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Lol, the article you just posted is literally an example of bribing someone without using cash. Did you even read it? Do you get your information from just reading headlines without any critical thought? Was this post generated by ChatGPT?

Using a very basic and simple understanding of how votee politics and Austria works it's pretty obvious what the simplest reason this policy is being proposed: Cash is popular in Austria and this guy wants to get votes.

Me too, those large Tech companies in California harvesting all of your data are known for their support and donations to Right Wing candidates
Re:BuzzFeed News Is Shutting Down on Thursday April 20, 2023 @02:21PM (#35644051)
cute talking point. but it actually turns out that Google was helping them. see the countries that have implemented laws demanding that Google pay news outlets, the news outlets got dropped and their traffic plummeted, so they demanding things go back the way they were before

Of course, critical analysis is beyond the average know-it-all who gets their opinions from headlines with no real analysis

Re:BuzzFeed News Is Shutting Down on Thursday April 20, 2023 @02:18PM (#35644000)
Just because a news outlet received a couple of awards does not mean that it was an overall quality outlet. That is a terrible metric and your recursive citation really shows how poor your judgement is in general.

Bottom line is that Buzzfeed news was a far left rag. The world will be better of with less polarizing news outlets.

It's not just right leaning groups, but anyone with any basic observation skills. Its pretty obvious that OpenAI injected their own political biases into their model which say it is okay to discriminate against certain groups but not others.

I'd like to see the end of racial politics, but there are too many con artists mostly (but not entirely) associated with D party that gets votes and money by inflaming people across racial lines.

Re:Ancient Apocalypse Reviewed on Friday January 06, 2023 @11:35PM (#34285236)
I honestly don't care if this is correct or not. It's fun to watch even if this guy has negative charisma when compared to Georgio Tsoukawhatever or Randall Carlson. Don't really care for his whole schtick (at least he didn't do his "dude drugs" thing like he always does on Joe Rogan).

(I think he's probably not right, but following all these interesting archeological sites is enjoyable).

Re:Z-library founders arrested in Argentina on Thursday November 17, 2022 @10:25AM (#33640163)
Its large compared to other similar countries.

So why doesn't the US just spend that money so we can be more like X trendy country I heard about on Y blog/podcast that is a fraction of the size of the US and does "EVERYTHING" better?

Well, the case is that they have more money to spend because the US is subsidizing their military. So many of these countries are able to get away with tiny military budgets because of the US's large military budget. (all of those countries are also unrecoverably in decline)

Re:Playstation VR2 launches on February 22nd for $549.99 on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @05:25PM (#33443124)
Removed the Facebook login? Lol, now it prompts me every-time I use it to create a Horizon's account. I personally couldn't care less about the facebook login, and really never saw what the big deal was. I created a facebook account which I only use for the quest 2. You're going to need an account, what does it matter which platform it is from?

I'm sick of people criticizing Apple's walled garden. It's the primary feature of Apple products. It's what makes them what they are. If you don't like it, just buy something else. No one is forcing you to buy Apple if you don't like the walled garden. Many people like it and I'm amazed that there are so many people that don't understand that.