I think it’s only France where it’s explicitly banned. Mostly because otherwise CCTV cameras are legally complicated.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Did you attend your high school reunion? Why or Why not?
2·17 hours agoNo, there was like four people that I actually liked the rest of them can get in the sea.
Actually they’re probably all right now but they’re not a tits when they were kids, but I have no desire to find out.
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World News@quokk.au•Neil the seal returns to sea, leaving trail of destruction
4·17 hours agoHow many half a giraffe is that?
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•When Margret Thatcher died people were singing "Ding dong the witch is dead". What song do you think people will be singing when Donald Trump dies?
4·18 hours agoI still maintain that the people most likely to want Trump dead are the elite not the general populace. Sure he has terrible approval ratings but most people don’t know how to hire an assassin. Corporations do.
Think how much money he has cost businesses, all the sanctions, the unnecessary wars, the pointless sabre rattling that has lost them contracts in Europe. The only people who are benefiting from Trump are those in scaffolding supplies who keep having to put up scaffolding all over Washington as he keeps slapping his name on everything
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United Kingdom@feddit.uk•'Millionaires tell me every day that they want a wealth tax'English
2·3 days agoThey want it to go out as tax so they can then claim a bunch more on top of their existing charitable donations.
You don’t pay tax on charitable donations, and it’s a good way to hord off some money if you don’t want to pay tax on it, at least until such time as you can relocate your money to a less taxing nation, but there is a limit to how much you can tax exempt in a year. For normal people this limit is irrelevant because it far exceeds the amount of money they would ever get in a year let alone amount they would be able to give as charitable donations.
If there was a millionaire tax they could pay that and essentially offset the tax they pay by reducing their charitable donations. They would end up in exactly the same position as they currently are, but society would be slightly less pissed off with them. All to their benefit.
The only millionaires and billionaires that don’t want this other ones that are doing weird dodgy tax things so they don’t pay anything. Most of the wealthy 1% do actually pay their fair share of tax (although it isn’t high enough) because it’s so little money to them that it’s not worth fighting about it. Likes of Elon Musk a special breed of narcissist who actually put more effort into not paying tax in its worth.
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United Kingdom@feddit.uk•More buildings to receive dangerous cladding removal fundingEnglish
3·3 days agoThat’s an awful headline.
More buildings are now allowed to access funding for the removal of dangerous cladding
There I rewrote it so now it makes sense.
Everyone hates working for American companies when they try and push American customer service onto anyone else.
I don’t want to be told thank you for calling the company, I’m calling because there’s a problem because I want something not to have a chat. It’s so cringe-worthy.
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Technology@lemmy.world•A brewing battle: More IT workers want unions. The industry doesn’t.English
13·5 days agoThe reason that IT often gets lumped with this stuff is because if you leave it to anybody else they do it wrong especially logistics.
Everyone except the IT department is now banned from ordering new IT equipment because they’ll order a bunch of laptops and then act all surprised when this huge pallet of devices arrives as if they didn’t just order one. So then it just sits in the entrance lobby the days on end until someone from IT comes and opens the pallet and takes the laptops upstairs. If they do that with new pens that’s fine, no one’s going to steal them.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Meta Patents AI Device That Tracks Your Emotions, Watches You Take Your MedsEnglish
5·5 days agoIt’ll be worse than smart watches that tell you that you’ve been sat down for too long.
Yeah I’ve been sat down for too long, I’m at work you idiot device.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Meta Patents AI Device That Tracks Your Emotions, Watches You Take Your MedsEnglish
81·5 days agoOh that’s useful. I’ve often wondered what my current emotion is, I’m so glad technology has been created to help me with this issue.
Now I’m going to know if I’m currently happy or not. Of course I haven’t got the technology yet so I’m not sure how I feel about this. I’ll let you know.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption is under 4.5% after 3 years, only 1% use it weekly, yet prices went upEnglish
5·5 days agoI suspect most people on business accounts and they can’t really mess with businesses as much as customers
In the United States at least I suspect that there won’t be many of the centralists because the way US politics works there isn’t really a place for them. It’s a two-party system so you kind of have to be one thing or the other.
Well for the purposes of understanding this, you don’t need to. This post is stupid for so many other reasons. Like any graph your axis have to make sense. You’re plotting two pieces of data against each other so you need to know what those two pieces of data are and what their scales are.
But here they’re measuring IQ against political leanings. But that doesn’t work because political affiliation isn’t a scale any more then favourite colour is a scale. IQ is a scale, but the bottom axis is just nothing.
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United Kingdom@feddit.uk•Political rivals vow to boycott byelection after Farage quits as MPEnglish
2·5 days agoHe’d never come back from that. He’d have to move to America after that, he wouldn’t be able to go out in public in the UK.
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United Kingdom@feddit.uk•Political rivals vow to boycott byelection after Farage quits as MPEnglish
2·5 days agoEvery time they interview reform they should have binface inas well, to provide balance.
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United Kingdom@feddit.uk•Political rivals vow to boycott byelection after Farage quits as MPEnglish
2·5 days agoWell yeah. Farage is a threat to everyone one way or another.
He’s eating the Conservatives alive they need to get rid of him.
He’s pulling Labour to the right and there is some understanding within the party that that’s not a good thing.
The Lib Dems are finding it difficult enough to get anyone to vote for them when there’s only other two options, they don’t need a third
He’s not really a threat to the Greens, I suspect they just want him gone because he’s in the pockets of the oil industry.
And of course Rupert Lowe hates him, and is totally on board with anything that humiliates Farage.
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United Kingdom@feddit.uk•Political rivals vow to boycott byelection after Farage quits as MPEnglish
4·5 days agoI can’t wait for the return of ceefax. It’s where all my holidays came from when I was a kid.
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United Kingdom@feddit.uk•Political rivals vow to boycott byelection after Farage quits as MPEnglish
2·5 days agoSurely he must have taken money from the Russians just like his mate did.
I bet there’s some newspaper out there just sitting on this story waiting for the optimum time to spring it. Which will be just before the election. I’d actually be prepared to put money on that.
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United Kingdom@feddit.uk•Political rivals vow to boycott byelection after Farage quits as MPEnglish
2·5 days agoI really would like to see how the establishment handled that situation. That’d be all for political reform after that.



That’s because they’re back end devs. There is one way to do things, you learn the one way to do the thing, you do it that way, you’re done.
The fun is in front end, there is 15 different ways of doing things, but you don’t like any of them, so you develop a 16th way, eventually you get bored of the 16th way so come up with a 17th way. Eventually you get sick of all of this and go back to SSGs as God intended.