Honestly? Cool that you are asking, but I just want a coffee, not a conversation.

Yes, I’m German, how could you tell?

One difference is that Egypt and Turkey have a lot of tourism, so they tend to be quite tolerant towards tourists. You don’t want to scare off potential customers. The US seems to forget that.

It is more about being able to constantly spy on everyone. Funny how this exact sentence would have labeled one as a conspiracy nut not too long ago.

Constantly online means constant (more or less) analytics, means constant data to throw in the big computer to make you buy more shit or vote for the shit party.

I am outside of the US, and I do care. Biggest army and economy and so on. Even if not, I would not want to be associated with, idk, Australian wannabe tyrants either.

Mine told me to take a shower and put on a clean t-shirt. I cannot say he wasn’t right :)

But I get what you mean.

I would however argue that the average crow is smarter than the average hacker news commenter.

I would say that that is a legitimate concern of a parent who wants their child to have a “normal” life. Badly worded, of course.

I’d like to point out that it is only one single proposal. If this does not get shut down, then it is time to be worried. But for now, it might just be one glue-sniffing Congressperson sniffing the wrong kind of glue one morning.

I think a lot of them, actually. Germany certainly does.

My condolences for moving to Crackfurt.

It is much worse. I hope I am reading it wrong, but:

The term ‘‘technology’’ […] includes […] any semiconductor, circuit board, operating system, graphics processing unit, central processing unit, tenor processing unit, field-programmable gate array, random access memory, hard drive, solid-state drive, dataflow architecture, or cloud-computing service, that is manufactured, designed, developed, supplied, deployed, completed, […] [etc.] to function artificial intelligence […] and any other hardware, software, equipment, device, component, robotic computer, processor, network […] that is manufactured, designed, developed, supplied, deployed, […] [etc.] to function artificial intelligence or generative artificial intelligence.

This would mean that importing and exporting literally any piece of IT equipment, from a Ubuntu installer to a RAM chip, is illegal. Good luck & have fun.

What the fuck, for real?

Unfortunately, farmers markets are rarely open in the evening. Actually that is a bit of a business opportunity…

Kindly ask them about the current prognoses, like the Club of Rome one, the expected number of climate refugees in the next decades, and how well we are on track to hit any climate goal. And then about a protest form that will actually work and stop unprecedented human suffering.

Good news, we are on a good track to do jack shit about the climate and also severely cutting into rule of law and right to protest. Hooray.

Luckily, there is nothing you could do to change things, ever. It must be nice to have a clear conscience.

It is one thing I learned during Corona: a lot of people don’t give a shit about erosion of fundamental rights or people dying horribly. But don’t you dare inconvenience them in their god-given right to party on and pretend all is well.

If nobody bought iPhones, would Apple exist?

Yes. It does not work without severely limiting what people are allowed to say. I do believe anonymous communities don’t work without moderation, but I also believe blanket censorship is bad.

I have no good answer :(

The oil industry exists because people demand oil. Period.

I am mildly inconvenicenced for a short term, I demand to restrict basic freedoms and go for the highest sentence!

God help I even change my life a little to protect the life of literally billions of people.

I don’t think there is a way to have real time moderation without having bs like pre-approval of messages or AI snake oil. Which I am strongly against.