joostjakob @ joostjakob @lemmy.world

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There is a history of following through with huge fines https://www.theneweconomy.com/business/top-5-largest-fines-levied-on-tech-companies-by-the-european-commission

Thank you! Neither the BBC nor the Flemish public tv seem to say this yet (they just repeat the statement Trump gave)

Github was bought in 2018. For all we know, OP could have been 10 at the time

Exactly. That's what I heard from people who lived abroad a long time. While you're away, the country of origin changes and after a while you're homesick for a place that only exists as a memory.

They weren't trying to convince you to come, they were trying to gently explain that it's a little mean to judge 100% of the people for what is happening

As I said in the other place this article was posted: the source seems to be an online reader survey from t-online.be. That means the scientific value of this is pretty low. For decent surveys, you need a random sample. In this case, you need to be a visitor of t-online, and you decide for yourself that you want to participate. That's already enough to skew results. Add to that that there's a lot of online activism against Tesla (for obvious reasons), so the poll could have been partly hijacked. Such a low number of people who don't care or haven't heard about Tesla going rogue is not realistic anyway. There's a lot of people who are weird, contrarian or simply avoid all news.

There's two positives for her resigning:

• she can live on without hating herself
• she signals to the world that the Washington Post is not reputable anymore I'm not sure how she could have a more positive impact by staying, which you appear to imply she should have.

There's a lot of outstanding orders for F35s from EU countries. No idea if it is possible to weasel out of them, and if the sunk cost wouldn't be too high to make it politically viable...

Bush junior's first term was a blip. His second one should have been enough to look for other partners.

So now that is in the hands of the folks who use the OSM data. It's in a somewhat exotic tag, so by default any map that uses OSM will still show Gulf of Mexico, unless they actively intervene to show Gulf of America. So if you see an OSM based map showing the latter, you know they made that choice consciously.

OpenStreetMap also needs to deal with this kind of thing. In this case, several people already tried to add it to the map in some form of other, but generally not as something to actually be shown. There is a looong discussion about it here https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-of-mexico/124571 . General opinion is that it is (or will be) "the official name that the US says it has". In OSM you can invent tags for anything, so an object can have many names. Done like this, anyone using the data can still choose to give precedence to any "official US names that are not in common use yet". Later it may be upgraded ased on if it becomes a common alternative name, just in the US, or maybe beyond. All those options can have their own special tag. And only very motivated data users will ever show it to map users. But if you do a search for Gulf of America, you will be able to find it.

Colombian

It's generous to call that an article. Just a bunch of "some folks said on X" quotes. Doesn't really belong in this community IMHO

In Belgium, we used to have this tacid agreement amongst the press that they wouldn't talk about mistresses of ministers and kings. Because it was seen as just a private matter. It doesn't hold true all the time, but it shows that the press could decide to just not talk about folks like Elon unless they really have to. Not sure it would still work these days, now that most journalism has been replaced with copy pasting an article an making the title a bit more click-baity than the previous one...

I knew it sounded familiar. It even has a name and a wikipedia article https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck's_principle

If you want to really dig into the theme, you could use Know Your Meme

For this kind of query, consult the Urban Dictionary.

Having enjoyed the entire expanse series, I didn't really enjoy this book. I can't really put my finger on it. I think my biggest issue is that the characters remain pretty bland. Of the group you follow, many remained little more than a name for me.

Even here in Europe where there are genuine left wing parties, where there's proportional representation, where we have mistly functional education, labour class people are voting for folks who blame poor people and immigrants for everything that goes wrong. I think part of the blame is with tabloid style media and social media magnifying formerly fringe opinion. Just saying that having a real alternative for the populist right, might not be enough.