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Both cars I've bought and sold in Georgia (the country in the Caucasus) were done with cash USD. This is just how the car market works there. From my experience the situation is similar in Jordan, Egypt (maybe not as common), etc...

Thousands of OpenStreetMap editors hospitalized with a simultaneous stroke

I mean, that's just false. In a lot of countries with weak or unstable local currencies, big purchases like vehicles and real estate (sometimes even rent) are often done in USD to make sure the money keeps (most of) its value until you want to spend it again. I've seen it both in Africa and Asia. I've had to handle USD bills a lot even though I've never even stepped foot in the Americas.

It was in a couple of videos, the one I can remember right now is https://youtu.be/lIFE7h3m40U?t=294 (it's especially funny because you could do this entire project on Linux in a few lines of udev and a trivial actkbd config)

The other video was on some other channel, I can't find it right now. I don't remember the exact quote but the gist was "Linux is not a serious or usable OS", he just dismissed it outright. I'm generally ok with people shitting on Linux, but I remember that was particularly annoying and dismissive of both developers and users, especially so since he's a techy person.

He might have changed his stance since, but I've not been keeping up so I don't know 🤷

Idunno, I unsubscribed many years ago after he kept on shitting on FOSS devs and shilling Windows despite the obvious enshittification. But the interface here looks like youtube, so my guess it's on there

To add to everything already said here, YouTube sometimes uses AI-based filters and/or compression, sometimes without creator's consent.

Basically, everything he ever did in life has been rendered useless

I wish that was true. Fucker's ideology is still alive and kicking (vulnerable people in the teeth). We need to make it unacceptable and punish those who cause harm onto others.

To be fair, any "elected" officials in capitalist countries don't hold much power to go against capitalists. Most things that Trump is doing benefit at least some major faction of the capitalist class. If he tried to nationalize Boeing or something, the next shooter wouldn't miss.

On the other hand, Mamdani is doing some good stuff here, and is probably annoying billionaires. I guess it's going to be tolerated as long as the damage to them is less than the damage which would be caused by removing him, and thus delegitimizing the remaining perceptions of democracy in the states

Start buying more solar panels and batteries instead of oil and gas. Even if China (or whoever else you're buying from) goes to shit at some point, those things will last you decades while you figure out what to do next. Fossil fuels can only be used once and you can't even stuff a single year's worth of them into reserves.

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This isn't how anything ever works, especially with bigots.

Well, yes, it is. Kids who used calculators to cheat with basic arithmetic will often struggle with learning more advanced concepts later on because they didn't get a "feel" for numbers, and I strongly suspect the same will happen with kids who start using LLMs before they know how research works.

It is totally appropriate to use calculators when you can already have an intuition for small numbers, and in just the same way students should learn to use LLMs, but only when they already know how to write and think and research stuff. Curriculum needs to adapt to this quickly, otherwise we will end up with a generation that outsources all their thinking to techbros.