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- Comment on Lets say the Dems found a canindate with a criminal history and backed him or her who would it be or you like to be? Taking a page from Republican playbook. 1 day ago:
Why would anyone want candidate with criminal history? There are, in fact, stupid questions…
- Comment on Is there a FOSS version of Waze or Google Maps? 1 day ago:
unless Borat runs your countries
if borat ran your country it would be heavy improvement for you. are you sure you want to be dismissive about other countries?
so to recap: this is the truck for which they make navigation for trucks.
data from such navigationd for trucks can’t be useful for civilian cars for reasons stated above, which was my point. this concludes my contribution to this discussion.
- Comment on Is there a FOSS version of Waze or Google Maps? 2 days ago:
On another note, how does the bread get from the bakery to the restaurant where you are if not for trucks?
ok, lets define the terms.
this is the truck (the one they make special navigation for. the one that is basically just a van does not need special navigation, it uses the same one as passenger cars.):
so what kind of restaurants are you visiting and how much bread do they use there? 😂
- Comment on Is there a FOSS version of Waze or Google Maps? 2 days ago:
it might probably depend on geography, but where i live trucks have one lane and they they are forbidden by law to block the other ones (not that they respect that to the letter). but the trucks may be standing still while the other lanes are fine (or at least not standing still). then the information from truck navigation means nothing for me in passenger car. another way is that trucks run some specific routes, they drive from a factory to some warehouse, but they don’t randomly drive aroud the city center.
they also just can’t physically take some routes (sharp turnes, narrow roads, low bridges, etc.)
so the data from trucks only cover small part of the road network and top of that some of them is not relevant for passenger cars.
- Comment on Is there a FOSS version of Waze or Google Maps? 2 days ago:
traffic data from trucks can’t be very useful for civilian traffic.
- Comment on Is there a FOSS version of Waze or Google Maps? 2 days ago:
but it might have sounded like you separate this two, the point of the commenter above, i believe, was that google maps and waze now share the same data. i do believe that getting all these contributors and keeping them, is the reason why google didn’t kill the waze already but is just slow-crippling it instead.
some volunteers might be happy to contribute data to waze, while they might not be as happy to do the same for google.
- Comment on Is there a FOSS version of Waze or Google Maps? 2 days ago:
ok, i was not aware, thank you for the info
- Comment on Is there a FOSS version of Waze or Google Maps? 3 days ago:
- Comment on OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky dies of cancer at 43 5 days ago:
yes, exploitation of sex workers is rarely cool and ethical job.
many of the creators on the platform were lured there in a similar way the young dumb guys were lured into army, many are operating as part of some big organization that facilitates the exploitation, run their accounts for them and take their money, often times lying to them about what their videos actually earned (which they can’t verify, because their account is being ran by third person), and the dumb users who believe they have personal relationship with a stripper are actually chatting with some underpaid person in third world country, who is often hired for a temp job and then fired without being paid.
don’t trust PR bullshit about ethical porn and “independent creators” being their own bosses. while such creators probably do exist, there are also ones that are exploited in really nightmarish conditions.
- Comment on Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website 6 days ago:
this can’t be legal in any civilized country.
- Comment on OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky dies of cancer at 43 6 days ago:
karma was fast this time.
- Comment on How are locks and keys mass produced? 1 month ago:
and since it was all under HOA owners couldn’t just buy mismatched locks.
as an european, i always roll my eyes at the concept of hoa, but this is definitely wildest i have seen in this context 😂
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 2 months ago:
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 2 months ago:
where nobody wants to live because it’s ugly and depressing and guaranteed, the poor end up having to live there, and with that comes crime and what not and you end up with ghetto style areas where even police is uneasy
you should not give lectures about something you know from bad tv show at best.
what a suprise, these communities look according to how you maintain them and people who live there are happy to have a place to live. and when it undergoes revitalization, it looks quite nice.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 2 months ago:
in prague, it is 2 monthly median salaries per squared meter. there was a lot wrong about the fucking “communism”, but accessible housing was not one of them.
- Comment on What's the best free version of word? 2 months ago:
all words are free. i just used thirteen of them and paid nothing.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 2 months ago:
No serious political scientist claims democracy is a matter of ideology or “who feels represented.” There is broad cross-national agreement on procedural criteria: competitive elections, universal suffrage, freedom of association and expression, independent courts, civilian control of the military, and peaceful transfer of power. Chinese or Russian academics may reject these standards, but that doesn’t make them arbitrary—just inconvenient for regimes that fail to meet them. There’s no need for a supranational authority to decide this any more than there is one for physics; standards emerge from scholarly consensus and empirical comparison.
Second, pointing out abuses and contradictions inside democracies doesn’t negate their democratic character. What you describe in France, Greece, Germany, and Spain are are events happening within constitutional systems, not the absence of those systems. Courts overturn referenda because constitutions limit majority rule; executives misuse emergency powers; police and media manipulate narratives. That is democracy functioning badly, not democracy not existing.
The decisive distinction is whether these actions can be challenged, exposed, reversed, and punished. In Europe, governments lose elections, courts rule against executives, journalists investigate police misconduct, and opposition parties—leftist ones included—can recover and return. In Russia, journalists, opposition politicians, and anti‑corruption activists don’t lose court cases; they lose their freedom, their lives, or very famously, fall out of windows.
That is the difference between democracy and dictatorship, comrade.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 2 months ago:
Also, what’s a sea lion supposed to be
good news, i just checked and google is up today.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 2 months ago:
Putin has higher approval ratings than any western leader.
you are joking, right? a dictator who falsifies elections and statistics has good “approval ratings”, oh wow, we should abandon democracy immediately and opt in for a dictatorship, must be so sweet!
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 2 months ago:
I doubt political scientists in China agree with, say, German political scientists’ definition of democracy. What supranational organization will decide which country’s political scientists are correct?
china is free to form an alliance with anyone they want to, as long as that entity wishes same. and the democratic countries have the same right. you are either one of the <2 brain cells people, or a sea-lion, either way, i am done with you.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 2 months ago:
that would be necessary, not sufficient condition.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 2 months ago:
we have the whole field of expertise for that, we call it the political science. and no one with more than 2 brain cells thinks china or russia are democratic countries.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 2 months ago:
the policy shoud be “this is union of democratic countries”
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 2 months ago:
no, i am just being sarcastic towards stupid commies.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 2 months ago:
yes. as a geniune western citizen typing with my western democratic hands, i also support dissolution of nato.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
that’s surprise. the real red flag here is finishing the irl sentence with “lol”.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 2 months ago:
and I’ll bet you have smoke detectors and fire extinguishers around just in case
“smoke detectors everywhere” is not a norm everywhere in the world in a same way it is in usa.
“americans are not aware there is a world behind their borders” is already on a list in this thread, but thank you for practical presentation 😂
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 2 months ago:
but in some small handful of cases it may save their lives.
in some small number of cases you can get hit by a meteorite during that search, so be careful.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 2 months ago:
great, another american immigrant. we need to build a wall and make america pay for it.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 2 months ago:
i am not going to verify what you said, but regardless of if it is true, if your grandparents have the citizenship, you probably don’t need dna test to find that out…
