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https://history.house.gov/Institution/Presidents-Coinciding/... “Since 1857, the government has been unified 47 times, 22 under Democratic control and 25 under Republican control” Not entertaining arguments about so and so party isn’t of this or that wing.
Haha okay well I guess if you're just going to ignore facts and substitute it with your own, have at it. But either way, they didn't say "Democrat" they said "left".
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I speak three European languages at native level (Im ESL. Or is it ETL?) and can get along well enough in a fourth. I have the luxury of choice. And my problem isn't with Europeans, that is Englishmen, Ukrainians, Russians, or normal people in the EU. My problem is with Europes’ (note the plural, this isn't merely about the EU) institutions, the way they think, the mentality of what a person can do. At no point in th…
Many US states have ongoing school indoor mask mandates. Also Czechia and Hungary are the two European countries most at risk of backsliding from democracy into authoritarianism.
Czechia and Hungary sliding sliding into authoritarianism? Please. That just not serious.
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“ at least in those countries you don't have to resign for what you do in your bedroom, consensually, behind closed doors...” No, you go to jail instead for offending someone. But you still have a job to pay off your court debts with (the US, thankfully, doesn’t have looser pays courts). As to the rest of your comment, I love it. Any criticism of the EU or Brussels is far right extremism and must be ignored. Its work…
> No, you go to jail instead for offending someone It's pretty hard to believe it. Can you point me to some example ? Is it what happened to you? Are you sure it was just an offense? In which country did it happen? > Any criticism of the EU or Brussels is far right extremism and must be ignored I was addressing the wording. Far right movements in Europe use the same slogans, they are pretty easy to spot, because they…
https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apologia_del_fascismo
Austria apologia of national socialism
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbotsgesetz_1947
Germany’s the same
Finland two years for tweeting a picture of the bible:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60111140
Baltics passed similar laws for communist symbols (so no Che shirts in Vilnus!)
These are all laws against offending someone’s sensibilities. And I could go on, I haven’t even mentioned the UK!
Now, apologia of fascists and commies is unwise. But in the US it is constitutionally protected.
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I've worked as a software developer for 8 years so far. I have yet to meet a single fellow developer who is privacy-conscious.
At my previous employer, among the 40 or so developer staff worldwide, there were only two of us who used Signal: myself (security focused backend dev) and the devops team security expert. Everyone else: just use WhatsApp so we can all communicate in the same place. Caring about privacy can be exhausting.
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Not only urge them to oppose it, but make it clear that it's a dealbreaker. I will vote you out if you support this bill. End of story.
>"I will vote you out if you support this bill. End of story. " I wish this threat would work on Senators who don't represent purple states. Come hell or high water, my home state will re-elect the same Democrats until the day they die or retire. Edit: Yes, we can try to vote for a different Democrat in the primary but that rarely ever succeeds, especially against a tenured incumbent. I wish there was a runoff system…
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I didn't express my concept, I expressed the reality that US tech companies have universally conquered Europe. If the EU would have had the ability to compete in these sectors, then we would have done it already ever since we found out in 2013 that the US is spying on us, or way before that. But nothing changed since then. Almost every EU company and government institution is using Microsoft products and all consumer…
Linus Torvalds is Finnish and was studying in Finland when he created Linux.
Plus, for the last 20+ years Linus has been working from the US while also gaining US citizenship. Case in point for US tech dominance, talent bread in Europe ends up in the US.
I guess this is the end of "sending customer data to the us". Quite impressive how fast the US-politics can burn billions in $, endanger the technological lead and build a massive opportunity for Europe! I, as a European could not be happier about this, from a economic standpoint. Hope you guys over there are not drifting to a surveillance dystopian.
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> The US is really flawed, but I wouldn't move back to the EU for double my family’s income. Which of the 27(8) countries did you live in, as they are rather different?
I speak three European languages at native level (Im ESL. Or is it ETL?) and can get along well enough in a fourth. I have the luxury of choice. And my problem isn't with Europeans, that is Englishmen, Ukrainians, Russians, or normal people in the EU. My problem is with Europes’ (note the plural, this isn't merely about the EU) institutions, the way they think, the mentality of what a person can do. At no point in th…
> I speak three European languages at native level
Way not to answer the question.
Also, BTW, you're probably wrong: Very high proficiency, maybe, but almost nobody speaks more than one language (or at the most, two) at a native level. But, sorry, I digress... To get back to the point:
Way not to answer the question.
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Many US states have ongoing school indoor mask mandates. Also Czechia and Hungary are the two European countries most at risk of backsliding from democracy into authoritarianism.
I’ve lived in Cali. I wont make that mistake again. Czechia and Hungary sliding sliding into authoritarianism? Please. That just not serious.