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If you're a convenience store but pallets of Coca Cola, then they kind-of can. They can just blacklist you from buying Coca Cola in the foreign country.

It's also different because they're selling you continuous access one month at a time instead of a physical good you drink and they can't take away from you. I've been to places where service costs are lower for locals than for tourists, and this is told to you outright. Stuff like museums, taxis, etc. It's a similar idea YouTube has.

Prices are also almost never based on cost, they're based on what people will pay.

I live in Canada, and cars are more expensive here than in the USA. US dealerships near the border refuse to sell new cars to Canadians, even though it's legal for everyone as long as you make sure to pay duties on the way back. I'm guessing each brand has some rule against it.

Ultimately VPN users aren't a protected class so it's legal to discriminate.

Edit: wow I didn't realize md5 matching a picture was that easy, looks like you can make any image look enough like that twitter-deboonked one to generate a fake match. How has no one done this yet.

Thanks for the links, it's pretty interesting stuff I haven't kept up with for a while.

I didn't hear about that potential apple attack, I wonder if you could generate a collision with a pic that looks close enough to the twitter image they auto-deboonk and a pic that's completely unrelated, got twitter to add your new similar image to the auto-deboonker, and then troll on twitter by posting the unrelated image.

That'd be similar to that apple attack you linked, but it depends on how twitter auto-deboonking works and how easy you could get them to add a similar-but-different pic to their deboonker database.

If you have access to a quantum computer you could do this easily. With current computing it's hard.

Linen is definitely under-rated. It's nature's underarmor. Except polyester always seems to smell eventually because of how it absorbs sweat-stink, unlike linen. I'd definitely buy a white linen 2 piece suit, or just the pants if I find a deal. If I found not-expensive linen boxers them I'd buy them too. Linen sheets in the summer are also unmatched but expensive, and you have to iron them if you don't like a sloppy bed.

Thin merino wool socks are also pretty good, but usually I buy a merino-poly blend because it's cheaper and they're less likely to get stretched out of shape.

I also got some seersucker (which is a textured cotton) shirts which I'm excited for, and are supposed to keep you cooler because the texture creates less contact between fabric and skin, but idk about that in reality, i just like the texture.

I have no idea if rayon is actually good or not for heat.

It was Danish King Valdemar II, who had the flag fall from the sky to him as a sign. Some historians say it was a cross-battle dream, like Constantine, or like the 1217 Seige of Alcacer do Sal.

I guess hallucinating crosses during or after battles was just a common thing for a while. Everyone who lost while hallucinating a cross probably died so there's probably some confirmation bias there too. It's like how praying for your team to win a superbowl only works if you end up winning, if you lose then I guess the other team prayed harder.

In Canada you have to pay extra for a 5G plan even if you have a 5G phone. And grandfathered plans/plans you've been on for a while keep the low speeds.

I had a super cheap prepaid plan with 3g speeds until I switched last month because I was on it for so long.

Some prepaid plans here just cut you off data completely unless you prepay for your overage. Others let you go over and charge you like $5 per 200mb over (ridiculous).

There are post-paid monthly plans that don't do overage charges, but they throttle you so much it's not really useful.

Edit: just checked, for 50 CAD (around 40 USD) you can get 100GB of 5G a month prepaid, for a plan that gives you complete US coverage as well.

That seems like a pretty bad deal actually, you can probably find a better 4g or even 5g plan in the US for that.

Prepaid companies in Canada (who generally have worse pricing than the US because all the cell companies have agreements with each other) have 20-40gb/month for that price (depending on the limited time sales), but not unlimited w/ throttling like you have.

Now that you mention it, I see your point. The Southern cross is probably worse for being a symbol of the explorers who discovered land to be colonized than for the cross itself IMO.

Meanwhile the Nordic countries have sideways crosses because one of them started it since they had a king see a cross or something in a battle, and then they copied each other's homework. The king didn't even meet Jesus, he just hallucinated a cross. If you met the guy then at least that's a story. That's like putting Elvis on your flag because you saw him in a potato chip.

Israel is the "rogue state" that everyone is scared North Korea or Iran would turn into if they got nukes.

What if there were exponentially more than we thought.

• Tianemen squared

• Tianemen cubed

And so on and so on

edit: someone else made a very similar joke in a different earlier thread that i did not see. I will be paying that user royalties.

They use shekels in the areas that are bombed by Israel?

I guess that makes sense, but still interesting. I never really thought of what currency they'd use.

I'm surprised Arch is that high compared to other distros.

Also interesting that people are actually switching to windows 11, everyone I know is staying on win10 as long as possible because they're more used to the interface.