$916 billion = US military budget, in 2023.

Just think of all the good that could be done with that money…

Poverty-reduction, environment-restoration, water-health, high-speed trains, global-aid…

When will we be angelic?

Okay, well Barack Obama stole my private jet (I have no proof of owning the jet).

Maybe dw.com can turn it into a 700-word story called “Is Obama Stealing Airplanes?”

They didn’t even show that this guy owns (or owned) the land…

(They even say he has no deed or proof.)

This is lazy clickbait journalism.

Answer (to the clickbait title): No.

Reason (from the article): The wind-farm land-rights were purchased by a chinese company for millions, directly from a Bosnian politician (and the bosnian politician had secured the land-rights from “local authorities”).

It says that right in the “article”.

…It’s a pretty lame “article”…

…clickbait title, zero evidence to support the claim, written in the style of a first-draft.

You can unscrew the plastic and have a custom naked soundbar.

“I’d call this bullshit and wouldn’t recommend it.”

• Which statement are you calling “bullshit”?

• You wouldn’t recommend what?

Here are some good examples from the article:

• In 2017’s “The Fate of the Furious” (F+F8), rapper and actor Ludacris reads a 30-word seeming-advertisement hyping Textron Systems’ remote-operated Ripsaw tank. It turns out Ludacris’ lines were written not by a scriptwriter, but by the Entertainment Liaison Office (the DOD). The scene effectively became an unskippable ad, brought to the viewer by the U.S. military.

• …In the 2017 film “The Long Road Home”… in one scene, a military colonel claims that the 2004 Sadr City operation during the Iraq War, which resulted in the deaths of 22 servicemen and 940 Iraqis, was necessary to rid two million Iraqis from the oppression of a dictator and to provide them with a “better future.” That claim ignores the series of false narratives — like the existence of WMD or Iraq’s purported ties to al-Qaida — that got U.S. boots on Iraqi soil in the first place.

• …The second season of “Jack Ryan” has lovable Jim from “The Office” working through the CIA to topple a nuclear-armed Venezuelan dictator in hopes of installing a magnanimous liberal populist. The season aired around the same time Washington was parading Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s new leader.

• …For “Mission Impossible 7”: The Defense Department loaned a Boeing-made V-22 Osprey for use in at least two scenes in which the aircraft would be filmed both internally and externally. The Osprey, known as the “widowmaker,” is a $120 billion disaster that is one accident away from being decommissioned, as it has already caused the deaths of 62 service members.

• According to Stahl, these scenes are intentionally designed to “forge an emotional connection between the viewer and the weapon systems.” A connection that could ease the blow in a scenario where the viewer realizes how useless and expensive the F-35, Osprey and other systems like the LCS program have turned out to be. This serves to “normalize these huge expenditures,” he added.

• While American people focus on state subsidies and welfare programs, they are “oblivious to the costs of our militaristic engagement with the world” — a cost that was briefly summarized at the end of the documentary as reaching $8 trillion in the period after 9/11 alone.

Imagine how much we could improve the world with that $8 trillion.

I’m waiting for the math… Support your claim that you would “make a killing”.

I don’t see how you would…

The most you could possibly make would be $32.50 in an hour… (and that’s ONLY if you had a fare for ALL 60 minutes of an hour… and somehow still made less than $32.50 from those fares).

…And you’d be driving your own car and burning gas for that whole hour…

So show me (with math) how you’d be “making a killing”.

The central feature of their business IS having drivers WAITING when a ride is requested.

So yes - it would be fair if they included some “waiting time” for each ride (maybe up to 15 minutes of actual waiting time).

These apps ONLY have value if there are drivers WAITING when a ride is requested, so drivers should be paid for that.

Okay…

Give me the math of how this new wage would help you “make a killing”.

Keep in mind that this wage merely sets a floor for the specific-minutes when you have a fare.

• (And brother - driving for uber is not “running your own business”… it’s being maximally-exploited by a business… with no liability-protection, no security, and almost zero rights.)

If you wait 10 minutes for a fare… give a 20-minute ride to some suburban house… and then drive 20 minutes back to the city…

your pay would be $10.83 (with this new deal).

…that’s very different from $32.50 per hour.

• Does an airline baggage-handler only get paid for the “specific minutes” when he is lifting luggage?

• Does a cashier only get paid for “specific minutes” when there are customers in her line?

The original goal of this lawsuit was to classify drivers as employees under state law…

And that goal was ignored completely.

It’s not as much as it seems…

The wage is only “for time spent traveling to pick up riders, and transporting them to their destination”.

• No pay for driving back to the pickup area.

• No pay for waiting when there are no fares.

It’s a per-minute wage, and only for certain minutes.

Could you imagine… if someone spent a year on the JWST… then returned to earth…

how mellow that person would be.

Weird - why do SO MANY Philadelphia Cheese players live in Mr Hoxha Himself

I love the joy you feel from the appearance of a monarch - knowing what that signifies.

And I love the way you study the overall water channel.

I think you have to select multiple languages in settings.

Select “Undetermined, English, and any others” (and then save).

(this language setting affects the web app, mobile app, and search results)

That might fix it buddy.

Just click ‘Save’ when you see a post / comment you like.

Then later - you can explore what you Save.

Yeah, I understand what you mean (after a year of exploring the Web Socket).

That lemmy auth value is pulled from a JWT cookie in the browser - which you can access in JS by document.cookie. It allows user-specific API calls (retrieving saved posts, subscribed communities, etc).

Yes exactly - living on the edge!

One way to learn the new API is - explore the code of (similar) extensions and browser scripts, to see how they build and send their calls.

Is there a specific API call you’d like to make?

Maybe someone can reveal that method and endpoint.