What is much harder to take is the hypocrisy in the media about it. It’s not that anyone wouldn’t know what’s going on - it’s just that anyone saying it aloud will be shouted down, blocked and banned by the legions of hypocrits. That said, you can fuck yourself, nationalist asshole.

The new German government argues that it is entitled to do this because Germany is land-locked

WTF? I am pretty sure that last time I looked, there was the north sea sitting at the northwestern rim of the country. Directly there where the land ends. One might fall in and drown if there were not all the signs reading “Swimming strictly verboten! Es wird scharf geschossen! Der Bundesgeneralbademeister.”. Or similar. Maybe no signs, but definitely the norrth sea. In the northeast the situation is basically the same, just less dramatic because the baltic sea is just knee-deep at its’ deepest point. Whatever, I am positively certain that Germany is not landlocked. I also doubt that the German government really said it was. It’s just too obvious, even for a novice chancellor’s apprentice like Merz.

This isn’t the US’ war, why would Trump be making any demands?

Because he sees a chance to profit. His war or not, Trump wants his cut. Or else. He’s got a right on his cut because he’s the president. The best president ever. Everybody knows that.

Supi! Transparente Demokratie! Wurde auch Zeit!

Darf man dann wirklich seine Wachsmalkreiden essen?

This and only this is a valid case of cultural appropriation. Acquiring copyright for work in the public domain and denying legitimate use. Having a hairstyle somebody else does not like has nothing to do with it. Nor does an artist’s ethnicity, surface color or sexual orientattion. These are just pretexts for self-declared “defenders of the faith” to discriminate arbitrarily agains whoever they want.

You’re not calling out anyone here. That has happened elsewhere. You’re nothing but gossiping about it. You’re not the defenders of anything but spiteful, ugly people.

I miss the days when the OS community found -often painful- ways to deal with excentric or even toxic and erratic developers. That definitely had more class than conformist mobs celebrating each character assassination of somebody disagreeing. Not that I’d support any anti-vax bullshit or bigotry, I just dislike mobs of holier-than-thous. Because they aren’t holy or as “good” as they think they are. IMO they’re just the sort of people waiting for a reason to get their torches and pitchforks. I don’t think that’s any better, morally, or less intolerant than having unhinged opinions.

Seems the ICC could use a bit of technical competence, too. Why the fuck didn’t they set up their own MX instead of relying on MS’ shitty mail service? It’s not the first time something like that is happening and besides all politics Microsoft’s MX’ have proven to be unreliable countless times before, Extendend downtimes, lost accounts, blocks by antispam lists, etc.

Typische CSU-Diktion. Den Begriff “Extremismus” benutzen, wenn der Rechtsextremismus sich wieder einmal nicht mehr unter den Teppich kehren lässt, dann in der Folge von “Rechts- und Linksextremismus” sprechen und schliesslich gegen den Linksextremismus vorgehen. Schliesslich hat man dann etwas gegen den Extrmismus unternommen. So geht das seit Jahr und Tag in Bayern.

Sure, but expectig turn-key solutions from the end- and contentless rows of self-help guides isn’t quite effective unless you hit the one in a dozen that actually was written with the intent of being helpful instead of making easy money from other peoples troubles. And the OP seemed to point into that direction.

The real “self-help secret” is “self” and hardly a secret. It’s the first bloody word in “self-help”. The real problem is that people event want someone else to do their self-help for them. The second problem is that they don’t even see the fucking paradox in it. Thinking is hard. Let’s go shopping…

Who cares? Protestants are heretics who will burn in hell anyway. Because god hates them. Not that I’d give a fuck but it seems they do. 😁

Und wieso sollen die Migranten jetzt plötzlich nicht mehr schuld am Bürgergeld sein?? Sie linker Spinner. Armes Deutschland!!

Simple solution. Don’t use Gmail at all. Unless you’re really keen on someone else reading your mail, of course.

An app is just a web-page skinned with enough IP to make it a felony to modify it to protect your consumer, privacy or labor rights.

Cory Doctorow

Great plan. Even better than I thought.

Not even in the days of the cold war there was remotely enough bunker capacity for everyone. What for anyway? Want to spend the next 100 or 1000 years in a subterranean hole? Good luck with that. Waste of money and resources but probably just the pipe dreams of some beaurocrat in a mostlly irrelevant institution.

As a design engineer you don’t have CAD software that can predict shading? It’s a pretty trivial function, actually. Also, you should know the procedure to construct proper shadows, but sure, that takes a lot more time than having them done by CAD.

You probably aren’t. You’re on somebody’s side who described OpenAI’s point of view. You won’t have an independent opinion before you’ve read at least one different source. One that is not owned by a huge media conglomerate, that is. Everyone seems willing to make up their minds after somebody somewhere told them something without verification. That’s how you’re getting a poorly informed half-wit without an idea of critical thinking.

Don’t trust ars one inch as soon as they’re getting political. They’re highly manipulative.