This thing has been tried all over the world already and has been proven to be ineffective. It’s a broad topic I don’t want to get to but to put it simply: it doesn’t work because in most countries we’ve already had supposedly „correct” politicians and they didn’t do that much to make lives of all people better. It usually boils down to big cities vs province and province has had enough of being marginalised because they can no longer afford to pay their bills. There is no amount of calls to save democracy that will convince anyone to change sides at this point so it only serves to further polarise political discourse.

It’s dangerous to focus on words rather than actions. It’s been how most of the political elites (regardless of affiliation) have been behaving for so long that it’s hard not to pick up the pattern. Fico probably wants to score some points from EU-sceptics and PS screams bloody murder because that’s how they score points. Things are bleak and boring at the same time.

If he says he’s top 20 player and it turns out he bought that account then what does that mean for the credibility of his other supposed achievements? Oops.

There’s a big disconnect between what politicians say and what they do. They say things to get support and then do whatever they want. Fico is perfectly capable of doing this to his own voters too.

Fico has more leverage if Slovakia is in the EU. Slovak opposition seems a bit desperate, it went similarly in Poland.

TikTok had to make Trump look good as he presumably saves it so they did that stunt. In the end both sides know TT has to agree to selling majority stake because it isn’t anything China didn’t do to US firms multiple times already.

Imagine how much better LibreOffice would be if a fraction of what EU / European governments spent on MS Office went there. It’s your own damn fault for not fostering alternatives.

This post is overrated, you Philistine.

To me it’s gambling even if you can’t exchange it for currency because the things players are gambling on have worth to them and psychological mechanism is exactly the same. If the law didn’t catch up in some place yet it doesn’t make it any less wrong.

TikTok allows you to set likes and favourites being private/public separately and you’re allowed to share nothing but knowing Meta there will be no opt out.

There’s no way to trade loot boxes between players but there’s gambling on consoles in the same way as on PC. Even if you count Steam Marketplace transactions fee there’s definitely plenty of EA Football Club players on consoles offsetting this.

Besides the ad revenue on TikTok is almost non existent even compared to Youtube. It was never a platform that you could realistically become successful with even if you got views.

If TikTok was widely known for being bad for making money then maybe it pulled some people who didn’t care about money like on old YouTube.

Also, presidential elections in May. They have to one-up PiS in being PiS because it sells and a copy is the only thing they can come up.

I think we haven’t seen anything other than the shape of the thing so it sounds pretty alarmist. Remember all the sensors packed into Joycons that nobody uses anymore? It enabled stuff like Nintendo Labo and other neat toys. We’ve only seen that the new Joycons have an optical sensor so far. Who knows what else is there and how is it going to get used.

I don’t think that’s necessary for social justice, pluralism and other things they’re supposedly striving for. I’d rather be ruled by Christian Democrats (as in compassionate political ideology which has analogues in Muslim world) than some kind of secular market libertarians (who can be conservative atheists like in Czech Republic or Netherlands) because that’s much closer to fascism in the end (inb4 „but you can smoke weed there”).

They can moderate by boosting certain opinions and downranking others. It doesn’t need fact checkers because it’s platform owner interests and not facts that matter.

Looks like Nintendo quickly whipped out a video that shows only the things that leaked so far. Way more interested in the announced Nintendo Direct where we’ll see actual new stuff probably.

Russia already did this but it was things like exploding batteries introduced into the system via shipping companies. Tusk makes it sound like second 9/11 to get rally around the flag effect before upcoming elections.

This TickTick looks awesome and does multiple things I wished such an app did, thank you. On principle I don’t use apps I can’t buy outright but I might make an exception if subscription can be shared with family. My biggest problem with finding a good shopping list apps is that they are rarely well translated into other languages so you have to look for something local. Groceries is something that’s just funky to do in a foreign language no matter how well you know it haha.

did you know that there’s a conspiracy theory about a Nazi base in Antarctica?

This being a conspiracy theory is so disappointing to hear, I prefer my nazis far away.