I love orcas and the idea that some of them are doing something because we pissed them off is really sexy.
But a 15-ish meters sailboat is not a yacht, far from there, and in Europe a lot of people who sail are working class (more teachers and engineers than uber drivers or cleaning crews, but still far from rich).
In this case, the crew consisted of two members of the Ocean Care NGO. The crew members and the NGO stated that they didn’t blame the orcas and didn’t see there an agression from them but believed more in a kind of game because the orcas noticed boats can be rocked and find it fun.
Let’s eat the rich ourselves, they are much more our responsability than the orca’s.
I live in France, and my parents (both teachers in highschool) bought one 10 years ago. It is an old one (built in the 1980s), lots of work to had to be done but they could afford it on a 10 years mortgage.
Harbour is about 4k/year, wich is definitely not nothing and lots of people can’t afford it, but they manage.
Idk how it is where you live, but from what I’ve seen, on most of Northern Europe coasts (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Sweden) it’s far from impossible to own a nice sailboat even when you’re not really rich.
Sailboats from the 80s-90s with some work to do would range from the 30-35k for 10-11 meters to 60-70k for up to 15 meters. Of course, if you want to have the most recent one and if you can’t/don’t want to do most of the repairs yourself, it’s another story.
It may have something to do with our sailing culture from the 70s-80s, where lots of people actually built their sailboats to go and travel the world.
And just to be clear, I’m not saying it’s easy and everyone can do it. Lots of working class people can barely make ends meet, so owning a boat wouldn’t be possible. But in Europe, it’s not reserved for the super rich either.
You’re right, thanks!
In my language there is a bug difference between a yacht and a 15 meters sailboat, but it seems it’s not the case in english. Anyway, my mistake.
200k is a nice, quite recent boat with nothing to be done before you can go and sail.
Where I live, lots of people buy older boats which need a bit of work before they can use them. You can find nice older 15 meters sailboats for 60-70k if you’re willing to have them in dry dock for a year while you do repairs and look for used parts to do the repairs.
It’s still fucking expensive (and you have easily 5k/year of anchorage and upkeep), and lots of workers can definitely not afford that, but it’s still possible without being really rich (I meet teachers teachers, nurses, engineers… who own their boats when I go sailing).
Yep. I despise her opinions since I’ve heard/read them, but reading HP still is a treasured child memory and I pick them up again every few years. But I’m never buying anything that contributes to her wealth and I’m not going to rate the books positevely on goodreads or whatever.
I surely makes no difference to her, but it allows me to feel okay about it.
But I like feeling like a real manly man when I eat my real manly meat in a real manly way with my real manly bros, surely that’s worth a few hundreds thousands human lives a year ?
(And btw, plant-based diets could also save 100 million animal lives a year)
Seriously, you’re still on that hill?
They hurt no one with their comment licensing, why do you feel the need to bother them and add to the harassment while adding nothing to the original discussion ?
Here’s the thing: doing something does not always work, but doing nothing never does.
In the provided screenshot, the devs themselves explain that asking for refunds and leaving bad reviews is what gives them enough pull to even have the discussion with sony.
Of course you don’t have to do anything, but you really don’t accomplish anything by bothering the people who actually try to find ways to make the situation better.
In France we treat our prisoners like utter shit. If they way you treat the people you have power over is an important marker of civilization/democracy (and I believe it is), we fail this test real hard.
That being said, the tribunal has to specifically add to the prison sentence an exclusion from the right to vote. Iirc, about 25k prisoners (among the 75 or 80k total) have been deprived from the right to vote during their sentence.
Voting from prison in France is complicated,there are 3 options afaik:
you can delegate your vote to someone on the outside
you can resquest a “day off” to go to the polls
since 2019 you can vote by correspondance
The “can I please go out to vote” has to be approved by the warden, and dosen’t happen much.
Delegating your vote isn’t always easy either, prison has a tendancy to isolate people from their former close ones.
The correspondance vote is recent and seems like the best of the three. In 2017 (presidential electio ), less than 2% of imprisoned people had voted. In the 2022 presidential election, more than 20% of them did.
So far, voting logistics and the feeling that society doesn’t want you has imo prevented far more people to vote than the “you can’t vote for the next x years” addendum to sentences.
And while the objecrifying comment pretending to be funny has 45 upvotes at that time, you were at -1 when I saw your post.
Lemmy is imo better than reddit, but alas the intersection between privacy-conscious people and men who refuse to educate themselves is a big one.
Thanks for your comment, I was happy to read you!
Statcounter reports that Windows 11 continues to lose its market share for the second month in a row. Windows 10, meanwhile, is gaining more users and is now back above the 70% mark.
About anticheat: it depends which games you’re playing. If they use Valve’s EasyAnti Cheat you should have no problem (been playing dota2, cs2, csgo… without trouble for some time now). If they use malware kernel-level anticheat (iirc helldivers 2, valorant, league of legends) you won’t be able to run them in linux and should keep a windows dual boot.
Discord banned a mass of accounts that were part of a service that scraped and sold user data, including messages posted across servers and what voice channels they joined, 404 Media has learned. The move comes after https://www.404media.co/a-spy-site-is-scraping-discord-and-selling-users-messages/, called Spy Pet, last week and...
Why are you so intent on giving them s**t about their licensing of their comments?
They cause harm to no one, they feel better because doing so is relevant to them.
I might be wrong, but your question seems asked in bad faith: I am under tbe impression that most people on lemmy servers have at least a basic understanding of the privacy and copyright infringements of the training of AI models.
Their will to license their comment probably has little to do with the very unlikely individual actions you describe and more to do with data licensing from big corporate entities.
how am I supposed to say to people ‘hey come and try out lemmy’ when they’re gong to see this sovcit Facebook mom stuff?
They’re going to read comments shilling for corpos, excusing China/Russia/Israel’s human rights violations… and a link towards an open source license at the end of someone’s comments is what you’re worried about?
Orcas Just Sank Another Yacht (www.scientificamerican.com)
JK Rowling slammed for asking if she can be Black if she likes “Motown & fancy myself in cornrows” (www.lgbtqnation.com)
I just watched this documentary on Ursula K. Le Guin. I never heard of her before this. Does the community have one or two books they recommend? (means.tv)
Let’s say that I may only read one or two, as I’m not a prolific reader. What do you think I should get?
Systemd Looks to Replace sudo with run0 (news.itsfoss.com)
Helldivers 2 now has the most negative reviews among all paid games (programming.dev)
Switching to plant-based diets means cleaner air – and it could save more than 200,000 human lives around the world (theconversation.com)
Helldivers 2 community manager says internal discussions are ongoing regarding mandatory PSN account link (libreddit.bus-hit.me)
Google rolls back reCaptcha update to fix Firefox issues (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
List of countries that cannot make a PSN account, following the Helldivers 2 controversy. (programming.dev)
The censored one is probably Niger...
I think people in prison should be allowed to vote
In a democracy, I don’t see how their vote really matters less. Plus it’ll help improve prisons perhaps.
The retro Nokia phone everyone owned 25 years ago will get a reboot soon – and yes, it has Snake (www.techradar.com)
hmmm (file.coffee)
Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting to bring photo ID (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14955332
Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining (www.neowin.net)
Statcounter reports that Windows 11 continues to lose its market share for the second month in a row. Windows 10, meanwhile, is gaining more users and is now back above the 70% mark.
Two giants in the satellite telecom industry join forces to counter Starlink (arstechnica.com)
vu dans la rue aujourd'hui 🤣 (jlai.lu) French
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Discord Shuts Down ‘Spy Pet’ Bots That Scraped, Sold User Messages (www.404media.co)
Discord banned a mass of accounts that were part of a service that scraped and sold user data, including messages posted across servers and what voice channels they joined, 404 Media has learned. The move comes after https://www.404media.co/a-spy-site-is-scraping-discord-and-selling-users-messages/, called Spy Pet, last week and...