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> I get him, but why Visa?

It seems a crazy business decision for Visa. There was an advertiser boycott in 2023-2024, why would Visa choose to get involved?


The brand is completely wrecked and now associated with things that mainstream advertisers and businesses rightly want nothing to do with. This feels nearly like Stormfront or 4Chan announcing a partnership with Visa. Wild times!

https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/305639190

Most likely add an American English name, leaving the English name as Gulf of Mexico.

But I didn't read all 108 comments in the discussion.


I tried to make a post with the https://species.wikimedia.org/ link, and I get "Your content couldn't be shared, because this link goes against our Community Standards".

Being generous, it could be there's NSFW imagery in there? I can't be arsed to dig into a mountain of scientifically named links, but you can find troves of pr0n among other things in Wikimedia if you know where to look.

(I'm not sure why my comment is now collapsed by default. It doesn't seem to be flagged, and has a score of 15.)

I tried again, and this time I get "Posts that look like spam are blocked", and a similar message if I try to leave a link in a comment.

I wonder if spammers have been vandalizing Wikispecies and posting the links, but unlike Wikipedia the editors of Wikispecies struggle to remove the spam in time? The project has hundreds of thousands of pages, but the vast majority would have very little content or oversight. It could be the Wiki project with the worst pages-per-editor ratio.

There isn't pornography, or at least only indirectly — Wikispecies doesn't host any images itself (says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikispecies ).


I guess if they blocked *.wikimedia.org to get at commons.wikimedia.org that could make sense. However all those images are also accessible via an en.wikipedia.org url.

I mean you can find porn on Google and you don't have to look that hard

Thank you for actually spelling porn. This whole thing around altering spelling to avoid blocking which I presume comes out of other apps has gotten to be quite annoying.

"Pr0n" is classic internet slang that predates onerous censorship let alone "apps".

Right, the form to deal with onerous censorship is “corn”.

I can’t believe we have grown ass adults posting “seggs” on social media and bleeping it out in audio.

People shape themselves so much around algorithms.


What the fork?

Was totally unaware thanks!

It's a little depressing to think about how much better modern LLMs are at preventing "harmful" content than past systems.

It absolutely came from censorship. IRC chat rooms and PHPBB message boards with blacklists of words that would get starred out. Hoping it wasn't implemented with substring match so typing "shell" didn't come out "s****".

The increased demand (from abroad) causes local prices to increase.

It looks like Norway has about 8.5GW of export capacity, vs about 13GW of production.

Overall, exports significantly outweigh imports, but the times Norway is importing mean lower prices in Norway. The average price for Norwegians will have increased, but the variation in price will have reduced.


Keep in mind it's not as straight forward as that. Almost all of our energy comes from hydro, and hence when "excess" is exported we might be reducing stored energy, causing higher prices later if we don't get expected rainfall.

Particularly a couple of years ago we had record low levels of water in our storage lakes, causing very high prices for a long time. Had we not exported energy earlier prices would not have gotten so high.

Of course, saving and then having massive rainfall means you could have exported but didn't so yeah.

Just saying things are a bit different than say France which gets a lot from nuclear which has very different price dynamics.


The territorial sea is 12nmi (22km) from the coast. Even where this covers the whole distance (e.g. Denmark and Sweden) foreign ships still have the right to pass through.

You are thinking of the EEZ, exclusive economic zone, but that's only the rights for fishing and mining and so on.

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


Cheque use in the UK is now around two per year per person. (This includes business-to-business cheques.)

The over-65 age group is most likely to use them, and least likely to use an app, so you can see why it wasn't a big priority for most banks.

It's been at least 15 years since the banks stopped giving account holders chequebooks by default. If you want one you have to ask.


I get a couple of cheques a year from family in the UK. It's an infrequent transaction but an important one, and cheque scanning is actually the only reason I maintain my legacy bank account.

We are still not past this point.

Just yesterday, people in government announced their wish to build an additional runway at Heathrow. Noise will increase for over 300,000 people.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/heathrow-airport


A relative who used Concord a few times didn't comment on the space, but instead said it was the noise during flight that meant he preferred British Airways first class on a normal plane, if time wasn't essential.

It's in the article.

Similarly, I was first shown Norway's flag, but with an enormous vector. The answer could therefore only be Bouvet Island.

Revealing the answer should be added, given all the AI-genned text about education.


I've tried it again and was given this flag: https://flagle.fun/imgs/flags/BQ.png

It's Bonaire, but that territory isn't in the list.


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