Beryl

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[–] Beryl 12 points 4 months ago

I agree with you but this phone comes with a proprietary super fast 100W charging tech that only works with their charger and cable.

[–] Beryl 121 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

Donald wants everyone to pay for their own defence yet will also charge the taxpayer extra for this own protection (while not paying taxes himself).

[–] Beryl 43 points 4 months ago (9 children)

From the NYT : "Shortly after J.D. Vance’s selection was announced, his hometown, Middletown, Ohio, was pounded by a strong storm with hail the size of golf balls that cleared parks and splash pads as people fled for cover. "

[–] Beryl 208 points 4 months ago (3 children)

"The political hate needs to stop" ? Dude, did you ever listen to like 5 minutes of your beloved candidate's speeches ?

[–] Beryl 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Unless you suffer from aphantasia, that is.

[–] Beryl 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

it's an advanced technique to produce a gliding sound

[–] Beryl 26 points 4 months ago

When the fine is orders of magnitude less than the money you made breaking the law, it's not deterrence, it's just the cost of doing business.

[–] Beryl 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

What Macron has lately been calling "far-left" would have been considered middle of the road leftism only a couple years ago. Macron has pulled such a massive shift of the Overton window --what with calling himself a centrist when all of his policies are right-wing, and constantly calling anyone that's left of him "far-left"-- that it's no surprise right-wing extremism is totally normalized now. LFI is not far-left, and I wish the media would stop repeating and thus normalizing that idea.

[–] Beryl 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes they can in fact say this. You do realize english is not the only language that exists or ever existed right ? Or that northern american culture is not hegemonic (yet) ?

Niger/nigra/nigrum is a latin word that simply means black or dark without all the prejudice attached to it in english, and believe it or not, variations of that root word still exist in a shitload of european languages and dialects to signify the exact same thing : a color.

To claim as you do that the denigrative usage of the word is the only understanding some farmer from the depths of the Urals should have is frankly preposterous.

[–] Beryl 8 points 5 months ago

*Liberation

[–] Beryl 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I don't disagree but it seems to me it's going crescendo, with de facto monopolies running the show and buying anything that could be an obstacle, be it other companies or policymakers.

[–] Beryl 33 points 5 months ago (7 children)

That there are such wild variations in price between countries shows how little that subscription is correlated to any actual costs.

At best subscribers in richest countries are subsidizing poorer ones, but most probably, Google is just trying to maximize the amount of money they can extract from everyone's pocket. The repeated seemingly random price hikes seem to confirm this hypothesis. It's just the MBAs enforcing terminal stage capitalism and ruining everything that is good.

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