My car is worth a fair bit more than 10k, and just the idea of buying it with physical cash makes me nervous. I’ll take a traceable transaction for this that doesn’t make me a target for mugging in the meantime, thank you very much.

Yeah, it’s so tiring. Search for something, entire first page is useless aggregator sites, containing nothing about the actual topic other than keywords. Waste of time

Absolutely, city planning plays a massive role in this. As well as perceived attractiveness of the city (are people migrating to or away from the place). My view is pretty skewed because I’ve lived mostly in high quality of life areas, so I can’t speak for small-town depopulation and decay.

I’m not sure I agree on the last part of your last sentence, is that a fact? It feels like there’s plenty of opportunity for social encounters in (larger) town centres, thanks to the much larger number of cafés, restaurants and such compared to my childhood/youth (at least in the parts of Denmark and France that I know). And also an understanding that cities need free spaces (parks and similar).
For physical goods shopping I have no comment, I believe that part.

Are you telling me they ever knew how to build Windows?

There are a handful of EU cloud providers. In addition, at least some EU countries have what amounts to a governmental cloud provider, providing services to government agencies and ministries.

Is that why I make a pretty decent sysadmin? Because I’m a terrible coder? 😅

Well, at least it gives us a common language… I’m not sure the discussion would go so well if I was speaking one of my other languages to you. Enjoy your evening, or morning, or whatever it’ll be on your end

Fair enough, there’s nuance here as with a lot of these things. I used to work in banking IT, I’ve seen some parts of it. It was just the blanket “regulations = bad” sentiment I reacted to, though I see now that wasn’t the intent from your side

They left the union

Regulatory bullshit? I’m quite happy with the fact that I can generally trust my bank not to fuck me over in a hundred different ways, thanks to all that ‘bullshit’

I’m not sure they like those either, maybe just tolerate

Frustrating. Sorry you’re in this position

You’d think the onus here should be on PayPal and Stripe… Do they have anything to say?

Passport pages are numbered. Ripping one out may get you detained and questioned somewhere.

Just the spine, then? Not even the marrow, just the bones themselves

Primer is great, really enjoyed that one

As opposed to what is otherwise one of the LLMs largest databases, Reddit? 😅

Only if you manage to keep out corrupt elements stealing whatever they can from that funding

Just straight up execution of foreign nationals without trial.