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by snowpid 3mo ago
Sorry this is more an effect of your social media consumption . I don't deny the problem the country is facing but your doom is multiplied by social media. Touch some grass, maybe pay for traditional media and you get a view of the tra
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by snowpid 3mo ago
Im really happy for Poland for its growing economy. (though it has the same challenges as Germany roughly speaking) But You can't just deny the political problems. Propably some Americans do it - to cope with Trump who is worser than a
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by snowpid 3mo ago
The US is more in decay than Germany. Currently it becomes more and more a broken democracy. Cope is strong here.
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by snowpid 3mo ago
sorry, but the European defence is more decentralised.
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by snowpid 3mo ago
no its not and the great example is the Sowjetunion.
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by snowpid 3mo ago
why do you think military sub marines are easy to build and there is no / not much progress there?
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by snowpid 3mo ago
Some nationalistic articles are just cringe.
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by snowpid 3mo ago
Besides the mentioned comments Spanish speaking immigration is much more welcomed by radical right AND Germany had a lot of German speaking immigration from Eastern Europe. There are just no German speaking minorities left in other countri
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by snowpid 3mo ago
Company might be registered in NL but phone number + hosting happens in Germany => maybe only tax reducing?
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by snowpid 3mo ago
I think you make an too easy argument: Compared to e.g. Christian places in Europe where people still the same tongue like before the Christianisation (roughly speaking), Aramic, Demotic or Berbic languages, once majority languages are now
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by snowpid 4mo ago
"And do you think the people in Europe are voluntarily a part of your undeclared, but very much existing, empire?" I think most people are voluntary part of the EU or Germany. Both aren't empires because the broad majority of
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by snowpid 4mo ago
Its called DMA and DSA. Much hated by many American HNlers here.
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by snowpid 4mo ago
I think this shows how much we need better democratic institutions like a full functioning parliament and (in my view) direct democracy on EU level. If the councils make stupid ideas, citizen could start an initiative or at least the MEP ca
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by snowpid 4mo ago
I believe just someone who got too deep into Russian propaganda rabbid hole. The comment is too leaky for somebody working in St. Petersburg / a LLM.
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by snowpid 4mo ago
well, so you think, all parts and peoples of USSR were voluntarily part of USSR?
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EU to soon classify AWS and Azure as gatekeepers under DSA(heise.de)
66 points by snowpid 4mo ago|26 comments
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The most complete citizen participation tool for a democratic government(consuldemocracy.org)
2 points by snowpid 4mo ago|0 comments
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by snowpid 4mo ago
Switzerland want less than B1? I find B1 barely can have a normal conversation.
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by snowpid 4mo ago
Mistral and stackit begs to differ
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by snowpid 4mo ago
" Europe is relatively a much smaller fraction of the global economy or population than it was a few decades ago. It is militarily less significant. How is that not a decline? " Yes and most of my friends are aware. It isnt a big
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by snowpid 4mo ago
Thanks and you're right I misread the sentence (in line with other commentaters). Though because of xenophobia there was much hesitation against open borders (e.g. Germany and Poland, where Germen didnt like incoming Polish)
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by snowpid 4mo ago
"Europe has open borders and this hasn't facilitated any increase in xenophobia that I'm aware of, despite many countries having many immigrants." My guess you are naive but intra European racism was always a thing (easy
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by snowpid 4mo ago
Thanks! I only would consider people worthy to discuss if they are agree on this. Most of the time people dont.
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by snowpid 4mo ago
Which country are you from?
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by snowpid 4mo ago
"More about extending the war instead of ending it." Clearly this is Russia's fault. Russian troops could just leave Ukraine's international recognised area. Easy peasy.
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by snowpid 4mo ago
I didnt know that communist are consired right wing now.
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by snowpid 4mo ago
vw offers a electro pickup for 36k excluding tax (43k EUR with tax, ). https://www.volkswagen-nutzfahrzeuge.de/de/modelle/transport... Its less than 10x
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by snowpid 4mo ago
I am sick of companies vendor locking me into their software and PATRONISE me its the better choice for me. If someone says yeah yeah buy an android. You know what: Google is locking down Androids as well. This is the track path of Google a
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by snowpid 4mo ago
My friends / co worker are computer and non computer people, hobbys, cultural background. Maybe your friend group is highly selected. Which country are you from?
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by snowpid 4mo ago
The EU expansion politics was a success. E.g. Poland was a great industry place for cheap labour, now it becomes a richer economy, they consume more expensive from Germany and France.

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