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https://www.dw.com/en/austrias-former-vice-chancellor-heinz-christian-strache-addicted-to-gaming/a-51783827

The former Austrian Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache spent between 2,000 and 3,000 ($2,2003,300) a month playing the mobile phone game "Clash of Clans," and charged the fees to his political party, according to a lawyer formerly close to him.

The bizarre detail from Strache's life was included in a report the Ibiza-based lawyer, named only as M., filed to the Austrian federal police in 2015.

Strache, the former leader of the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FP), resigned all his political posts and retired from politics in October after a video emerged of him in Ibiza offering business contacts in exchange for political support from a woman posing as the niece of a Russian oligarch.

The "Ibiza scandal" had a seismic effect on Austrian politics with the FP losing voters in the subsequent election. Strache was expelled from the party earlier this month.

The new report was leaked to the Austrian Kleine Zeitung on Monday, and Georg Renner, the reporter who broke the story, tweeted a screenshot of the federal police note, which said that the politician was "addicted" to the strategy game.

According to Renner, the police investigation was dropped because M. refused to offer any more information, an explanation that has not satisfied Austria's opposition politicians like parliamentarian Stephanie Krisper of the New Austria and Liberal Forum (NEOS)

News outlets noted that it was difficult to confirm the claim since the game's developer Supercell did not give out account information, but there have been previous reports that Strache played the game and used a party credit card to pay for it.

At the time, the then-FP leader said he had used his party's account by mistake and had returned the money.

The object of "Clash of Clans" is to build up a town, defend it, and conquer towns belonging to other players. Players can also join forces and chat to each other in real time while playing.

Downloading the game is free, but it is financed through a host of in-game purchases, each of which can cost anything up to 109, a business model that led the game to become the most lucrative gaming app of 2013.

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Sonic Garbage
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ledbowman posted...

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1210753632976531456?s=19

Just want to note: this tweet he's quoting is from January 2018.
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MLS good, naturally.
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I will make the New York Red Bulls good if it's the last thing I do.
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Duncanwii posted...

They'll be fine. They're tough Americans.

The majority of future generations are not Americans.
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Yes, but not because of the video games, lol. They're gonna deal with worse impacts from climate change, and the various reactions to those shocks.
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Although I am a longtime Independent and oppose the use of labels or identity politics,

*pinching bridge of nose*
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Yes, in that the narrow scope of the Ukraine call limited their ability to make a compelling political case against Trump
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There may be better measures of this, but just for comparison:
The film industry had $11.9 billion in domestic revenue in 2018
https://deadline.com/2018/12/worldwide-box-office-record-2018-domestic-international-china-1202526458/

The NFL alone made $16 billion in revenue last year: https://touchdownwire.usatoday.com/2019/07/15/nfl-revenue-owners-players-billions/
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https://twitter.com/BronzeHammer/status/1210679288594419714

Just delightful
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You hate to see it
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Obviously people have fond memories of it as their first experience with 3d gaming, but I didn't play it until it came out for DS and loved it then, too.
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His charitable giving has given him unaccountable influence over issues like healthcare in Africa and education in the US in a way that I don't think is good.

Also, there was that time he was letting Jeffrey Epstein direct his spending.
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It's called Graham Squares and it's a mix of Golden Grahams and Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Ridiculous.
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Irony posted...

What was #1

Darth
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Rayman or bust
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LostForest posted...

I can't stand Trump, but this tbqh.

As was laid out earlier in the topic, the edit was made in 2014 so they could air more ads
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HiddenRoar posted...

Surely, thedailybeast is the go-to for quality news reporting.

It's on Trump's Twitter.
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dolomedes posted...

lol @ what i approve of - i'm making a dumb joke.

political correctness gone mad, damn

Smh sensitive conservatives can't take a joke
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My understanding is that the mainstream American brands are considered crap. Not sure if there's much of a market for our craft.
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The media discourse about college campuses has been overblown bullshit for a decade.
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PerseusRad posted...

tbh despite being for kids, it can actually be hard to pick up. Youre using spirits right?

Yes, though not very effectively I think.
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Got Ultimate for Christmas, and while I'm enjoying it, World of Light is also frequently handing my ass to me.
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Beats fractional actors.
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When you're right, you're right
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I don't think skipping the weeby parts of Fire Emblem is feasible or the best way to play that game.
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Eventually is doing a lot of work in that title.
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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/5g-is-going-to-screw-up-weather-forecasts-meteorologists?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc

Deciding whether to pack an umbrella for a weekend away is going to get a lot more difficult in the near future. Next-generation 5G wireless signals promising faster, stronger cellphone service are going to disrupt weather satellite forecasts, according to warnings by meteorologists, lawmakers, and federal science agencies.

5G has so far rolled out in about 40 countries worldwide, most notably South Korea and China, but also in dozens of US cities such as Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio, which Verizon added Monday.

We are deeply concerned about the potential for degradation of our nations weather forecasts, said a bipartisan Dec. 10 letter from the House Science Committee, calling for an investigation of a yearlong dispute between the Federal Communications Commission, charged with overseeing cellular signals, and the federal science agencies proclaiming a threat to US weather satellites. Earth observing satellites are critically important for protecting the lives and property of the American people from severe weather.

At the heart of the fight are scientific findings that a massive federal auction of airwaves to cellular providers will interfere with weather satellite measurements, wrecking the reliability of the forecasts needed to plant crops, ship goods globally, or simply plan ahead for a trip. Against that, the cellphone industry promises that 5G will be a $565 billion industry by 2034, making its adoption a priority of the Trump administration.

This year the FCC auctioned off 24-gigahertz radio frequencies for 5G transmissions, perilously close to the 23.8-gigahertz frequency at which water vapor molecules vibrate in the atmosphere. Weather satellites continuously monitor that subtle signal of humidity, which is an essential ingredient for accurate weather forecasts. Cellphone antennas transmitting 5G signals near that frequency could cause confusion for weather satellites, essentially pouring a firehose of misinformation into the supercomputer models of Earths atmosphere running around the clock at weather centers worldwide.

Its just physics, meteorologist Jordan Gerth of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, told BuzzFeed News. You cant just tell water molecules to change the channel, or use another frequency.

Those weather models create the daily and 3- to 10-day forecasts that you see on the local news, while also predicting floods, storms, and hurricanes. More than 90% of their information comes from weather satellites. As 5G rolls out and spreads, weather forecasts will steadily become less reliable.

The FCC did not reply to a request for comment from BuzzFeed News. In an April letter, FCC chair Ajit Pai said that NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which had asked that the auction of frequency bands be delayed, were making exaggerated and unverified last-minute assertions. He noted that the agencys auction of the frequencies to wireless providers garnered the US Treasury almost $2 billion.

In response, NOAAs acting administrator, Neil Jacobs, told Congress that the interference would set US weather forecasts back to somewhere around 1980, reducing current three-day hurricane warnings to two-day ones.

Meteorologists are concerned the FCCs rush to sell off frequencies will also open the door to selling other ones essential to weather satellites to detect rain, snow, temperature, clouds, and ice, Gerth said. We need this data for climate science too, he added.

Because the interference will be essentially random, built off cellphone traffic in constantly building and changing networks, theres little chance that satellite operators will be able to screen the interference from their measurements in a systematic way. A system of switching off 5G signals over cities while weather satellites pass overhead could conceivably remove the noise if every wireless firm cooperated, Gerth suggested, but not without delivering a 5G blackout in a region while that happens.

Weather firms are nearly powerless in the fight against the wireless providers, AccuWeather forecasting manager Dan DePodwin told BuzzFeed News.

We are significantly concerned about interference with weather forecasts or warnings, said DePodwin, noting that the interference from 5G could disrupt snow, storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, all kinds of severe weather warnings.

The weather forecasting firm is also worried about a different set of frequencies under consideration for FCC auction: signals from streams, oceans, and seismic monitors on Earth that NOAA satellites transmit to emergency services, enabling warnings about tsunamis, floods, and earthquakes. Seconds matter to our customers, DePodwin said.

At a November International Telecommunication Union conference in Egypt, nations from around the world agreed on standards for how much of a buffer water vapor measures should have from 5G signal interference. The agreement set a limit on interference between the FCCs suggestion and what NOAA said was safe. That means there will still be significant disruption, said experts. The ITU agreement included continuing monitoring of interference, to be reevaluated when the conference reconvenes in 2023.

Despite the compromise, many weather experts warn that significant disruption will still occur.

There will still likely be considerable interference once 5G networks become denser, Rene Leduc of Narayan Strategy, a former NOAA official, told BuzzFeed News. I would be extremely concerned for the future of weather models.

The way that buffers have been allocated around frequencies in past international agreements doesnt work well for weather satellites, which are passive detectors of very weak signals from molecules in clouds. The current system for allocating frequencies treats those molecules as FM radio station transmitters, rather than passive natural phenomena being blasted by 5G noise. Atmospheric scientists who understood this difference werent part of the FCCs early discussions, which were primarily designed for collecting frequency auction money while keeping radio stations from bleeding into each others song lists.

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Sunhawk posted...

Actually, Sunshine required you to get specific Shines, not just a general number. Which sucked, of course.

Huh, I must've forgotten that
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I wasn't expecting the game to be so linear, in that you're required to get moons from each specific kingdom along the way, rather than a set amount from anywhere. It's not the worst thing, but it's a distinct difference from how 64 or Sunshine handled matters.
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King
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You've confused right wing caricatures of left wing arguments for the left wing argument itself.
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Place the pipe on it? I don't recall the details of the process, sorry
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There's a circular device on the ground in that area that can be used to rotate the pipe. IIRC, it's been a couple months.
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I was sick and slept half of yesterday afternoon
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apocalyptic_4 posted...

What the hell causes this

Stomach bug
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Def Leppard's Let it Go >>>>
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Update: I'm keeping water down
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Bluebomber182 posted...

Did you crack the bottom of the toilet bowl?

No, I can't say I have
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Definitely not showing a disastrous level of hubris by asserting that I couldn't possibly have more food left to puke up.
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And you're trying to get the wastebasket because only one can go in the toilet
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I got Mario Odyssey and Smash Ultimate, both of which I'm really enjoying so far.
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Imo, if you want the Bidens' funds going to American citizens, you should tax them more instead of touting charity as the solution.
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Why would I think that
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Got some news for you about IQ
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