Instant payments have already been mandated through SEPA. It will come into force quite soon.

It may surprise you to know that people produced music before IP laws existed.

Which need is satistied is important here. Sexual gratification is not the same as an apparent need to interact with someone who affirms everything you tell it to, basically acting as a personality mirror. And then falling in love with something that echoes your every thought does have a semblance of narcissism involved.

Taking the dildo metaphor: having a dildo isn't narcissistic. Being a dude and having a dildo molded after your own dick and exclusively using that as it's "the best thing ever", does seem a bit narcissistic, no?

The shooter was fairly inexperienced and not that good at shooting. The fact he managed to hit the ear was quite surprising already.

Not the guy you replied to, but:

In 1983, he announced in the New Statesman that Hitler had his reasons for exterminating six million men, women and children. "There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity," he said. "I mean, there's always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason."

That's... pretty fucking anti-semitic ngl. He's basically victim-blaming Jewish people for the Holocaust. Also "picking on them" is quite a eufemism for "industrially genociding".

That's got nothing to do with zionism or being anti-Israel.

Hitler had 40+ assassination attempts/plots targetting him, 16 of which were before 1940.

If the tariff is too great the cost becomes unspreadable. Spreading cost requires other regions to still afford the new price, and with numbers like this that's unlikely.

About one-third of Switches were sold in the US. Spreading a 145% tariff means hiking everyone's prices by 40-50%. That will murder sales in other regions.

Better to eat a 30% temporary loss that adds pressure on Trump to reverse-course than to eat an even higher loss and face backlash worldwide for making others pay for Trumps idiocy.

Yes, that was the joke. Clearly people didn't get it.

Dress in light, airy clothing and don't wear a backpack, strap it on the bicycle rack or carrier. Then it's usually quite nice, especially if you can get a bit of speed.

Renewables will not cover your usage.

False. Multiple countries are already able to run on 100% renewables for prolonged periods of time. The bigger issue is what to do with excess power. Battery solutions can cover moments where renewables produce a bit less power.

You literally argued that demand spiked after the stimulus checks and therefore caused inflation? And now you're arguing "oh this demand spike didn't have an effect at the time but it does have one after a year of no more stimulus"?

Make up your mind. Either stimulus directly impacted demand so severely that it causes severe inflation, or the "demand spike" you asserted with nothing but anecdotal evidence did not cause inflation but is somehow now causing prolonged inflation. Instead of, you know, the vastly more likely and by experts agreed upon cause of covid-induced damage to supply chains. Which also conveniently explains supply shortages and why demand is barely at pre-covid levels.

But I'm sure your misinterpretation of various economic terms is the more likely cause.

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