It's wild how easy it is to get in contact with small scale drug sellers on Snapchat. It's easier and more convenient to buy LSD off of Snapchat than buying alcohol at the alcohol store in many medium and large cities, even as an adult. There's lots of sellers to chose from, no verification of anything, open 24/7, convenient location, some even do home delivery. And they usually have lots of other stuff you probably want as well.
I'm almost exclusively using tech from before the pandemic (desktop from 2019 being the oldest) and it's such a blessing not having the time to keep up with new games. I'm convinced I won't need more powerful computers before 2030.
I was dumb enough to get a new Samsung phone last time I needed a phone so the battery will likely be toast long before that, but in terms of power my old Samsung S9 (2018) is still plenty.
It's wild to me that gamers are still expected to upgrade their rig every other year or even sooner.
I just got out of the stock market recently to get myself a bigger apartment. Felt really insecure about the decision until now (budgeting is tight). Feel for everyone that have their savings in this dumpster fire.
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That's how the world works unfortunately, someone has to pay for it
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I'm so glad I made the choice to move away from Gmail and Google search a few years ago.
Can we just start to state the obvious? They want the minerals on Greenland for tech "adventures" so they don't have to rely on China.
Helt som forventet og helt riktig. Jævla kjipt da, men.
It makes a ton of difference actually. I can speak for Norway, currently we have 9* parties in Parliament, 3 on the left, 3 on the right and 3 in the middle that could align themselves with either side, and they do flip from time to time.
If the coalitions formed beforehand we would very likely put the Communist Party in with the left, but Labour actually prefers to work with the Conservatives (their main rival) over the Communists most of the time.
More parties also gives way more nuanced choices, we have 3 parties that have environment and climate change as a top priority, one on the left, one on the right and one in the middle meaning that if climate change is your biggest concern we actually have real alternatives. To continue on the climate rail; the power realtion between the Liberal Party (right/green) and the Progress Party (hard right) will matter a lot if the Conservative party get form a government after the elections.
We see a lot of deals going across the traditional left/right line which makes the political process and campaigning a lot less toxic, and if some big issue is not raised by the big players some a smaller party can campaign on that or we can even start new parties.
*There's also a non-party representative that in essence got elected to save a local hospital. Kinda wild that the locals got so pissed that enough of them "threw away" there votes to get her elected on a single issue.
That said, there are obviously problems with too many parties, but I think around 6-10 is probably good.
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Yes.
Vi er en lang vei unna å kunne stole på disse "AI"ene ja. De er gode på oppskrifter og omskriving av tekster samt til å jukse på skoleleksene. Men å bruke dem som søkemotor er livsfarlig.
Either the landlord or a split between the parties

Hva gjør du hvis Google og Microsoft blir ulovlig i Norge?
Godt å se at noen er på banen https://www.digi.no/artikler/tung-ber-alle-ha-exit-strategi-klar-i-tilfelle-google-og-microsoft-blir-ulovlig/556705 Betalingsmur, men essenses er at det er en reell sjanse for at det blir ulovlig å bruke Microsoft, Google og andre amerikanske tjenster i det offentlige og deler av privat sektor hvis avtalene som håndterer dette blir brutt. Et annent scenario som er verdt å tenke på er at disse selskapene bare skrur av tjenestene, enten ved uhell eller med overlegg. Vi har gjort oss fullstendig avhengig av USA, ikke bare på forsvar, men på hele den digitale infrastrukturen vår. Tenk gjennom hvor megaføkkd du og ditt arbeidssted er hvis det blir umulig å bruke Microsoft, Google, Apple, AWS og andre amerikanske selskap.
Håper dette kan tvinge frem en desentralisering og avamerikanisering også på dette feltet, men som vanlig må vi vel vente helt til krisen er et faktum før det skjer noe som helst.
The slower pace of content is a huge plus to me.
It's still wild to me how Elon and Tesla is the face of the Empire considering their standings just 5 years ago