We don't know how much she pays, but yeah. It's quite likely she does pay that much (and it may or may not pay off - if she gets one extra long term customer paying $100 per session, every week, for a year, that easily pays for a couple hundred clicks that go nowhere. OTOH the 99% of people who don't need a LSCW but click the pin just to figure out what it is, why it shows up on the map, or what the acronym stands for aren't going to provide any benefit...).

Ads/Marketing/customer acquisition are unbelievably expensive (and thus also a huge business).

So oder so ist es umständlicher für den Kunden, und ein Pfandsystem macht es nochmal umständlicher und teurer.

Ist die Frage ob der Umwelt damit gedient ist wenn der Paketdienst ein zweites Mal kommt um die Verpackung abzuholen...

Mich würde auch interessieren wie die Rücklaufquote beim Tchibo-experiment war. Ich würde erwarten, dass Kunden nicht begeistert sind, wenn der Händler extra "Hausaufgaben" produziert, und das Teil einfach in den Restmüll kloppen.

White screen, no video.

That sounds like something Jackass would do.

Those are indeed ads.

I believe the business pays per click. I've seen (edit) only one estimate for the cost, claiming $2 to $6 per click. (https://www.shopify.com/retail/google-maps-ads)

(I previously had mentioned a second estimate but that was for regular ads)

To put it in perspective, let's assume 10W lights (there are stronger and weaker ones, but it's a good number for a strong LED bulb).

If you leave 5 of them on unnecessarily, for 5 hours a day, that's 0.25 kWh. Repeat for 365 days a year, and it's 91 kWh.

If you live in Germany (notorious for high electricity prices), that'll be... about 40 EUR per year.

Wahnsinn. Strafbefehle sind eigentlich für Lappalien gedacht. Hier haben sowohl der Richter als auch die Staatsanwaltschaft ihre Jobs nicht gemacht.

(Für die, die den Artikel nicht lesen wollen: erledigt im Strafbefehlsverfahren, womit die Angehörigen als Nebenkläger auch keine Berufung gegen das zu niedrige Urteil erheben können).

I would much rather pay for a missile that Ukraine fires against a Russian tank in Ukraine, than pay for a missile I have to fire against the Russian tank myself after it rolled through Ukraine and to my doorstep.

I would also much rather pay to educate the world (using Russia as an example) that the international community isn't putting up with wars of aggression and won't let you get away with them, than have the world thrown into disarray when the next country decides to disrupt global supply chains with their war of aggression.

Supporting Ukraine is a smart thing regardless of what you think of Ukraine. It's also the morally right thing, but if you don't care about that, egoism should drive you to the same decision.

Seen it far too often unfortunately.

And in some cities they got air conditioning banned or de-facto banned (made so expensive with additional hurdles that it's unaffordable for most, ironically often leading to people using extremely inefficient hose-out-the-window monobloc units that you can buy without asking anyone for permission).

Of course companies will be against it.

Not sure why climate activists would want people to suffer.

Some because they think it'll make people more aware of the problem and create more pressure to act, others because they think suffering is a virtue, people deserve it for what they have done to earth, and similar nonsense positions.

Decent? I know I've heard about him before he decided to go to Russia to be arrested and slowly killed.

The talks in Davos will follow a meeting in Malta in October, which was attended by around 70 countries from around the world as well as the European Union (EU) and the UN. Russia was not present. The Ukrainian peace plan foresees the immediate withdrawal of all Russian troops from all occupied territories, including Crimea.

So this isn't some major change or Ukraine planning to negotiate with Russia, more of a "hey world, how do we get Russia to fuck off" meeting.

I'm wondering how long it takes until climate activists start advocating against it (because it would increase the use of AC and thus emissions/energy use, and decrease the amount of people suffering from the heat).

I still don't understand why he committed suicide-by-Putin.

Did he really have more influence as a martyr in prison than a free man in exile?

Are there any hidden interests (e.g. environmental activists trying to make traffic a nightmare to discourage cars, someone able to profiteer from the current situation somehow, NIMBYs wanting to block the project due to some other location it affects and attacking it here because it seems easier)?

So one of the complaints seems to be... that you won't be able to see it from the road anymore, suggesting that the tunnel entrances will be out of sight of the monument. I haven't seen arguments that it'll disrupt the stability of the site or anything else either, so from the limited info I have, the complaints sound quite spurious.

I see two three pin 3.5mm stereo plugs (one of them color coded for the headphones and one for the mic), and zero 4-pin combo plugs?

How many of these mosques show secondary explosions after getting hit?

Might want a Western one, I've heard the Russian ones like to explode and toss their turret when hut by a Cybertruck.