wicked

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

During the pandemic any degree of effectiveness would save lives, so emergency approval was justified.

What? Pretty sure the requirement of effectiveness was at least 70%, and the approved vaccines had a >90% effectiveness. Obviously as the virus mutated the effectiveness nosedived, but they were very effective against the original strain. (edit: Effectiveness versus getting infected at all, not against serious illness and death, which remains good)

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

The 5GB free space of my OneDrive is filled with game saves in the documents folder. You can't exclude directories there from being backed up. Good job.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I read newspapers in several languages and see your strawman in comments all over the world: Criticizing Israel means supporting Hamas.

In reality pretty much everyone is explicitly not supporting Hamas terrorists while arguing for a stop to the Israeli atrocities.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

It's not supporting Hamas to point out that Israel is doing horrible things.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What if they write a GUI interface in Visual Basic to track your IP address?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Putting Ctrl in the home row by replacing the useless Caps-Lock is sufficient for me .

Alt is easily reached with the thumbs and shift is already close enough to the home row, with shift-ctrl using both pinkies.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Don't worry, the good bible has the answer.

28 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered,
29 he shall pay her father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

If being against murder, war crimes, and genocide is being an antisemite, then so be it. I will be a proud antisemite. It will be a badge of honor.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Your understanding is that in one of the countries with the least difference between rich and poor only the rich can afford cars?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Of course not. But they can, whenever they choose to. Parent comment said they have to grow since they are public, unlike private companies like Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Are you not aware that public companies split the profits too? They do not need to grow to have value for investors.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

No, of course it's not surprising that they're not a charity. Sure, the big app stores exploit their near-monopolies with exorbitant fees.

Good for Apple, Valve and Google, but I think it's better that game dev studios and app developers get money instead. However, devs don't currently have a real choice but to pay up.

Competition can change that, so we should support technically worse stores like Epic so developers will not have to pay their unreasonably high fees.

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