smeg

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[–] smeg 29 points 2 months ago (4 children)

EU tech companies keep letting themselves be sold to US tech companies, or re-HQing to America.

Capitalism can't solve problems created by capitalism. The largest companies will always gobble up the competition, eliminating the alternatives.

[–] smeg 1 points 3 months ago

I feel a little prescient here.

[–] smeg 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I tried it. It's missing a lot of features and has a pretty empty database.

I appreciate that it doesn't have ads, but that isn't really much of a selling point if it doesn't do the job.

[–] smeg 13 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I always recommend this app to everyone who does any amount of traveling: Where Is Public Toilet

It helps you find public toilets, explains their hours and amenities, and lets you rate them. You can download the toilet map and use it offline. It's a real trousers saver.

[–] smeg 4 points 3 months ago

The family who owns most of the shares, and who were the authors of the anti-lgbt donations policies, vowed to replace the company's direct contributions with their own contributions sourced via the company's profits and dividends.

It moved who does the direct donation, but buying from Chick-fil-A still funds anti-lgbt efforts.

[–] smeg 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The US hostility against Venezuela explained in one photo.

[–] smeg 2 points 3 months ago

Yes. I was allowed in under a highly skilled migrant visa to work a tech job.

[–] smeg 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Americans will never take the action necessary to remove bad politicians who are destroying their lives. Never. The politicians will allow them to vote, only because they can manipulate the narrative during elections using excessive campaign contributions, making the public blame their neighbors instead of the corruption at the top.

[–] smeg 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They're walking this back pretty fast. The fear they created in consumers of total lock-in must have had an impact on sales numbers.

[–] smeg 8 points 3 months ago

Put backdoors in government systems for Musk corporations and foreign adversaries to exploit. Provide Musk with a cache of any government data he wants, including the personal financial records for every US taxpayer.

[–] smeg 5 points 3 months ago

Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition.

I basically have a decade worth of games to catch up on.

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