After card payments it became much safer for small family owned shops, because if someone empties the cash register, the shop is still not out of business.

Food for thought

Sometimes it helps just to sing the number. Just like this emergency one

0118 999 881 999 119 725…3

14:1 buddy. Unless they start gattling cannoning babbies, Russia ain’t winning

If you design a product to be intentionally difficult to repair, using subpar parts, is it not planned obsolescence? I really don’t get what you are about there. Unless you require some sort of an internal clock to force brick the device to be considered planned?

Everything else is correct and I agree.

What it reeks of is Nintendo wanting to make things cheap and sell you multiple of them

That’s the “apple like” planned obsolesence part I was refering to. Think about airpods for example.

The teardown doesn’t touch on part serialization, although the ability to brick your device if they “feel like it” is on PAR with Apple.

Although I’m not sure we should be arguing about which of the two is shittier when both are already deep in non compliance of “modern right to repair regulations (lmao)”

The switch 2 gives out complete apple vibes. It’s repairability is pretty horrid after watching the teardown guide.

Controllers will fail sooner or later and will have to be replaced. Here it will end up replacing the whole stick just due to glueing small parts of the controller.

Battery will also fail sooner than later. The whole thing yells planned absolesence…

You sound like MAGA. Create your imaginary “Trannies” and fight against it. Grow up

It’s Russias way to keep the soviet legacy intact and justify it’s war of aggression to “denazify” Ukraine. There is a huge cultural shift of breaking off any remnants of Soviet “glory” in the country. Sadly it’s hidden behind a lot of valid points, that would explain the abstain votes.

5. Expresses deep concern about increased frequency of attempts and activities intended to desecrate or demolish monuments erected in remembrance of those who fought against Nazism during the Second World War, as well as to unlawfully exhume or remove the remains of such persons, and in this regard urges States to fully comply with their relevant obligations, inter alia, under article 34 of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 194

5. Expresses deep concern about increased frequency of attempts and activities intended to desecrate or demolish monuments erected in remembrance of those who fought against Nazism during the Second World War, as well as to unlawfully exhume or remove the remains of such persons, and in this regard urges States to fully comply with their relevant obligations, inter alia, under article 34 of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 194

Clearly designed to enforce Russian rethoric and force the glorification of USSR. Not surprised it’s voted against by Ukraine.

Interesting, although most info about cluster munitions I’ve read were tube artillery (the leaving convention part). Since tube artillery has little in path correction. (There are a few, but most of it is not)

The countries will have to purchase or produce the ammunition, because they don’t have it stocked. Though.

Just to be clear:

I completely agree that fragmentation-based ammunition is much safer for everyone involved.

I can also agree how it might have some additional Effectiveness in offenisveness, just because your not mining your path forward at the same time.

I also agree that such artillery might have little use against combined-arms based combat USA uses.

But I’m yet to see proof, that it beats air released cluster munitions, when trenches or foxholes are involved. A.K.A. The Great War style warfare. (Which Russia seems to be oriented with)

Also with current transparent battlefield, any artillery and single-use drones reign supreme. So with the new META changes it does feel that we’re arguing about nothing substantial at this point.

Anti personnel mines are used together with anti armor mines. They provide the crucial element of slowing de-mining by not allowing infantry (mobiks) doing that by hand. Used alone you could argue, that they are not so effective, but that works for any weaponry.

My argument is use whatever weaponry is effective. Even if it is old technology. Would be stupid otherwise.

Also arguing for rocket artillery to replace casual artillery is… Strange. Rocket artillery is expensive and it’s ammo is used up very quickly. I doubt any country can allow itself avoid regular artillery.

Cluster munitions and anti-personel mines are effective AF, seeing how the Ukrainian-Russian war is progressing.

The countries in question will create additional factories just for these bad boys. The old stock if any is pretty much useless.

These things are dangerous for civilians, but far less than an aggressive nation by your doorstep. Notice how all the countries border Russia?

It is useless if you have air superiority, but only US has that, and no one believes they’ll honor article 5.

There are like a thousand different cloud providers. They provide exceptional services, even for better prices. Just google your local VM providers.

For the Visa/Mastercard EU has instant bank wire transfers, all you need is an IBAN.

The hardest switch is everything that is Windows-based IMHO. So much software is written for x86 Windows it’s not even funny.

SEPA and Iban. It’s as simple as it gets. Also much more secure considering it’s a push payment instead of a pull one.

For easy payments, there is this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPC_QR_code

Why do you say so?

I’m quite surprised about the high percentage, considering that it’s not a given that Canadians would be equal in terms of citizenship (voting for example) if annexed by USA

Money is your vote on what the society should produce. Income inequality actually fucks over everyone except the wealthiest. That’s why everyone is bombarded with ads for luxury items. While housing, food, and medicine is becoming more unobtainable.

It’s a long process initiated during presidency of Dalia Grybauskaitė that required cooperation by all 3 baltic states. A lot of work was done preparing for network stability and resilience from outside actors (Russia). That is why so much news covering this.

If it’s anything like bolt or uber, they take 30 percent from food price also (which is hidden from the final consumer)

I doubt, Russia has trouble producing simple items like butter for internal use, not to mention exports. Pretty sure that they will grow basically no grain if they win.