Even if they were cheap, the implication is that its okay to screw a customer if they’re not rich?

I wonder who chose the batteries that go in the phone designed by Google, what a mystery

My next phone will be a Fairphone 6, even though they’re not officially sold here in Brazil.

And when that one breaks… Maybe no phone at all.

If that’s how you see our familiar relations sure, you’re your own individual. But boy I’d hate to be your family member.

Maybe my phrasing was a bit accidentally misleading - when I mentioned they are where everyone wants to study at or the ones publishing the most research, I meant locally, for Brazilians and to some extent our LATAM neighbors.

That’s why you probably never heard of them by name, they don’t carry the weight of an “Oxford” or “Tokyo University”.

That said, you absolutely interacted with fruits of their research. The term “ultra processed food” comes from the University of São Paulo and their research.

Decisions have consequences

I’d still help you out if you were in a car crash, even though it was your decision to drive a vehicle.

Though of course, this doesn’t mean helping out is mandatory.

The best universities in Brazil, the ones everyone wants to study at and the ones producing cutting edge research… Are all free, they’re public universities. The private ones can’t compete on most metrics.

So yeah, maybe americans should drop the whole “first world” tag to pretend they’re special and rebalance their priorities.

I can’t just walk up to the DMV with a document on the right letterhead and get a license. There’s actually a whole process involving a test.

In theory. In practice, an employee could skip all steps and pretend you concluded the test.

Similarly, a pharmacy expects that you went through a long process with a doctor diagnosing and ordering the medicine.

Well, all it takes for you to drive a metric ton of metal at 120 KM/h in public is somebody signing a document claiming you know how to drive.

The only thing preventing you from creating poisonous gases from two cheap supermarket cleaning products is your own desire.

There are several lingering consequences, but a lot of the damage can be reversed. This is important to point out because “eh, the damage is done already” is part of the addictive mental gymnastics that keep people smoking. Quitting is always worth it.

Copilot is ChatGPT, only using worse default system prompts. Microsoft invests heavily into OpenAI.

Nah, that’s fake

The party is freaking out over a candidate I would call center-left and nobody in my entire country would find abnormal in any election.

Isn’t for the center right party to win. It’s for the center right party to lose.

The democrats ARE the center right party. You don’t have anything to the left of that. Republicans aren’t “center right”.

Its important to put into perspective that your Democratic party would be considered center-right where I live.

They’re not left wing by any means, and that’s exactly what you’re seeing now with Mamdami being shunned by his own fellow democrats.

Your dual party status quo is precisely designed to avoid having a true left wing. The existence of the Republicans forces you to vote for center-right candidates, meaning you never get the chance to develop truly left wing policies.

If you start thinking about it, most security and well being norms are just protected by people that believe in the social norm behaving correctly.

Why can’t you go behind the counter, enter the kitchen and pee in a McDonald’s hamburguer? Not due to some law of nature or magic force field, but because the workers (or security guard) won’t let you. Why won’t they let you? Due to a systematic belief system on the entity “McDonald’s”, their job, what’s right and wrong, etc.

But they could simply let you. A banker could let you take a few $100 bills. The consequences are almost entirely based on social rules.

Nooo I did not need to hear that

I think you should worry about your own health, it was a super simple sentence to parse.

Bazzite uses Flatpak. Lemmy users love using Flatpaks. Flatpaks are notoriously filled with issues, including Firefox performance.

Let me know if you’re good or a drawing is needed.

Welcome to Flatpaks, Lemmy’s beloved way of distributing packages but the source of your Firefox performance issues.

That’s what they are saying, yes. They are wrong.

It is not a Christian cross, the symbol is the dagger † which is also often used for adding post-scriptum information or challenging parts of a text.

People often mistake it for a cross, given the look, but there’s no actual preference towards any religion here.

The cross is an entirely different unicode character: ✝

In that case, thanks for informing us that cows can eat grass. We are very proud of you. We absolutely had that knowledge already, but still, thanks for your effort.