As an addendum: At a former employer, we ran an online survey which we announced through a small notification on the page. I didn’t want it to be too annoying, so included a “go away” button in the notification. That button wrote an extremely GDPR-compliant cookie that simply stored the preference. One of my co-workers was careless enough to casually mention this to a high-ranking American employee who then questioned me whether we shouldn’t include that cookie on the cookie banner, etc. It took a while to set that straight.

That American was the same person who was responsible for combining browsing behavior on employer’s website with a third-party chat provider, so either AI or human agents could open a chat box on specific people’s screens and ask them creepily specific questions about whether they’d like to buy any of the products they’d been looking at on former employer’s site over the past months.

There are a lot of people who don’t even understand the basics of what GDPR is trying to do but whose job it is, to create GDPR-compliant things.

One thing that’s symptomatic for anti-GDPR sentiment in general are “cookie banner” discussions. As if the EU had ever told anyone they need cookie banners! You absolutely don’t need them if you’re not randomly throwing around data. And people should know better, just from seeing titles on said cookie banners like “Your privacy is important to us and our 1234 partners” (and that’s not even exaggerated!). In addition, “cookie banner” is a misnomer too, as the thing you’re really setting up is not cookie behavior but data-spreading behavior.

Careful now, your Lemmy instance may run on AWS. (Haven’t checked at all — but what I am trying to say is that a lot of people blinded themselves with half-baked ideas about TCO and stumbled right into American cloud services.)

Nah, that’s definitely intentional use of language. If you’re not writing in a chemical context and you want to be understood, the term has no place.

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Fwiw, if you’re part of group of protesters that arrives with [masked faces], including some people with axes, and you plan to scare the shit out of uni staff, you probably approve of the axes too, no? (Granted, I wasn’t there. But that was I understood the retelling of events in Tagesspiegel had of the event today.)

40 masked people stormed the presidium and threatened employees with axes, saws, crowbars and clubs. The attackers destroyed furniture, computers and photocopiers, and daubed slogans and the red Hamas triangle in the stairwell and on the façade. The FU filed criminal charges in five cases and spoke of damage to property worth more than 100,000 euros.

– https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/a-13468543.html

Doesn’t really make the deportation orders any better in my book, but the line “they were just protesting” seems false to me.

if you do as little as publicly suggesting Palestinians are human, you can get yourself in s lot of trouble in Germany

Minor exaggeration there, don’t you think? Otherwise, please find a source for that.

@BigShammy80@feddit.org @Kornblumenratte@feddit.org - this is an English-language community :)

I … can’t imagine the US government cares about that (excuse the pun) caliber of gun too much. Police guns will largely be paid for from municipal and state budgets rather than the federal budget, and there’s something larger at stake:

• Large US producers want to make profits, and I can’t imagine that small, extremely commoditized weapons are the best option for that.
• The US government would probably like gain more control over the EU. If the US were to attack Greenland, they’d probably be happier if EU nations were immobilized because [shenanigans].

I may be wrong.

Be aware that while this is an official report, the stated main goal of it is not accurately counting which crimes were committed but rather accounting for the work that police officers do. There also interesting misuses of correct data in it every year, such as last year’s diagram highlighting the crimes of foreigners (including tourists) vs. percentage of foreigners amongst the population (excluding tourists). This report is regularly weaponized either by right wing parties.

I mean, he does say that:

Wherever PFAS can be quickly replaced by other substances, we should do it.

He’s qualifying it to death unfortunately, with talk of timeframes and poor chemical industry.

Happens elsewhere too, including near NL: https://www.ogj.com/exploration-development/article/55133106/one-dyas-obtains-final-permits-for-dutch-german-natural-gas-project

hydrocarbon

Is that supposed to be a euphemism that doesn’t trigger the same synapses as “fossil fuels” does or are they trying to sound clever?

Look at hip-hop culture, it’s bound gagged and raped by money whores whether it’s street culture making dirty money or CEO pimping artists. They all rape the genuine culture just the same.

This does sound a lot like there is a racist subtext here, tbh. It’s also patently false - there is no one “genuine” culture.

Both of these feelings will likely mix. People have the unfortunate tendency to stereotype others. :/

We can agree on the final sentence. However, I find it exceedingly unlikely that we’ll arrive anywhere than at a terrible outcome if we continue compromising on both human rights-based asylum as well as on educational/professional migration. The way to remove irrational and inhumane sentiments from political discourse cannot be giving in to irrational demands gradually. The “center of the political spectrum” is not a place to stand on, it’s always shifting position, if you bind yourself to that, so are you. Political positions should instead be derived from scientific observation of reality and should then optimize for good outcomes for the largest number of people.

That’s how the thread evolved. It likely has nothing to do with the four people from the article though.

It’s not local media, it’s literally a nazi live streamer filming people for profit. Nonetheless, it’s proving that it’s not always hard to tease out actual antisemitism from a subset of the people attending pro-Palestine demonstrations. And I do find that a credibility issue.

Yeah, that’s a reasonable take. Still, with Silicon Valley having an outsized influence on the new US admin, I think I wouldn’t mind them hurting a little too. And I find the priorities may be mixed up too. Without essentially a miracle happening, Trump will continue to be there for a while and he will continue to do damage. At least tariffs are introduced easily though, and I don’t think anyone will give a shit whether they get drunk on Jack Daniel’s or some European spirit.

(The prospective new German coalition is even looking to expand a Bavarian pilot of Palantir nationwide – despite the fact that Palantir founder Peter Thiel is the man behind JD Vance. That’s going to be a massive blow to national security.)