And now you have once, do you think you’ve got away with it, Basil?

The person paying might not be the user, is what I mean. I’m thinking of phones given to younger family members.

I think you can get eSIM adapters for phones without one built in, but I’ve not bothered yet, so I might have misunderstood.

Doesn’t mean it has the user’s ID.

Why not? I thought swapping was promoted as a benefit of eSIM.

And Apple don’t accept passports as ID, so complaints are rolling in from non-drivers without current credit cards, who tend to be younger and in big cities. Apple just took a big shot at their foot.

Are all these officials and journalists grandparents? Or are real people still more gullible than you’d hope?

This seems like one of those cases where you wish both sides could lose. Reddit are up to no good, but lack of identity document demands isn’t it.

Paint seems easier to detect and remove.

There are countries that joined the EU both before and after Spain that are not NATO members. Membership of one is not a prerequisite for another. If any politicians told you otherwise, ask them why.

The EU was formed not with peace and stability in mind, but with neoliberalism and anticommunism, otherwise it would have never adhered to NATO

The EU is not a NATO adherant/member. Many of the EU’s members are also NATO members, but not all.

Fascism is not even Russian funded or American spread, Europe is perfectly capable of growing its own fascism as we saw 100 years ago,

Capable and seen in the past, yes, but the current wave of it is indeed funded and spread by Russians and Americans.

Remember that the EU arose in part from the institutions set up to deter the same type of nationalist fascism rising again, such as the ECSC. Sadly, we may have encouraged Russian -funded American -spread international fascism in its place, although they don’t seem to control the EU yet.

Sacrificed on the profit altar, it would seem.

Is this another “corridors”, the freenode attempt to turn IRC into something incompatible?

You may be relying on Big Tech to provide your Outlook or Gmail account, but you can switch easily if you don’t like it any more.

Microsoft and Google’s “spam” filters (that downscore anyone who isn’t them) make that less easy. I had to jump through hoops to email my mother this week because Microsoft say one of my email hosts has a poor reputation and nothing stops hosts bouncing or shadowbanning any emails they choose.

It’s the one where I clicked “No AI” and the results page thanked me for voting yes!

… the fact DDG is not doing AI.

They are, unless you opt out.

Also, lots have apps have the main duckduckgo as a search option. I’ve not seen any have the noai as an option.

Well, why did you think they forced bytedance to sell the US arm to a joint venture controlled by his chums?