People who can’t figure out things (and as you noticed it’s very hard), pay the most taxes of anyone in Europe, while people who earn enough can hire a specialist that tells them how to profit from deductibles, subsidies and fake self employment etc. The tax services routinely issue fines that were deemed illegal multiple times by judges in the past and it’s up to their victims to protest against this.
Are you sure you’re not Eastern European?
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-worlds-top-reserve-currencies-in-2024/
It’s not just “the dollar”, right now the ranking of reserve currencies is:
I’ll check back again when the RMB reaches like 10%.
Also, your article is not talking about the RMB as a world reserve, it says BRICS is aiming to create a new currency backed by gold, so essentially a return to the gold standard. One could argue for or against that, maybe it’s better than the dollar if you ask me, but IDK. But adopting that as a national currency would break Chinese manufacturing, as they rely on being able to devalue the RMB to keep doing what they are doing.
Point is, fuck the USD, but it’s not so simple that we can switch to the RMB and be done with it.
Oh, I love travel stories. Travel influencers make it about themselves and not the place, that’s my gripe.
The same place it will be for the next two months.
It wasn’t exactly reliable so far, they just cease to be a partner at all at this point.
The beatings will continue until critical thinking improves.
Can either of those compete with Google Play on equal terms though?
I have a feeling this is simply idiotic. Travel influencers are kind of useless anyway, so automatic synthetic bullshit replacing handmade artisanal bullshit is not really the biggest loss to humanity caused by AI.
That’s what the suit is about.
the suit says the company “actively discourages” work-only iCloud accounts.
We’ll see what they dig up.
Not really how it works
Where did you read that?
How AI comes into the picture is that Meta claims that they do this via “AI”, which cannot be known how it works, so they can’t be blamed for it being ineffective, and the research group put together a piece of software that did a better job in 3 days, so Meta should either git gud or stop bullshitting about trying their best.
If the courts were competent, it would already be the case.
We’re both Eastern Europeans in Western Europe, so not visible minorities until we open our mouths.
We were recently house hunting, and my wife is the sole earner.
I can’t count how many times we had to explain that, or how many times we were disadvantaged against people with the opposite situation. When we applied for a joint bank account with both of us working, guess whose name they put on the account. Or try getting hired without getting asked about your family situation. For her, it always comes up in “small talk” in interviews, very obliquely of course. For me, maybe six months to one year into the job.
On the other hand, she opens the street door every time there’s a heavy delivery, as they don’t try to have her carry heavy cargo to our apartment like they do to me, despite it being paid for.
I know it’s insidious. This shit sandwich has so many layers by design that it’s easy to misinform even courts, much less people with limited time or willingness to talk about these things.
The real question with these issues is not whether you can install other software with some effort, but whether you can start a competing app store that, if better than Google’s, can outcompete Google.
Right now you can’t get the same deal from the makers of Android and phone manufacturers as the Google Play owners, and that is why it’s said the market is monopolistic.
So the thing is that for a recent hire most companies, especially small ones, don’t know about the supplementary days. That makes for an awkward conversation immediately when you start.
The only real source is a government website with no good law citations that says ambiguous shit, and the actual law, available in Dutch or French, but the legal text is very hard since it’s a modification to an older royal decree, so you have to read the two together.
Ask me how I know. Capital of the EU my ass.
National governments don’t give a fuck about their own armies until they need them. Ironically, most CIS countries needed their armies to defend against Russia.
EU countries can not wage wars against one other, armies or not, as everyone knows that the whole bloc’s economy would crash instantly as soon as we stopped trading. If German tanks rolled across France again, their crews would starve, as would the French defenders before they could kill each other.
The only reasonable use for an army in modern Europe beyond imperialistic outings with the US to countries who deserve better is to defend against Russia (and maybe China).
The reason for fiat was to take the power of setting global monetary policy from people who had gold mines and give it to people who had big economies. At that time, it was the US because they didn’t fight WWII on their own soil, which was unique at the time.
Realistically, if the dollar crashes, it is in nobody’s interest to go to anything than the next biggest currency, likely the Euro. Except for the US of course, but what are they going to do about it? Start wars?
They will definitely do that.
Here’s my take. This is not “good” because Trump also did it, this is “good” because a high ranking Democrat basically admitted that the US judicial system is FUBAR and is being used for political tit-for-tat.
Makes it harder for the DNC to pretend its politics are viable or sensible going forward.
My point is that the difference is that GOG only needs to compete with the feature-completeness and the momentum of Steam, while F-Droid is legally unable to have the same features as Google Play.
GOG could integrate achievements, a good launcher, a mod workshop, the whole community thing, get a lot of games on the platform, and eventually they would be able to offer the same experience to a newcomer as Steam. Existing customers would take time to switch, maybe, but still.
It’s a better position where F-Droid is just legally unable to offer a competing service to Google Pay or the Google Play infra APIs. Also, Steam does not come preinstalled on every Windows PC (or even Linux/Mac), while GPlay is the first thing to start up on every Android phone.
All that doesn’t stand for the Deck obviously, there it’s more similar, still not the same though as I understand.