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c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · jjj@piefed.blahaj.zone · 28 Aug 2026

Getting ruled from an ml any% speedrun attempt

Post titled "You dont understand, you have to support the lesser evil"
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Commented without looking at the instance, turns out I forgot to block ml when switching to piefed. Let’s see how long this stays up lol.

EDIT: Turns out they’re fine with my comment. I should probably be less insulted by that.

My comment text in case you want to copy/paste from it for some reason

It’s not about voting for the lesser evil, but against the worse one. The way the United States is structured, which influences the way its people think about voting and vice versa, you are given only two options when voting for president:

  • Vote for the Democrat one
  • Vote for the Republican one

But… you might think you’re clever and say “I should just vote for neither of them, nobody will stop me”. If your state has RCV then put your preferred candidate as a first pick and just place Democrat before Republican. Problem solved, no more strategic voting. Unfortunately, precious few states have adopted this for any elections, let alone the presidency.

In states without RCV, there are 3 equivalent cases from your perspective:

  • Vote Republican: Increment their number by 1

    • Overall effect +1 for Republicans

  • Vote Democrat: Increment a threatening score by 1, thereby requiring Republicans to gain 1 more vote to win

    • Overall effect -1 for Republicans

  • Don’t vote or vote for a non threatening party/candidate

    • Overall effect 0 for Republicans

Forgive me for assuming the reader wants to get Republicans (and Republican aligned Democrats) out of office. In this case, it is your responsibility to vote for the most threatening candidate. It’s a sick trick of game theory, which is why RCV is so important.

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c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 3 Sep 2026

Artifact of Internet Historule

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Another artifact from that wondrous place, correspondence between EA legal department and Gottfrid Svartholm:

From anakata_anakata.hack.se Mon Sep 13 07:20:31 2004 Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 07:19:36 -0100 (GMT) From: anakata To: Piracy - Online Piracy-Online@ea.com Subject: Re: Copyright Infringement

September 14, 2004

SENT VIA E-MAIL

Fredrik Neij PRQ Box 1206 Stockholm, Sweden 11479

Re: Electronic Arts Trademark and Copyright Infringement Notice

Dear Mr. Neij:

It has been brought to the attention of Electronic Arts Inc. (“EA”) that the website www.piratebay.org with the IP addresses of 217.75.120.115, 217.75.120.116, 217.75.120.118 is conducting unauthorized activities with respect to EA’s copyrighted software, The Sims 2. The aforementioned website is offering and distributing bittorrent seeds for an unauthorized downloadable version of this EA game.

The infringing material may be found at: [THEPIRATEBAY torrent URL]

This unauthorized activity with respect to the distribution of EA’s software products constitutes infringement of EA’s intellectual property rights. EA enforces its intellectual property rights very aggressively by using every legal option available.

As you are listed as the registrant for this website, EA demands that you immediately and permanently disable access to the aforementioned bittorrent seeds for The Sims 2 and any in the future. Thank you for your cooperation. If you have any questions concerning this matter, please contact us via e-mail at: piracy-online@ea.com.

Regards,

EA Law - IP Enforcement Electronic Arts Inc. piracy-online@ea.com

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Piracy - Online wrote:

Hello and thank you for contacting us. We have shut down the website in question.

Oh wait, just kidding. We haven’t, since the site in question is fully legal. Unlike certain other countries, such as the one you’re in, we have sane copyright laws here. But we also have polar bears roaming the streets and attacking people :-(.

Please don’t sue us right now, our lawyer is passed out in an alley from too much moonshine, so please atleast wait until he’s found and doesn’t have a huge hangover…

You’re free to demand anything you want. So are we. We demand that you cease and desist sending letters like this, since they’re frivolous and meaningless. Where should I send the bill for the consumed diskspace and bandwidth?

Thank you for your entertainment. As with all other threats, we will publish this one on static.thepiratebay.org/legal/

//anakata

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c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · testaccount789@sh.itjust.works · 2 Sep 2026

I didn't realize Amazon DE has insane per-kg shipping markup to Slovakia 😭 (rule)

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EUR 2.99/kg.
There’s no way shipping 14kg from Germany to Slovakia costs almost EUR 48.
Actually, to nearby countries it would even be free, or at least at static price.
I made a map based on their info, though only for explicitly mentioned countries.
image (this one is on Catbox as Lemmy doesn’t let me upload SVG)

If I had known this, I would have taken more of them when I was in Bratislava, and nearest Amazon Locker in Austria was just walking distance away.
I can’t even find any similar licorice sweets in Slovakia.
Though I wouldn’t really call these “salty” either. I guess it makes sense, these only have 1.8% of ammonium chloride.
Meanwhile, if Wikipedia can be trusted:

In Sweden, for example, the most popular types of salty liquorice contain an average of 7% of ammonium chloride. In 2012, there was a European Union proposal to limit the amount to 0.3%, which was met with wide opposition.
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So yeah, absolutely on the low end.

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