Gdpr seemed like it was designed to ban this, but lately companies (especially German ones?) seem to be trying this. I guess it won’t be resolved without a big, slow, expensive court case.
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1·3 days agoDo you know about how much it cut out?
You take that back!
I never knew about the recut, but presumably it gets rid of a lot of the monster-of-the-week content?
I don’t think any of that was actually bad. It didn’t move the overarching plot along all the time, but that wasn’t the point.
Do you still love me?
Any bubble is just as rational as any other. It’s irrational in that it’s not based on fundamentals, and rational in that it’s based on reasonable belief that the value will go up.
Do you understand on an intellectual (as opposed to instinctive) level which topics are too serious for small talk?
Because if not then start there. If so, then it’s possible to get better by taking your time to reply and think over what you’re about to say so you can back out!
The weather isn’t a topic that will last for long. Maybe you can ask “did you see that crazy rain/wind/hail/whatever” but either the subject is going to change or one of you will segue into “I remember when I was xyz and there was this crazy rain/wind/hail/whatever”.
Conversations are about finding connections and judging what the other person might want to hear. Sometimes there’s no connection though and you’ve just got to bring up something else. Questions are good because they allow the other person to talk :p
31·8 days agoBeing civil on the internet seems like a lost art. I know what I say. I bicycle everyday. Now, could you be so kind to behave like a normal person and not be rude, thank you.
You just told me I need to get better at cycling in order to to allay my concerns at potentially falling off while carrying something fragile and precious, and can’t even see that that is inappropriate.
So, no, you can still fuck all the way off until you grow the ability to empathise with other people.
I just joined c/fuckcars and this is deep
And? I do my groceries by foot or bicycle and it goes just fine. Same with public transit. There’s also home delivery, that goes by bicyclists.
Given that I said I used to do groceries by bike but mentioned some changes, this isn’t worth very much without saying how many people you’re buying for, and how often. If you’re willing to go shopping every other day, or are only buying for yourself, it’s quite different than if you’re trying to minimise the number of trips and/or are buying for more people, isn’t it?
The public transit schedules being shit in your region
I didn’t say they were shit. For many purposes they are quite reasonable. But they are still a schedule, and the difference between getting to the bus stop at the right time to catch your bus versus a minute after it left is really annoying, meaning you have to be a lot stricter about when you leave your home and when you leave whatever it is you’re doing. It’s distracting and anxiety-inducing.
Then you need a good bicycle bag and to bike more often to learn to do it well.
Fuck off. Seriously go and think about what you just said to someone you know nothing about and what your goals are from this conversation.
The car isn’t really an improvement for me.
Then why don’t you talk about it from your own perspective, rather than telling other people how amazing cycling will be for them? You’d be less annoying and probably convince more people to cycle that way, too.
If I were to reply to your concerns about driving in the way you speak about cycling and public transport, I’d say something like, “you just need to check out where to park before you go” (you know, like you do bus stops); “if people are honking it’s because of a toxic culture that causes them to take their anger out audibly” (as if, like your comment on bad public transport, that makes it any better); “if your fuel and maintenance costs are bad, you just need to get a good car”. As you can appreciate, none of those response are reasonable - in the same way you’re being unreasonable.
I prefer biking too - when it’s reasonable. I do not prefer public transport to driving, except in limited circumstances.
Most people buy groceries more than once a year, and as soon as I wasn’t living alone that became an unreasonable quantity of groceries to transport by bike. Even before then, I was carrying them in panniers - it was always way more than would fit in a backpack.
Cycling is great - ideal, even. But I bought a(n electric) car a year and a half ago, and now my nose wrinkles at the fuck cars mindset. The ability to take big items to the recycling centre, freedom from public transport schedules, not having to worry about falling off and breaking my instrument when riding to a music lesson - it has a lot of advantages.
And riding in the rain is fine, and people make a bigger deal out of that and a lot of other things than they should if they haven’t tried it, but driving is an improved experience on almost all of them.
Burning petrol is slightly less polluting than coal, but internal combustion engines are about 20% efficient and coal power plants are about 35% efficient. Transmission and charging losses are quite small, and electric motors are about 85% efficient, so it is possible for a coal-powered EV to be slightly worse than a petrol-powered ICE car, but not by much, and any amount of less-polluting fossil fuels, any amount of clean electricity generation, shifts that balance.
You can get a caffeine free coke zero and diet coke tho
And right now…
Fuck you I WANT A BIG CHOMP
Why would you want to make horizontal or vertical lines in this way except to make a diagonal one?
Why are the last two lines scaled?
Oh, you can keep the shirt off, I prefer it that way, StinkyFingerItchyBum
Tracking via cookies means gathering personal data, the exact thing GDPR regulates. GDPR says that data must not be collected except on one of a few lawful bases, one of which is consent. Article 7 clause 4 of the GDPR says:
to me this reads like: “consent does not count if you need to agree in order to access a service” and that they imagined consent as being, “yes, you can have my personal data to serve me personalised ads, because I’d rather have personalised ads than generic ones,” which some people (probably not many here!) do think. However, it’s only expressed as “account shall be taken” when determining whether consent was “freely given” and the lawful basis does not specify that consent must be “freely given,” which is where I imagine these kinds of gaps creep in.