Most specifically, legal issues arise when it can be concluded that you support a violent overthrow or eradication of the Jewish state of Israel. If you make it clear specifically that you do not support violence, I think it should be fine.

In that sense, the way I laid out the rules may lead to some overblocking.

To some degree we are going after insults against other participants of the community, obviously. Not primarily because it may be criminal but also because it changes the discourse of the community. The lucky legal bit when it comes to Trump/Vance though is that as far as I am aware, insulting foreign leadership figures is no longer criminalized.

Calling Trump a “fascist” is simply an accurate descriptor though. Calling him “poo poo orange diaper man” is juvenile bullshit but if it’s not 50% of the comment section, it’ll probably remain.

I have no interest in participating in a community

This is your first comment here anyway, isn’t it?

Ftr, I will eventually need to unlock those, I hope to get to that at the end of the day.

Thank you!

Not if it had that typo. ^^ On a more serious note: I find these hard to mod and harder to argue against. The guy is in a coalition with outright fascists because this is the only way to save his power; he at the very least tolerates all of Europe’s fascists to come to his government’s “antisemitism” conferences; he wages a war currently that is officially called a war of self-defense but has morphed into being transparently expansionist and genocidal.

I mean … feel free. (Unless you’re linking to really unsavory communities.)

The thing is, we’re not a Mid-East community anyway (thankfully, I would personally say–as I would be really out-of-depth there!). While this is an issue that may flare up occasionally, I don’t see it as a permanent hindrance to contribution.

That “how” is indeed an issue here. I don’t know what to say there.

Perhaps, in terms of a practical example, Germany did unite peacefully. Granted, technically, the West swallowed the East, and the East adopted the Western political, legal, and economic system, so one of the two states had significantly more say in how it happened than the other. Which wouldn’t be a good idea for a Israel-Palestine state, to say the least.

(Fwiw, from what I’ve seen, I would say you’re usually arguing in good faith.)

I guess I should have let you do an adversarial review of the post before it went up. Anyhow, “dismantle Israel” sounds like you’re intending a violent revolution of some sort. The rest of it reeks of trying to evade the rules as well. I appreciate that this is what people do when you spell out rules but … that’s not really what I posted them for.

You’re not wrong but it’s an explicit defense against any accusations of supporting violence against humans.

More specified, not more equal in this case, really.

The EU official site hopefully does: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/

It was not really a voluntary scheme. According to EU law, you need to have the consent of the user.

DNT predates GDPR by a number of years. I am also not aware that DNT became legally binding under GDPR, though maybe I missed that.

Microsoft destroyed any potential for DNT acting as a user choice by enabling it by default in IE. The DNT header was an incredibly weak line of defense anyway. Mozilla implemented a voluntary scheme, …

• either naively thinking that profit-driven corpos would respect user choice despite it being obvious at the time already that UX research had, to a degree, already veered toward exploiting psychological weaknesses of users;
• or alternatively, they simply wanted to protect the profits they generated from putting a Google search field into everyone’s browsers.

Make your pick. It’s not a particularly good look either way, I think.

You didn’t just “contextualize.” You minimised the number: “Yeah, that totally sounds like a lot in a country of 84m. /s” Those are your words, verbatim.

Oh dear. Is this “argument” anything but bad faith? I basically said that that is a normal-enough number in a country of 84m.

It was 3,000 officers. Germany has 333,000 full time officers. That’s 0.9% of the force. Hardly grossly disproportionate to the benefit.

It seems to me that 0.9% is 50% larger than 0.6%, so dunno about that. And it’s not just any police, as far as I am aware, it’s Federales rather than low-level local trainees.

If we extend your logic, police should just stop investigating burglaries. I might even agree.

That’s awfully sweet of you, given how you apparently just came up with “my logic”.

I consider catching smugglers

You do realize that “smuggler” most likely primarily refers to people who bought more cigarettes in Poland/Czechia than the legal limit allows, right?

I am very anti-smoking but finding small-time tobacco tax evaders wouldn’t be a priority to me. Especially since Germany still allows cigarette ads in POS locations and cigarette giveaways on festivals.

and terrorists more important.

Now, you’ve mentioned “terrorists” a number of times. The report speaks only of “extremists”, i.e. people holding extreme world views who likely acted out on demonstrations or are otherwise accused of a smaller crime.

Where do the terrorists you mention come from?

Belated but:

• “Energy” is not the same as “electricity”, as the former includes a lot of thermic processes.
• To some degree, it is to be expected that renewables make up a smallish share of primary energy consumption for a while longer–despite displacing large amounts of burning processes. As electrification and solar/wind/battery buildout continues, primary energy figures will go down while electricity figures will go up.
  • Wind/PV installations consume far smaller parts of the energy they produce for their own operation than coal/gas/nuclear plants do. The figures for plants that burn stuff are usually atrocious, especially for technologies like coal or nuclear where most of the plants are old (i.e., it’s often a on the order of a third of the energy produced being lost to the environment right at the plant).
  • Heat pumps draw around 2/3 of their thermic energy from the environment for free, whereas anything that burns stuff loses some of the energy to the environment instead.
  • Electric cars use most of their energy for movement rather than acting as rolling boilers, i.e. you drive using 80% of the power rather than driving on somewhere between 20-30% of the power and otherwise generating a lot of heat.
• Finally, looking at Electricity Maps, wind produced 2020: 8.7%, 2021: 9%, 2022: 13.36%, 2023: 16.7%, 2024: 22.4% of electricity. Generating around twice as much with around twice as much capacity seems fairly logical to me too. In addition, there are some yearly fluctuations too, i.e. if demand remained level and there were no further buildout, there might be years where the figure would drop below 20%. (Electricity Maps is not to be consumed without a generous heaping of small print when it comes to the CO2 numbers they produce but the generation/consumption numbers are good.)

So “contextualizing” is “hiding a big number behind a bigger number”?

Also, yeah, the initial announcements had a number of around 3.5k police officers busybodied with this stuff.

Today’s judgement confirms the Belgian Data Protection Authority’s 2022 decision. It applies immediately across Europe.

Wait what? No additional judicial avenue; instead, the ad industry will now entirely depends on funding political efforts to dismantle GDPR? What a time.

https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/appeals-court-confirms-that-tracking-based-online-advertising-is-illegal-in-europe-223714124.html

I am saying that it does not sound like a very effective measure.

There are, give or take, 2m crime suspects per year in Germany–while many are likely counted twice, the number still gives an idea of the dimension. That makes roughly 5500 criminal suspects per day. 70 suspects/2d is 0.6% of that.

In addition, I find it exceedingly likely that they caught a bunch of low-level people who didn’t care to protect themselves but missed out on higher-level, systemic cases they’d have caught given a different personnel allocation.

In case you’re referring to the comment by HowRu68 above, I don’t think that those software vulns are related to this issue at all.