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  • In August 2021, noyb had filed several complaints against news sites using unlawful ‘Pay or OK’ systems with German data protection authorities (DPAs). Despite the fact that only about 3 to 10% of people want tracking for personalised advertising, these systems lead to consent rates of more than 99%. Almost four years after the filing of the complaints, the DPAs of North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse still haven’t managed to issue a decision on the merits. Quite the opposite: In order to avoid finally deciding the case, the DPA of North-Rhine Westphalia has even issued a 12-page decision that it cannot decide yet. Today, noyb took both authorities to court for their year-long inactivity.


  • The headline makes it sound like this is a problem in all of Europe, while the article itself is writes about how Italian journalists are likely being targeted by the Italian government. Georgia Meloni often gets a pass because she works together with other European leaders, but she is (almost) as fascist as Orbán and Vučić. Le Pen, PiS, AfD the list of like-minded politicians is long and we cannot and should not allow them to target independent journalists or abuse publicly funded media to further their anti-democratic agenda.


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    I don’t downvote them, but I am quick to judge someone is just looking for attention. Negative attention is still attention. I do not bother to check whether my assumption is correct and also don’t judge them, but just don’t want to get involved. I can imagine someone else chooses not to ignore but to downvote. I also wouldn’t upvote someone’s suicidal thoughts, so maybe I just don’t know how to deal with it either way








  • I am not Muslim and to me cutting the throat of a cow does not sound like something God wants people to be doing to celebrate him. Aside from that, you are the one who gets to decide what you do as you’ll be the one bearing the consequences. Both the option of repeating it next year and not will have results you might like or might not like. Best advise I can give is to look at the reasoning behind why you would make a certain choice. Try to uncover what your intentions are. And this is in no way meant cynical, try to uncover what God wants for you to do.




  • We also shouldn’t forget Russian command will be willing to do things Nato won’t, like bombing civilians or forcing people to join the army. They might for example threaten to execute a pow or retaliate by using chemical weapons. If two parties are not fighting by the same rules, it won’t be all about who has the biggest military power. I think you’re right on their losses not being sustainable, although I think they’ll be more likely to choose more desperate measures than they’d consider retreating.