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Apparently several Swedish supermarkets were hacked in a way similar to how the french ones were hacked some weeks ago

Vasbarlogon Manufacturing the Great Replacement

How a covert far-right-aligned ad campaign delivered more than half a billion recorded exposures of racist, anti-Muslim, anti-migrant and anti-Qatar propaganda across Europe, Lebanon and the United States between 2023 and 2026

Vasbarlogon IKEA – 3D Guide

But the OP version is also wrong.

Vasbarlogon Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees

The government does that already. Only point 7 still stands.

Vasbarlogon Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?

So the teachers’ union who is there to protect the teachers, is against the teacher? Do we have a source for that?

Vasbarlogon Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?

What do we mean by saying “fight back”? How could she fight back someone who is 6ft2

Vasbarlogon Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?

Yep. All states have a right to self defence, and we can see what good it does to the crime rate, compared to let’s say any other European country.

Vasbarlogon Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?

I wonder how conservatism is the answer to this crisis.

Vasbarlogon Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service

Hahahaha, have never personally heard that.

Vasbarlogon Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service

Also means cum in greek https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/φλόκι

Vasbarlogon “Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain

Why would you do that to yourself?

Vasbarlogon I'll be stepping back from leading product for X

The algorithm is not a neutral one. It pushes conservative talking points, and toxic content.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2

Vasbarlogon I'll be stepping back from leading product for X

Don’t forget that whoever stays on X is willingly manipulated towards more conservative views.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2

Vasbarlogon I'll be stepping back from leading product for X

Would that be acceptable in exchange for shaping your political views?

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2

Vasbarlogon Rebuilding and analysing 4 years of Wordle stats from WhatsApp chat logs

Oh, sorry for that. I have a pihole on my network, so it's been a long time since I got to experience the default Adsense layout on blogspot.

Vasbarlogon Rebuilding and analysing 4 years of Wordle stats from WhatsApp chat logs

I have a similar heatmap on the bottom of my blog post where I log my tries for the past 4 years.

https://www.stadafa.com/2021/09/every-worlde-word-so-far-upd...?

Vasbarlogon The Glass Famine

That’s not true at all. China is known for its “nail houses” for example.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2014/apr/15/china...

Vasbarlogon Texas Police Spent $4.5M on Four Chevy Tahoes

Yes? Because it would not be the local law enforcement agency that would respond to any provocations, but rather the federal government/military.

Vasbarlogon GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization

Έχεις απόλυτο δίκιο!

Vasbarlogon Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera

In all fairness, you should have put your left blinkers on while overtaking the cyclist, and that would have disabled the lane assist.

Vasbarlogon Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning

Do you have any source for that? Most people in Greece have ACs on their homes and virtually all public buildings and private businesses do as well.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/07/15/these-eu-count...

Vasbarlogon US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks

It’s not China that is threatening to annex Greenland though.

Vasbarlogon Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore

A lot more one could argue.

Vasbarlogon What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s? (2024)

Cigarettes were recognised as the cause of lung cancer in the 1940s and 1950s, with the confluence of studies from epidemiology, animal experiments, cellular pathology and chemical analytics

https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/21/2/87

Vasbarlogon What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s? (2024)

It's up now!

Vasbarlogon What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s? (2024)

If you wear your nostalgia glasses it sure does "seem" more healthy. Life expectancy at birth in the 70s was 70.8. Now it's 79.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/data-finder.htm?&subject=Life%2...

Vasbarlogon What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s?

Works now!

Vasbarlogon What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s?

Nope!

Vasbarlogon Internet Archive Switzerland

Hugged to death? I can’t access the page.