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France announces nightly curfews 'for as long as necessary' in Paris and other big cities

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Arrest people on fake terrorist charges instead of disorderly conduct and they'll immediately use violence against everyone because if you're breaking the curfew you're automatically guilty on sight.

Historically this hasn't ended well for French governments specifically, but it works great in other countries, so Macron will gamble the far right to support him all the way through.

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Fines up to £100 for playing music out loud on buses announced in new antisocial behaviour crackdown

What about singing, or whistling, or humming? What if it's not music, but a TED talk blasted out at full volume? Will there be additional fines for singing out of key? And how loud is the limit? If one uses open-back headphones prone to sound bleed, does that count?

Who will be enforcing this? If a case goes to court, what counts as evidence other than eye...well, ear witnesses?

What if it's just kids? Are they expected to pay the fine? What if they're too poor to pay the fine, will they be arrested for the debt?

What I'm saying is I hate people blasting music on the bus as much as anyone, but allowing it to become law that's supposed to be somehow enforced is both stupid and a flagrant justification to abuse authority.

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The problem is you have to quantify and then accurately measure "normal volume" and also clearly state exactly what constitutes an "annoying" noise and then if you do it opens up ways to maliciously comply.

If you set the volume limits at x dB then can me and 5 of my mates each play 6 different dubstep songs at the same time below or exactly at the volume threshold? Is it OK for loud ringtones? Will there be a time limit to account for ringtones? If so, can I play whatever I want loudly as long as it adheres to the time limit?

If the law is too vague it will be either impossible to implement or overreaching.

I have personally ran into a few proper cunts of stewards or municipal police officers that just like to harass people and then give them a fine when they inevitably react. This sort of law is always used to oppress more than it's used to make everyone's life better.

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Why are people impressed with SpaceX?

Disclaimer: Fuck Elon Musk and all the shady shit he's been pulling off.

That said, this is one of the most impressive things I've ever seen in terms of the potential it holds to shape the future.

Up until 5 short years ago we had:

  • No main booster recovery
  • No rocket nearly as powerful as this one
  • No successful flight of a full-flow stage engine
  • Nobody even considering the catch with chopsticks thing
  • No private company testing super heavy lift vehicles (BO is about to enter the chat as well)
  • No push for reusability at all

This was all built on top of the incredible engineering of NASA, but this one launch today has all of the above ticked.

This is like making the first aeroplane that's able to land and be flown again. SpaceX uses this example as well, like, imagine how expensive any plane ticket would have to be if you had to build a brand new A380 every single time people wanted to fly and then crashing it into the sea.

Going to space is EXPENSIVE. If this program succeeds it will both massively reduce the cost to space and spin off hundreds of companies looking to do the same in various ways.

Look at any new rocket currently in development, they all include some level of reusability in the design and that's all thanks to the incredible engineers of SpaceX paving the way, first with Falcon 9 and now with Starship.

We're talking industrial revolution levels of progress and new frontiers in our lifetimes, which is very, very exciting.

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Anon time travels

Why would I give you more RAM to do all the things you want with it?

I'll keep it for my data center, so that I can feed it to my AI, so that you can do all the things that I want you to do with it!

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(Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.

I used to work for a company that Epic Games outsourced their support to. We were based in Athens, Greece. There were other companies receiving the same email pool on Helpdesk Bulgaria or Romania, as well as an Indian office, all supporting US customers via email.

We were paid 3.5eu / hour and our performance was micromanaged by counting how many replies we did per hour.

Hence, we had canned responses that we'd copy/paste to save time and maybe achieve a bonus for that month.

Unfortunately we ended up being shit on on reddit on multiple occasions because some poor guy misunderstood the request and a legitimate request would be promptly denied, even though it shouldn't be. The level of English comprehension varied wildly among us.

All I'm saying is maybe Rockstar actually has a way to ID your account based on IP addresses, credit card used, date purchased if you have the receipt email, driver's license etc and you're just dealing with an underpaid dude in Eastern Europe not quite understanding you.

Usually if you threaten to sue they escalate to tier 2, so you may have more luck that way and tbh I don't know about Rockstar, that's how Epic did it back in 2018.

Maybe try explaining it a different way? I dunno but good luck.

Edit: I just saw the rest of the messages in your comment.

I wouldn't have given you back the account either in their shoes. You just claim things that anyone could claim from their point of view, they have procedures they need to follow.

They can't try your password, or see it anywhere and would never ask you for it either.

They're asking simple things that you should have been able to verify. After that they'd likely ask for IP addresses and last 4 digits of card used etc.

They have to do this, or anyone's account could be hacked by social engineering all too easy.

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Greenland PM Tells People to Prepare for Possible Invasion

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In any war there are soldiers who don't wanna be there. Good, honest people, forced to march on because their masters will it.

If they come for my country I will have to shoot them nonetheless.

Take this motherfucker down by any political means necessary and if you can't, then form your "well regulated militia" that your all too precious 2nd amendment affords you and take back your own country instead of others