Yes. For me too. Been thinking of switching to another instance TBH. :/

Parkgebühren und ÖV-Tarife treffen auch die Anwohner

Denen könnte man ja Rabatte darauf gewähren.

in jedem kleinen Luftkurort bezahlen Touristen eine Kurtaxe

Für Übernachtungen (und das ist ja auch in Venedig der Fall), aber nicht für den reinen Zutritt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

Correct. Division of money into currency units is entirely arbitrary, there are many currencies where a thousand units is a wildly different amount from a thousand US dollars or euros or similar-valued units.

Yes and there already is also this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G20

Das ist sogar noch einfacher über Hafengebühren, die an die Passagiere weitergegeben werden. Wobei mW es eh keine oder zumindest keine großen Kreuzfahrtschiffe mehr in Venedig gibt, die legen mittlerweile in Triest an.

Can't I just ask it for the seahorse emoji once in a while and achieve the same result or something...

Ich war zwar schon seit der Einführung dort, aber da hatte ich dort ein Hotelzimmer und war daher ausgenommen (bei der Anreise vom Flughafen bin ich jedenfalls an dem Tag nicht kontrolliert worden), und selbst da ist mir nicht ganz klar geworden, wie das eigentlich logistisch funktioniert, Eintrittsgeld für öffentlichen Raum zu verlangen?

Könnte man das nicht in Venedig durch Parkgebühren oder ÖV-Tarife regeln? Anders kommt man als Tagesbesucher eh nicht praktikabel hin.

??? Isn't a burner phone just an ordinary phone you can buy at all of the same places? Who of us is confused about terminology?

It already does, it's called inflation.

Also are you talking about physical money, or bank accounts, or what...?

The entire history of KDE has clearly been carefully planned to lead to the point where the version number is the same as the latest entry on the funny numbers list.

I still like what they did last year: https://www.techdirt.com/...

Delaware was a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain until the Assembly of the Lower Counties of Pennsylvania that declared itself independent of British authority on June 15, 1776, thereby creating the state of Delaware. Delaware subsequently was the first state to ratify the Declaration of Independence, the instrument which created the United States of America, on July 4, 1776. Under the terms of the 1783 Treaty of Paris, the Kingdom of Great Britain officially acknowledged the United States as a sovereign and independent nation.

I wonder how this is looking in Australia?

like this: https://www.techdirt.com/...

But of course, that's not the talking point I would want to focus on. It's a bad idea even if there were no workarounds and even if there were no privacy problems. I find it difficult to think of a more harmless, more fulfilling, less dangerous hobby for young people to have than to be on social media.

Das ist aber noch immer deutlich weniger heiß, als es in einem Auto wird.

The EU is planning to do something along those lines, as I understand it.

But that's completely beside the point because it's not a good idea in the first place to prohibit young people from participating in online communities. Participating in online communities is a fun, fulfilling and mostly harmless activity that improves many young people's mental health, creativity, communication skills, and probably has other benefits too. I wouldn't be the person I am now if I hadn't started doing that regularly at age 10.

We shouldn't be talking about "actually it's about surveillance" or thinking about less privacy-invasive ways to achieve the same goal. We should be saying "if your goal is to reduce the amount of young people on social media, or the time they spend there, then your goal is wrong".

Irgendein Geschäftsmodell braucht das Internet halt. :/

Ich stimm in solchen Fällen dem Tracking zu, allerdings hab ich ohnehin einen Werbeblocker, somit rechnet die Werbeindustrie dann sinnlos herum, welche Werbung sie mir zeigen soll, nur damit ich sie eh nicht sehe. :P

No, I didn’t.

Yes, you did, because people can look for those exact images - possibly with AI assistance nowadays...

Even if I did, what are you going to do with that information?

Me, nothing, someone else, who knows...

If they had come back at a different time, then why do the clouds align when I move back and forth?

wdym "clouds" on overcast days?

Also you do realize you've doxed your home address with this...

If you'd asked me at the age of 9 I would have said, the entire playground should only be swings, everything else is unnecessary.

Younger children might not have appreciated the result very much.

I agree with much of that, but not the things after "bring down the [list of companies]".

I agree we need to bring them down, but not through governmental regulations and fines, but by us (the general public) building replacements for them. Like the thing we're using here.

All that state regulation will do is make that harder because that regulation will also apply to those replacements and make sure nobody can ever operate anything that replaces them unless they have enough revenue to comply with those regulations.