The A380-800 wing is massively oversized because it has been designed for the even larger and heavier A380-900 that never went anywhere beyond Catia.

I use left as change things quickly, break things, tear down Chesterton 's Fence, taking big chances, and right as gradually careful change, thinking about why things exist before destroying them, and be averse to risk. Trump is left of FDR in that view.

Republicans lost two presidential elections, 2008 & 2012, due to running conservative candidates. So they gave up and became a further-left party. Now Obama looks like a relative conservative .. but Clinton & Harris look conservative _too_.

Voters are insisting on left-wing presidents, with the exception of Biden because the initial leftist shock of Trump pt1 was too much to absorb.

I actually mostly pay with my credit card because a certain turnover is required for keeping the gold card free. But I am the exception, not the rule and it also probably varies a lot by the country.

I don't think so - the AI makes many mistakes and debugging assembler is much more tedious.

Actually, Maestro/V-Pay are usually only used for clearing international debit card payments as a co-badge and for national payments the national interbank systems take precedence.
And the only reason why Mastercard is responsible for Maestro (which, incidentally, is being phased out) is because they have aquired Europay back in the day.

What comes next is the realisation that the majority of the labour force is not needed, but the whole society is completely unprepared for this.

Filament spools, not cartridges. It is a 3D printer after all. The main question is - can it be printed without an enclosure? Asking for an Ender 3.

You are, of course, welcome to have your personal definition of any term in the dictionary. You can even invent whole new words for all I care. Doesn't mean you won't get ridiculed for it.

Except it is not "not real socialism", it is not socialism at all. GP is absolutely correct about "worker ownership of the means of production". This is the textbook definition.

You have no idea how many financial institutions are based in Cyprus. And I seriously doubt that Turkey has the balls to wage war against the EU.

When it's codified into the highest law of the land and doesn't work, and suggestions to do so voluntarily can't work to the point of being laughable, what options do we have left?

There's always Nancy Reagan's catchphrase: Just Say No.

Any particular game is expendable. You won't miss out on anything. Games don't even have the network effects and lockin that you get with other types of software; it's a part of the economy where Just Saying No is easiest of all.

Don't like the quality? Don't spend your money. They have no power over us except what we give them. Stop being so selflessly altruistic when it comes to actively supporting your own abuse.

It's so damn easy, and there's already hundreds of years worth of hassle-free game-playing available to spend the few remaining seconds of your life on.

Then they have chosen the wrong Greece. Cyprus is what they have looked for.

Can we use these glasses, or are they just as worthless as Google's and Meta's, where they choose everything for you, and you'll likely get a DMCA complaint if you try to use them for your own purposes?

If not, then $21.95 is about as much as these people should be charging for the product, which is obviously intended to get its revenue through proprietary software/services sales.

Well, as silly as this ban is, maybe it will make avoiding social media easier.