In South Africa, all drivers are subject to an eye retest every 5 years, regardless of age. What the UK is doing seems pretty sane IMO.
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beAbU commented on TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe nytimes.com/2026/02/06/bu... · Posted by u/thm
Is amazon using the same thing??? I can't count the number of times I am getting recommended the EXACT same type of product I just purchased.
On amazon.ie I'm convinced they are running only two ads, because all I'm ever seeing are ads for grime brushes and window squeegees. Literally nothing else.
beAbU commented on TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe nytimes.com/2026/02/06/bu... · Posted by u/thm
I noticed Youtube shorts also seems to update the feed based on how long the last video you watched. If you're scrolling quickly then stop to watch a dog video long enough the next one is likely to be another dog video.
Facebook does the same. The longer I dwell on an image post, the more likely the next batch of posts would be similar
There's no euro or francs in America.
But there is uniswap on your phone.
Heck I think cash app lets you send crypto.
Surely there were no dollars in argentina as well, right? Yet now there is.
As long as the government continues to devalue the dollar, crypto is in a great position.
Speculating out several orders:
Once the new head of the fed takes over and pushes interest rate cuts per his bosses request, borrowing will get cheaper, money will flow and inflation will go up. The dollar will devalue. Congress will never stop going into a deficit with their spending bills as no one votes for austerity, requiring more and more money to be printed. Wages will not keep up with inflation as it skyrockets and taxes take an ever greater chunk of the workers check.
If things continue as they have been, at some point, the dollar will not be a good value proposition for average normal people to use for day to day exchange, and they will start to look into other options to maintain economic normalcy.
Crypto currency is poised to take over.
If you take speculation to even further orders beyond that... once people start to switch over to crypto en masse, the government will then start to track people's crypto usage to recoup it's tax money that it's losing.
Then privacy crypto currency will be poised to take over that.
Another interesting monkey wrench. The dollar is somewhat bastioned from inflation by being the worlds reserve currency. But imagine if the world lost faith in dollar and started to use something else like a EU or BRICS currency. I wonder how that would affect the dollars value?
More likely americans will start trading in € or £ cash, on a parallel market. The same way argentinians are doing it now with $.
beAbU commented on ICE Begins Buying 'Mega' Warehouse Detention Centers Across US bloomberg.com/news/featur... · Posted by u/saubeidl
I think there is a hesitation to downplay what the Jews experienced by using the same name, even if it accurate. Maybe some of the same things are happening but it's not the same as the Jewish experience in Germany.
Personally I have no issue with calling them concentration camps but it does feel there needs to be a word to distinguish them from the camps of the Holocaust.
You are aware that it's not just the jews that were placed in concentration camps, right?
Can't the cable company just include steganography with the subscriber ID encoded into the video stream, so that when NFL appears on one of these streaming boxes, they can just kill that subscriber's service and thus the pirate streams also?
This is exactly how netflix DRM works. Every device gets a unique stream, and if that stream pops up on the high seas, the account and device is blacklisted.
beAbU commented on Intel will start making GPUs techcrunch.com/2026/02/03... · Posted by u/SunshineTheCat
I am a little confused, I thought Intel had a big push the last couple of years to create its own GPU:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/discre...
TSMC makes Intel's GPUs
But the eye test machines often broken, so the advice was always to get the test done at an optometrist and they fill out a special form that you take with you when renewing your license.