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I am not sure she had parliamentary immunity. It seems like that only applies during sessions of the EP, which isn't in session right now. She would probably be able to claim immunity to attend the session next week, but as the first t
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That seems a bit high, are you sure you're not confusing it with the President/Vice president of the commission?
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The article is from 2014 but shouldn't have changed much: https://transparency.eu/how-much-does-an-mep-make/ The difference between an MEP and a VP seems to be 800€ / month, not a whole lot and it's a wa
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Matrix might become the best option, but as of now I seem to recall it having some rather serious issues, ranging from not handling metadata well to malicious homeservers possibly breaking the encryption of users on other homeservers I migh
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Instance owners manually register their instances here if they want to: https://instances.social/admin
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> I have no idea why you sense this from American culture. The internet. And it applies to much more than this You know that in your local social circle very few people have opinions about such trivial topics and you rightly see those wi
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> Except for market demands of smaller phones Aren't phones getting larger and larger pretty much every year?
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You think you'll need more than 240W of charging power on your phone? Maybe, but will it be so small to make two ports cumbersome? Doubtful imo
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There might be a tax benefit (for the business, income tax would still be paid where you live) But as far as I understand the main value proposition might be for non-EU citizens to be able to open a business in the EU remotely with access t
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It was unfortunate timing, but Musk made his offer on the 14th of April, this instance was launched on the 25th I admire your faith in it but there's no way in hell two different branches of the Commission were able to coordinate a dep
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> also know that they have no way to control or influence it So they know what it is but nothing about how it works, should've specified I was talking about knowing how it works in my comments above What's missing from your col
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> the food sucks How is this related to tuition? Do you not cook your own food or eat from private restaurants in US universities?
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> having such a low outreach is by design and why this is Not much to wonder about, public interest in the EU is abysmally low which is in good part because people don't know what the EU is or does. You'd need a good PSA campai
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> mastodon/puretube.official.eu would've been better That's what europa.eu is, it's the official domain of the EU, every subdomain of europa.eu is an official website of the EU > > Their first video that appears
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> There is no TLD equivalent of .gov for Europe Which is why I said: > is the closest equivalent Also it's a distinction without a difference in the context of the discussion, a tld is just another kind of domain. In the same way
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> Why don't they buy a considerable stake in these American social media companies instead I'll assume this is made in jest, as for this > I don't understand why the EU bothers wasting money on these initiatives. I don&
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Worth pointing out that this was launched some months ago, it's not related to ongoing events with twitter They also have a peertube instance https://tube.network.europa.eu/
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.europa.eu is the closest equivalent to .gov It's the base url used by all EU institutions
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Not the person you're replying to but, using existing websites as an example, if I am not mistaken activity pub would allow you to see "twitter" posts from "facebook" and viceversa, or even using your "twitter&
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> should have more authority to assert itself The problem isn't that the EP doesn't have enough power, it's that EU politics doesn't have enough visibility, which means that MEPs are almost always politically subordin
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The dev is Asahi Lina (I presume a pseudonym https://twitter.com/LinaAsahi ) and when she livestreams the coding sessions instead of a video feed there's an avatar (an animated anime girl) and the voice is modulated to
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I'm intrigued about the kind of code that you're writing that would be at risk of being considered hate speech
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> I am going a personal coding project, or working on my home, or working on my car, or working in some other way That's not working, that's having hobbies (and it's a good thing)
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Given the top comment I'm not sure this had an intended effect. They were asked a question and quoted the relevant ICAO rules. What were you expecting them to do? Urge their customers to break the law?
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Not GP but unless you follow EU politics specifically (as in the politics of the EU rather than of EU nations), which abysmally few do in Europe, you won't have heard of it And even if you did know it's probably not enough money a
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Define sovereignty Member states have agency to leave the EU whenever they'd like if they wish not to be bound by agreed upon laws
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No There is no codified legal process for a US state to leave the Union, and the only previous attempt caused a civil war A member of the EU has both an implicit right to withdraw from the treaties (deriving from international customary law
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Distributing uranium pellets for domestic heating might prove problematic, likewise trying to burn uranium pellets in existing coal power plants to facilitate the transition to other sources would be problematic.
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It's interesting how you're assuming that a species which obviously has been navigating way past the point where any useful power can be extracted from their star would not see the utility of developing fusion power
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This is actually not true, or rather, it varies by municipality. The national law applies only to customers

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