Wait until Tremp finds out all digital services now need to charge GST in Australia (10%) since like 10 years ago.

Because ethanol forms an azeotrope with water, 100% ethanol is also considerably more expensive than ~95%

They’re definitely not gonna use 100% ethanol haha

A bunch of Europeans in this comment section forgetting there are more “western” countries than just western Europe and the USA/north America.

Fortnightly is the most common in Australia, with some people paid monthly also (depends on the company).

And thankful for this. Monthly sounds terrible

I think you’re missing my point. Megacorps taking advantage of browser features should be outlawed, and cookie banners to opt-out of tracking cookies are a weird waste of time.

What that means for small hobbyist projects requiring the use of Cross-Site cookies is outside the scope of my opinion. I have no idea about how such things could be feasibly policed, just that I’m not convinced they couldn’t ever be.

But if I’m deciding between the collective wellbeing of everyone’s privacy and a small hobbyist project needing to add an opt in? I’m picking the opt in, which I mean, obviously, if the person wants to use your features, an extra click isn’t too much to ask

I don’t see why you’d need to throw out that baby with this bathwater.

My point is the same as yours. You ought not need to “reject” cookies for the purposes of tracking you for marketing, or other defined illegitimate purposes. It should just be illegal by default.

And if you want to opt in for some specific feature, as you suggest, you could (as long as you still legislate you can’t bundle more tracking along with it).

Things should just do what is says on the tin.

In my opinion.

They cant maintain the costs of research & debelopment nor the hosting. So they have to paywall their site or close the doors

The irony of posting this comment on Lemmy, which runs based on donations. It isn’t paywalled, and doesn’t require data mining to operate. As well as Wikipedia which is completely free, and wildly successful. Which again doesn’t need to violate your privacy to continue existing.

Not to mention, not every website is making money off selling your data, and are instead selling goods or services. Which can continue to operate and make money just fine.

The fact you think the economy would collapse because data miners would lose their jobs, is showing your bias.

Nek minnit you’ll be telling me we ought not stop fighting needless wars whenever the US beckons us, because of all the poor weapons contractors losing work (massive hyperbole, but you get my point).

People working in data mining have heaps of transferrable skills, they would be totally fine.

The internet existed before enshitification, and it certainly could afterwards.

Would you have to pay a little more to access certain things? Sure. But I find the argument that the internet would cease to function very unconvincing.

You’re in favour of companies mining our data and selling personal information with impunity?

Session cookies for login are legitimate, I’m not really sure about others

youll be burning down a multi-billion, if not trillion, worth market.

Oh no

Also, idk if i want the alternative of cookie tracking to be used as much as cookie tracking. Scary stuff

Here’s an idea, you outlaw that also

We have been in the wild west of the internet the last 20 years or so, and you wonder when we’re finally going to actively police it

You wonder, why do they not just make it illegal to use cookies at all (other than for legitimate purposes like loggin in).

Who actually wants to accept?

We need to be moving before technology becomes profitable. This is one of the major downsides of capitalism. We temper it somewhat with government investment and regulation, but buy-in-large, the profit motive is what drives practically all economic questions.

We simply do not have time.

We need to building more energy storage, like yesterday.

It just hasn’t made much financial sense to build it, because fossil fuels were cheap, now we’re slowly getting started.

If the profit motive wasn’t the motive above all else, we could get a whole bunch more done in the fight on climate change.

We can’t wait for capitalism. It’s just not fundamentally aligned with our preservation, it’s aligned with profit motive.

We’re lucky it’s becoming more profitable. But we’re still massively reliant on fossil fuels. It’s way, way, way, way not fast enough.

And yes, capitalism is the problem. If governments weren’t so afraid of being criticised for how they run something we’d bring back more state run organisations and just start building, even if it runs at a “loss”.

Or at the very, very least, we should be directly contracting private companies to build and maintain the infrastructure, but WE own it. Not them.

Conclusion, capitalism isn’t the only economic system we can imagine. We already temper it. We used to even temper it more than we do now (post-world war II in the anglosphere, as an example, until the neo-libs privatised practically everything).

The neo-liberal experiment has been a colossal failure.

Capitalism isn’t the end of history.

The observation is that capitalism isn’t any good at efficiently allocating resources

They run a large budget deficit each year which Denmark subsidises out of historical obligation, since they subjugated Greenland. Fair enough I say.

Greenland is largely independent on internal policies and have their own laws, but still technically part of Denmark.

This is my laymen’s explanation.

“Slams”. Look at what journalists did to our boy!

Oh don’t get me wrong. The strong adherence to pacifism is laudable. But they have not reckoned with their atrocities committed during and prior world war II. They practically deny them ever happening.

Your whataboutism is not appreciated.

Japan has never really reckoned with its past. They were just pacified.

I judge the country as a whole for this, since they keep electing politicians who continue to do very little to reckon with their past.

I feel a lot could be gained by apologising to the people and nations for the past, and nothing lost, other than nationalistic pride, bring forced into self reflection, and being genuinely sorry on behalf of the country.

People who think they shouldn’t apologise because it wasn’t them personally are stupid, frankly, and standing in the way of reducing tensions.

Will it fix everything in the region? No. Will it take some of the steam out of the war machine? Probably.

Ugh. They’re probably worse than a lot of them.

Abducting extremely young children into their cult. Teaching them to suppress their emotions, telling them to cut all families ties.

Someone ought to order their temples shut down to bring peace and stability to the galaxy world.

And when you’re the US president, they let you do it

DEI is just something they’re using as a dog whistle. It’s always about class first.

She’s rich, so he’s an honourary white

Though, really shows what an absolute wanker JD Vance is, since under his administration is certainly going to be way worse be to of indian decent in his country.

What a shit husband and father.

It’s absolutely wild they expect you to pay taxes when you don’t live there, and I’m pretty sure not widly practiced by other countries.