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)
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.
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.
Weird. The article does have today's date but only mentions the Nov 10 decision. I think maybe what happened today is the publication of the full text of the decision?
Ich wollte zu dem Thema gerade einen Post schreiben, der aber vermutlich genau wegen diesem Bug verloren gegangen ist.
Ich weiß, dass das für euch genauso frustrierend sein muss und ihr das auch nur freiwillig macht, aber letztendlich hab ich social media apps also Unterhaltung, und die letzten Wochen unterhält es nicht, es frustriert nur. Und wiederholt Apps und Instanzen wechseln wird auch sehr schnell sehr öde.
Nicht als Vorwurf gemeint, nur als Feststellung: Ein paar Tage downtime oder Unzuverlässigkeit kann man wegstecken, aber solche langen Probleme töten nicht nur die eine Instanz oder Lemmy, sondern auch die Bereitschaft sich in Zukunft auf alternative/offene Systeme einzulassen.
Ich hab den Eindruck der content wird auch immer weniger/schlechter, hab Lemmy in letzter Zeit immer weniger genutzt, und bin vermutlich bald ganz raus.