Hey, reading your comment it sounds like you are angry about the story and image shared here. It makes me sad, as you seem to believe that your comment adds anything meaningful. I wish you to gain a better intuition on when expressing your opinion actually makes a valuable contribution

I thought about explaining OS to her for a second. Then I decided if she’s still enjoying life without digitalization so much that she doesn’t need a charged cell phone, it can still wait a year or two

Ah, found a solution for that too. There’s services twhere you can send a pdf and they will print it, pack it in an envelope and send it to any address you specify.

I just write the document by hand the one time a year I need a printer. Doesn’t work for everything but is good enough for lots of the stuff that still requires your signature in ink

Cheers, really appreciate it

Thank you for the reply (and for engaging in meaningful conversation, which is a rarety on the internet). Could you share a link to that article? Not bc I doubt your word, I’m just genuinely curious

I was looking for that evidence, but all the report has are indications. Proof would mean there’s messages that outline this plan, documents, audio recordings, the software backdoor used to kill the ballots anything like that.

I’m not saying it’s a bad article, they provide good reasoning and the data looks really odd. Just until here it’s a theory.

So… Living inside that zone (of EU USA Canada) I don’t feel we just let them do whatever they want. It’s even worse, we’re supplying fuel for them to burn down houses 😔

Letting them do what they want? Na, where do you think all the defense supplies used by the IDF are coming from?

Wow, this is so beautiful. Really nice shot!

Sometimes I struggle to stop scrolling and just go to sleep. But this meme has such poetry in it, it’s my good piece of news for today. Makes me go to sleep with a smile on my face, thank you!

Wow, Delaware really has a jewel of a representative. Continuing with a flippant response to such an insult, afterwards declaring she’s here to make life of her constituents better and refusing to rise to the bait of that mysoginistic POS? I wish there were more politicians like her.

Fife has a unique landscape, formed by its vulcanic past combined with the erosion of the sea. Different types of lava have different resilience, which is partially responsible for those stunning rock formations. Great shot!

That law is definitely problematic. The phrasing was even back then critizised rightfully as too broad, too open to interpretation. It generates a bad precedent, as it could just as well be used against anti fascism activists once the AFD manages to grab power anywhere.

Now where does that come from? It stemmed from one of those actionism-phases in politics where someone said ‘oh there’s so much hate on the internet, it inspires hate on the streets, what should we do?’

The backdrop was a consistent uprising in really troubling hate speech on the internet, where people with their clear names called for lynching politicians and their families. The thing is, addressing this would not have required new laws. We would have been fine with someone actually persecuting the laws we already had.

Now the “new law” ofc makes it easier to persecute those criminal cases. But that prosecution still only happens if the police actually stand up to it. Arguments like “insufficient public interest” “insufficient staffing” “that could have been anyone writing this, how should we know that an account named Max Mustermann actually belongs to said Max Mustermann” still give the police in the more right wing states in Eastern Germany easy ways out. If they don’t want to prosecute a crime, they will always find a way around it.

With all that being said, I can only concur with observations that this law is only now being discussed in international news as right-wing governments with media ties try to make a bad mood against Germany and influence the upcoming elections. Otherwise the anti-protest laws in the UK that bring climate activists behind bars for peaceful non-violent protests would top those headlines every time.

Tl/DR; yes, that law is shit and good intentions don’t help. Police still only prosecute those they want.