Yes. And airlines are active participants in the piracy chain. I mean, they openly advertise their services with the ability to switch the country you’re in! BAN THEM!

Having your URL end with …/file.ext and not linking to the raw file.ext should be illegal.

Probably

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That’s absolutely right, but ignores context. People often use months even when the exact age isn’t relevant to the other person.
If I (as someone who doesn’t have kids and don’t know anything about e.g. what behavior is appropriate at what month at all) ask a friend “how old is she now?”, I’d be fine with a “about a year and a half” or “she’s getting 1 year old next month” or whatever. I don’t need an exact month cause 1 month difference doesn’t matter to me in a casual smalltalk/conversation setting. I wouldn’t know “oh, that’s the month she might start pointing at things” anyways.

Of course I’m aware that parents are probably just used to it, so I’m not mad when someone says it in months. But I’d prefer it in years if I had the choice.

To reuse your analogy, I would say 226/40R19 to my mechanic, but to my mother I’d say I’m buying “big wheels”. Cause she doesn’t know what exactly 226/40R19 is/means, so “big wheels” conveys the information better to her.

Yes, that was on a country road. On any road with 2+ lanes in my direction I don’t do that (including autobahn ofc), as there’s no need to do it for someone to pass me.

Yeah. I’m no programmer but I’ve had it often that I couldn’t find a solution for a problem myself, said ‘fuck it, I’ll have to ask the internet’, and by writing out what my problem was I figured out the solution so I never even posted the half-written posts lol

Germans become allergic to rules as soon as they have any kind of wheels under them

I have to strongly disagree, that is not my impression at all. Of all countries I’ve ever driven in, Germans are the most rule-abiding drivers.

In Germany, I’ve been honked at for driving half on the shoulder to let someone pass (that’s not even illegal, but most people seem to think it is). Drivers brake if you’re walking just in the general vicinity of a zebra crossing. Virtually no driver drives past a red light on purpose, I see that like once a year or so (yellow is a different story though…). And, to add a more objective observation, German dashcam compilations mostly consist of absolute mundane minor offenses, while they’re much more action packed even in smaller countries like Netherlands.

Sure, we still have speeding, parking offenses and ignored stop signs on a regular basis. You can see any of these within minutes by just being on any busy city street. But that’s anything but exclusive to Germany, that happens pretty everywhere in a similar (and often probably higher) frequency.

The only driving behavior related issues Germany has IMO are the fines that are an absolute joke, as well as a jurisdiction that treats even deadly and major offenses with kid gloves (drive 100+ in a city and kill someone, you just get 1y9m on probation and you even keep your license, so no time served, you’ll keep living freely, just wait 2 years before you go reckless again and you’re good).
But apart from this, that Germans specifically are allergic to rules is pretty much the opposite of my experience.

Yeah that’s a good general description of all three lol. Guess I’m more into that than you :D

Germany, but limited to comedy (cause I don’t really watch any shows, but if I do then it’s comedy):

• Stromberg - a German office show, focused on just one department with an absolute dickhead for a boss. But the worker characters are great too.
• Pastewka - a series of the actor/comedian Bastian Pastewka where he basically plays himself in his private life. Often compared to Curb Your Enthusiasm, but while there are similarities it’s a totally different character IMO.
• jerks - basically the title, two friends who are jerks. They’re often getting into awkward situations and try to resolve them with lies and brazenness.

I love them all three, hard to pick one as the best. Probably Stromberg.

Don’t know about Slovenian law, but here it wouldn’t be illegal as long as you do it on the gas station’s property and not on public territory :D (well not illegal regarding the plate swapping, filling >50ltr per person is still illegal)

Obviously it’ll still look sketchy as shit, you’ll look like you’re about to pump and run, so that was not a serious tip anyways. Would probably look less sketchy to just cover a letter and might be enough to trick an ANPR-based validation system already.

Just have a second set of plates with you, put it on for filling gas, then switch to the original ones afterwards.

For me it’s API usage for the most part.
When they locked the API, I was even fine with paying a bit, so I subscribed to Relay Pro. But now I got a degoogled phone, so I can’t use my play store subscription anymore, and don’t want to fiddle with cracked APKs or patching either.
The original reddit app is a nightmare to use so… that’s why I’m here lol

(Freedom, privacy and decentralization are awesome too, obviously. But I’m gonna be honest, I probably wouldn’t have switched - at least not fully - if it wasn’t for having an app that works well for me.)

The faxis

Will electronic stores accept either 100 or 200€ bills when purchasing an iPhone for 1500€ upon paying in cash?

Having worked in one - yes, it’s no problem at all. If it’s too much (I think 3k was the threshold), a manager has to come and do a second run in the counterfeit detection machine, so it might take a while.
(Answering for Germany though, might be different in France)

I work in a small store, we get about one to two customers a day paying with it.
When I worked in an electronics store, we had much more of them, but it was obviously still the lowest amount of all bills.

So I wouldn’t say they’re uncommon, but of course they’re the rarest one to get. Not only because ATMs don’t have them, but also because people rarely withdraw 200+€ on a regular basis in the first place.

Yea exactly. Both variants are funny in their own way. And I don’t think anybody thinks that someone who’s doing a big/small dick joke is seriously referring to their actual size.

Otherwise we’d all constantly smell like fart. Cause a fart is just opening that hole and pushing air out.
(… or maybe we do smell like fart constantly and just don’t know cause we don’t smell smells that constantly hit our nose)

Honestly, having to have the user type “I agree that I have verified the application i am trying to install is genuine and not a fraudulent app”

Yeah, this would be the most promising approach IMO. Whenever I was forced to write something, I did pay more attention to what that said than if I ticked a box next to it.

Maybe even have them write “I am not instructed to install this app by someone else. I am aware that following instructions to install an app this way often have fraudulent intentions”.

(Also if the language was changed recently, it should ask to write it in all languages that were set within the last 14 days or so. Otherwise the scammer will have them switch the language so they don’t understand what they’re writing)

And why?

Must’ve been the wind.