago:
EU institutions are for the lobbyist, not for the people. We already knew that.
I wrote all my EU representatives in the parliaments about the chat control topic, and NONE of them answered. They are an elite above normal citizens, they do not care about us. They are aristocrats.
- Comment on To cosmic shreds, I say! 1 day ago:
I want one random atom to be one plank unit shifted to the left at the beginning of the universe.
🦋
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 2 days ago:
Then is different by country. In spain they used to be sent by the national post agency, taking advantage of the subsidization of third world countries.
But that aid ended years ago. Now packages from china have to pay full commercial price of delivery.
Since them in spain they moved from the national post agency towards cheap delivery companies, usually with bikers.
Idk if in Austria they are still subsidized or they pay full commercial price to the Austrian post agency. But surely there’s no european legislation that makes them not pay full price.
And once they pay full price, commercial companies tend to be more expensive or straight up not working in small towns compared with big cities where delivery is cheaper.
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 2 days ago:
It is more expensive.
As letters to towns are sent by public services which are expensive and work at a loss because they need to guarantee 100% population coverage. And have stricter delivery routes.
Commercial parcel delivery doesn’t work like that. They use cheap delivery companies, that can and will organize deliveries in a more efficient manner, plus they don’t give 100% coverage. If you live in a remote ares these delivery services are not available and it’s up to the customer to go to a pickup post.
Also you don’t even have to receive at home. Pick up post are common, so all deliveries doesn’t need to go to each person home. They are go to the same shop and them people walk there to retrieve products.
Like it or not, it’s cheaper. There’s a thing called economic scaling here, that means that the more products are moved the cheaper it becomes to move it.
It’s also non sensical in the sense that the tax is not made by product. But by category of product. I could order 150€ in the same product and only get 3€ tax. But if I get 150€ in 150 products of different categories I get a 450€ tax. It’s illogical if the objective would be what you think it is.
It’s a logical tax from the explanation I gave. They european union was lobbied by scalpers, local resellers and dropshippers, that would indeed buy tremendous amounts of the same article to resell it more expensive to you.
Making the product also travel more and less efficiency. The product no longe will go in a efficient route from china to my house. Now It will go to chine to some warehouse, sit there some time and them from that warehouse to my house. If anything it would me more polluting.
They EU have failed us again.
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 2 days ago:
Materially speaking is more expensive to send a letter next town than a packet from something like aliexpress.
From sending a letter next town you’ll have to pay the salary of a postmen for going to take the card from your town to the next town, probably only for that item or a very small number of items.
From china millions of packages move by ship. The cost per package is negligible. Most of the cost again comes from when the package is in your city and the postman has to get it to your house.
Also I think you got some things wrong. There use to be some subsidised loophole, where national postal agencies delivered chinese packets for free as they were considered third world postal service. That loophole closed long ago. Now all the cost is paid. From the logistic warehouse to the ship/plane, to your doorstep, all that cost is covered on what you pay.
What they are doing is not ending subsidies, I would be ok with that. What they are doing is putting up tariffs. Putting up an artificial price increase via tax jsut because an item came from outside the country. It doesn’t cover or offset any loigistic cost. It’s just a tariff. They change it not for anything fair, it was just that european dropshippers couldn’t compete with chinese shops, so they lobbied the EU into killing chinese shops so people wanting those items has to get them through the european dropshipper. That’s all. No a single millilitre of oil will be saved on the process. The parcel will do the exact same travel at the exact same cost, but you will pay more, and that money will end up either in the EU Comission hands or in a dropshipper hands.
The orders will not be more aggregated, that’s nonsense. They already aggregated the orders to send them as cheap as possible, as that’s in best interest from all parties. They don’t send near empty containers, every container is already filled to the brim.
We may just may see just a reduction in the number of orders, just because we won’t be able to afford as much because they effectively made us poorer. With the same money we’ll be able to afford less things. Which is just the them of the EU in the later years, make its citizens poorer and poorer via increasing the cost of everything year after year. “You’ll own nothing and be happy”, except I won’t be happy. I feel far from happy with the EU.
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 3 days ago:
Most country specific/regional programs are far more exhaustive and concrete than european election programa. Just read them.
Lack of accountability by the chambers and the commission lead to lack of democracy in the european institution, it’s just what’s happening.
They don’t get audited like national parliaments are, but they have greater power, that’s just wrong.
I don’t know where you live but 3 euros tariff for a 1€ item is killing a business. Trump did it and the european union, after criticize it, just did the same. Bad when trump did it and bad they europe did it.
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 3 days ago:
I didn’t see that explicit tariff on any program.
Their programa tend to be vague “supporting local industry” “protection from harmful foreign products”. But under those vague umbrellas they do whatever they want and then they job becomes to convince the people that what they decided to do is the good thing.
And in a democracy that’s not what should happen. In a democracy the people tells the politicians what to do. When the politicians tell by their own to the people what’s good from them it’s called enlightened despotism.
Also I do not see how it’s reasonable to ask for a 3€ tariff for each product category on any order. That tariff is obviously aimed to cut people from buying directly from china and just to buy the exact same product to a middleman paying way more. Products are still the same, guarantees are still the same, taxes are quite similar as this products were subject to vat. The only thing that change is you pay the extra tariff or you pay the middleman. Zero benefits for the consumer.
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 3 days ago:
Did your representatives had in their program tariffs for AliExpress or Shein?
Mine didn’t, they voted in favor of it regardless.
- Comment on I'm a dev who has been working on my game for 2 years and my game title got stolen on Steam and they plan to release before I do. What should I do? 3 days ago:
They may have done you a favour. The name just being the name of a famous experiment is not very SEO friendly. The less of your troubles is another game having the same name, you have thousands of references to that experiment to compete with for name placement.
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 3 days ago:
Europarliament representatives voting has nothing yo do with the programs they get elected for.
When they present themselves to the election they show people a program. Then they do whatever they want, nothing to so with that program they were voted to achieve.
It’s a detached institution. People elected for the european parliament get outrageous salaries, and barely get audited.
I remember when chat control was being voted. I wrote my representatives, none of them answerer, none, not a single one. If they cannot even talk to me about things I worry sure as hell they are not representing me.
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 3 days ago:
Nobody voted for paper straws, glued bottletaps or AliExpress tariffs. Enough people voted for this.
EU is hardly a democracy. More like an enlightened despotism. “All for the people, but without the people”.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Spore taught me a lesson on not trusting hype.
It was my first experience with a hyped disappointing game.
Also I do not think it was something technical. It was just EA evilness to their marketing team though that a more child oriented game would sell better than the hardcore simulation the devs wanted to make.
I still remember that E3 trailer with the willowsaur, it showed more advanced characteristics that the final product. They straight up downgraded their game.
- Comment on Buzz off 1 week ago:
Last time I was stung by a wasp I was just standing on the street. I wasn’t even moving. I was standing for about 30 minutes waiting when suddenly a wasp came, stung me on the neck and went away flying.
It was a “fuck you in particular” with qll the letters.
- Comment on I'm 600 elo on chess dot com, what should I do to improve now? 2 weeks ago:
You’ll probably need to study some theory on openings and endgame.
Also do puzzles to improve your tactics.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Most games do not need expensive hardware.
Last month I bought a retro handheld for 30 bucks. It can play all the existing catalogue of consoles up to PS1, and also pico8, tic-80, and small pc games via portainer.
- Comment on I'm going to change the world 3 weeks ago:
O2 was poisonous for that algae.
- Comment on PlayStation boss says single-player games won’t come to PC going forward | VGC 4 weeks ago:
I’m just starting to play Subnautica. That’s how bad my backlog is. I think I will be fine.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 4 weeks ago:
I think it is mostly because people feel more free to express those thoughts because the president of the US share those thoughts.
But they thought like that to begin with, that’s why they voted for him.
I think it’s an uncomfortable truth, but people genuinely think like that not because they have been brainwashed or because propaganda. The same our political thoughts are based their political thoughts are based too.
I think it’s important not underestimate the opponent, because then we won’t really understand why it rose to power. I think it’s a mistake thinking that baning hate speech will prevent something like Trump getting elected. I live in Europe where hate speech is mostly banned. Still the turn to the far right is growing even faster and more right than the US. People don’t say nasty things in public, political representatives don’t say those things in public. Because there’s laws against that. But people think nasty things and say them in private all the time. Because they have developed a political thinking around that. And it’s not that simple as “they became radical because a political representative said a bad thing on twitter” they developed those political thoughts the same we all developed our political thoughts.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 4 weeks ago:
I think it should. People should me able to say what they want. Even the most stupid or hateful things. They are thinking them anyway, it’s not like hat it’s going to disappear with a ban on hat speech. Hate speech is the expression of the hateful thinking but not the root.
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t update my last pc in 15 years. And I just bought a new rig in 2025.
So I’m good until 2040 when, idk, the cryptospider inteligence will drive sound card prizes to the roof or whatever.
- Comment on How worried should we be about hantavirus right now? 1 month ago:
It doesn’t work like that. There are virus highly contagious with also high mortality.
It’s a relationship between how quickly it kills you and how quickly it spread.
For instance VIH had almost 100% death rate but it’s pandemic because it takes years to kill you.
- Comment on How worried should we be about hantavirus right now? 1 month ago:
I have read a lot about it because I have stressed a lot about it, I’m also naturally very skeptical so I dig down a lot.
This particular variant is the Andes strain of the virus which have been show to transmit human.
It’s a virus that had existed for long time. And has already caused local epidemics. The most famous the Chilean Argentinian epidemic of 2019 where something like a dozen people died out of thirty infected.
Mortality is high (around 30% of infected, once you develop lung symptoms around 50%) but R0 number is low. Usually the studied R0 number has been below 1. This mean that each person rarely spread it to more than one other person. For comparison covid R0 was something between 2 and 4. This is the main reason to think it won’t spread a lot.
This virus has been around a lot, but it’s true that it has maybe never been in a situation like now with worries about quick international spread via airlines.
Currently most worries are about how easy is to actually spread human to human. There was a case of a flight attendant who was tested after a short contact with an infected but apparently has tested negative. So for now we must watch out if the people who were in flights with some of the infected have also been infected. If there are none or very few infected of those airplane passengers we could, most likely, breath safe, as the danger would be low. If we start to see infections after short contact then we should worry. As of this morning I start to believe that we are on the former scenario, as there has currently not been any positive test after a short contact.
- Comment on How worried should we be about hantavirus right now? 1 month ago:
This particular strain apparently is the Andes variant which is know to be able to spread among humans. But the R0 number studied on previous epidemics of that strain is indeed low.
- Comment on How is Alexander the Great so great he gets that name, but not so great that just “Alexander”doesn’t disambiguate him? 1 month ago:
I know like 5 dudes called Cesar.
- Comment on Theories on Theories 1 month ago:
If pi is not exactly three why hasn’t my bridge fallen?
Check mate mathematicians.
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 1 month ago:
Source?
In my country euthanasia has to be required by the person wanting to ending. Nor the government nor any other person or organization can ask for this procedure to be done to an unwilling person.
The person has to require twice, and be evaluated by a comitee of medical doctors to ensure that it has a chronic disease that could not be cured and that it’s causing ongoing pain that would not get better with medication.
www.sanidad.gob.es/gabinete/notasPrensa.do?id=682…
Statistics on it doesn’t point to it being “targeted to anyone”. More so, there are many people who ask for it and cannot get it in time and die of natural causes before the procedure could be done.
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 1 month ago:
Euthanasia is already legal in some countries.
- Comment on Valve Uploads Steam Controller Unboxing Video, Launch Imminent 1 month ago:
I recently went on a hunt for a cheap good offbrand controller. I bought several from gamesir 8bitdo and easysmx, and ended up landing on the gamesir cyclone 2. It’s quite good, though not perfect, because the ergonomics are not 100% my style, but it was my best option overall. I think it was like 50€.
Before that I was using the 30€ range controllers from easysmx and for their price they were good but only lasted a couple of years because stick drift.
I tried 8bitdo because everyone talked so good of them, but I didn’t like the ergonomics, that’s 100% personal though, the controller itself was good.
I also read about the Vader 4 controllers, which has good reviews but never tried it.
- Comment on Valve Uploads Steam Controller Unboxing Video, Launch Imminent 1 month ago:
I fear the price will put it out of my budget for controllers.
Usually I buy my controllers at around 30-50€
This, I fear would go well over double the higher end of that.
- Comment on Why do I almost never see people flying drones? 2 months ago:
Where I live, europe, while not strictly illegal is so restricted and you have to ask for so many permissions to fly a small drone that’s not worth it.
People wanting to fly one would just go to some remote place on the countryside where no one would see you.