I doubt blue collar friends would outsource anything to a clanker.

Their teenage kids might.

USSR would be nothing with Ukraine SSR doing the heavy lifting. Russia was just the parasite on top of them.

Yeah, they are even struggling to make ballistic rockets now without the access to Yuzhmash

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

Siege mentality, nothing more.

This has no sound and is horribly bugged. Just get him a proper ROM on his phone or wherever.

Visa/Mastercard are almost obsolete in most EU countries. If they disappeared there is multitude of better options than ancient cards.

What, like electronic payments using phones running American operating systems? With the bonus that you have two new gatekeepers that can lock your citizens out (Apple and Google).

Harmony OS looks great. I cant wait for the EU version. We will again have a hilarious discussion about US apps. Peeping tom and his lawless army of handsy friskers.

So you'd switch USA for China, and still have a foreign dependency embedded into the very fabric of your society. Do you not see a problem with this?

Oh, i mean a EU Phone OS. Eventually it has to happen. It will of course be entirely ceremonial and run on chinese made hardware with US apps.

Disagree, why should an app that works (and has AI contributed code) be banned, but not necessarily a buggy app written by a human? It's worse than a double standard.

Are “buggy” apps written by humans allowed? I guess it depends how buggy you're referring to, as most software (AI or not) likely has bugs.

As far as I can tell, buggy apps written by humans are allowed, as long as the other requirements are fulfilled: https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/requirements#i...

What kind of whataboutism is this? Both should be. AI generated slop has no place in app stores same as "buggy" apps whatever it means.

Extremist lol. It lost any meaning because people keep overusing it.

I may have phrased that weirdly, but AfD is officially by courts considered extremist in Germany; if I remember correctly they sued against being called that and lost.

Always funny to read Americans talking about cars.

With a code. https://www.blik.com/en/first-steps-with-blik

I guess some people living in countries with high crime rates are just tired of it, therefore they are just looking for any solution. In safer countries where you don't have potential criminals on every corner the perspective is different. I wouldn't want 24/7 surveillance in Poland or Czechia but I would consider them being lesser evil in big US or UK cities.

Which UK cities have high crime rates? The murder rate in the UK is much lower than in the US and slightly higher than in Poland, been trending down for a long time and pretty typical for a developed country.

Which points to another issue: people's perception of how much crime exists probably correlates more with how much media they consume than what the real crime rates are.