sparky

sparky, 1 day ago

🎶 Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me. We pillage, we plunder, we rifle and loot. Drink up me ‘earties, yo ho. We kidnap and ravage and don’t give a hoot. Drink up me ‘earties, yo ho. 🎶

sparky, 4 days ago

Why would anyone have thought otherwise? What are the odds that a world leader of a global power would meet with a regional official from one of the smallest and least politically relevant states in America?

sparky, 4 days ago

Haha fair point. “M&Ms Macaroni? Ain’t he the pursident of England?”

sparky, 9 days ago

The timing combined with her weird sociopathic nature make it all but a certainty that her decision to have kids was entirely driven by the possibility of a reduced sentence.

sparky, 16 days ago

Isn’t it obvious, Joe?

“While I condemn Hamas, and supported Israel’s right to defend itself in the aftermath of the attacks, the use of force in reprisal has become excessive - beyond what is justified or acceptable. So effective immediately, I’m halting all arms shipments to Israel, and calling on President Netanyahu to withdraw IDF troops from Gaza and the West Bank.”

Problem solved.

sparky, 16 days ago

R&D is cheap when you steal it from western companies!

sparky, 19 days ago

It’s actually Argentina and Chile, which tips that calculus in our favour given they’re friendly western developed nations.

worldpopulationreview.com/…/lithium-reserves-by-c…

sparky, 20 days ago

Definitely wise to pick an EU member state to escape the law. This guy has probably never heard of extradition.

sparky, 21 days ago

lol yea, even in Russia the headlines are always “person falls mysteriously out of window” and not “Putin stabs opponent in face with knife, lets out evil laugh”

sparky, 21 days ago

I pay 15€ a month in Portugal for unlimited data, sms, calls etc and it even includes roaming in the rest of Europe 😊

sparky, 23 days ago

It’s because “home” in this formation is an adverb, whereas school is a noun. You can be an adverb- I’m surprised, I’m exhuasted… - but you must be at a noun (or on, or in, or some other preposition).

sparky, 24 days ago

From another publication I would have said, it’s the same recycled bigotry trying to paint LGBT identities as being something wrong that needs to be cured - either a (wrong) choice, or a medical condition, etc.

From this publication I would have expected greater care to avoid phrasing that makes this kind of categorisation.

sparky, 27 days ago

Not surprising, but disappointing

sparky, 27 days ago

Imagine going on vacation to a foreign country and physically attacking the locals for something they’re doing. Nobody is forcing you to travel abroad. If you don’t like it, don’t go.

sparky, 28 days ago

Unsurprising and it won’t be the last. This is what happens when you build a meme instead of a car.

sparky, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

There are a ton of other WebKit/Blink based browsers to choose from! Safari, Vivaldi, Brave… not to mention good old Firefox and Gecko!

sparky, 1 month ago

I mean… yes? If you’re saying that Chrome sucks now, then why would you want to switch on some platforms but not others?

sparky, 1 month ago

Technically not really, I just said WebKit to avoid breaking down the whole fork situation in my comment. Blink isn’t that different in reality so, WebKit for simplicity. Safari and Chrome are much closer to one another than Firefox is to either, so 🤷‍♂️

sparky, 1 month ago

They are practically the same thing.

sparky, 1 month ago

Unfortunately any protest in the US is at best constrained to stopping future weapons shipments to Israel. But as Netanyahu has already shown he doesn’t care what Biden has to say, the US is unlikely to be able to stop them from continuing to use the weapons they already have.

sparky, 1 month ago

Portugal will give you a residence visa for a €500,000 investment but you have to actually spend time in Portugal and learn Portuguese if you want to become a citizen one day (5-6 years later).

Some Caribbean islands will sell you immediately citizenship and passport for like $300,000 though.

sparky, 1 month ago

FYI the citizenship law is changing later this month, you’ll be able to acquire US citizenship without losing your German one. www.rtpartner.de/…/doppelte-staatsbuergerschaft/

sparky, 1 month ago

Interesting TIL, thanks!

sparky, 1 month ago

It is excellent by global standards, but has suffered in recent years from setbacks. So while it’s better than almost anywhere else (besides maybe Switzerland, Austria and Japan), from the perspective of someone living in Germany, it’s declined of late. I think this explains why you often hear negative comments from Germans but positive from others.

sparky, 1 month ago

Imagine betraying your country for less money than a Toyota Yaris