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by idownvoted 6y ago
No one to blame but Angela Merkel who personally pushed other EU member states into delegating authority on the issue to the EMA even overruling her own minister of health. Needless to say that the EU – the hotbed of excess politicians who&
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by idownvoted 6y ago
> That may be my pan-European bias Or in other words: The excuse for being aggressivly nationalistic towards other nations, without the need to call it nationalism. This behaviour is particulary present across European high-educated mi
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by idownvoted 6y ago
As a European I feel disturbed and ashamed of how the EU, the self proclaimed "peace project", is conducting itself towards the UK - starting from the first referendum throughout the whole pandemic.
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by idownvoted 6y ago
Yet another sad attempt to impose your narrow focused view of the world on it. The author seems to have forgotten: There are people outside of the US who work in tech. As shocking as it might be to him, they don't wake up in the mornin
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by idownvoted 6y ago
Has anyone here tried out http://offen.dev yet? I've stumbled upon it while implementing a self-hosted matomo solution. I like the approach, which allows for a much nicer UX of their consent process (of course I would prefe
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by idownvoted 6y ago
Barcelona: Particulary sad. As a tourist one could sense the unworthiness of this proud city going thorugh this transformation. From something that stood on its own feet (rich, industrious history) and aimed at creating its own future (ther
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by idownvoted 6y ago
I've long held the conviction that tourism is a toxic sector. If it grows too large a share of GDP, so much talent, money, and effort is sucked into tourism and away from society which otherwise would have found better use for it. Who
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by idownvoted 6y ago
Twitter is the mother of all rabbit holes. Even the best threads don’t justify opening this portal to hell just to feel used, abused and filthy after 5 min using it. No matter what the topic, it turns peer groups into toxic waste.
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by idownvoted 6y ago
Also imagine how "well oiled" this financial transaction's machinery will work during a market contraction.
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by idownvoted 6y ago
Yes, our lifestyles are the problem. Nothing to see here in North Korea. One could even argue that we can learn a lot from them about how to save the Great Reefs
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by idownvoted 6y ago
If, except I didn't. A great barrier reef, a Saharan Dune or a pack of whales is exotic, but something most of us can see at least once in our lifes if we wanted to.
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by idownvoted 6y ago
Fake it is. Now I want you to imagine why the WPK thinks that a cityscape at dusk with lit windows might be good propaganda? Why something that seems boringly mundane to us, is something to brag about for the regime? Something that may upli
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by idownvoted 6y ago
"In Russia or China the state runs the media, in the US the media runs the state" Apart from Sheldon and Rupert not a single name strikes me as significantly non-progressive. Sheldon has passed away, Rupert is going to be not to
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by idownvoted 6y ago
NYT is a rag. The power play they‘d attempted on Scott was for ideological reasons, and shows what culture this organisation has. And what kind of people seek to be part of this.
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by idownvoted 6y ago
Wow. Two things: 1) That, of all police departments in the world, this is done by Beverly Hills Cops is a sign, that we're living in a simulation 2) How broken must a society be, if all of the outrage is directed towards police offic
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by idownvoted 6y ago
Germany – the "late nation" – rushed to catch-up with what other nations had. Berlin as its capital was destined to absorb most of the shock waves this coming of age of Germany would stir up. Certainly when it came to urban planni
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by idownvoted 6y ago
Retroactive Laws, at odds with reality, put into legislation by MEPs who are mostly even less able then their domestic parliament's party-colleagues and whose "consituency" usually doesn't even know who they are – Anothe
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by idownvoted 6y ago
isn't planning on giving his money to his children 1. none of "giving pledge" signees pledged 100% – they do pledge most of it, although inheriting "almost nothing" of billions is still pretty comfy. 2. the bigges
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by idownvoted 6y ago
I doubt he's going to pull some big expenditure - with a net worth of 182BN USD there isn't really an item available that would be "a big expenditure".
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by idownvoted 6y ago
I can echo that. But still Maybe something good for poor or disadvantaged people comes out of this. Like at Facebook or Google, programmes/initiatives like these are less marketing directed at customers (Eg why would a Slovenian IPhone
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by idownvoted 6y ago
Somewhere in Ankara, a not-so-slightly fascist is giggling hard. To have the west's narrative-forming-class believe the fairy tale of Kashoggi as a fighter for free speech is quite an achievement, as the only reason Kashoggi got to be
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by idownvoted 6y ago
Buy a VacuVin, a fridge, and a cook book for what to do with whatever wine is left.
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by idownvoted 6y ago
As it already was established, that most social distancing as well as most Work-From-Home (WFH) are being done by High Income Earners (HIE), one can read the papers results quite differently: Yes, Quarantine measures propulsed WFH. But only
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by idownvoted 6y ago
„China in ten words“ by Yu Hua, of course banned in China „The awakening of China“ - by Sun Yat Sen. Old but informative least but not last becauseit was the only book heralded by both Chinas (PRC and Taiwan) and even allowed during Mao‘s h
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by idownvoted 6y ago
As a foreigner with limited knowledge about the powers of a US House Speaker: What value would a laptop of Nancy Pelosi provide to a foreign government, if it doesn’t include incriminating content? I‘m not suggesting that this story is bogu
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by idownvoted 6y ago
As if Mozilla‘s recent Orwellian statements weren’t icing on the cake enough. Or the cheering on of hackers who just dumped Parler’s DB on Reddit with the purpose to dox a good perthousand/percentage of American citizens. Now it’s the
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by idownvoted 6y ago
In 1932‘s Third Reich Language: „German Smuggler thinks minorities‘s inability to escape discrimination is embarrassing“
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by idownvoted 6y ago
As an aside: As more and more techies repeatedly fail to decouple their digital belongings from Google‘s infrastructure, it should become clear how strong the lock-in effect of cloud services is in general and in particular their proper UX.
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by idownvoted 6y ago
Im not going to engage with the content of the article or the documentary, because a) of the paywall and b) in 99% of all western coverage the verdict was already in, although many things remain fishy. Besides the act itself, the most unusu
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by idownvoted 6y ago
> It feels liberating to say after years of tiptoeing around the fact, but the American left has lost its mind I add to that, that without that deviation from reality, a candidate like Trump would have never gotten his nomination, even

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