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Honestly, I want to like Kodi, but even this first screenshot looks much better than anything I’ve been able to muster together in Kodi.

Meanwhile Germans are going: “wait, that’s not the norm?”

IMO it’s more how and mostly why they’re dealing with whatever it is. Is the person ignoring any advice to the contrary and not accepting any proper conversation about it? He’s stubborn. Is the person listening to what he’s being told, possibly adjusting his methods, but staying on the goal, where the goal is still sensible? Determined.

Mind you, someone who doesn’t like what the determined person is doing, even if it is right, might falsely say he’s stubborn, with the goal of discrediting what he’s doing, and someone who’s stubborn will paint himself as determined in order to boost the image of what he’s doing, so I understand where the thought comes from.

I don’t know specifically, but here are a couple of possibilities, also being charitable to Magyar and assuming no invitation was made:

• He is trying to not agitate things too much with Netanyahu, hoping to achieve something through back channels. Often diplomacy, especially in this day and age, involves not being too brash publicly to avoid anything that could disrupt something happening behind the curtains. Often times only sticks don’t work, you need carrots as well.

• Netanyahu is constantly preaching that Israel is constantly under attack, is the underdog, is never regarded, etc., which is often used to distract from or even support the atrocities being committed. Magyar possibly doesn’t want to support that narrative. An explicit denial of an invitation can be used to say “see how nasty they are with us”, which can be in turn used to rally Netanyahu’s supporters or even those more extreme than him (thinking of the likes of Gvir). If you avoid feeding that narrative and give something like this (maybe with a little “nudge nudge wink wink”), maybe that can avoid the heat going up any further while still showing those who are more level headed that no, there was no invitation.

• There’s an argument to be made to ignore false statements instead of responding to them directly. Depending on who you talk to, responding to statements can give them a certain legitimacy. Think of a (maybe too) similar situation: a fascist makes a statement that is flat out false, like “immigration is causing a crime wave”. You can respond to that statement, explain how it’s false, etc., but since you’re responding to that statement, you are inevitably also mentioning that statement, potentially spreading it further, and generally giving it more air. Or you can ignore that statement in hopes of suffocating it. While I generally tend to the former approach myself, there is an argument to be made for the latter approach.

Not saying I’m a fan of Magyar (I’m not, even if he is much better than Orban), agree with his decision or am completely convinced there was no invitation, but there definitely are plausible scenarios where there is a solid reasoning behind this.

…until the Oceans end up actually releasing all the CO2. Then we’re truly fucked.

A number of options:

• Vollidiot (complete idiot)
• Pfeife (whistle)
• Vollpfosten (complete post - as in a lamp post)
• Arschgeige (ass Violin)

Is that how they think Trump got elected?

I’m terrible at judging men’s attractiveness, but I remember someone who is much better at that looking very closely at his picture to recreate something and going, “holy shit that guy is ugly”.

Crazy thing is: we’re possibly (I hope not) only at the beginning of this conflict, but historically, wars have had much, much higher civilian casualties. These casualties are a tiny glimpse of how horrific it is.

To be fair, German highways are still some of the safest around. Hell, German roads are pretty safe - in terms of having the least road deaths per population, they’re ranked 14th, with a lot of the countries above them either much more reliant on public transportation (which would be a much, much better solution to the pollution problem) or small enough so that the sample size is too small.

You want to know what the most dangerous roads in Germany are? They’re the “Landstraßen”, by far. The highways pale in comparison.

Ugh, this pisses me off. This Semi-Open market means you have the DB Fernverkehr which is not subsidized or anything, but it also has to service routes that are not profitable, so it needs to cross-subsidize, meaning the profitable routes are more expensive than they would be in an open market. So, ideally, you would want to close off the market, but no, we want competition everywhere. So we have companies like FlixTrain who then run the profitable routes, and leave the unprofitable routes to DB Fernverkehr, and then people wonder why their prices go up…

Hard to blame FlixTrain for taking advantage of the situation, though.

Jfc, the apps scammers usually use are on the fucking play store. Good fucking dammit this is stupid.

UWP ≠ Electron. UWP is a new environment inside of Windows with new APIs, but AFAIK is still native or at least much closer to it than electron.

Said it in another thread, I have yet to meet a strong advocate for LLMs that isn’t a cunt.

I know someone who is very convinced of LLMs, and while I have strong disagreements with her in that topic, she definitely isn’t a cunt.

Fuck Ryanair. It is hard to overstate the amount of Schadenfreude I felt reading this article.

That’s why they need Oxy-Clean!

…

I’ll see myself out.

Unfortunately, EU laws mean that they have to let companies bid on contracts, so their influence on who they deal with is somewhat limited.

roflcopter in for the rescue

For fuck’s sake.

What are parental controls?

Unfortunately not only a problem in schools. Where I work at there’s already a pay per use system that bills the department, with an entire system with separate codes to identify where you belong financially. Now they’re debating adding a fee for the ability to print.

For me that comes down to the same argument as “didn’t you read the fine print?” If I spent time researching the due diligence you’re expecting, I would have time for nothing else anymore.

And I didn’t order wrong, they misunderstood me, because it was so confusing.