“This is the psychology of fascism, and it doesn’t require jackboots or swastikas. It just requires enough people who have learned to derive pleasure from watching the state hurt the right people.”

Is it just pleasure or is there also something like the joy of the relief of “choosing the right side, the one which is powerful, the one which can protect them”? This is an honest question.

The other thing I’d like to mention and what I think also plays a role in this: US Americans are indoctrinated from a very young age, that their country is the one with the most freedom, the best constitution, the greatest presidents, … and in addition to this they rarely get any news about other countries, other political solutions to problems we are all facing. Which means a lot of US Americans don’t know that there are better political solutions, they don’t know that there are other countries more free than them and they also don’t know they don’t have the best constitution.

He is a pedophile protector. He’s the only president who was impeached twice. He’s fat and orange and has a lot of mental issues.

These are facts and that won’t change no matter how much he tries to silence people.

Wenn die Daten auf bayerischen Rechenzentren liegen, dann klingt das zunächst gut, das heißt jedoch nicht, dass auch alles gut ist, noch heißt es, dass alles nicht so wild ist.

Der amerikanische Cloud Act besagt, dass die US-Behörden auf alle Daten zugreifen können, die von US-Firmen verwaltet werden, unabhängig von Serverstandort.

Die DSGVO sagt im Gegensatz dazu, dass personenbezogene Daten nur unter bestimmten Bedingungen in Drittländer übermittelt werden dürfen. Daran muss sich auch Microsoft halten, und schon hat man das Gefühl auf der sicheren Seite zu sein.

Allerdings ist die Frage, ob die Daten auch auf den bayerischen Servern bleiben. Zum Beispiel ist es durchaus möglich, dass Datenzugriffe aufgrund von Support, Updates oder Backups stattfinden und die Daten dennoch in den USA landen.

Abgesehen davon gibt es ja auch noch die Frage, ob die USA sich wirklich an die DSGVO hält. In der Vergangenheit haben sie das nachweislich und mehrfach nicht immer getan und die derzeitige US-amerikanische Regierung gibt einen Scheiß auf die DSGVO.

Zusätzlich gibt es das KI Problem. Jede Anfrage und jede Datei die über Copilot gesendet wird, wird an die USA übermittelt. Was das ganze Gesülze über den Schutz der Daten auf bayerischen Rechenzentren ad absurdum führt.

Und in welcher Hinsicht hat Microsoft ein Monopol? Egal was Microsoft anbietet, es gibt zu allem Alternativen.

Die Zweifel sind da und gibt Alternativen auf die man wechseln kann. Aber es wundert mich nicht, dass Bayern, die ja auch fröhlich Palantir einsetzen, lieber amerikanische Firmen dafür bezahlt (Lizenzgebühren), Zugriff auf ihre Daten zu haben, als zu wechseln.

“Die Sicherheit der Daten des Freistaats Bayern ist unser zentrales Anliegen.”

Diese Aussage in Verbindung mit Microsoft und in Verbindung mit der derzeitigen internationalen Situation: lass mich mal kurz lachen!

Wie doof kann man sein?!

Has someone ever tried to put trump into a bikini? Preferably with a realistic looking body and wet hair as he just came out of the sea?

“Which is not to say I wouldn’t have liked a condemnation, but I’m just not sure what it would have brought us.”

Backbone

Not only would it cost America a generation, each country, each area under the American influence will suffer the same.

What learned so far:

you need to politically engage to fight for a life which is enjoyable

Get used to it, climate change will definitely worsen it.

Your most important ally still wants to invade: https://www.firstpost.com/world/trump-asked-us-special-forces-to-plan-greenland-invasion-faces-resistance-from-military-generals-report-13967597.html

Do I think Maduro is a great guy? No, of course not. Does that mean I think the US action in Venezuela is justified? Definitely not. This isn’t about Maduro, it’s about the US going into another country kidnapping someone just because he’s in the way of their interests.

What if the next time it’s someone you don’t think is an arsehole? Who decides how much of an arsehole someone needs to be for the US to kidnap that person and for you to be ok with that?

“This lady put herself in this situation”

This is the same logic as “no wonder she was raped, look what she was wearing”

She was not responsible for his actions, and she’s certainly not responsible for being killed.

“You exchange real money at a booth, and in return you get tokens or fake currency that are only usable inside that ecosystem.”

To me that sounds like Reddit’s award system.

“Boosting posts or creators (opt-in)”

I hate this idea. I don’t want algorithms nor paid boosting to change the sorting of content. That’s one of the reasons I left Reddit.

Instead of introducing a complex internal currency or paid boosting, Fediverse instances could adopt a simple, transparent system inspired by Signal’s (the messenger) supporter badges.

Users voluntarily donate to their instance (one-time or recurring). In return, their profile gets a small, instance specific badge visible next to their avatar.

Badges are purely visual, they don’t have any influence on post visibility or sorting.

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I forgot to mention, that the badges are only visible for a certain time, like a month or so

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I’m not saying, that this is the best solution, but to me this solution is fair, doesn’t interfere with the core values of the fediverse and still raises awareness of the importance of financial support.

Be careful about announcing the discovery of such a significant lithium deposit, as Trump might get another one of his weird ideas, like making Germany the 52nd state (after Greenland as the 51st, of course).

No matter the circumstances or reasons, forcing women to give birth is horrifying. Where this leads is pretty clear: a lot of women would rather live celibate than be forced to give birth. That in turn will convince men to go back to a time when husbands had the legal right to have sex with their wives no matter whether women wanted that, effectively legalizing rape. We have seen that before in history.

Judging by what is happening currently not only in Russia but also in the USA, we are heading down a dangerous path. It’s crucial to stand against these oppressive measures and advocate for women’s reproductive rights and bodily autonomy.

The argument that “they wouldn’t have to do this if they just did (not) do xyz” is essentially saying that they have a good reason to do this because of what they shouldn’t have done in the first place.

IT’S NEVER OK!

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Atheists: who cares?

Bernie saying that Maduro is a dictator does NOT mean he approves what trump did.

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/bernie-sanders-venezuela-attack

I’m really tired of these never ending distortion and manipulation.

For all of you who think, that the AI overview spares you the hustle of clicking on any links in the search result:

The guardian: Google AI Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice

No thanks, I try to stay away from Google like it’s an STD.