To all you folks who're downvoting this comment: Are you basing your opinion on OP's biased, slanted account of this policy, or did you read the actual post from the Feddit admins? You don't have to answer me, but if it's the former, maybe self-reflect that you're here complaining about censorship and propaganda, yet you're doing so in response to a very propaganda-laden post that misrepresents the actual situation.
The admins are also German, though, and seem to suggest that they feel at risk by this, as well. Maybe it's just time for another European instance to start up, with admins not in Germany, who feel comfortable hosting this discourse?
That's a fair concern; maybe the recourse is just to move the community to a different instance? If the community as a whole is largely in agreement, this shouldn't be a difficult task. Even less of one if the mods agree.
This kind of seems... reasonable? Like, they have and convey a compelling legal reason for needing to do this. There's plenty of other Lemmy instances where these opinions and statements can be freely expressed. Further, they're explicitly allowing discourse that conveys similar sentiment but doesn't go against German law.
I guess my question is, what's the objection here?
The answer to the 'Taxes might go up' concern is that even if taxes do go up, it will be offset by cheaper broadband rates even for people who don't switch. Comcast right now are operating an effective monopoly; when they lose that, and a presumably cheaper option becomes available, they'll have to adjust their pricing to compete. Even folks who do not intend to switch stand to benefit from this initiative.
Sentences served concurrently are served at the same time. If someone was found guilty of 3 different crimes, and was sentenced to 1, 3 and 5 years in prison for them, and they were to be served concurrently, they'd be in prison for a total of 5 years.
Cumulative (or consecutive, depending on where you're from) sentences are served one after another, so in the above example, they'd be in prison for a total of 9 years.
It's also possible for (for example) the 1 and 3 year sentences to be served cumulatively, and the 5 year to be served concurrently (in which case the total would be 8 years).
I think episode 7, 8, 9 would have been better if 7 had flipped the script rather than being a story analog to 4. Whole movie could have been largely the same, but rather than the Resistance stopping the First Order at the end, let the First Order win - let Starkiller Base succeed in blowing up the Resistance' base planet and achieve, for all intents and purposes, total victory. It would have come as a shock to viewers (especially given how close the macro plot adhered to episode 4), and they could have made the rest of the new trilogy about the scattered remnants of the resistance trying to get their shit together and field some kind of opposition against overwhelming, impossible odds.
If everyone made use of the post language feature, it would entirely solve this problem. Unfortunately (at least to my knowledge) it's not possible to set a default post language, so most content is just posted as Undetermined.
And also knock it off with the fucking microtransactions and shit. I wouldn't mind games costing something appropriate for inflation if we were getting complete, high quality games without the expectation that we spend even more money afterwards. As it stands, they're complaining about the low cost of games while also milking players for every penny they can on top of the purchase price. Fuck these guys.
That's just asking to have online shopping become much harder, requiring more identity verification than just having a credit card and an address. Which is maybe beneficial overall; it would cut down on fraud, but I doubt it would be a popular change.
My solution is just to act like I'm cooking for 12 people, and have leftovers for the rest of the week.