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EU limits anonymous cash payments to €3k and all cash payments to €10k. Pirate party reacts.
  • I bought a car for 30k cash in Europe very recently and received mone of these heartaches.

    It was really easy, I withdrew my money, drove to te dealership. Handed him a bag of money, which he counted. He then gave me a receipt for €25,350 and my car.

  • Ireland’s datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined | The Guardian
  • Absolutely there is, the housing crisis is a result of long term failures by government. While it may be exasperated by refugees and asylum seekers, the system should have allowed for this but it did not even allow for natural population growth.

    There has been a 20 year under delivering of residential housing. The government has failed to stop large funds buying up large swathes of new developments to rent out or sit on.

    There are very simple solutions that could be immediately implemented like banning Airbnb, banning, corporate residential ownership, increasing taxes on multiple homes and introducing a meaningful derelict/unused home tax.

    The problem is the governments pensions funds are tied to the real estate market and the level of taxation on other forms of investment has left property as the main viable option.

    Commercial zoning is different, not entirely unrelated but the datacentres are not competing with residential property developers.

  • Ireland’s datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined | The Guardian
  • I have had this argument with my politically minded friends. These are not all that bad. Ireland has an ever increasing percentage of renewables, they provide a high standard of living for their employees and the demand exists regardless of where we put them.

    Some moved to block these, and so they would exist somewhere else. The only difference would be that place might have less renewables and Ireland loses opportunity for high income positions.

  • Does it seem like there is a major food crisis in the US right now?
  • I understand your grievance and that is fair, I apologise for being rude. I sincerely believe that you have not said anything of substance regarding the ties between oil and food shortages. I am not denying a link but I am questioning the strength of the link, which you implied was very strong.

    Food shortage, I do not know your experience in your region but it could be the case. Generally speaking when logistics increase on costs, so do the prices on staples like food. It isnt the case that food would become scarce, at least not at this level of increase.

  • Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face.
  • I also I never said I prefer the convenience over the privacy. Here is a tip, just because you hold a viewpoint does not mean it is infallible. There ae trade offs. While personally I am scurity and privacy conscious, I was pointing out the barrier for people to opt out, that is all. There is no two ways about it, unless there are a ratoo of 1:1 staff to passengers who opt out there will be a queue. The machines were put in in massive volume far exceeding the number of staff that would ever be checking people through in order to speed up the experience and due to them costing less to run.

    I agree with you. You can still be objective and recognise the situation for what it is. A barrier to opting out is the likelihood that the manual check through takes more time. It doesnt have to be significantly more time.

  • Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face.
  • I never said it was a big deal at all, it isnt.

    But there is an increased likelihood of a queue when opting for the non automated route. It is the reason automation is implemented.

    I too have been throuhh airports, it has never bothered me but if you dont go through the automated queue you might face a longer queue because a lot of previously manual customs real estate is given over to automation now.

  • Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners say
  • Like drugs have never been bought on card, and money washed through banks...

    It may be the case that people do not want every single step they take to be monitored as it currently is.

    You might not have a phone or be charged per use of card.

  • Mirage Complaint

    Was really excited for a back to basics game and I still am but there are some basic basic issues with it. Minor but annoying.

    My kid came in while I was playing so I turned off blood, but it wouldny allow me to "change difficulty a this time".

    i tried to eavesdrop on a guard, could not have got closer and nothing happened. No prompt to listen and nothing said, had to give up on steslth to progress the game.

    Also absolutely hate cursors on console and the Uconnect dialogue boxes incessantly popping up

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    The Acolyte Trailer

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    Male Fashion Advice @lemmy.world Squizzy @lemmy.world

    Wedding Confusion

    I an lost with what to wear to my wedding. It is a summertime lakehouse venue and I am thinking 100 different things.

    Half of me wants to stand out that bit extra and get a dinner jacket/tux. Or else a three piece mismatched set, like matching waistcoat and pants with a different colour jacket.

    The other half wants simplicity with a two piece and suspenders.

    I like three pieces because they keep you looking together throughout a long day and night.

    I am mostly against check patterns and am leaning toward greens like sage or emerald with cream but open to options. Happy with earth tones or natural colours.

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    What is a discreet way of waking myself?

    I need to get up without waking the wife and kids, I got a smartwatch to vibrate and it woke her. The alarm is always going to wake the house.

    Is there anything else?

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    I need music from a 2009 Aussie Movie that doesn't appear to have made a huge impact - Beautiful Kate

    I watched beautiful Kate years and years ago, my first Mendo movie, and I loved the music. I used to listen to the main theme and "this little Bird" on YouTube but the latter has been removed from everywhere I've searched.

    If anyone could help I'd really appreciate it.

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    Problems on problems - Mint can't see my wifi card.

    I check the spec and it has a wifi chip but the os can't see it.

    I had a wifi toggle on windows 11 when I got the PC and also when I used a mint USB boot. Driver manager sees nothing to update or install.

    The mint community page has failed to post my question a few times so now I'm here.

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    Philips Hue Sync Box alternatives or successes?

    I want to get a sync box but they are not 4k120. The FancyLEDs box only has one input meaning I can't use a PS5 and set top box or Apple TV.

    Any advice or successful set ups?

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    BudgetAudiophile @lemmy.world Squizzy @lemmy.world

    Not sure if this is a real thing or a fully fleshed out thought

    I am looking for speakers, decent quality and nice looking that doesn't stand out too much. I want it on a bookshelf in the kitchen and another in the sitting room.

    I want it to connect to a home server but also Spotify/streaming. And I'd like them to link together.

    Basically I want the house listening experience to be seamless when going between different rooms, 2-4 speakers. Audiobooks and some music would be stored on a Nas and most music and podcasts would be Spotify.

    I'd prefer to interact with it through my phone, Android if possible but not completely necessary.

    In my head I imagine walking into a new room and tapping the speaker with my phone to switch to that speaker.

    Is this a real thing?

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    Making the jump, looking for some opinions

    I just got an i7 8500 I was hoping to use to run my network and server (which I haven't built yet) and I was wondering if it could also be used to run some retro game on and if that would be advisable?

    Is it advisable to use dedicated machines for both activities?

    If I can use the one machine for both, what distros would you advise?

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    Why can't code be uncompiled?

    I see a lot about source codes being leaked and I'm wondering how it that you could make something like an exact replica of Super Mario Bros without the source code or how you can't take the finished product and run it back through the compilation software?

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    Comic Book lingo - Help me

    Hey, I've just been getting into a couple graphic novels and I've really enjoyed Invincible the show so I got the first book/comic.

    I checked Wikipedia for clarification, there are 25 issues in the run but then there are compendiums and complete libraries...both of which cover different things?

    The compedemdium Vol 1 says it covers #1 to #47 and that's 22 more issues than I thought there was so could you help me out with the lingo used in the space?

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    Tartine, do I need a dutch oven for a home oven with a steam function?

    My oven has a steam function, I can heat and steam the oven on high before putting the loaf in.

    Do I still need a dutch oven?

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    Feature Requests

    Long press on links to show the link address.

    Pressing images open the image in the viewer which currently doesn't happen for me in comments on posts with images directly posted.

    Option to disable all data saver options, I'd like all images to open at the max resolution.

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    Can we get an easy way to filter out keywords?

    On relay for Reddit there was a function where I could use keywords like "Putin" and it would filter out all posts with that word in it's title.

    I yearn to clean up my frontpage.

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    Television @lemmy.world Squizzy @lemmy.world

    The Missing

    Just finished season 2 and wanted to discuss. I think it was a little bit long toward the end and behind the first season but otherwise it was enjoyable. The actress playing the daughter was very good, creepy though.

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    Back to working out, could use some pointers

    So I've been out of the game a couple of years, I did a bit of calisthenics but I'm too fat now to go at that and also I was never flexible which brought a bit of a wall to that path.

    I've about 10kg put on past my resting happy weight and 13-15kg past my prime. I'm looking to drop weight first and foremost and maybe build stamina.

    I have my own barriers tl push through, hoping this restart takes but mostly I now have to be self motivated because a change in location means no classes only gym access.

    So... Could anyone provide a quick 45-60 minute routine to get me started. I'm 183cm and 100kg.

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