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  • Not sure vampiric “law” cares about renters rights. And if it does, is it based on current laws in the country they are in, or the country of origin? And is it the origin of vampires themselves or just the vampire turned. And is it based on the time they were turned or modern laws?

    Either way, in one instance I they bought it from the bank after missed mortage payments. So they weren’t legally living there anyway but counted as last/current resident for the vampire since the bank isn’t a person.



  • A private company is selling cheap tablets to inmates to let them communicate with their family. They have to use “digital stamps” to send messages, 35 cents a piece and come in packs of 5, 10 or 20. Each stamp covers up to 20,000 characters or one single image.

    They also sell songs, at $1.99 a piece, and some people have spent thousands over the years. That’s also now just going away.

    Then you get to the part about the new company. Who already has a system in Tennessee where inmates have to pay 3-5 cents per minute of tablet usage. Be that watching a movie they’ve bought or just typing a message.


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    Yeah, Quake 2 recommended a Pentium 133, and that was released two years earlier(the AMD equivalent was released only a year and a half before the game). It required a Pentium 90 which was three years old, but it didn’t run smooth from what I remember.

    That sort of requirement for a major component today would be considered self-sabotage for most non-vr pc games.




  • Sadly, a bunch of things people buy are American owned but sold under a more local brand name, especially food or snack items, but also many other things.

    For example: A scary amount of Europeans don’t know that Mondelēz International is an American company. It was started by Kraft, famous for their “processed cheese product”. And they own brands like Cadbury, Milka, Toblerone, Marabou/Freia, etc.

    Coca-Cola also own a lot of “local” flavoured drinks.


  • I wish lemmy was less like reddit, and that commenters actually skimmed the articles or knew anything about the situation beyond the headlines.

    But hell, here goes, I’ll try to use small words and explain things for you guys:

    • If they instantly turned it off without a replacement, a lot of people would have died. And even if a country government tried, their own citizens would riot over the idea that old people would die.

    • Coal is already banned.

    • Oil imports have dropped from 27% to 3%

    • In 2021 the gas accounted for 45% of imports in the EU, now it’s 19% and the plan is to have it at zero by 2027.