They must have taken into account the future inflation rates when they expect to receive the payment…

Oh, I’m sorry about the Linux thing, Russia.

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Putting up cameras does shit with crime when it’s managed by one central agency without crowdsourcing the effort, yes. It actually takes a lot of effort to go through false positives and all the footage, the sort of effort only the people who’ve been personally affected put into it, and even if you identify the portion where the culprit appears, that alone is not usually enough to identify them. It is still effective at identifying that a crime took place and to begin to define a profile of the culprit, and there are plenty of examples that prove how effective it from recordings on YouTube in countries where it is allowed. If it wasn’t, retail stores wouldn’t be putting them up.

You are also miscomprehending the GDPR and recital 50, which refers to things like phone recordings you take, not security cam, which you aren’t allowed to put and share in social networks under many circumstances but which is generally not enforced because random passerbys don’t normally sue for breach of it, although you are allowed to retain and share with law enforcement. GDPR is even criticized for its SLAPP potential on journalists.

Your take about GDPR allowing you to put up cameras is really wrong, and just about any simple search about putting up cameras and the GDPR will disprove it. If anyone really believes it, they will risk fines if neighbors or police want to be assholes (assuming you aren’t trying to be one yourself). It’s a shame you decided to weigh in in such an issue in a way that disinformed readers to such an extent.

The Neo of mental gymnastics.

France is getting UK style surveillance without none of the benefits and rights allowed in public spaces for brits.

That’s the thing about GDPR in the EU, in terms of surveillance, it’s taking the right away from citizens for their own personal surveillance to at least be able to bring to the police to identify culprits, but has no qualms about allowing the greater risk that the GDPR was supposed to prevent, misuse and widescale of personal data. First it was when they stepped back the web regulations so websites can push personalized tracking onto users in the guise of forced personalized ads or absurd payment methods plans per site, and now they continue to show they don’t mind mass surveillance.

I get the impression that the GDPR in the EU is slowly being corrupted to prevent us from being able perform surveillance so that authorities minimize the risk of getting recorded doing something that they shouldn’t or calling out abusive practices while increasingly allowing our personal data to be abused. Rather than have a surveillance state that puts our personal data at risk next time they get hacked, it is also possible to allow the means and the regulations for us to record criminal behavior and present it to the authorities when needed, in a decentralized, non-cloud, non-shared way that would be much more secure than this.

What do you use your phone for then?

No, wait, I don’t want to know.

Do you know what secular means? Google it, then tell me. Tell me while you sport a religiously obsessed username.

Online games are different because you control the hosting and the service has much higher upkeep. Don’t try to apply the same shenanigans to single player games. Also pissed me / pisses me off that they started doing this Borderlands 2+

But then they say,

Despite the massive backlash and more than a decade of memes, Horse Armour DLC’s popularity was proven by the wallets of gamers. While Bethesda was being flamed for releasing the paid content, the numbers don’t lie, and gamers were actually very interested in paying for the DLC

Their main market focus is on whales now. They make it very clear, they see the Horse Armor DLC as a success story.

I don’t know how people there are like me, but I have forked over a lot on TES:O that I will no longer ever fork over again, and I regret having fueled their foray into single player. I will not preorder TES6, and I will have to wait for discounts to begin applying to their new franchises. As someone who was deep into TES lore, I will no longer care about TES6’s monetization or their attempts to tie into and guide players into TES:O.

But whales… Whales never change.

#ThatsThePoint

The problem is at the source of Abrahamic religions, so being only concerned about one particular subset says a lot.

Say what you will about him, but he still links to the videos he reacts to, allowing me to immediately click on them if a recommendation for his reactions ever pop up. I think our monkey brains still try to look to see the reactions from the group (hence karma scores) to determine how to approach a topic, and they fill in the void that is absent in streaming platforms. So now, we have more personality cults than ever before and the hidden agendas that try to subvert them to their interests (Cambridge Analytica, now Emerdata, only one example because only they were brought to court).

Still, opinions aside, reaction videos should be forced to share revenue with the original content creator. And if its supposed to be criticism, they should learn how to do it without reaction videos. Only the platform can really begin to do this.

Oh, wait, they have genocide built into their religious books now, do they now?

“From the cities of these peoples which YHWH your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not let anything that breathes remain alive. You shall surely annihilate them (haḥărēm taḥărîmēm) … just as YHWH your God has commanded you so that they may not teach you to do any of the abominations that they do for their gods, and you thus sin against YHWH your God” Deuteronomy 20:16–17

Oh, yep, nevermind, I can see it, carry on.

This is fucking disgusting, and a testament that Israel believes they have so much control over the narrative by Cambridge Analiticising the major social networks and their owners that they feel they can get away with it. If there’s one thing I agree with Israel now, it’s that the UN was certainly wrong - by choosing after WW2, to legitimize the Nazi Haavara Agreements on partitioning Mandatory Palestine and enabling the neocolonialism that became Israel hidden under the faint veil of religious superiority claims. What the persecuted minorities needed were their homes and their wealth back, not an appointed figurehead to lead them into colonialism 2.0.

Sometimes I wonder if Blinken dreams he could back to the times of the Wild West just so that he could shoot Indians and their food supply from the top of his high train.

The majority doesn’t matter because of gerrymandering and the electoral college. AFAIK the majority of Republicans are not opposed to it. A simple majority that might exist does not matter if the other absolute majority of the other options is bigger. You are also acting as if it wouldn’t be politicized and propagandized if suddenly one group started coming out against Israel, which would significantly affect polling from independents and break away republicans. Politics are a reactive environment, not a static one.

Support for Israel has been very high historically in the US. It is only recently where it has declined significantly, and not really enough to make it not be the elephant in the room. And I can assure you, any relation you see between this issue and Biden not being replaced is PEBKAC, that involves a host of very different issues that you are only simplifying down to be similar in your head. For one, the change from Biden didn’t result in another foreign state, specially one that has experience and weight with influencing US and western institutions (AIPAC ring any bells?), trying to influence US elections, rather, it dismantled the efforts from the foreign state already involved in election manipulation that were singularly focused on Biden, forcing them into disarray.

… this praise of Trump … But it is a lie in service to a fascist

Not sure how utterly brain damaged you have to be to extrapolate that from my statement, but here we are. Dictators are not the best of bedfellows, history has proven that time and time again.

Congratulations for standing up for the supposed people in swing states who would vote a fascist dictator because they might drop support for Israel in the future because he’s a fan of money, not Israel … but somehow ignore the part where I’m also stating that Biden is getting fed up as well, I guess? Sorry, I don’t know how the crazed zealot mindset works, it certainly isn’t on logic, which is what I oppose Trump on.

Pro-Trump? Are you an idiot? Again, Trump loves money, not Netanyahu. Netanyahu is a free loopback for public to private money interests for a lot of politicians, but when you increasingly control that money at its source, it becomes less significant. Trump is going for a dictatorship in the US this time around, so Trump needs Putin, an Iran ally and leader at this sort of subterfuge, more than he needs Netanyahu.

With morons all around, from his supporters to the sort that calls observations like that “Pro-Trump”, he’s closer than ever to his goal. If you insist enough on it, I’m sure you will get a lot of pro-Netanyahu people, the sort already pushing troll factories onto social networks, to vote and promote Trump since they care more about Israel than the US. I’m just reminding them they are going to get screwed either way, if anything more so with Trump.

That’s sort of his plan, to raze it to the ground. What Netanyahu doesn’t realize is that all the war money he’s burning through is also Israel’s defense money, and that it will be some of the last it will ever get even if Trump wins. Biden is getting fed up, and Trump isn’t a fan of Israel, he’s a fan of money and Russia.

In an election year? That’s political suicide in the US to Harris by proxy, given how many people are brainwashed over there.

Biden just waking up… He must be one of the only users who only reads reddit’s worldnews and nothing else.