It’s been years that I’ve been saying that europe and america fucked up big time with EVs. I am a middle class person who wants to buy an electric car. What are my alternatives? Either a +40k € car from the traditional brands that offers me the bare minimum in battery capacity or a BYD that costs under 30k offering me something acceptable. Now, why should I not pick up byd? Because it’s chinese? Well, don’t want me to buy chinese? Then fucking make a car people can afford?

In europe, for an electric car of a non chinese brand it’s either 40k for the bare minimum, or +60k for the luxury segment that I can’t afford anyway.

I have continuous fights with my IT dept. I work for OT, so my day is behind a computer doing technical stuff with machines and other computers, so although I’m no expert in cybersecurity, I know the basics about it and about privacy.

It’s an everyday war with them for every single thing I try to do. The best one I remember was when I tried to install firefox because I didn’t want to use chrome or edge. Tey blocked traffic from firefox through the company’s firewall. I called the IT to explain that I wanted to use firefox because I want to use ublock and other privacy related extensions to block tracking, redirect, phishing and other harmful things and I think their response caused me to facepalm in a way I never thought it was possible: they told me that if I wanted privacy, I should use chrome’s incognito mode.

Sometimes there are policies that made this almost forced. Case in point: the company I work for forces you to change password every 60 days max. They don’t allow the use of passwords managers and you can’t use the last 5 passwords. So what do people do? Just go with a simple word and change one number each time. Like “velociraptor1” then “velociraptor2” and so on.

I use passphrases which let me remember them easily while offering protection but it’s so stupid that they do it this way.

Lucky you it’s only $80. In Europe they are going for 90€, so I guess we’re passing the 100€ barrier on any game with dlc.

And people will pay. These are the fanatics that can’t live without a mario game.

Obvious reasons.

And that’s another game I’m not getting (even though I LOVE the concept) because there is no steam.

Oh well, their loss.

Considering the amount of people that either voted trump or not voted at all, I’d say that there’s a portion of americans lying.

Next step: add IA to minesweeper and solitaire under a paywall

That’s because I live in Italy, but yeah, I am from southern Spain

From the part that, for roughly 7 centuries, was under arab domain.

(I’m just going to take it as a good assumption that if I look at your profile I will not see halfway down the page “OH BY THE WAY THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS GENOCIDE” or anything, that they are just making that part up.)

Please, be my guest. I am firmly against the genocide Israel is commiting in Gaza and openly against the Nazi guy called Netanyahu.

Also: fun fact: I’m not american, I’m European, from a region with a very strong Arab history. I despise my own country history of colonialism and love my Arab roots. But hey, talk about LGTB and you start offending people.

Oh well, I’ll keep “borrowing” my ebooks from other librarieZ.

Proton.me is their real url, but is that link taking you to proton.me?

You need to treat them like a religious sect. When you include the “faith” in the list of reasons why they do shit, it becomes easy to understand.

They are religious fundamentalists and are to be treated like such. Same way people don’t need proof to believe in their god, magas don’t need it either to believe in trump.

No, that xkcd is relevant because that’s exactly what free speech means. Your government won’t arrest you for saying stuff, but for the same reason you are free to speak, we are free to act within law against you.

And there is no law forbiding people from boycotting or unhosting or simply not listening to what you say.

You are free to speak, we are free to listen.

So you are a racist. Got it.

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You are not going to find “free speech” instances federated with everyone, because what you are looking for is an instance allowing bigotry and racism, things that most of lemmy don’t like.

Move to a red state. Put up an activity as harmful as possible to humans while keeping it legal and making sure to remember everyone at every moment that you are doing this because there are no regulations.

You can’t convince a maga to stop voting trump with words, but you can force them if their only other option is dying for the lack of regulations.

Unaliving a nazi who wants thousands or even millions of people death is unethical? I’m going to disagree.