That’s why Germans mix juices at least half and half with sparkling water… mmmmhmmmm Schorle…

5. it’s fucking Chromium

Go use some Firefox-derivative like Librewolf or Fennec, like a sane person.

This is more about consistency than anything else.

EU-politicians have promised not to extend Chat Control 1.0 and SPD are the only ones happy to break their promise. The right has Chat Control 2.0 waiting in the wings so the vote to not extend doesn’t hurt their surveillance plans.

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Merz and von der Leyen are extremely competent, they just don’t pursue the goals they say they do. They may even belief that they are pursuing other goals than they really do.

They believe in trickle down economics despite all evidence pointing to it making everything worse. In their pursuit of economic growth, they do the exact thing that in their model should boost, but in reality stifles growth. They increase the wealth redistribution from the poor and middle class to the rich.

And they are so damn good at it. That’s the reason money has put them in their current positions.

They are extremely competent in doing the wrong thing.

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Damn I have forgotten every telephone number I ever had, but my ICQ# still pops out instantly.

And what help is gun ownership now? Sure as shit no people in the streets repelling ICE with force. The state and the right are vastly more heavily armed and armed conflict is exactly what they are looking for.

A firearm is absolutely useless protecting your family and doing your civic duty. It’s a placebo that lets people sleep at night instead of organizing and joining widespread strikes and direct action.

Oh there are plenty of lefty gun-brains, preparing for either the revolution or wanting to protect against a fascist government.

They’re all gravely mistaken when they think that gun ownership does anything except increasing statistics for gun deaths and police shootings.

I think it’s a very important frame. Everyone should have a good, long think about how much money it costs them that billionaires exist. And it isn’t distributed evenly, basically every european and american has spend tens of thousands of dollars so that some people have more money than they could ever spend and use it to pay politicians to keep that dough rolling in, stabilising a system of redistribution of wealth from the poor to the rich.

The same holds true for rich and poor countries. Most poor countries today are poor because they have been plundered in one way or another.

1 trillion dollars divided by 8 billion humans could pay each and everyone if us 125 dollars, which would go a long way in poor regions.

Or, framed differently: Tesla stole 125 dollars from every human alive to give it to Elon Musk.

Giving money (especially in the form of services) to people who need it, immediatly injects money into the economy. Because needy people don’t save big sums. When they have money to spend, they spend it. It remains in circulation, serving the economy until it reaches the hands of someone who can afford to not spend it. The very instant money reaches rich folk it could just as easily not exist anymore for all the good it does then.

The US cannot afford tax breaks for the rich, but injecting money into services and payments for the poor has a really good return on investment for a country.

I don’t doubt for a moment that humanity can be extremely wasteful in any economic system. But capitalism sure embraces and enhances our worst tendencies.

Minor contra point. Many police in the UK do not carry guns on their person. They have access to guns and the state monopoly on violence is very one-sided in favour of the state, but community-policing and disarmament of the first-contact-point is absolutely something that can and (sometimes) does happen when the societal level of gun violence is low enough.

And the Trump regime has a vested interrest in propping up other fascist to “prove” that their economic model (robbing the populace) can work (at least until they are done with their raid)

My street is finally getting fiberoptic internet! That means I’m going from around 4MiB/s to at least 400 more likely 600 MiB/s… with around 3/4 of that in upload speed. I have already canceled all my streaming services and external servers, the parts for my homeserver are on their way.

No more Google Drive, hello Nextcloud, no more Spotify, hello Finamp, no more Netflix and Crunchyroll, hello Jellyfin, no more Bitwarden, hello Vaultwarden.

I’ll finally be able to self-host all my Docker containers fir my website-, email- and game-server, I can have a homeserver for my media-streaming even when I’m not at home. I might even create my own Immich and Lemmy Instances. Just need to read up on NixOS and get a good, reliable system running.

Fuck big Tech, I’ll host my own shit and offer it to all my friends.

Thank you, all this alphabet soup carries no meaning for me.

Next they may want to hang pictures of Rommel, Manstein, Kettle or Guderian, who - just like Lee - were defeated enemy generals.

Not just reclaiming, also simply claiming. Poldering is no joke!

Emperor Cheesar accepting gold tribute from his feudal vassal

After bankrupting his own casinos he’s expanding his reach.