I wasn't making any sense of that. Thank you.
qyron
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I don't doubt you have a busy life. And that is not the subject at hand here.
What should concern us, collectively, is that we are constantly being pushed the notion that we do not have enough time and that tech is always the solution, when it is not.
I'm going to take a risk and say you write faster than you type and reaching for a pencil is quicker than launching a program.
They created the perfect law.
"You are accessing and distributing ilegal material!"
"How as that been known by the authorities?"
"We have searched and investigated and thus determined it as such!"
"The law states that any one doing so is deemed as acting unlawfully."
"Throw everyone in jail! Including the jailer!"
Censorship. We can always count on it to handicap itself.
Translation please!
Writing someone a letter is a very personal thing and you're creating a memory. Something tangible, concrete, also weighs in on reality. Looking at a piece of paper with your handwrite makes you understand you're commiting to something.
I'm a FOSS loon but the craze of making everything digital is absurd. I've listened to people criticizing others for using paper and a pencil to take down a memo, note or even journaling, when they can do it on their phone.
Is existing so dreadful nowadays? Does the notion of leaving proof of existence scares?
Above all, it is about the individual freedom.
Go back in history and you'll see a pattern of regressive politics paired with heavy censorship, starting with anything sex or sexuality related and, by extension, anything potentially disturbing.
It is always sparked by a "well intentioned" desire to protect:the public from harmful creation which then pushes further and further into thought control. There have been attempts to ban and criminalize cursing.
Imagine being arrested for shouting an expletive out of hurting yourself or frustration.
I don't consume porn. I think it is so banalized it has become uninteresting. But to have people persecuted because they want to make it is not something I want to see. And this feeling goes further when we enter the realm of personal affirmation, linked with LGBTQ+ issues and other individuals fighting for their rights.
And this is highly debateable but artistic creation must no be censored. The best censorship for artists and their work is indifference. It's the best way to state that something is irrelevant.
Meanwhile, with all the persecution towards mature content (try replacing NSFW and porn with that expression), we get violence nearly glorified in almost all media and so called reality tv and other highly exploitative entertainment is normalized.
Leave the mature content creators be.
You want gold? Tons of it? Go mine the asteroid belt. But if it is to become plentiful what value will it hold?
Will cheap gold plated circuitry be back?
We can't see what the man is sporting from under that shirt neck line.
For all we know the man can put to shame Donkey Kong.
Buying from them energy will be mostly gas, which is destined for the gas hungry northern europe countries, for heating. This is counter intuitive but it makes sense. The dollar is on a sharp decline facing the euro, so more gas is bought for less money. The objective should be to stockpile gas reserves while moving away from russian gas imports and expand the sustaible energy grid and power reserve infrastructure.
The Big Orange is placated for the imediate time and life goes on.
The EU does not have the authority to mandate companies to establish bridge heads in foreign soil or anywhere, for what that may matter. So, if some companies decide to invest there it will be to soak up money from that market. But considering the political instability there, it will be a high risk endeavour. And lla long term one, as well. So long that it will be easy to camouflage intended delays with accidental ones.
What equipment? The planes deals are running away, to countries already in european soil, like France, Sweden and even Turkey. Maybe ammunition? What else? Factories are being retooled in Germany to produce weaponry. I think Austria and Poland are doing the same. Sweden and Finland... well.
These "negotiations" are laughable, at best. I refuse to accept the notion that all the people at those meetings did not realize it was for show and at the first opportunity all will be discarded, by any side.
I'm in Portugal.
I've asked if such devices could be supplied and I was given pretty much the same explanation I supplied here.
Strangely enough, vehicles can be legally tracked, in real time, yet the company I work at has some union agreement that prevents such installation in the work vehicles.
It's a mess.
It's strange. Apparently it is one of those situations where the possibilty of something very useful being easily abused by companies to spy on their people is too great.
Because this needs to be a regular thing, come forward warriors and announce the feats you have achieved! For the glory of the Empire!
I'm in Europe, where american football isn't a thing and the NFL is nothing we care about.
We also tend to have better standards to serve and eat our food.
So why am I to find this crap in Lidl?
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Weren't those a thing to admire? Chicken scratches on the ground could be more readable.