It’s not unheard of there to be English language tracks that drop in random French, Italian or Spanish words and phrases
It’s just regular cultural exposure to other languages ultimately. No rule says you need to stick to one language in a song, so some musicians throw in some stuff from other languages they’ve heard, because why not
I’ve always wondered why Americans “take” things so much. “Take a shit”, “take a shower”, “take a look”
You “go for” or “have” those things in OG English.
Now, I know one of the reasons Piefed exists and has had success is down to how people don’t like the political views of the main Lemmy devs.
That said, I’ve gotta be honest, the personal opinions of the Piefed dev seem to have a much more tangible impact on the software than the other guys. This is definitely not the first instance of subjective default post filtering being built into the software.
Given the demographics of the fediverse I’m surprised this kind of clandestine moderation hasn’t had more of a pushback.
Kinda
In a normal transaction without a phone you use a plastic card issued by MasterCard/Visa/Amex (or a local processor). The processing company charges a merchant a small percentage fee on that transaction to the business. In some places they might add that processing fee to the bill, but that’s illegal in my country nowadays.
When you add Google/Apple into the mix, they’re importantly not replacing anyone, they’re just adding themselves in to basically just replace the “plastic” part with “virtual” in what I said before. So the payment processor still takes the same fees they always have, it’s just a phone talking to the card reader rather than a chip in a card.
So how do they make money? I believe Apple just charges the bank a small percentage, which I imagine they reconcile out of the payment processor fees. Google, on the other hand, I think offers it to banks for free, because as is tradition, they’re more interested in the data.
Worse, the NSA is (theoretically) below the government in the pecking order
Palantir are trying to elevate themselves above governments
That’s a bad thing because ostensibly democracy allows us to influence the government, there’s very little we can do to influence palantir
Lol of course he is
UK/EU has had contactless payments via our bank cards for about 2 decades now. America caught up eventually some years later
When phones got the ability to act as our bank cards, it made sense for them to use something compatible with the same technology that was already deployed
Funnily enough, America (and I guess also Korea, given the companies) dragging their heels on standard contactless is one of the main reasons why Samsung/LG briefly put out a couple of generations of phones that had a magnetic stripe mimicking payment feature in addition to standard NFC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_secure_transmission)
Data centres notoriously don’t have heads, but I love the enthusiasm
We kinda have two choices:
Some flavour of socialism where people get what they need for free
Or
Turbo-rio-de-janiro style inequality where we all live in slums
Now the 2nd one is what the ultra rich want and they have a lot of power, so it’s kinda on the rest of us to make the first happen instead
Honestly I don’t know why, but submerging a big machine just makes it look 10x cooler (in a figurative sense, in addition to literal)
I don’t make the rules
I just grip the box closed after I’ve pulled what I need and yank it free
I think it’s usually the bottom side of the opening with the serration, so probably that side
People can (and do) still say what they like today, other people aren’t also obligated to smile and clap though. Very few people are gonna be particularly pleased about being insulted.
TBF, you’re probably more likely to get punched in the face for saying those things rather than following hearing them these days. I’d probably see that as the better situation of the two, kids should stand up for themselves.
If year on year we can get kids to be less shitty to each other, it’s hard to argue that isn’t good thing.
I don’t think soup brain is capable of considering this
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Money and sales charts
Being top of a sales chart was a big deal a couple of decades ago as it usually meant a product got better placement on the shop shelves
So then marketing budgets could be focused on different areas at different times, meaning greater chance of getting higher in the charts
That and localisations generally taking time and studios not wanting to cannibalise sales of a local version with imports
Also regional pricing, they could sell more in poorer countries for lower prices, but they didn’t want to give up the greater amount they can ask for from richer countries
Edit: clarity
Most people seem to go for either codeberg or gitlab as alternatives
Barely used doesn’t mean useless
They’re not for regular people making regular transactions, it’s kinda intended for high value transactions
Wealthy people selling things (semi-)privately to each other is one obvious one, things like those £50k watches. Sometimes these wealthy people want to do their spending with utmost discretion, so cash is king.
Another is pawnbrokers, private currency exchanges and similar kinds of business that just have to deal with a lot more cash than is typical.
Don’t get me wrong, its usage will definitely be in decline, but I don’t see them taking it out of rotation any sooner than the fiver
You can do it with any language where whitespace doesn’t matter and Whitespace