u/splendoruranium

Op was on lemm.ee before moving, his contributions aren’t a recent thing.

Ah, I see - do you just happen to know them or is there a way to check for this kind of thing?

>If he would be what you call a repost-bot the links would likely be from more random low-quality sources and also wouldn’t be neatly posted to the most relevant community.

I might be wrong about the nature of the account, that's why I'm asking after all, but I wouldn't agree with *that* definition at all.

What I see here is an account with 264 Posts (8 per day!) and a mere 3 Comments and that just doesn't look like a **person** interested in engaging with other persons but like an automatism to deliberately pump content into communities - which in turn rings my alarm bells.

Enlighten me, fellow community members: This appears to be just some kind of recently created repost-bot that automatically and immediately links articles - is this considered spam around here and should be reported or is this desired behavior?

>“7 days a week is the required velocity to win right now”

Win *what*?

I see, thanks

Yo, dumnezero@piefed.social, this is really not cool. You're actively undermining discourse *and* wasting other people's time if you share this kind of auto-generated nonsense.

>In addition, many titles are designed from the ground-up to be online-only; in effect, these proposals would curtail developer choice by making these video games prohibitively expensive to create.

Why even bother asking industry outlets about this? Clearly they will just keep on trying to paint the picture that *they're people* with rights and desires and not just replaceable entities *serving at the behest* of consumers, i.e. actual people.

>Unfortunately, even if the Stop Killing Games movement eventually succeeds in creating some sort of policy changes, they will only apply in the EU (and potentially the UK, as well), so publishers and developers may still be able to permanently shut down games in other parts of the world.

Oh, I wouldn't worry about that. The whole world automatically benefits from regional legislation affecting global actors like international publishers. Just like the whole world benefitted from Europe enforcing GDPR compliance: Every reddit and Facebook user, not just Europeans, being able to download a data dump of their site activities isn't something that came about randomly.

>Anyway why would navy even matter in this hypothtical situation? r*ssians regretfully aren’t regarded enough to attack anyone over sea.

Maybe there's some kind of misunderstanding here. What's the current non-US-based NATO naval contingent around the China Sea?

What a strange soundbite.

Surely it's not "NATO" that provides any kind of military counterbalance in the Taiwan Strait in any sense of the word? European naval forces aren't really a regional player (and arguably not any kind of player).

So I guess what Rutte is really trying to do is to publicly state "I definitely believe a Russian attack on NATO would immediately draw every US aircraft carrier into the Baltic Sea! Would suck for Taiwan, but **I defnitely believe in the dependability of all alliance members**!" while sweating profusely.

Good!

As in: I approve of the concept. I hold this to be an acceptable way for modern countries to undermine each other if they desperately feel the need to. Economic pressure, back-room dealings, information campaigns... all much better than having hapless 19-year olds lob grenades at each other.

Not so keen if it's only done in *addition* to and not as a replacement for military buildup and sabrerattling though...

It's certainly a crisis for the *migrants*, but I somehow doubt the sun meant it that way 🙄

I mean... German rivers certainly aren't the toxic waste dumps they used to be in the 70s... but *actively* seeking to take a dip still seems strange. Then again who am I to judge if the local expert end up signing off on the requests 🤷

>The civil war in Germany's car sector

Not sure if intended, but that's the most subtle implication of "Corporations are people!" I've seen yet.

Not really, it’s just logical conclusion of believing in a project but then watching it fail repeatedly, and finally questioning whether it’s worth saving. His actual proposal is for a deeper democratic federalism, but he doesn’t think that will fly, because he’s disappointed.

Ok, there's a big disconnect here. I'll try to convey what I'm seeing when I read that sentence:

"Here's this complex and unique alliance structure, a transnational proto-pseudo-state, brought into being over the course of generations of humans, not only to keep the most wartorn region on a planet full of quarrelsome monkeys *at peace* - a task at which, through its multiple iterations, it has **excelled at** for almost 80 years - but also to slowly put its constituent nations into a mindset of cooperation instead of competition.

... anyway, let's apply some completely different arbitrary success criteria, determine this arguably staggering and most unlikely achievement of the human race a failure and suggest to tear it down, what could go wrong?"

>Yanis would like to federalize the EU but realizes it’s maybe time to dismantle it.

What a strange non-sequitur.

This asylum policy has been an issue for many years, and our government fails to address it every time.

What's the issue arising from the current asylum policy?

every country would be better if shitty people like this could be kicked out. though there is no place to kick them to.

because of people like this, i’d rather stay and die with my belongings if war ever came to my country. Its awful world to seek asylum anywhere.

We're all just people and some of us have shitty ideas. The people can't go anywhere, there's just this one planet. The ideas can change, it's just very, very hard.

Thanks for the input!

>Didn’t Aella go off the right-wing deep end or am I thinking of the wrong person?

Haven't seen any indicators in the stuff I've read, but these days that's not enough for me to give a confident "no".

In this context I can fully recommend this article by the wonderful Aella. Rape - as with many other things - being a *spectrum* is something that seems so obvious in retrospect but so outlandish as an initial thought because it's hard to conceptualize when legislation usually calls for or assumes just some kind of boolean "consent yes/no" state.

I wish the world wasn't so complicated.

US applicant: "How many sick days do I get?"

German HR department: "I'm sorry what do you mean?"

US applicant: "How many days may I call in sick per year?"

German HR department: "Er... that depends on how often you get sick?!"

US applicant: "Wat."