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  • ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops

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  • Yep. I’m thinking more and more what “made us great” in the past was the relative youth of our institutions. The longer these things run the further from ideal they tend to become. I would be very much in favor of institutional reform to attempt to continually improve these situations, but of course “institutional reform” is often a cover for fast-track corruption enabling.

    I am not sure if this is even correct, The Netherlands as it currently is, is pretty young, but people have been living in Europe for ages. We are one of the countries with the lowest corrupt, we do pay a lot of corrupt nations/people though, but that is a different story.

    Dystopian future stories about global corporate rule making governments irrelevant have been around for a long long time - the US is continuing to develop in that direction, but we do have at least a little further to go before we completely get there (even with recent accelerations in some areas.) It is hard for people in the US to make a choice other than support these companies, mom and pop stores are an alternative. In Europe, I am seeing a trend that we are more focusing on EU based alternatives or even better national based alternatives. (or open source, even better imo)

  • Damn Fox, you didn't have to turn me on more.

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  • We have a housing crisis, we have a job crisis and loads of other issues, but yes we do have an acceptable safety net.

    The minimum wage in America doesn’t even cover like a car payment for a decent car. But why would you need a car with a loan? I drove a 1600 euro car for 50k km for 4 years. And everybody I know drives second hand cars unless they get them from a work or own company lease.

    You have zero say in your work and how it’s done and if you have problems with your boss your boss can just fire you because they feel like it. Man I hate that you are serious, this is terrible mate. The wages are "high" in the US compared to NL for a lot of jobs, but this just sucks.

    The only thing I feel like you could do is keep going and maybe make a different choice on where you buy something, mom and pop shop instead of Walmart. Those big box stores aren´t doing any good. But that might just be an incorrect take.

    What could a foreigner do without going to the US itself to help you people?

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  • We already subsidize companies, but that doesn't always end up in the hand of the employees.

    Look, we have to accept that not every company can be profit driven and sustain itself. That can be an issue with wage costs or with other costs. Things like theatres often get money from the government to fill the gap. Companies with old historic buildings often get money from the government to keep those buildings in check. Startups also get helped by the NL government in the form of tax cuts etc.

    UBI would also help with edge cases. Or people who cannot work etc. Yes there are also issues with this.

  • The alarming rise of US officers hiding behind masks: ‘A police state’

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  • But was there a situation where they were needed? Or were they standing doing nothing because there was nothing?

    I have known multiple firefighters which were happy most of the time to get the support from the cops to handle the situation.

    The cops I have seen were always doing something even if it were just patrolling. You can call that useless, but at least they are outside and can be called.

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  • Who say it has to be one man, it doesn't have to be one person.

    But as somebody who has studied a couple laws (tax laws, some general laws etc) I can tell you that there is so much going on that somebody who hasn´t studied about it shouldn´t have an impactfull stay in it.

    In the article you linked had this in the second sentance:

    In 2008, judges Michael Conahan and Mark Ciavarella were convicted of accepting money in return for imposing harsh adjudications on juveniles to increase occupancy at a private prison operated by PA Child Care.[2]

    Yes, if corruption is rampant in your country than no it doesn't work, but that also means a jury can be bought. Probably harder though, so I guess you have a point. I know the US is a corrupt nation, but I always think of it not being a corrupt country. The absurd legal fees, getting paid for more than the actual damages among other things don´t really help to get a second opinion in terms of a lawsuit which everybody in at least the western world has a right to as far as I know.

    In NL we do often have cases with only 1 judge, but for important cases we will have 3 judges.

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  • It sounds like you are talking about a lawsuit instead of a complaint, or at least I see the two different. Complaints don´t have anything to do with the actual court and lawsuits do.

    The restaurant example comes from a friend who was running a restaurant when he decided to run for political office. His incumbent opponent was directing health inspections of his restaurant at about 10x the normal frequency of inspections

    That is just corruption shining through, something like that (samples) should only be done in set intervals f.e. Man, the US really sucks. And people keep going to massive companies and especially in the US that is destroying jobs and possible the entire country. A lot of the money from massive companies doesn't end up inside the US government's treasury.

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  • True and ofc, but GDPR iirc isn´t completely new, it is built ont op of other privacy laws from different countries.

  • Damn Fox, you didn't have to turn me on more.

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  • Minimum income aka, everybody will have their income at a max of say 3k a month. If you work for a boss and you earn 1k there than you get 2k from the government. If you earn 4k you get nothing from the government f.e.

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  • Not here in NL, most of the either went bankrupt after covid due to them needing to pay back the government loans or continued on. The government here did that to save a lot of people from losing their job. Bailing out individuals wouldn’t have worked, the entire situation was already rushed. It would have causes even more issues.

    The only issue with UBI is that there is a portion that will just refuse to work, we do not know how big thay portion is. We need to destroy the massive corporations and maybe work on a better way of promiting companies to do the right thing

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  • NL is different for sure, we are a long way off from a 30€ minimum.

    We also have a lot of wages being based on the minimum wage so an increase will increase everything.

    My experience is based on NL.

    Saying that, the US has a lot more chains than smaller restaurants at least it seems like that from an outside. The bigger the company the more chance there is to have a wate increase without a loss. Did those studies include things like social security, pension? And things that the employees need? (Rethorical)

    But if you hage a restaurant with 200k revenue, 50k cost of food, 50k of personal costs (including wages etc) plus 30k of other costs you make like 70k before tax. And in this example the owners need to live from the profit after tax. (Numbers generalised). A 10-20% increase looks duable since there would still be a profit.

    Personally I just see an universal basic income be introduced everywhere or compensate both employees and employers in businesses where your company might not be truely viable, but it is good for the general public (theaters are often government subsidies)

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  • Well yes for that, but not for the whole 32 hour a week dicussion. If you make 32 hours you can only sell 32 hours

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  • A lot of websites can be static HTML + CSS.

    Yeah they can, I can understand you might want to use something like php to not need to edit the footers and headers every page if you ever change them, but still.

    I also like how some websites like Amazon.com refuse to add a payment platform which is more than a credit card checkout. Especially because their EU sites do have payment platforms with more options to pay. So then you have an over complicated site already with a lot of bloat and some amount of your consumers can't even pay.

  • The Switch 2's super sluggish LCD screen is 10 times slower than a typical gaming monitor and 100 times slower than an OLED panel according to independent testing

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  • Apparently it is slower, but to me it just looks and feels better than the screen on my OLED Switch

  • The alarming rise of US officers hiding behind masks: ‘A police state’

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  • The alarming rise of US officers hiding behind masks: ‘A police state’

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  • Would you think the same in another country? In Canada? Or in The Netherlands?

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  • It depends on what dongle and for what it is used, for something like headphones or earbuds I just leave my dongle on the cable, the same for in my car. I used a Redmi Note 13 Pro for a while which has an audio jack, but it was TERRIBLE so bad that I bought extra dongles before I switched back to using an iPhone.

    I also already dispise looking for an Android phone, since I have terrible experience with Samsung Phones and Google products and don't want either of those. Having to look for a GOOD audio jack on one is not worth the hassle for me, if it is for you then more kudo's to you.

    Ill just use an old school iPod or a USB-c cable

  • The "We Tried" Award

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  • Grouping Europe (or America) together as one can be corrupt in some situations, but I don't believe it is accurate to mention the entire of Europe when talking about colonisation. There is a big part of the continent of Europe that never had anything to do with colonisation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colonies

    You are right that Europeans and American's are very similar in some areas, for one that might have to do with the fore mentioned colonisation of America. Heck America has been doing a digital take over of the world, which Europeans are just (or a couple years ago) realising it is in our best interest ot create our own alternatives.

    But there are tons of differences as well, for one, that America is a country and Europe is a continent. Which isn't even all united. The EU only has 27 states and a couple that want to be, while Europe has 51 countries. That is not that important when talking about culture, to be fair. You can see a lot of cultural differences when looking into company culture, work ethics, how people pay, sharing meals/receipts or things like sports, but also on the sense of the military and how nationalistic people are. All of the above are also different between different European countries, some might have similar things regarding sports or things that are centrally arranged like payment methods/platforms, but others are vastly different between countries. The Fresh are generally a very nationalistic people, while the Dutch are more or less the opposite.

    Edit: where are you from?

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  • To me a thicker phone doesn't help, but if it does for you then okey, that should exist.

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  • Statement, arguments, points of views. Whatever you want to call it, it was in his program.

    But just disregard it, him being an opposition player is a good enough reason why he failed

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  • Yeah I guess, I didn't know that the name was public information. It doesn't really make sense to me why that is needed. Imo the badge number should be enough to file a formal complaint somewhere and get somebody to act according to that complaint.