No, you’re thinking of the Wagner Group, a Russian paramilitary organisation.

This is Wagner, the antisemitic 19th century German composer.

ice scraper in the fuel cap, accessible from outside and can be stored when wet

As an Australian, I cannot express how little I care for this feature. 😅

The other ones you mentioned sound pretty neat though.

Simply clever

edit: Skoda is a brand I’ve literally only heard of (from here in Australia) because they advertise constantly on the Tour de France every year. Their tagline is burned into my brain.

This is neither a good nor a bad thing. It simply is.

Declaring war on a concept has never gone well for the states, has it?

Ftfy.

Mbin isn’t a “front end”, it’s a completely different bit of software that uses the same protocol for communicating between instances, and is thus cross-compatible.

The devs did indeed make the score inaccessible. It’s no longer returned via the API.

Mbin isn’t a “front end”, it’s a completely different bit of software that uses the same protocol for communicating between instances, and is thus cross-compatible.

The devs did indeed make the score inaccessible. It’s no longer returned via the API.

If you’re asking for money to fix bugs, that incentivises writing code with bugs, as if you write perfect code first time nobody will pay you to fix it

There’s certainly potential for that to be a problem. But it’s not necessarily insurmountable. For starters, I think the idea is you’re not paying to have your thing fixed, you’re paying to have your thing prioritised. The same amount of work is getting done either way, but bugs reported by people who paid will be prioritised over bugs reported by people who don’t pay. If there are no bugs reported by paid users, then unpaid bugs will still be worked on.

the charges have been inconsistent, randomly changed and clearly politically motivated

What’s your legal representation like? Is there any chance of an appeal on these grounds? (I know that in the general sense, penalties that are out of proportion with the norms can be grounds for appeal. But I don’t know enough about it to know whether that would apply for you.)

I actually don’t agree with @[email protected]. It deals with relatively dark subject matter (drugs and murder—no sexual violence or anything like that), but I find it does it in a rather flippant way, and feels like quite an easy watch in the way Parks & Rec or Brooklyn Nine Nine were easy watches.

The basic premise is two Pakistani-American brothers’ father dies, and they discover he was a big-time mob boss dealing in drugs. One of the brothers is a bit of a drop kick, spending his days getting high. The other is very uptight and straight-laced, and wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps…or what he thought were his footsteps running a large deli empire. The two of them end up selected as co-“CEOs” of the drug business because they get chosen as a compromise between the two actual mobsters who were competing to be next leader. In the middle of all this, an FBI agent is trying to pin them with their connections to illegal drugs. But the FBI agent’s boss is a Gilderoy Lockhart type (if you’re familiar with Harry Potter) full of himself but actually totally incompetent.

It’s quite silly and absurd situational comedy, IMO.

Just started Deli Boys. Very funny.

High speed rail is fantastic, but good inter-city routes are not a substitute for excellent local city planning. People should be able to live close to their work, and even closer to their daily amenities like shops, hospitals, schools, sports clubs and other social venues, cafes, etc., and should be able to get to them within a short walk or bike ride, without having to rely on long-distance travel like cars or even trains.

people could stop buying those big Rams and all that

I fuckin’ hate the popularity of big cars. I mean, I hate car dependency in general, but as far as cars do go, I’d much rather see small EV hatchbacks than this stupid fossil fuel guzzling yank tanks.

I’ve seen an ad going around from Kia in Europe, advertising their EV as being “not owned by Elon Musk”. Meanwhile, Kia Australia’s latest big thing has been the Tasman…yet another fucking wankpanzer.

Synology has its own NextCloud-like service you can self-host at pretty much the push of a button. Go into the Synology package manager and install Synology Drive, I believe.

bUt tHEy’Re RarE gENeTic ABnoRMAliTiEs

Yeah, and so are red-heads, Karen. In fact, red-heads are rarer than intersex people. Are red-heads not worthy of basic respect and dignity?

See, you cannot create content in a community, if every second post is about another community, instead of the topic that should be discussed

Well, it’s easy to make any decision look good if you just make up shit about the people accusing you of wrongdoing.

Yeah it went really well for me. It was a strange experience at first, not having glasses. I kept reflexively wanting to push them back up my nose, for weeks. And it took nearly a year before I could eat hot food without reflexively wanting to take off my glasses to avoid them fogging up. But I’m nearly 8 years on now and am so glad I don’t have to wear them anymore, especially during exercise.

I got it done in Vietnam, where the total cost was half of what the per-eye cost would have been in Australia. That was at an expensive by local standards place, which caters mainly to wealthy expats.

Yeah before I got Lasik I would always buy my glasses overseas (where I lived at the time), despite usually getting the tests done here. It was much cheaper that way.

One the reason you got banned and calling me/us power tripping.

Well, yeah. You banned them for the crime of helping new users find alternatives in case they were unaware they existed. Being unaware of alternatives is one of the key UX problems with the fediverse, so informing people about them is critical. Banning people for doing that, especially in the incredibly respectful and apparently targeted way OP was doing it, is pretty awful. The team agreeing on it doesn’t change this, it just means the whole mod team is PTB.

you seem to be quite fixated an numbers and have a rough, even hostile commnication style, even victimizing yourself

No, you victimised them. You banned them for a shitty reason. That makes them the victim. You, ironically, are trying to play victim in this very thread, because they’re calling you out on your poor behaviour. You’ve barely even tried to justify yourself, except by saying that the whole mod team agreed to it…which isn’t a justification.

Ah sorry, you’ve misunderstood me. When I said its “value to society”, I meant the value that society places on it, not the value that it provides to society.

The probably meant to say “happened”. A few weeks ago it leaked that Apple in the UK had been pressured to provide a backdoor to allow authorities to access users who had set their iCloud data to be “ADP”—which basically makes all your iCloud data & backups fully encrypted so not even Apple can access it.

But worse: the UK authorities asked Apple to ensure that the backdoor would let them get into all users’ data. Worldwide. It’s suspected other companies also received this request, and that only Apple leaked to the public.

Apple refused to do this, and instead disabled ADP in the UK. Which means that for UK users it’s much like Apple actually did cave and put in the backdoor…only it’s less like a backdoor and more like they took away the walls of the entire building. But at least it means users elsewhere in the world are safe, for now.