u/hendrik — hendrik

Thanks for the detailed perspective. And I'm pretty sure you can't say class war, or you're immediately enemy number 1. At least for a good amount of people. 😅

I think most of us is well aware of that. In the USA you either watch the one propaganda channel, or the other one. But realistically only your grandma does that. The younger people consume some alt-right internet content and think drinking bleach is a good thing, you need a trad-wife and NOAA or whoever is turning some frogs gay. At least that's the picture I get. Okay, I let my sarcasm get the better of me. But we really know media in the US isn't good. Neither is social media and all the political bubbles.

I'm not sure about that either. From what I read sex without consent was not necessarily a crime under the previous law, and that's what they fixed?! I finally have to find some source and read what actually happened and what's in the bill and not just some summary...

Edit: From reading a few news articles, I'd say consent wasn't the deciding factor under previous law. So technically having sex without consent was fine. Unless there was something like coercion or violence involved. And likely there are quite some loopholes with that.

You're right. You can't issue a blank check. Or you can't ever change your mind later on. So having consent in writing is certainly not a good idea.

Good question. I was under the assumption lawmakers don't mandate something to exist (consent), unless it's also someone's obligation to take care of it. And it obviously can't be the injured party... But you might be right, there is more to it. Unfortunately it's kind of hard to get the exact wording of the bill. The journalists don't seem to provide any links for me to look it up. But yeah, I'll edit my post, that was mostly my speculation.

~~I feel "word or deed" isn't the entire story, right? Once the burden of proof is this way around, and it's a he-said-she-said case like with spoken word, you'll kind of want to fill out a form and have it in writing.

But word or deed is the right thing to do, you shouldn't have sex unless it is clear the other person is on the same page, and they show it in some way.~~

Edit: I think my previous take here wasn't super clever. Seems the main achievement of this bill is rewriting law so sex is about consent. Directly. And not defining rape via some other things like coercion or violence (which might have loopholes or other issues). And now consent (or the lack thereof) is the deciding factor.

Though there is a subtle difference. The US has a lot of oil and natural gas. While German hasn't. We used to get the majority from Russia.

[...] is promising to bring down electricity prices for energy-intensive industries by constructing new gas-run plants.

The irony. Isn't natural gas one of the most expensive ways to generate electricity?

I think the title itself is mostly rage-bait, though. The article seems to say nobody "is using" it, it is some sort of research project. That claim is just in the title. And they say the future of it is unclear, certainly no hint that some entity representing Germany is planning on using it... I think it's a valid concern, though. Shaping public discourse with algorithms, shadowbanning opinions etc is quite manipulative and overreach. It's not a new concept though. I think private companies are already doing related things on their platforms for quite some time already.

Well, they're definitely a thing. But I don't think we forgot what happened 2 years ago and the substantial amount of money every household had to pay for energy and heating during that winter. And how that was attempted extortion by Putin himself.

There definitely are some people who twist the facts and spread misinformation about that. And I think we have a substantial amount of conspiracy nuts and people who already are down the rabbit hole. And the modern way of getting most of the news from social media certainly doesn't help with that. But I think as a normal person you'd have a lot of family, friends and coworkers telling you how you're insane.

I don't know where this difference in perception comes from. Seems Ooops is from Germany and I'm too. And I mean I live in my own little filter bubble, but I'd say people I know still do things like talk to the neighbours or have some company do the maths on the specific house... So idk. I could see a cultural difference compared to someone from the USA, where a lot of people are politically opposed to renewable energy. And they have a lot of propaganda on TV and whatever. I don't think this is normal for Europe though. I see a lot of solar on roofs here. And allegedly heating pump companies have a lot of jobs and a backlog. And we used to get our natural gas from Russia, so there's that as well. So by looking at my own surroundings, and talking to people, I'd say most people aren't fooled by social media. They're well aware of their options and that natural gas already got more expensive and it's likely going to increase even more in the long term.

And it goes further than that. There is a lot of support which could be harvested. A lot of people for example in central Europe would like to get rid of their natural gas heating and buy a heat pump. Or install solar on their own rooftop to contribute. I think there are a lot of smaller and bigger issues with energy transition which need to be tackled to get us to where we want to be. I feel in addition to lacking support, we also in fact have a lot of support, which we don't really make use of.

Thanks. I didn't know about that. I mean everytime I do online shopping or have a look at eCommerce solutions, I see other payment processing providers. Or like SumUp other other company's terminals with smaller shops. I always wondered why the banks disregard that. I mean they're in the loop anyway. They could just take that chunk of profit as well. And the processing fees add up, even here in Europe. And I don't think I've ever seen cybersecure for checkout anywhere I bought stuff.

Though Visa and Mastercard often let some third party company like Stripe deal with the payment processing, at least online. I don't know why they do that when they could have that share of the profit, too. It's not really related to Taler, but their business is set up a bit weird at times IMO.

Sure, I get that. I just can't find any evidence of them actually doing things like that (overreaching past what's mandated by law). So I think the notion isn't rooted in reality. Other than that all I have is my experience of feddit.org being one of the nicer instances here on the network.

Sorry, I occasionally have a weird fetish with feeding trolls. I was just getting started. But yeah, I'm going to stop now.

No, you're just wrong. I mean unless you live here, it's not your call to make what we can and can not talk about. And I feel like you didn't even get what it's about. You're perfectly fine to criticise Israel in Germany. We also do in fact discuss zionism and what random people on the internet say about that. If you scroll to the top and see what this post is about, you'd see that we actualy discuss the topic a lot on this Lemmy instance.

Thanks. I mean even if we disregard where the admin lives, where a good amount of their users live, we'd have to talk about law in Austria, which is a bit different but not very far off. It'd still be illegal to call for violence against groups of people. And they also have something like a "Symbole-Gesetz" which lists Hamas.

And I mean the idea is a bit stupid. That law isn't about protecting the circuit boards of the server. It's about the people, so of course it has to be about the location of either the admins or users, or both and less so about the computer's location.

Thanks. Yeah I remember reading something like that. Though, it wasn't big news for me since I also live in that jurisdiction. Germany is a country, and as such it has it's own laws which don't always exactly match to what other countries do. For example here you aren't allowed to publicly deny the holocaust, spread the war slogans of terrorist organizations or the nazis. That's just forbidden. In other countries like the USA, you'll have different exceptions to the First Amendment.

But since the admins are Germans and a large chunk of their userbase too. It's going to be the german law that's going to get them in trouble. And remember they do this for free as a service to us.

We'd need to look up how the "Active" algorithm works. It doesn't align like that with any other sorting method. And also not on other platforms.

To be fair, each article has "Euro" in the title, and I can't find the Berlin one. your's however shows up and makes it even more consequtive ones with Israel in the title.

And I mean it's kind of an "active" topic of discussion right now... And Europe has lots of foreign relations and discusses everything...