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Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

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Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

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Post by hef19898 »

ben_w wrote: post #363
hef19898 wrote: post #329

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So, you are telling me that you live two seperate and secret lives to hide the fact you own illegal dogs? In all seriousness so, for all the effort and data companies like facebook have, the product, targeted ads, is just bad. And sometimes hilariously so.

Even if I owned a dog, which I don't, UK law is irrelevant because I live in Berlin.

So, you are an international spy? :-)

Seriously so, how is something like targeted ads a product worth paying for if the results are, quite often, so incredibly wrong? I get search context ads and such things, but all that targeted stuff is just so pointless. I never got a single one that was relevant for me. Since I aggressively turned off anything ad related on my phone, ad quality actually got better. Still not really relevant for me, but better.

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Post by 7moritz7 »

overstay8930 wrote: post #165
7moritz7 wrote: post #156

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> rapidly declining Source? I need it urgently because a lot of my money is on the stock market both in the US and EU and I seem to have missed something significant

You know the eurozone is in a recession right?

I asked for a source because this is news to me. Also did it ever occur to you that even if this was the case, it would be a ripple effect of Russia's energy politics and destabilization necause of the invasion? Rather than "overregulation"?

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Post by olabyne »

kragen wrote: post #313

> The single market is, from the perspective of the EU itself, its single most important project. although i am not of course the eu itself, nor do i even live there, i think this is incorrect world war i lasted from 01914 to 01918 and killed 17 million people world war ii in europe started 21 years later, lasting from 01939 to 01945 (though it started earlier in china) and killed 73 million people, mostly in russia…

it's really not easy to read your way of writing dates.

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Post by nebula8804 »

tristor wrote: post #300
ta1243 wrote: post #97

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You hate (not dislike, actively hate ) 861/2007, the European Small Claims procedure? and 1007/2011, you are really that opinionated on textile fibre names?

I realize you are using these examples as something so innocuous and inoffensive nobody would oppose such regulation. However, you clearly have not read either regulation in full and with due consideration of its effects. You can form your own judgments, but these regulations are not without tradeoffs. Take 1007/2011, on one hand this just centralizes and codifies some existing regulations to reduce country-specific…

Wow always interesting hearing new developments in unrelated industries. There just isn't enough time in the day to research each industry. Since you seem knowledgable, do you know what is the state of recycling old fabrics?

I was fascinated by attempts to "process" old fabrics and mix them with other fabrics to create new garments as shown in this video but im not sure if this went anywhere.

[1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obO1PKfXGpQ

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Post by polski-g »

kerkeslager wrote: post #159
paulsutter wrote: post #48

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Yes each time we see these cookie warnings, we admire a system that does so much to our benefit

There are two systems at play when you see a cookie warning: 1. Businesses trying to violate your privacy. 2. A government trying to protect you from said businesses. Either of these entities could avoid the cookie warning, but there are very different reasons why they do not.

This reminds me of the Cloudflare vs Archive.is shitfest. I do not care why CF DNS doesn't work with Archive, all I know is that it doesn't work, and others do.

I do not care why cookie banners are there. All I know is that they weren't there N years ago and now they are, and they are annoying.

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Post by silverquiet »

kbolino wrote: post #364
silverquiet wrote: post #337

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> Even on death’s doorstep, Trevor was not angry. In fact, he staunchly supported the stance promoted by his elected officials. “Ain’t no way I would ever support Obamacare or sign up for it,” he told me. “I would rather die.” When I asked him why he felt this way even as he faced severe illness, he explained: “We don’t need any more government in our lives. And in any case, no way I want my tax dollars paying for Me…

There is nothing more smug than the point-and-laugh hit piece, where a journalist finds some ignorant rube for the college-educated to sneer at.

The author is not a journalist, but a doctor who studied public health issues.

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Post by 7moritz7 »

alecco wrote: post #243
7moritz7 wrote: post #138

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Because left-right patterns from the US don't properly transfer to pluralist democracies like most in the EU as well as the federal politics. You need more nuance than a black-white view.

> Because left-right patterns from the US don't properly transfer to pluralist democracies like most in the EU Perhaps you should check your own biases. The political spectrum comes from Europe. And I'm not American. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum#Historical_... My point stands, this post adds nothing of value. Even as opinion is a very average socialist position we've heard many, many times.

> very average socialist position

There is no such thing as an "average left-wing socialist opinion". Socialists can be both right- and left-wing by your superficial spectrum. You are probably talking about Social Democrats, rarely labeled Socialist Democrats. Which is not the same as Socialists.

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Post by interactivecode »

fermisea wrote: post #273
bojan wrote: post #253

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Why would it be ridiculous, if a truck has a Bulgarian license plate it's a reasonable expectation that it's based in Bulgaria.

If a worker has Bulgarian nationality, they are free to live and work anywhere in the EU, including France. And a Bulgarian business can also operate anywhere in the EU. It's a single economic market, so it's clear that rules like that are arbitrary and designed to be appease special interests.

yes and no. They are free to live and work anywhere in the EU, but through multiple rules they are obligated to pay income, city and employment taxes in the country they live and work.

I've heard that there are long term goals of unifying healthcare, retirement and the way work and local taxes are calculated so that it's more flexible and less based on small local bureaucracy. Similar to what they did with mobile phone subscriptions, where you pay to the country you spend your time in, but can use it anywhere. but that requires a lot more financial systems to interoperate.

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