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$2 to cut a sandwich in half: The outrageous rip-offs targeting tourists in Italy (www.cnn.com)

An Italian holiday may be a priceless experience for those who have enjoyed all this country has to offer. But the summer of 2023 will go down as one of the priciest in history after a slew of price gouging scandals at cafes and restaurants that have affected foreign tourists and Italians alike.

30mag ,

Tourists were also charged 2 euros for an extra – empty! – plate near Portofino in northern Italy, and 10 cents for a sprinkle of cocoa on a cappuccino at a Lake Como coffee bar.

Seems silly to nickel and dime people but American restaurants do the exact same shit over here. I don’t know why it is an outrage when you experience these business practices traveling abroad.

30mag ,

The CCP didn’t massacre a bunch of uneducated citizens in Tiananmen Square.

30mag ,

There’s absolutely a trend/coordinated effort among the global right wing to basically turn every country into Russia, strong dictator, highly nationalistic, one religion forced on everybody, and much much more.

I don’t think so. I don’t even think Russia wants to be Russia right now. They want to be the USSR. They want to be powerful and feared. There are some people that might want to become what they thought Russia was a few years ago, but Russia right now? Russia is getting their shit pushed in by Ukraine and falling out of windows right now. Russia is weak. There is no future for a country down the path Putin chose.

30mag ,

I had an OG droid. I loved that phone. It had the slide out full keyboard. I miss having a physical keyboard. I could touch type on it.

30mag ,

Ads have been a part of so many people lives for so long they can’t even imagine a world where they aren’t constantly bombarded by ads and having them privacy exploited for corporate gains.

This isn’t true. Go take a walk in the woods. You aren’t constantly bombarded by ads and having your privacy exploited for corporate gains in the woods. It’s quite pleasant.

30mag ,

It doesn’t cause weight loss, but empty calories in your diet will cause weight gain. If they hadn’t switched, they’d probably be even heavier than they already are.

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Most people have been driving cars since they were 16, but that doesn’t mean they understand how they work, they just know how to operate them. If you replace the average person’s car with an ICE with an electric car, most wouldn’t understand why the electric car doesn’t need the oil changed every 3000 miles.

30mag ,

Hmm… that’s going to hurt his chances of getting elected again.

30mag ,

It seems to me that no one really gives a shit except the people cranking out articles about it.

Wi-Fi sniffers strapped to drones—Mike Lindell’s odd plan to stop election fraud | Lindell wants to fly drones near polling places to monitor voting machines. (arstechnica.com)

Wi-Fi sniffers strapped to drones—Mike Lindell’s odd plan to stop election fraud | Lindell wants to fly drones near polling places to monitor voting machines.::Lindell wants to fly drones near polling places to monitor voting machines.

30mag ,

Why does the wifi sniffer need to fly? Couldn’t you just walk up to the polling place carrying a wifi sniffer?

30mag ,

Is this important to anyone?

30mag ,

Same. There’s no shortage of places on the internet where you can display your ignorance or stupidity, and most of them have more functionality than twitter.

Marijuana and hallucinogen use, binge drinking reached record highs in middle-aged adults, survey finds (www.cnn.com)

Last year, more middle-aged adults were binge drinking, using marijuana or consuming hallucinogens than ever before, according to a new report. Cannabis use surged among young adults under 30, alongside historic rates of vaping, as well.

30mag ,

Alcohol can go away though but it’s hard when there is quite literally no future to be seen

Probably will when they legalize the other things.

30mag ,

There is often the issue that these right wing cells are without their knowledge governmental “stay behind” cells who are operating somewhat under the jurisdiction of factions of the US government who are legally barred from operating clandestine missions on US borders.

What factions of the US Government are barred from operating clandestine missions on US borders?

Seeing that immigrants who are members of political extremist groups are barred from having permanent residence in the US, while registered spies are not.

Letting people who are spies live in our country doesn’t sound like a very good idea. Am I missing something?

30mag ,

He wasn’t exactly “released” and free, but I don’t know how you could argue that he wouldn’t be a flight risk.

Worrell had been on house arrest in Florida since November 2021

30mag ,

Unfuck the CAFE standards and manufacturers will quit killing off car models and producing so many “light trucks”.

30mag ,

The camera app or remote desktop are the least shitty ones.

I’ve never had a desktop computer with a camera.

30mag ,

Yeah, I’m wondering what subject this “textbook” was written for.

30mag ,

Nowadays, everybody and their grandma can be taken for a ride by bad players on the internet,

It has always been like that. The only thing that has changed is that people send messages via Facebook instead of email or post.

The Nigerian Prince scam started out on snail mail, and the pattern of the advanced-fee scam has roots that reach back to the 19th century. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Prisoner Nothing is new.

30mag ,

What kind of an idiot is going to rob a bank and hail a taxi cab for the getaway?

30mag ,

I mean, they can walk or take public transportation. I suspect that public transportation would run taxi companies out of business anyway if you have to pay for every ride.

30mag ,

Mine was.

30mag ,

Qualified immunity is bad, but not pressing charges when you are able to and ought to is arguably worse.

30mag ,

Well, there are standards:

abcnews.go.com/US/…/story?id=95836

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If we’re lucky.

30mag ,

Do they still get a Lada?

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This is a mass panic attack over manufactured or overblown fears. But this isn’t going to stop far-right politicians and their allies from capitalizing on this fear.

Bold statement from a guy publishing an article speculating about how the GOP will suspend the first amendment.

30mag ,

pornography is first amendment protected speech according to the law and the gop have been actively working to ban it, as a pillar of their party, for over 50 years at this point.

Politicians have been fighting the “moral decay” of society for longer than 50 years, and neither party has had a monopoly on trying to legislate their view of morality.

How close do you think we are to successfully banning pornography in the United States, timeframe-wise?

30mag ,

I wish they hadn’t change the name. It was much easier to keep bullshit I do not care about out of my newsfeed when it was called twitter.

30mag ,

Idiots losing money by speculating in a volatile market they know nothing about is not unique to crypto.

30mag ,

Like this? That doesn’t have anything to do with the medium of exchange.

Close to half of American adults favor TikTok ban, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows (www.reuters.com)

Close to half of American adults favor TikTok ban, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows::Close to half of American adults support a ban on the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos survey that also asked questions about national security concerns and China.

30mag ,

No link to more detailed information about the poll? I do not like that.

I don’t support an arbitrary ban on TikTok. If you want to ban TikTok because they are spying on people or otherwise behaving maliciously, you ought to make that behavior illegal and hold Facebook, Google, and everyone else to the same standard.

30mag ,

What should be the weight of the vehicles that we allow teenagers to drive?

30mag ,

I’m sure the media will have a new and different apocalypse for us in a couple of months.

30mag ,

Well, you know what they say, “You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, and stay the fuck out of Afghanistan.”

30mag ,

No one wants to learn how to edit wikis anymore. It doesn’t have to do with the high position or the rules of a specific site. It’s a dying hobby viewed as too hard for content consumers to wrap their heads around.

Wikis attract rules lawyers and no one likes rules lawyers. People have better things to do with their time than writing a fucking dissertation to keep an edit correcting a typo from getting reverted.

30mag ,

I think you’re projecting an experience you had on one (larger, probably more rigid) site to every site that shares its software.

I cannot speak about every wiki, obviously. It seems to me that there are a lot of users on wikis who pick articles to maintain and resist incorporating the contributions of others into those articles because they have some sense of ownership of the article.

30mag ,

How do you make “We’re too sloppy to do things the right way and too lazy to hide it” sound like a good thing?

We know that we’re not perfect. We wear our imperfection on our sleeves in the interest of ensuring that we stay accountable to you. But it’s sad and unfortunate when this transparency gets warped into a bad thing.

Someone has a very bright future in public relations.

30mag ,

You can still get wage-free labor in the United States today, but it can only come from criminals now.

The 13th amendment says:

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

30mag ,

Are these vaccines only supposed to keep symptoms mild, or will they prevent catching it?

30mag ,

Everything about this is just rich-person’s adrenaline vacation

I don’t imagine I would disagree if you characterized Everest in that manner, but K2 is a much more dangerous and challenging climb than Everest. 6,871 people have summitted Everest and 310 have died climbing the mountain. Only 377 people have summitted K2 and 91 people have died climbing the mountain. People don’t attempt K2 just to have an impressive story to tell at dinner parties.

30mag ,

I agree. More regulation may be necessary, but it isn’t a cure-all. It can’t be relied upon to prevent people from being stupid.

30mag ,

People also have sex in cars that are not self-driving.

California judge charged with killing wife had 47 guns, 26,000 rounds of ammunition: Court documents (abcnews.go.com)

A California Superior Court judge arrested last week has now been charged with killing his wife in front of their adult son at their home. Court filings reveal the judge had over 47 weapons and 26,000 rounds of ammunition in his home.

30mag ,

“copy and pastes previous comment”

Okay.

30mag ,

The law in question prohibits licensed carry of firearms from a list of areas and premises, it does not only ban guns on beaches.

30mag ,

I think the headline is misleading is all. The law in question deals only with persons who have a license to carry. If a person does not have a license to carry, it remains illegal for them to bring guns to the beach.

30mag ,

That’s because, famously, gun control in the US targets minorities.

Do you think that is only a coincidence?

Armed minorities are harder to oppress:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Occupation

30mag ,

What type of biofuel requires bacteria to produce carbon emissions?

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