The production of white-label products is a relatively common practice.

I prefer the kiosks too, but if they’re going to be hiring fewer people as a result, prices should be reduced to account for their cost savings.

Just like Russia, any other country could lose access to their legitimate assets in dollars or euros, as well as western financial and payment systems.

Switching to a different system just puts you in the hands of a different master. In any case, Russia is in no position to complain about the seizure of its assets abroad as compensation after destroying far more Ukrainian assets in its invasion and occupation.

While they’re not to my liking and have exploitative microtransactions, the market is highly served by games like Candy Crush and Wordscapes.

Many people leave rural areas for urban areas for economic reasons, but high housing costs in those urban areas lead people to settle in suburban areas where car usage is often essential.

I don’t see any indicators that people are not getting driver’s licenses en masse; the number of licensed drivers has continued to increase, something that can’t fundamentally change without a substantial increase in public funding for mass transit or a decrease in the urban sprawl that characterizes many American suburbs.

That’s only a widespread option in urban areas with that have invested in mass transit. American suburbs are ultimately designed around car usage, and rural areas are too sparsely populated for mass transit to ever be viable there.

I’m all for less surveillance in cars, but American cars don’t have any less surveillance than Chinese ones, so using it as a reason to prevent their import is a bit disingenuous.

What more Americans could use are more affordable cars—particularly affordable electric cars—and competition with Chinese imports would help that happen.

Good or bad, most Americans need a car for everyday life. Particularly for areas that cannot be served by mass transit, electric car adoption is essential to reduce societal emissions.

Star Fox, featuring Falco from the Star Fox Series and New Peppy Mode!

Xi Jinping, Jack Ma, and Jackie Chan are three that come to mind.

Armenia should leave the Commonwealth of Independent States and accelerate efforts to join the EU.

More Russian state-backed propaganda from TASS. Given that civilians on the ground aren’t interested in Russian “liberation”, perhaps the Russian soldiers should be reconsidering their actions before a Ukrainian drone “liberates” them as well.

It’s kind of depressing that we’ve gotten to the point where that question needs to be asked…

For your information, only donations via Opencollective pay for lemmy.ml hosting.

Perhaps that could be more clearly stated across the donation platforms?

Lemmy has great potential as a Reddit alternative, but its perceived association with lemmy.ml and Lemmygrad will inherently lead to some users not joining or donating. Emphasizing the distinction between funding for Lemmy and funding for Lemmy.ml would probably lead to an increased number of donations.

No, but they do that to plenty of their own citizens.

Better something from a non-authoritarian country that doesn’t also happen to be in the Five Eyes intelligence network.

The Telegram servers are in Miami, Amsterdam, and Singapore, so some data is still stored in the U.S.

In any case, it wouldn’t be any better to have data stored in a country like China or Russia.

Unofficial updates; somewhat of a misleading title.

AI slop meets e-waste.

It’s better to link to Reuters directly than go through the Twitter link shortener.

Alternative to CBS.