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  • It was a huge erosion of democracy when the UK applied the new Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 in April 2022. It gave police so much more illegitimate power of citizen that it almost felt like a giant step towards a Children Of Man scene. Police now can snatch anybody, for any suspicious reason from the streets and detain them without a charge for up to 16 hours. It was first widely used in September in the coronation of king charles where it was used to crush down on protests and since then was used several times to crush climate demonstrations. In a podcast about this topic, it was crazy how a woman described the new powers the police now have. It certainly is a step away from democracy and aligns more with a autocratic stance against its own citizens - I do not know if a police reform like that would had any success in an EU country as it is really cutting deep into the freedom rights of citizens. Next step would be for the UK to extend these rules to private homes or (as we see it already coming) private conversations. The UK is currently trying to outlaw encryption of private communication. I hope UK citizens are aware of where their country is currently drifting, as it does not look good from any angle and is a slippery slope to a much more authoritarian future.

  • Am I missing something? Norway is not part of the EU and therefore Facebook does not have to apply EU regulations to their products for Norway customers. How does Norway handle those things in general? Does Norway apply a lot of Regulations (for example) for Pesticides and Environmental Regulation mostly verbatim to their own code shortly after the EU or do you have debates/votes/referendums regarding those topics in your own political spheres? I know that Norway is very far ahead when it comes to securing their environmental treasures. But I have no idea if or how Norway applies for advancements in customer protection regulations like the GDPR* and such


    EDIT:

    • I just notice on the GDPR Wiki Page that while the EU adopted the GDPR regulation in 2016, apparently in this case Norway also applied it 2 years later.

    20 July 2018: the GDPR became valid in the EEA countries (Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway),[142] after the EEA Joint Committee and the three countries agreed to follow the regulation.

    So, I do not know why Facebook is showing you Ads that sound like they break the EEA GDPR. Maybe you should report this to your local/national data security office or customer protection office.

  • Same. I do not need this media Format on YT.

    For anybody wanting to block it via uBlock, here is the code from a previous comment:

     
        
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  • The African leader apparently are not strong enough to speak up against Putin, as they are so deep in need of their private military companies. It is not even that the russian PMC are so great in logistics, equipment or strategy. It is just that the russian PMC are as ruthless and brutal as the african war lords who need them to butcher the people they deem to be enemies.

    I think I will never in my lifetime see Africa as a free democratic continent, as long as autocratic/warmonger leader of african countries are cooperating with the lowest scum in the rest of the world. It is a match that will spiral that contintent (or at least those countries) further down the drain, but is continuing for 20-30 years some egomanic african leader to snort all the coke he wants, rape all the woman he wants and buy all the western luxus he wants. Nobody of them is interested in a positive long term goal for their nation or their people. They bleed their own people out and reject every transformation to a modern civil society. Homophobia might only be one ideology of many shackles, that bonds the sahel region to russia. The others are dehumanization, hate, lying, aggression, indoctrination, private gain, power, ...

  • The damage is pretty mild compared to the ruins that Russia created with their missiles on major ukrainian cities. If moscovits are shaking bacause 10 windows of a single story got damaged, they are invited to ukraine and see what they are doing to the civil population there.

  • How is that the same than a favorite? I can also use a searchengine to find a website, but a bookmark is sometimes better. I can also search through all tweets on twitter, but having some marked as favorites come in handy sometimes. I use favorites and save lists in youtube quite a lot. Even though I could use the yt search bar each time.

  • Does Discord now offer the ability to save/fav comments to find them again? When I used it the last time, i was amazed how everything just scrolls by without a possibility to hold on to something.

  • Here is another picture. you can see the church in the background. The right side is the road to the houses, and on the left is the speed-way with 2x2 lanes. It was (still) crazy back then.

    EDIT: I was corrected. Its not. It is the substitute road.

    Here is a recent picture looking from the other direction. Again the church now on the left. It was a crazy project but it was well received by the Altstadt/Oldtown.

    In the German Wikipedia you can find another nice picture of the Rhine-Bank (Rhein-Ufer). It shows the Steps to the Rhine in 1900 - before the asphalt rolled over all that land. Notice the church and Tower in the back. And today.

    the substitute road

  • If you just want the dry version of all this, there is of course a wikipedia page for that hearing.

    Hearings

    Rep. André Carson (D-IN), chairman of the subcommittee, opened the hearing. He raised the concern that UAPs posed a potential threat to national security and should be treated as such, and that the "stigma associated with UAPs has gotten in the way of good intelligence analysis." He criticized the Pentagon for failing to name a director to head the newly established Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group and for failing to provide any updates. Carson pledged to "bring the organization out of the shadows.”[6]

    The hearings included testimony from Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security Ronald S. Moultrie, the Pentagon's top intelligence official, and Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray. Bray stated that the number of "frequent and continuing" reported sightings had grown to about 400 since last year's mandated report.[7][8][9] He cast out the notion that the UFOs had extraterrestrial origins, testifying that no organic/inorganic material or unexplainable wreckage indicated so.[6][10] Bray added that there had been no attempts at communication with the objects, and that despite at least 11 "near-misses", no collisions between unidentified aircraft and U.S. aircraft had been reported so far.[11][12]

    It was revealed that other countries had similar reports on UFOs, and that a number of them communicated with U.S. intelligence agencies, although Moultrie told lawmakers that they did want "potential adversaries to know exactly what we see or understand."[6] He also mentioned the need for cooperation with the Federal Aviation Administration as well as other government agencies.[9] Moultrie stated that most UFOs could be identified through "rigorous" analysis and investigation, but pointed out a number of incidents that defied explanation, such as a 2004 sighting where aircraft carrier pilots in the Pacific came across a hovering unidentified object that appeared to have rapidly descended tens of thousands of feet.[7][13][14]

    Lawmakers were shown declassified images and footage of UFOs, including a video of a UFO observed by a Navy fighter-jet pilot in 2021, a "spherical object" that "quickly passes by the cockpit of the aircraft." Another video captured triangular objects (speculated to be drones) floating off the coast as seen through night-vision goggles.[6][7][15]

    A number of lawmakers, including Rick Crawford (R-AR), expressed concerns about potential Russian or Chinese hypersonic weapons programs.[6][16] He warned that a failure to identify such threats was "tantamount to intelligence failure that we certainly want to avoid".[16]

    The standardization of the civilian reporting process was also discussed, as the majority of reports in the military's database are from military officers.

    The public portion of the hearing, held in the morning and lasting less than 90 minutes, was followed by private classified session in the afternoon.[16][6]

    pretty mild for people saying at some point there was hard evidence dropped ufo means extraterrestrials. Sounds more like unidentifiable flying objects encounters report. No green man here.

  • They actively prohibit to use their website with FF. When I look at it in Chromium (only Chrome and Chromium are allowed. No Edge, No Safari, ...) I can not see anything why it should not work. Drag and Drop an Image into a dropzone.js container is no crazy technology. Imgur does it every day.

    Do you know why they think it would not work in FF? It is just a translation service. I think this is not a good example, as it more seems like they do not want to support webkit and optimized it only for chrome, but their product does not seems to crazy for FF.

    They also have Google Drive files connections. Maybe they have just bundled their product the the google ecosystem and therefore prohibit FF/Safari/etc. But this is not the problem of FF/Safari/etc., they just decided to offer a google product only on google browser.

    (I would not support such a vendor lock-in, but that is just my 2 cents)