This shit is because of an organization that pushes their shitty products. Lobbysm in the EU is fucking out of control .
https://netzpolitik.org/2022/dude-wheres-my-privacy-how-a-ho...
EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday
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Re: EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday
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The fact that we have to deal with this bullshit every couple months is a pretty depressing fact on its own.
I wish there was a way for EU citizens to punish the council this behaviour. Sadly, there doesn't seem to be anything in place for that.
There is: EU citizens can engage their peers in dialogue on how this behaviour is terrible and they can try their darnedest to convince their peers to never vote for politicians who are part of the problem.
Re: EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday
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Are you sure it's not just that your card has both EC and Visa Electron/Mastercard Meastro or similar, and that it's the EC part they accept? It's been a few years since I've been to Germany, but for comparison, in Norway - while it's nearly unheard of now - you also used to be able to find places that'd take "BankAxept" bank cards, which would be pretty much every domestic debit card, and is similar to EC Karten, bu…
Yes, I am, N26 only gives you a Maestro card if you pay extra, and even that (which I don’t have) doesn’t support girocard. The one I have is MC only.
Wow, it's really bizarre to have a bank issuing debit cards not linked to the dominant local bank network...
Re: EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday
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I dunno how you drink out of a bottle, but I most certainly don't deep throat it to have its neck in my mouth. Please enlighten me how it would make it impossible to "drink properly" when the bottle is flipped beyond the neck.
I do not know what it means to "flip a bottle beyond the neck". Tetrapack milk packages have some sort of a "roof" on top. The opening is on one of the sides of the roof. It is hard to drink from that anyway, now additionally the cap is pressing against the lips. You don't have to "deep throat" a water bottle either to feel the effect. The cap always disturbs. It is also ugly of you have water bottles on a dinner tab…
> I do not know what it means to "flip a bottle beyond the neck".
Meant to write "flip the cap beyond the neck"
Re: EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday
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I dunno how you drink out of a bottle, but I most certainly don't deep throat it to have its neck in my mouth. Please enlighten me how it would make it impossible to "drink properly" when the bottle is flipped beyond the neck.
I have problem with 0.5l yoghurt bottles. Yoghurt is best when shaken before opening the bottle because its viscosity spreads evenly, otherwise you get watery yoghurt on top, bottom is too dense. I enjoy having morning breakfast in the park, drinking yoghurt straight from the bottle. When I shake it, yoghurt sticks to the cap. When caps were removable, I'd put it aside so that yoghurt that stuck to the cap does not s…
I guess that is a case. But generally this isn't something that is a problem on most bottles.
(Also, lick the damn cap clean, stop wasting yogurt)
Re: EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday
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Yes, I am, N26 only gives you a Maestro card if you pay extra, and even that (which I don’t have) doesn’t support girocard. The one I have is MC only.
Wow, it's really bizarre to have a bank issuing debit cards not linked to the dominant local bank network...
Works fine for me, as I said, I can pay with MC debit almost everywhere. The bonus is no-fee foreign currency payments, just for the basic MC exchange rate. Back then I checked, and the only others that offered that were mobile-only banks.
But from all the comments, I’m starting to wonder if SumUp had some focus on Lübeck and Hamburg for other places to not have the huge advances in card payments of recent years.
Re: EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday
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I would certainly hope they do, it'd be entirely pointless if it didn't. Doesn't change that it's not a country.
But the rules the EU makes impact the country I live in. The EU does not need to be a country for their rules to have impacts on countries. I think this is pretty self explanatory though?
This is awkward. I think I misinterpreted your initial comment after rereading it just now. I must've been quiet dumb unless you edited it earlier.
My initial comment doesn't really make sense in this context
Re: EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday
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I'm sorry, are you talking about the plastic caps that stay attached to plastic bottles so that they are more likely to be disposed of properly rather than end up in some marine (or other nature) environment? I cannot believe you're comparing that (an effort designed to make recycling more effective, which is generally a good thing) to EU citizens entirely losing our access to privacy in the digital world.
The same, it solves a marginal problem (people that throw away on the highway only the plastic caps, and somehow keep separate the bottle), in an absurd way that punishes all the nice users, again, just to solve a small % of very cases. The guys who somehow enjoy throwing away plastic caps, will likely remove it anyway. The same with the spying, all users will suffer, but those who want to work around it, will find a…
> it makes driving more dangerous now, as you need two hands to drink from a water bottle.
What? That is absurd, you don't need two hands just because the lid remains attached.
Re: EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday
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What is wrong about the means of production being under social ownership in socialism? Yes, socialism allows also some private property and there is spectrum of how much it is a planned economy but social ownership of the means of production is a central component of socialism.
Socialism does not require an authoritarian state, period. It's much larger than that, and it is a gradient. Just like "not being socialist" does not mean that you are libertarian: you can be a moderate liberal. For instance, saying that public transportation should be public (i.e. belong to the state) does not mean that the state is authoritarian. You can have more moderate forms of socialism. I find it interesting…
> For instance, saying that public transportation should be public (i.e. belong to the state) does not mean that the state is authoritarian.
Sure, but that's not socialism. That's state capitalism at most.
There is not gradient. If society is socialist then as per definition and as explained there must be authoritarianism to suppress any private initiative.
The article in French says the same thing as I wrote before: "socialist parties" are no longer socialist:
"Le socialisme démocratique, c'est-à-dire un socialisme converti à la démocratie libérale et respectueux du jeu parlementaire, représente aujourd'hui la tendance majoritaire des partis socialistes, qui n'envisagent plus la rupture avec l'économie de marché."
If they no longer want to get rid of the market economy and private ownership then they are no longer socialist at all! Socialism has demonstrably failed so they have been trying to adapt while keeping the name...
Re: EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday
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I'm sorry, are you talking about the plastic caps that stay attached to plastic bottles so that they are more likely to be disposed of properly rather than end up in some marine (or other nature) environment? I cannot believe you're comparing that (an effort designed to make recycling more effective, which is generally a good thing) to EU citizens entirely losing our access to privacy in the digital world.
The same, it solves a marginal problem (people that throw away on the highway only the plastic caps, and somehow keep separate the bottle), in an absurd way that punishes all the nice users, again, just to solve a small % of very cases. The guys who somehow enjoy throwing away plastic caps, will likely remove it anyway. The same with the spying, all users will suffer, but those who want to work around it, will find a…
I use these caps one-handed plenty...