neeeeDanke @ neeeeDanke @feddit.de

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not really. In an ideal democracy you could simply vote those people out in the next election . In a well working democracy there is only so much they can do before they are not reelected.

The difference to NGOs is that in a democracy one person (ideally) has exactly one vote while your influence on non profits -especially when you are wealthy enought to afford your own- is mkreso connected to what you (can) donate, so how wealthy you are. In my opinion that makes relying on government more egalitarian whereas a system built on charities is more seceptable to oligarchigal structures.

(I understand that in many places Governments are (very) currupt or not democratic to begin with and there are many NGOs that are democratic (or meybe just plain better for the interests of the people) compared to those governments. And in those cases these NGOs are -for now- obviously better then the government. But imo with a stable democracy the government is a fairer morer stable and more equal solution.

what does it mean that europeans consider NGOs to be undemocratic?

In a democracy power should allways be held by the people. If you have a NGO -even when it does very good things- there allways is a danger that it could go against the peoples ideals or even their interests. You (as in the people as a whole) are also not as soverign when relying on NGOs for basic societal needs like a social saftey net as the voluntary donations founding them could stop any time. Thereby the power is transfered the donors (althought luckily most small-mid sized donors do not really exercize that power) who are mostly the wealthy as they just have more money to spend. A better solution is taxing fairly and using the common found gained throught that in a way the majority decides.

I recently watched an interesting video from Adam Conover on that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cu6EbELZ6I. Altgought I do not agree with everything said (I don't think the Patagonia nonprofit in particular is problematic in my opinion the focus should have been set even more on the issue of something like that beeing possible) I agree with the key message for the reason provided above.

2 centuries? European colonialism continued well into the mid 20th century. There are still people alive who directly participated in them. Besides that, even thought most alive today did not participate directly they still benifit immensly from the colonial past of their countries.

And taking responsibility has been very slow/late and limited, often being limeted to apologies without reperations. The Belgian Crown for example only apologized for its involvement in forced labor and exploitation in the Congo three years ago. Germany only recognized its genocide in Namibia two years ago and refuses to pay reperations.

2 centuries? European colonialism continued well into the mid 20th century. There are still people alive who directly participated in them. Besides that, even thought most alive today did not participate directly they still benifit immensly from the colonial past of their countries as anouther comment allready mentioned.

And taking responsibility has been very slow/late and limited, often being limeted to apologies without reperations. The Belgian Crown for example only apologized for its involvement in forced labor and exploitation in the Congo three years ago. Germany only recognized its genocide in Namibia two years ago and refuses to pay reperations.

So yes for the shit they did (or bear a responsibility for if you wanna be more percise).

are there no dc-dc PSUs (or technically just voltage regulators I guess) to relace a PSU with available? That way OP could avoid part of the Ac->Dc->Ac->Dc-conversion related losses he would have with a battery-backup.

for real, my homeserver in my appartment had an uptime of 450ish days before I had to power it down, because I wanted to plug in a power meter in front of it (don't have anything fancy with redundant psus or something like that...).

is that what pair-programming looks like?

motorized high heels.

KeepassXC supports 2fa natively and in Keepass2 there is an addon available. I have a .kdbx I sync with nextcloud to my pcs and access it via WebDav on Keepass2Android. It works great (when nextcloud sync works, recently had an issue with "invalid modification date"s on my pc).

fair, I should have specified I am looking for one I can still buy (not used or scalped)

I also really love the Touchpads, and would love to use the deck (or my pc) on my tv with a controller similar to the steam deck controls, have you found one like that, because I haven't.

he seems utterly bamboozeld

also works on my oneplus 7 prp, too bad they stopped making good phones, still don't know what I'll switch to when this one eventually dies.

I know that guy Tobias Fünke, althought he also is a analysist. He had some clever abreviation for that as well!

they will have to generate proof-of-work (a bunch of math that will takes time to compute) and submit it to mCaptcha.

The user doesn't have to do anything, your computer has to do the work

firefox on mobile works with UBlock Origin

peer Tube? (its not just hosted by the uploader, but close enough?)

but that doesn't scale as well so I am unlikeley to run into that most of the time

you would not see all of them unless you are subscribed to them, so just not subscribing would work. Or just blocking the user that reposts that much...

since they took the effort to include it in the proposal, I would assume it is significantly higher. Where I live the standard often varies from state so state, because some states use a low enforcement rate to attract buissnesses ("as in yeah, our federal taxes aren't cheaper here, but we if you cheat it's not like we are gonna catch you...").

I assume not a 100% because that would be a herculean effort and at a certain point if your chances of getting caught are high enough -and there are significant fines- you won't need 100% because the risk is high enough to make most people not cheat out of fear of getting caught.