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Pretty sure the court was able to point out which laws they've broken.

If you buy a cinema ticket for next weeks premiere, do you want to pay now, and have the ticket safe, or pay when you actually go to the cinema.

But you can already reserve a seat at the cinema and if your local cinema happens to screw up on a frequent basis then you'd probably get a reservation instead of paying for the ticket beforehand.

Also having trouble seeing the US as basically a free country when jaywalking exists.

Which hash tags can I try out to see that it doesn't lead anywhere because the content gets removed?

Maybe I don't know enough about what bugs the CCP but I can find content with the hash tags #tiananmensquare, #hongkongprotests or about the social credit system in China, each showing thousands of videos with millions of views.

When a video by "Stopcommunistchina" about Tiananmen Square is the top result when typing it into their search bar, I wonder how bad their censorship algorithm must be to miss this.

Was there ever a time in recorded history where this was not claimed?

On sustainable energy sources: I, as many other germans, receive all of my electricity from purely renewable energy sources for more than ten years now. 24/7.

No you don't. Just because you pay for Ökostrom or whatever doesn't mean that the electricity you actually use was produced by renewables. It's one grid. You use the electricity produced by coal plants just like everyone else.

Are you being serious?

The Roman Empire covered Germany and it covered that specific part of Germany (Aschaffenburg) as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire

The author cites an article on "wind droughts" and ignores that these go hand in hand with rising temperatures and droughts. Rivers getting warmer and dryer is very bad for nuclear power plants, but if you write a biased article, you don't have to mention this.

So we have one source where these effects (that go hand in hand) cause them to only be usable 36% of the time while with another source they can still be used 80% of the time?

But the question was whether the videos are edited. Are they? I don't know the account and don't care for the content posted but this is a pretty important distinction.

Oh I hope not. Audis are by far the best when it comes to what should and shouldn't be a button and their UI and its options are the best I've ever seen. Use a touchscreen where it makes sense and is _better_ than having a button. Use buttons for everything else.

They've literally raided someone's home because he called a politician a dick. Raided his home, took all his devices and whatnot. It's completely out of control.

Once you create a list of things that can and cannot be said you have that list on hand. You might have the best intentions about what's on that list but it's better to not have that list at all because it's completely subjective what should and should not be on that list.

But the Wiki article says that it was built by a company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...

There you have a bunch of examples. Free speech in the US is restricted. That's the point I was making. You can be okay with the restrictions in place but you cannot ignore that they're there. That's just factually wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...

But there are laws restricting the 1st Amendment in the US.

I'm sorry, but this sounds like someone who has never been to another country or seen how police works in other countries. I'm of course talking about comparable western countries (which are all way safer than the US, I believe). Instead of looking how the police could be improved you really think it's the people who interact with police?

It doesn't have anything to do with the lousy few weeks of training police get? The fact that they're often uneducated, the fact that bad behavior goes unpunished and everything else that is wrong with the US' system? It's the people?

I'm probably in the minority here but I'm at a point where I'll simply not purchase any service if I cannot use the in app form of payment. I'm just done with everything else. If I miss out on something then so be it.

Have you ever bought an Adobe subscription, ever tried to cancel a New York Times subscription? Or Audible where they say "Well, you can cancel but then we'll also take the tokens you've already paid for"? It's completely ridiculous.

I'm so sick of 14,000 variations on cancelling things, having to click through menus, five hundred different things I have to take care of and all that crap. On iOS I can cancel anything and everything - without exception - the same way and in a few clicks. I like that and it's just something I got used to.

The _average_ life expectancy was 30 but that's because loads of children died at a young age. If you made it past your teens your life expectancy was that way higher.

The headline is not correct. Using CDNs is absolutely ok if there's a legitimate reason to do so. Hosting a font was detemined to not be a good enough reason to send the IP to Google.

Presumably it would be a way to steal company information such as designs, accounts, and so on.

Does it collect user metrics like a lot of software does or does it actually steal designs? The report is absolutely not clear about this. I have not read many reports like this but are they all like the one they link to? Is that what a malware analysis looks like?

I'm completely behind the idea of calling every single software that collects user data and sends it off to a server malware but this is just not the case. We don't say Windows comes with malware, we in the West call it telemetry data to improve the user experience.

Work for a European company and we have the same rules for Russia, the US and China. I don't know the full list of countries but those are the only two relevant for my travels.

This is just another version of the "so you don't care about the children?" argument.

They already scan your photos but the reason for scanning is important. Type 'cat' into the search and they'll show you the pictures you've taken of cats. However, they can't just go through your photos and use it for any purpose they want. They have to give a specific reason.

This is not true and hasn't been for a while. It used to basically be a grey area but courts have repeatedly stated that just taking the picture was not allowed even if there wasn't ever any intention of publishing it anywhere.

You would have to justify it anyway and personal rights in Germany always trump the rights of others to create art, for example. You'll find many cases that are about surveillance cameras as well and even there's it's often in favor of the person not wanting to be on camera.

https://dejure.org/dienste/vernetzung/rechtsprechung?Text=VI...

http://lrbw.juris.de/cgi-bin/laender_rechtsprechung/document...

I remember having this issue a few years back with a 1080p display and a MacBook Pro from 2016. Connecting a Raspberry Pi Zero W yielded better display results than a $3k MacBook Pro, which was really disappointing. I can't believe it's still an issue to this day.

Twitter didn't remove them so there's nothing to report.

You cannot take a picture of a person where the person is the subject of the photo. This is not the case when you take a picture of a statue and there's people in the background, for example.

Xi is absolutely a common last name. What are you on about? Just checked the white pages for Xi for San Antonio because I used to live there and there's pages upon pages of results. Same for every other bigger US city I've checked.

I'm starting to hate these articles because they never, ever contain the information needed to deduct anything.

- Who got Covid (vaccinated or not?)?

- How sick are they (did they just test positive, are they in they hospital, ICU)?

Starting to feel like these essential questions are completely ignored on purpose. Well, just like the last dozen times an article like this has popped up, this "statistic" doesn't contain enough information to be relevant at all. It's just click bait crap.

It's because China is on its way to take the top spot economically while also being powerful enough militarily so that it cannot be touched by the US. The US is trying its best to drag out #1 for as long as possible because much of the US' influence depends on it.