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Clampower··on Gig Workers Have Nowhere to Pee (2020)
Unfortunately these are all being removed and I find it super sad :(
Clampower··on Ask HN: What is a product you wish was sold in your country but isnt?
Pixel Phones in the Netherlands.

Why does Google sell stadia here but not pixels? They could just allow shipping from the German store.

I don't understand their strategy of limiting where you can buy a device. It's so incredibly frustrating.

Clampower··on Ask HN: What is a product you wish was sold in your country but isnt?
You can get proper green tea at any toko which are plentiful.
Clampower··on Flanderization
Monica's compulsive cleaning and neat freak characteristics are central plot points in season one already. The ending of S1E6 ending is one of the examples of this.
Clampower··on Child spends $16K on iPad game in-app purchases
By the amount of money they're making, I'd argue that lots of people want microtransactiom games.
Clampower··on Pornhub Releases Statements About Credit Cards, New York Times Allegations
What I find interesting about this whole pornhub discussion is that nobody is at all mentioning the vast amounts of videos with unwilling participants in them that are across sites like pornhub. Do you remember when the whole internet was outraged over reddit's creepshots subreddit? the amount of urinal spy, locker room spy and nudist beach spy videos on these sites is huge! Why does nobody care?
Clampower··on 'To kill a mockingbird,' other books removed from Burbank schools' curriculum
Your kids will slowly start resenting you for not allowing them to participate in modern social mechanisms, and find a way to do it behind your back.

All you're doing is encouraging them to hide things from you.

Clampower··on YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them
Funny that everyone here is talking about small creators when an even larger impact will be on large companies using YouTube for content and for product instructionals. If I'm a brand, and I'm reaching you organically through branded content. I do not want another ad play before my content.
Clampower··on Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services
I once tried to download my Google photos, and it became super messy. I got tons of different folders all with duplicates and other stuff and it was pretty unusable.

Has this improved?

Clampower··on People’s feelings during Coronavirus pandemic
Some people like this lifestyle and are enjoying working from home and not having social commitments anymore.
Clampower··on Pixel 5
It's not sold in NL
Clampower··on YouTube's Fake Animal Rescue Ring
As much as people might avoid him, or dislike him as a person, PayMoneyWubby did an episode on these and actually managed tot ake some of these channels down.

These fake animal rescue channels are just one example of creepy content. The subliminally sexualized family videos on YouTube are even worse.

Clampower··on Man dies from eating more than a bag of liquorice a day
This is just not true. Salty popcorn is very normal in both Europe and Latin America. The artificial butter component is something that is more American and rarer outside of the US.
Clampower··on Paris hails victory over short-stay rents
Like when the Amsterdam city center, in addition to made in china pot leaf trinket stores, all of the sudden was overrun with Nutella Ice Bakery waffel stores, peddling some vague idea that tourists have about waffles and Nutella being local culture, making these businesses completely irrelevant to locals.
Clampower··on Paris hails victory over short-stay rents
It's nice that this is your preferred way to travel, but I live in Amsterdam and our city center is ravaged by tourists and the companies that profit off them. Enabling restrictions that limit overtourism, and that actively work to reverse the monoculture and disneyfication of our city are so incredibly important. Your ability to budget travel Europe with a family of five, due to your budget constrains, should not drastically raise rent and house prices. The center should belong to its residents.

Not only do short term rentals like airbnb drive up the prices for regular rent and ownership, but they negatively affect everyone who does manage to afford a spot. Living in an apartment block with one or several airbnbs is awful, destroys the fabric of neighborhoods, and especially introduces plenty of loud guests who don't care about the neighbors within the block.

Airbnb and similar platforms are exploitative of the environments that allow them. Your comfort to travel with a large family for cheap is not defendable against the negative impact on residents.

Clampower··on Yelp: Local Economic Impact Report
This is such an ignorant comment that I've seen perpetuated around the internet recently, that I made an account just to respond to this.

HIV positive people on medication, cannot spread HIV. It's factually safer to have sex with an HIV positive person on meds, than a person who doesn't get tested and doesn't know their status.

This law exists so that HIV positive people who cannot spread the virus are not legally obligated to tell others they have the virus.

Please learn more about what it means to be HIV positive, and the discrimination that comes with it before making these horrible disparaging comments.

Undetectable = Uninfectable (u=u) maybe a good thing for you to Google.

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