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Am European, at least in the big cities, public transport is mostly not worth using unless you are too poor to afford better options.

Too crowded, too hot, there’s a decent chance of arriving at your destination drenched in sweat. Not to mention how absolutely gross the people sitting next to you will often be.

I’ll happily take a few parking fines every day rather than getting in the tube.

I didn’t suggest that the two were directly related.

It’s a bad look to have to explicitly deny things like this.

I’m sure the preservation folks will tend to be older, but they’re still going to end up grouped with all other gamers.

It’s a deeply unfortunate association. The “gamer” identity is toxic to the point where “gamer word” means “racial slur”.

I suppose the charitable interpretation is that those who would invest considerable time campaigning for this are deeply into gaming, which is an activity typically associated with younger people.

There’s also the fact that through events like Gamergate, the term “gamer” has become highly charged and is not something most adults would want to be associated with.

It’s a war, par for the course to execute people for ”speech crimes” during such times.

We executed William Joyce and assassinated many like him, nobody seriously questions the morality of that. They deserved their fates a thousand times over.

Not commenting on whether or not this particular individual deserved their fate, but on a more general level.

Of course they wouldn’t, the admin is claiming the seemingly non-existent ”gulf coast coalition” will fund it.

It’s the Trump admin signature big number that goes on all documents, not a reference to real money that exists or is genuinely expected to exist.

If the congress rejects this deal, it cripples the US ability to negotiate in the future and essentially just forces an unconditional US surrender as nobody has appetite for a ground invasion of Iran.

Congress can only sabotage deals like this at an immense cost to the US’s future ability to negotiate anything with anyone, and it certainly can’t sabotage it’s way into a more favourable deal.

>No way congress passes that appropriation

No way congress passes an appropriation you just invented, which even the most optimistic Iranian propagandists are not claiming to be happening?

I mean yeah. Most random things you can come up with are likely to be things that congress will never pass.

What is congress going to do? Say “never negotiate with the US”?

It’s not like congress can very feasibly reject this deal in the end, Iran would just extort the gulf countries and it’d be even harder to sell an intervention.

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Which is a reasonable position, given that the Jews within this specific locale are mostly homicidal maniacs.

Given the context, Palestinians wanting to kill every last Israeli Jew is a totally defensible position. It’s a natural reaction to a band of murderous European invaders coming to occupy their homes.

You are forgetting to count everyone who voted for him by not voting against him.

First google result https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-03/ty-article/.p...

At least according to this study, almost all Israelis are monsters who openly support genocide.

If you go outside, you’ll find the vast majority of Americans thought Trump would make an acceptable president. Either they voted for him or didn’t vote against him.

It’s because their definition of “acceptable” mostly involves screwing over the other team.

It is an indisputable fact that when polled, most Israelis openly support genocide.

The average American voter primarily uses their vote in an effort to hurt other people who might support a different team.

Sure, but this is more akin to dismissing a 1click RCE as “social engineering” because an employee has to be convinced to click a link.

Why would anyone ever exclude true mitm?

Various domain registrars have been compromised over and over again (often by children!), resulting in companies like Tesla and Cloudflare getting owned.

The reality is that any vaguely competent attacker can compromise a court clerk and just compel e.g. the .com registry to hand over whatever domain they want.

Although I suppose the aforementioned problem has significant implications beyond dns…

Only second to making intellectually dishonest criticisms of perceived behaviours

Fences and speed bumps are hilarious defences if we are supposed to believe AI companies about the dangers of this technology.

Having no safeguards is probably safer than having safeguards which do nothing but create a false sense of security.

> Why aren't corporations doing more to help workers with childcare? Why aren't they doing more profit sharing with workers?

The AI companies sure are a brilliant example of corporations needing to do more to help their employees pay for childcare.

It’s up to the Swiss to decide as much as it was up to the Melians.

Swiss can never be like the UK or Turkey if it reneges on the deal it has now. The other two have leverage, Swiss do not.

Trust? Sure. They’re still more likely to buy their prepaid SIM from the shop that also sells bongs, they are on every corner after all.

Manned border checkpoints are inevitable in that case, it would be an external border.

But of course a blockade isn’t a realistic option, the Swiss would fold immediately if they thought things were headed in that direction. You could never get to that point.

The point is that the EU can crush Switzerland with the stroke of a pen, they couldn’t crush the UK without going to war. Switzerland could never even consider a kinetic response, so its room to manoeuvre agains its vastly bigger neighbour is limited to begging for mercy.

It’s also important to remember that nobody in the EU likes the Swiss, they are notorious troublemakers who are tolerated at best and despised at worst.

I’m just pointing out that in Europe the equivalent legal requirement is widely ignored, the same won’t necessarily repeat in the US, but it might.

That’s the legal requirement yes, I’ve never seen a shop insist on it. Most of them have autofill scripts for the KYC forms.

Sure, but if you’re a tourist in e.g. Barcelona trying to get a prepaid SIM, odds are the shopkeeper will not ask you for your ID despite being required to.

> Last I traveled the shop required a passport or uploading one to get an eSIM ahead of time.

Sounds like you went to a carrier boutique and not one of the million independent shops.