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They can do so currently by making a couple of minor changes and settling for a pittance because your lawsuit would bankrupt you.

"Chaos" is a better system than one benefitting corporations only.

Their source doesn't seem reliable. They use a singular source (https://www.freedomforum.org/journalists-memorial/) for their WW1 and WW2 numbers.

It's rather easy to see how these numbers are very much incomplete.

Why? It says that during WW2 a total of 10 journalists were killed in Germany - yet not one of them was German. With ~1.1 million German civilian deaths, I'd argue there were realistically a couple hundred German journalists among them at the very least. Sure, they were journalists for state propaganda outlets and I cannot bring myself to care about nazi propagandists. Yet they were journalists nonetheless who should be included in statistics.

And this doesn't even begin to encompass all other countries where many more millions of civilians were killed. There is not a chance in hell the number of journalist deaths during WW2 is even in the same ballpark as ~60. 10,000 would be my lower estimate.

Why would you need to go to the Department of Motor Vehicles for an ID though? For a driver's license I can somewhat understand but that should be the extent of their responsibilities.

Over here you go to your local registration office which basically every town has? It's the same office for registering where you live (which you are also legally required to do) - meaning there are more than enough of them around. For smaller towns they are usually located in town halls, larger cities have many of them spread around.

Honestly, you'd easily get significant adaption of IDs by just mandating them for everything. Want a bank account? Need an ID. Want to get a job? Need an ID. Want to get a driver's license? Need an ID. Are you older than 16? Believe it or not, need an ID.

If (nearly) everyone has an ID, it cannot be used as means for voter disenfranchisment.

Those are the results from the 2024 European Parliament Election.

Here are the results of the more relevant 2023 State Parliament Election:

The state government is right-wing conservatives with centrist-at-best "social" democrats. Both are very supportive of police cracking down on people who wouldn't have voted for them anyways.

Berlin is run by right-wing conservatives, not liberals. The federal government lacks authority for states deciding whom to deport.

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becomes:

It's perfectly legal to compress something to a single bit and publish it.

Hell, if I take and publish the average color of any copyrighted image that is at least 24 bits. That's lossy compression yet legal.

Ireland and the UK are solid options though.

Also, it's most definitely not impossible to practice medicine in a language you're not a native speaker of. For example, Syrians make up more than 1% of all doctors in Germany, the vast majority of which arrived in 2015-2016.

Tesla is overtly hostile towards German unions and has convinced enough workers to not join any. They have mostly hired foreign workers who are unaware of their rights. Additionally, workers are pressured to sign documents withdrawing from their right to compensation during sick leave which isn't illegal.

Also, the state government of Brandenburg - the location of the Tesla factory - would rather see worker's rights trampled than Tesla face consequences. Their future election results depend on Tesla performing.

Edit to add: As far as I know, Tesla doesn't need to pay any damages if courts overrule them denying paid sick leave. They must only pay the sick leave and for the worker's lawyer. Denying sick leave makes them more money in the end.

Trump will certainly refuse to remove the base and use any attempt by Greenland to do so as pretext for an attack.

He desperately wants this excuse, as it provides enough legitimacy for him to convince ~50% of the US population.

Greenland and Denmark are most likely aware of this and act accordingly. I don't know what current preparations are but I wouldn't be surprised if they built up defenses against the US right now.

"BRB right back" doesn't look that bad tbh be honest.

It does increase the likelihood - marginally.

Fingerprint readers always got to balance between false positives and false negatives. If you want to reduce false negatives, false positives must be increased.

This shouldn't really matter though. False positives are very low as-is so increasing them a little has nearly no impact on security.

Confused? Take a look at global politics. The right-wing conservatives / fascists are winning everywhere.

There is not a chance in hell that a progressive candidate will win in the US in at least the next decade or two.

I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if California became a swing state (if the US remains a democracy) by 2032.

The swing in the presidential contest to Republicans in California was accompanied by a rejection of progressive ballot measures and a near-universal swing against progressive local candidates.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election_in_California

And Hitler only invaded France because France declared war on Germany.

There were no German ambitions in France beyond Alsace-Lorraine, had they not done anything in response to the German-Polish war then France would have been spared.

Therefore France is responsible for every war crime the nazis committed in France.

I really hope I don't need explain why this logic is imperialist apologia.

Average T flip-flop:

Plenty of cultures eat dogs and cats, notably some South East Asians one's and some people in Switzerland.

It's more limited though. For example, in Switzerland you may not sell dog/cat meat (or meals made with them). Consumption is limited to animals you owned and slaughtered.

The people who care are a minority.

An important one, yes, but hardly large enough to even protect themselves.

But most US citizens are either reactionary conservative or neoliberal - and neither truly care about minorities.

I honestly believe the number of Americans who actively oppose Trump, to the extent of fighting instead of tolerating him, rivals your tech unionization rates.

That's not quite the same though.

I doubt anyone but queer individuals ever donated to Hungary's pride parades - if they even accept donations to begin with.

Like why would any Hungarian company ever donate to a pride parade? They all benefit from and support Orban's corruption. Scapegoating minorities keeps their stream of money going.

Far right groups and constant Russian lies about vaccines have made plenty of Europeans antivaxers, sadly.

31,000 cases occured in Romania alone in 2024.

Apple ain't using Let's Encrypt

To be fair, I've seen just about everyone use Let's Encrypt, from banks to nsa.gov. The latter has switched their certificate provider though.