The launch of the digital euro could give every European a free, universal payment account. But this grand vision is at risk of being curtailed by a well-coordinated lobbying campaign of the banking industry. Banks want to make sure you will keep needing them – and they have EU officials’ ears.
VISA will be the main driver to protect the old system where they control the network and the mechants-fees. That is what makes them money. Billions years over years.
The Podcast “Aquired” has a 3h long podcast that tells the crazy story of VISA, its founder and how they came to control the market. If anyone will do anything in its power to not liberalize the payment landscape, then it will be this very Company. It will go thermonuclear on their revenue stream.
When athletic height jumping was considered done and perfected, there was the Fosbury flop which opened new possibilities. Do you think there was such a moment in the music history? When someone showed how things can be done and from there everyone is using his/her technique?
Wir dürfen an keiner Stelle und an keinem Ort mit den Zielen, die dieses System erreicht, verknüpft sein", sagte Scholz bei der dpa-Chefredaktionskonferenz. Deshalb stehe dies nicht als Handlungsoption als Nächstes auf der Tagesordnung....
Olaf! Es macht keinen unterschied wenn unsere Panzer, unsere Haubitzen und unsere Munition bereits in der Ukraine eingesetzt wird! Gib die Waffen frei!
Niksen is the Dutch word for “doing nothing” (see idleness [german: Müßiggang]) and has been increasingly used since 2019 as a buzzword for a promoted relaxed lifestyle. The Niksen is comparable to the Dolcefarniente (Italy), kalsarikännit (Finland), Lagom (Sweden) and hygge (Denmark).
As far as I know there is a good amount of companies that host websites for free( github pages, cloudflare pages, other hosting companies) even intel uses github pages for hosting clear linux website.
Same reason people buy land and build a house on it: It is in their control. If I host my content on some plattform, I have to bow to their TOS/Tracking/Changes and am more like a tolerated tennant. But they are the HOA that can tell me what they want and do not want regarding content, frontend and backend. I also most possible have to allow them to use my work for their own benefit. If it is free, maybe they profit from you.
People do not get that having your own URL, your own Email and your own Websites, was the most common thing in the past. I staked my claim like the settlers going west. I own my acre of digital Land. I am free to do what ever I want on my property and nobody can take it away as long as I pay 5$ a year for the domain. That is 50$ in 10 years. That is 400$ for my whole life. For a place that I call mine. My digital Landscape. This is my space. There are many spaces out there, but this is the acre I am gonna develop.
Of course I could rent a room in the city by giving away my privacy or the control. And there are many good reasons to do this. But having your own piece of the internet is what makes me feeling more like a part of that net and not just be a cow in someone else shed.
Pope Francis has canceled an audience scheduled for Saturday as a precaution after coming down with mild flu, the Vatican press office said in a short statement, without adding further details....
Die Legalisierung von Cannabis ist eine fundamentale Änderung in der deutschen Drogenpolitik. Was sich mit dem neuen Gesetz ändert - die wichtigsten Fragen und Antworten.
Ist es fix, dass die Legalisierung zum 1. April in Kraft tritt?
Nicht ganz. Grundsätzlich benötigt das Gesetz keine Zustimmung durch den Bundesrat. Die Länderkammer kann aber trotzdem den Vermittlungsausschuss anrufen. Damit könnte sie die Legalisierung nicht stoppen, aber zumindest verzögern. Das CSU-geführte Bayern hat bereits angekündigt, einen entsprechenden Antrag zu stellen.
Immer Bayern. Egal welcher progressive Vorschlag es ist: Es ist immer Bayern.
Well, did you ever talked to someone about your political ideals and they were not the status quo? Well, in Russia you were already in trouble for your extremist ideas.
Ruby Franke, a once-popular online mom influencer with millions of followers, has been sentenced to four one- to 15-year terms in prison for child abuse....
On August 30, 2023, Franke and Hildebrandt were arrested in Ivins, Utah, and on September 1, 2023, both were charged with six counts of aggravated child abuse, a felony.[1][2][5][6][13][14] According to a statement from the Santa Clara-Ivins Public Safety Department, Franke’s 12-year-old son, who appeared emaciated and had “open wounds and duct tape around the extremities”, had climbed through a window of Hildebrandt’s house and asked at a neighboring house for food and water.[1][2][5][13] Emergency services found Franke’s 10-year-old daughter in the house, also malnourished; both children were taken to a hospital, where the boy was treated for severe malnourishment and “deep lacerations from being tied up with rope”.[1][6] A search of the house found evidence “consistent with the markings” on the 12-year-old, and the Utah Division of Child and Family Services took the boy and girl and two more of Franke’s children into care.[1][2] Police later reported that according to the boy, cayenne pepper and honey had been used to dress his wounds.[11][15]
Personal life
The Frankes are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.[4][5] Their oldest daughter has stated that she has long disapproved of her mother’s parenting strategies.[2][5]
Franke has three sisters who are also parenting influencers;[2][4][5] they disassociated themselves from her actions in a joint statement[2][5][12] and later in individual videos.[25]
They are a mix of small sorting games with a time limit and visual quizzes that can get really hard to solve. There was one where you have to rotate three small round pictures inside another picture to match the background picture that is basically just noise. Every market has its own multistep captcha system and they change quite a lot. Some are creative, some are just nightmare. The hardest ones are those where you have to solve multiple rotations of miniature „pictures“ that are like ultra close ups of things with an extreme compression and noise and somehow you have to decide if they are houses or bridges. The compression is so bad, you can barely even make out what those rotated 30x30 grey pixel smush are. And there are 6 of them you have to solve in a certain time. I ran into timeouts constantly and have to start over.
It’s worth noting that the things Trump says aren’t just random nonsense; they’re part of a larger disinformation campaign run by the fossil fuels industry.
So are Maga dorks now pro Whales? They gonna protect the whales with new laws? It is such a flimsy argument that goes not further and reveals how stupidly they lie without substance.
Alexei Navalny’s mother has been unable to recover his body after his death in an Arctic jail, a close aide to the dead Russian opposition leader says. Navalny’s team believes the anti-corruption campaigner was murdered on the orders of President Vladimir Putin....
They will never give him a grave where people can pilger to. They hate his guts and even more that people show empathy for his death. They will either somehow lose his corpse or burn it up because of “hygiene reasons” or some bullshit. Maybe they will fly him somewhere and then shoot the plane down, like it is their newest shtick. You know, the russian way of lying and covering up.
European banks are scared of the digital euro. Here's how their secret lobbying could torpedo it (www.ftm.eu)
The launch of the digital euro could give every European a free, universal payment account. But this grand vision is at risk of being curtailed by a well-coordinated lobbying campaign of the banking industry. Banks want to make sure you will keep needing them – and they have EU officials’ ears.
How Stupid Do They Think We Are: Media execs don’t want the sites, they just want the names (aftermath.site)
Alexei Navalny's lawyer Vasily Dubkov reportedly arrested in Moscow for "violating public order" (www.bbc.co.uk)
Following Navalny’s death, Mr Dubkov accompanied his mother to the Arctic prison colony where Navalny died on 16 February.
What was the Fosbury flop of music?
When athletic height jumping was considered done and perfected, there was the Fosbury flop which opened new possibilities. Do you think there was such a moment in the music history? When someone showed how things can be done and from there everyone is using his/her technique?
Scholz begründet Nein zu "Taurus"-Lieferung (www.tagesschau.de) German
Wir dürfen an keiner Stelle und an keinem Ort mit den Zielen, die dieses System erreicht, verknüpft sein", sagte Scholz bei der dpa-Chefredaktionskonferenz. Deshalb stehe dies nicht als Handlungsoption als Nächstes auf der Tagesordnung....
I've lived in the Netherlands for 14 years—why we're always ranked one of the world's happiest countries (www.cnbc.com)
I was born in Poland and grew up in Germany, but my family and I have been living in the Netherlands for the last 14 years....
Why do blogs and general websites(not social media and shopping websites) pay for hosting?
As far as I know there is a good amount of companies that host websites for free( github pages, cloudflare pages, other hosting companies) even intel uses github pages for hosting clear linux website.
Pope Francis cancels a meeting with Rome deacons because of mild flu, the Vatican says (apnews.com)
Pope Francis has canceled an audience scheduled for Saturday as a precaution after coming down with mild flu, the Vatican press office said in a short statement, without adding further details....
Germany's parliament votes to legalize limited marijuana possession and allow 'cannabis clubs' (apnews.com)
GOP congresswoman who used IVF wants to ban IVF (www.dailykos.com)
Wer bald nach welchen Regeln Cannabis konsumieren darf (www.sueddeutsche.de)
Die Legalisierung von Cannabis ist eine fundamentale Änderung in der deutschen Drogenpolitik. Was sich mit dem neuen Gesetz ändert - die wichtigsten Fragen und Antworten.
Gunmen sent by Moscow killed defector sheltering in Alicante, Spanish intelligence services say (english.elpais.com)
Spain’s Foreign Ministry will send a strong response if the involvement of Russian secret services in the crime is proven...
Police called to investigate alleged LGBTQ propaganda at Russian ‘My Little Pony’ convention (www.nbcnews.com)
Rapist Who Wanted Vice President Dead Compares Self to Navalny (newrepublic.com)
Dating app back in 90s (lemmy.world)
Jim Jordan is in deep trouble (www.newsweek.com)
Infamous mommy vlogger Ruby Franke sentenced to up to 60 years for child abuse (www.msnbc.com)
Ruby Franke, a once-popular online mom influencer with millions of followers, has been sentenced to four one- to 15-year terms in prison for child abuse....
I didn't need to login this badly anyway (suppo.fi)
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No, Wind Farms Aren’t ‘Driving Whales Crazy’ | Donald Trump has attacked President Biden’s climate and energy policies with gusto, but many of his criticisms are simply untrue. (www.nytimes.com)
It’s worth noting that the things Trump says aren’t just random nonsense; they’re part of a larger disinformation campaign run by the fossil fuels industry.
Nikki Haley says she would pardon Donald Trump if elected president (www.independent.co.uk)
Server-Umzug einigermaßen erfolgreich German
Hi Feddit,...
Alexei Navalny death: Team accuses Kremlin of 'hiding' his body while more than 400 people have been arrested across Russia for following vigils and gatherings in memory of Navalny (www.bbc.com)
Alexei Navalny’s mother has been unable to recover his body after his death in an Arctic jail, a close aide to the dead Russian opposition leader says. Navalny’s team believes the anti-corruption campaigner was murdered on the orders of President Vladimir Putin....
Conservative activist Charlie Kirk helped oust Ronna McDaniel at the RNC. Now the knives are out for him. (www.nbcnews.com)
Yale apologizes for past ties to slavery (www.cnn.com)
Yale University has issued a formal apology for its historical ties to slavery....