Clothoff is seemingly hoping to entice more young boys worldwide to use its apps for such purposes. The whistleblower told Der Spiegel that most of Clothoff's marketing budget goes toward "advertising posts in special Telegram channels, in sex subs on Reddit, and on 4chan."
advertising posts on 4chan
Is Clothoff asking to be raided? Because that's what happens when you spam 4chan. Ask Anontalk aka AnT.
As I mentioned in another thread, São Paulo state's customer protection organ is basically telling people to not buy Nintendo. Indirectly, with pretty words, but that's what it's doing.
[IANAL] Also, note some stuff in the Switch 2 user agreement is legally invalid in Brazil. Nintendo is shielding itself with an "ackshyually we don't sell it in Brazil lol lmao", that's why Procon - SP is calling it out.
22 yards in a chain
What. I had to websearch this because it sounds too silly, but apparently it's true.
But, really, even if it used saner numbers (like 12:3:24:8:3), it still feels nothing like a "metric dozenal" would look like. It's missing the two things the metric system did right:
A lot of the Switch 2's UA is also illegal in Brazil. For example, check section 7 (Dispute Resolution) - IIRC law protection is considered an inalienable right in Brazil, you can't simply sign it off.
However Nintendo has been shielding itself by saying "ackshyually, we aren't conducting business in Brazil". That's why São Paulo's Procon is calling it out.
Procon-SP is a state customer protection organ. It's more like "São Paulo's watchdog" than "Brazil's watchdog". However since the state in question is populous and has relatively high purchasing power per capita, typically megacorpos beeline towards it anyway.
I'll coarsely translate here the news from Procon-SP's site. Emphasis mine in all cases, as I want to highlight something.
Translation
Procon-SP notified Nintendo to request changes in clauses deemed abusive, present in contracts made with Brazilian customers. The main complain involves the unilateral and unjustified cancellation of service subscriptions.
This showed a wider problem: Nintendo lacks formal representation in Brazil. This absence hinders conflict intermediation and the conduct of customer protecting organisations.
To handle this case, Procon-SP had to contact the headquarters of the business in USA. Only then the business named a law office in Brazil, but solely to handle the relevant clause.
The absence of formal representation in the country is an important warning to customers. Without such legal presence, the protection predicted by the Customers' Defence Code is limited.
"The existence of legal representation within Brazil needs to be one of the criteria [potential customers] take into account to decide their purchases, specially so for digital services or foreign platforms", says Álvaro Camilo (Procon-SP's Service and Orientation director). "Without such groundwork, Procon organs cannot act in full power, given different countries have different laws".
This precaution applies both to abusive clauses and common problems, such as delivery delay or service failure. When the business is not registered in Brazil, often there is no way to sue it.
In the last years, the number of purchases in international sites grew sharply in the country. However many of those platforms conduct businesses with no local judicial link.
Even for smaller purchases, there's a real risk: the customer gets no goods, no answer, no support. Procon-SP recommends to be extra careful, doubly so for sites handling fashion, electronics, and accessory items.
Before purchasing something, it's essential to verify if [a business] has CNPJ [i.e. it's considered a legal entity in Brazil], a real address in Brazil, and support channels; those pieces of info are fundamental so Procon-SP can act in case of problems.
Nintendo informed that'll analyse the request from the organ, and that it'll answer it within 20 days. Until then, Procon-SP recommends customers should report irregularities through the site www.procon.sp.gov.br.
See the bolded parts? São Paulo's Procon is basically telling people "Don't buy stuff from Nintendo, it's an irregular business in Brazil."
Metric "dozenalisation" would be perfectly viable, and metric-dozenal units would still look nothing like USA units.
I'll use length for the example. All of them in base 10, just for clarity. (Also the name of the units would be different, but I'm not changing them for this example.)
Are you noticing what the USA units do? They don't stick to a base.
if [[ instance == "lemmy.world" ]] && [[ topic == "Palestine" ]]; then echo "PTB"; fi
Serious now, PTB.
Since the existence of the state of Israel causes violence in the Levant, anyone defending the "survival" of that ethnostate is promoting violence. And yet you don't see LW mods removing comments defending it - why?
People are focusing on the Excel part, I'll focus on the maths.
I wish our societies picked base-12 instead of base-10. Divisions in base-12 give you repeating digits less often, and being able to split exactly by 3, 6, 9 and 12₁₀=10₁₂ is far more useful than doing it for 5 and 10₁₀=A₁₂.
~~Plus 4chan would stop arguing if 0.999... = 1. It would argue instead if 0.BBB... = 1.~~
I once had a cat that "elected" one of the beds as her litterbox. I have a feeling that, if she could, she'd blame humans for her shit.
All science is junk science when you care more about enforcing your own views than about accurately describing how things are.
The problem with landfills is widespread, not just in USA. And the solution is simple in theory, hard in practice: we shouldn't be using landfills at all. It's hard in practice because it means:
So... yeah, we got a bunch of ticking bombs, all around the world. Yay, capitalism. /s
In both cases you have businesses using the lack of legal representation to avoid following local laws. But that's it; everything else is quite different.
I don't think Procon organs have the power to ban the sales of an imported good within their states. But even if they do, note that this would only apply to the state (in this case São Paulo). Plus Nintendo is being considerably more tactful than that braindead idiot called Musk.