We're working on that with the end goal of using our own API to remove the carbon footprint of them.
Plus for customers where it's not relevant we'll offer a fully on-demand model where nothing is sent but available for generation through the customer account.
Returning HTML code in a render function is even pretty standard, I've seen this in Python / Flask too.
Judging code quality is hard, it seems to me the best clue is how it is easy to add new features / do refactors without breaking things, not how you feel about PHP and HTML being mixed.
Looks like a mess with code cutting and pasting HTML together, escaping things without a clear plan. That’s a sign of a million security problems waiting to happen.
> A person who will get angry about a fictional fish not being caucasian can not be reliably appeased.
I'm not Caucasian but to distill a growing population of people's irritation with film studios wanting to rewrite all major iconic characters of their childhood as minorities of LGBT as simply them being "irrational" is a very shallow way of looking at it.
Disney has access to more data on sentiment and consumer choice than we do and they would know just as we do there is growing push-back against this sort of thing.
From what I've seen, people would have no issues with a bunch of new characters being introduced that are minority, LGBT or whatever social issue we're servicing this quarter. They might express surprise that big companies are willing to spend so much time and effort on characters that don't represent the majority of the population and they'll probably vote with their wallets by not seeing films that don't represent them or pander to social issues instead of focusing on entertaining. But you wouldn't have this growing vocal annoyance.
You'll need to explain why having access to customer sentiment and demographics... and seeing the reaction to multiple big releases that have been panned / been commercial failures, they want to continue making such choices. At the very least they could vary it up right?
> From what I've seen, people would have no issues with a bunch of new characters being introduced that are minority, LGBT or whatever social issue we're servicing this quarter.
So you're saying if Disney were to make a new star wars movie with a brand new character who was a stormtrooper who happened to be played by a black actor, there would be no controversy? How about if Amazon made a Lord of the Rings TV show and some of the newly created Elf characters weren't white? No one would have any issue there either, right?
See SWIFT and various payment clearing systems in Europe. You don't need a CBDC to do this.
But a CBDC is certainly useful when the current fiat system has been blown up through hyper-inflation and there's no alternatives. It will usher in a new era of mass surveillance and control which for some inexplicable reason you seem happy to welcome in.
SWIFT is an international transfer system that is outside the purview of a CBDC.
and various payment clearing systems in Europe.
Like the EU's SCT Inst?
SCT Inst stands for SEPA Instant Credit Transfer scheme. It was introduced by
the Euro Retail Payments Board (ERPB) in order to enable rapid electronic
payments within the eurozone. In a nutshell, SCT Inst facilitates an instant
or near-instant clearing of a transaction between originator and beneficiary.
ERPB = Central Bank
Credit Transfer Scheme = Digital Currency
Put them together and what do you get --- effectively a CBDC system denominated in Euros instead of Dollars --- minus all the hyperbola, misinformation and doomsday prophecy attached to CBDC on this side of the pond.
In other words, Europe already has a CBDC which explains why their banking system is more advanced than in the US.
You make a sarcastic response here but the point the parent is making is that we have these grievous injustices happening within the confines of the current system. If we move to the CBDC era without legislation to protect the privacy and human rights of citizens, our governments will have far greater capabilities to erode those rights.
They're using some kind of API to get the podcasts since a very rare pod that I followed showed up - so maybe that's just due to the listeners that BS and JP have.
Add gain of function / deliberate bio-terrorism in there as well.
Feb 1992 - a Soviet defector revealed to Western intelligence that he had overseen an extensive, illegal programme to develop smallpox into a highly effective biological weapon:
> Ken Alibek believes that, following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, unemployed or badly-paid scientists are likely to have sold samples of smallpox clandestinely and gone to work in rogue states engaged in illicit biological weapons development.
What you're missing is that the global food system is under attack by bad actors.
1. The US Treasury drew up the list of economic sanctions against Russia and Belarus. Then they pressured the compliant EU to follow. The sanctions no surprises had a predictable impact on global grain/fertilizer and energy supply prices. The US basically sanctioned themselves and the global economy.
2. Meanwhile China was hit by terrible flooding last year and faces record low yields for crops so they are now desperately converting baseball courts and roads because their farmers can't get seeds and fertilizers. Do you know why? Because they're stuck on cargo ships sitting off the coast of Shanghai which has been locked down under the bizarre "Zero Covid" quarantine. This is conveniently being done during planting season when they're already facing a huge shortfall. End result - they are importing more and increasing the global grain/food price further.
3. Whilst China gets hit by flooding, the reverse weather pattern (La Nina) is causing droughts in places like Argentina and Paraguay which produces the majority of the food in South America. So thanks again to our sanctions against Belarus and Russia, we can't get fertilizer to those countries. Similarly 35 African countries get food from Russia/Ukraine and 22 of them get fertilizer from there so the end result is famine in S America and Africa.
4. In Europe, the EU's "Green Agenda" deal means the Italian government can't provide more state aid to the farmers. In Germany, they want to phase out agriculture because of greenhouse gas emissions so they've stopped farmers who want to grow more food. At the same time, the sanctions are making covid-induced food shortages dramatically worse.
So you have well timed global food disasters which are amplified by our sanctions whilst back home:
a) "On Friday, April 8, 2022, Union Pacific informed CF Industries without advance notice that it was mandating certain shippers to reduce the volume of private cars on its railroad effective immediately. The timing of this action by Union Pacific could not come at a worse time for farmers. Not only will fertilizer be delayed by these shipping restrictions, but additional fertilizer needed to complete spring applications may be unable to reach farmers at all. By placing this arbitrary restriction on just a handful of shippers, Union Pacific is jeopardizing farmers’ harvests and increasing the cost of food for consumers."
Not only are they preventing urea and UAN from getting to farmers during the crucial planting season but they're also stopping DEF (Diesel Exhaust Fluid). DEF is used to control emissions in diesel trucks, without it engines can't run. So they're ensuring a complete shutdown of the supply chains across the United States at the same time.
b) "EPA will allow a 50% increase in corn-based biodiesel and ethanol fuel mix for the summer"
Before Covid even began, we had the "Renewable Fuel Standards Act" which mandates annually RISING targets for the production of corn for ethanol fuel blends. This add major price inflation for food. Now the EPA is mandating another increase in corn ethanol for fuel at the same time as when we have astronomical fertilizer prices due to sanctions we imposed AND we're blocking domestic fertilizers being shipped by rail... that's going to send corn prices through the roof and the government knows this very well.
and I'm not even going to touch on all the poultry that USDA are ordering to be destroyed because of "Bird Flu".
As I said in my other comment, it's not by accident or pure back luck - it's by design.
hi, please don't say "russia/Ukraine", it encourages the false equivalency between an international pariah state engaging in a genocide, and the country the genocide is being perpetrated against
Ukraine is not under sanction, and the only things preventing it from providing more food to the world are russia's genocide against Ukrainians, farmers included, russia's blockade of Ukraine, and russia's theft of Ukrainian grain
indeed, the sanctions of the world against russia and belarus, too, are purely a predictable result of their actions, which they nonetheless choose to perpetrate to this very moment, and thus they bear the entire brunt of the consequences
