"My parents were a bunch of homophobic racists, so it's OK for me to be a bigot today."
"I grew up with domestic violence, so beating up my kids is just my way of being nostalgic."
These statements sound insane, don't they? Well, they're perfectly analogous to what you said. You're making it sound as if growing up with something makes it an immutable fact of one's life. They aren't. As we obtain better judgement of the world around us, we can grow out of things just like we once grew into them.
Google has been a terrible company for a long time now, and recently it has even become an active supporter of the fascist regime trying to establish itself in the U.S.
I'm not saying decoupling from the big tech oligopolies is easy; it isn't. But not even making a conscious effort to even try, that amounts to being complicit in, if not supportive of the fascist takeover.
Thanks for enlightening the unenlightened, mate! This meme seems to have escaped me. I guess the casual non-mention of the upside-down sunglasses on both her and her mother is part of the fun.
Gegenden, in denen im Vorjahr mehr als drei Prozent der Strommenge nicht ins Netz eingespeist werden konnten, sollen demnach als "kapazitätslimitiertes Netzgebiet" ausgewiesen werden. Wer hier noch neue Ökostromanlagen bauen will, solle nur noch einen unverzüglichen Netzanschluss bekommen, wenn er bis zu zehn Jahre auf Entschädigungen bei künftigen Abregelungen verzichte. [...] Ein Verzicht auf die Entschädigungen dürfte viele Projekte "killen", heißt es in der Branche. Zumal es schon heute "recht viele" Gebiete in Deutschland gebe, in denen drei Prozent der Strommenge abgeregelt werde.
Kurzum: Man hat den Netzausbau verkackt. Man gibt sich auch völlig damit zufrieden, dass man den Netzausbau weiterhin verkackt. Und die Industrien, die auf diesen Netzausbau dringend angewiesen wären und die Energiewende und -unabhängigkeit Deutschlands ja gern liefern würden - diese Industrien opfert man auf dem Altar der eigenen Untätigkeit.
Wo endet hier die Inkompetenz und beginnt - mit Blick auf Deutschlands Energieabhängigkeit von Autokratien (inkl. der USA) - der Landesverrat?
Och, da gibt's noch ein paar weitere Autokratien, von denen man sich abhängig machen kann. Wir sind doch nicht blöd; wir diversifizieren multiplizieren unser Risiko!
Ja, großartig. Und parallel gibt's dann sowas hier: Reiche plant massive Hürden für Erneuerbare. Wie lange wollen wir uns wir uns das lobbyverseuchte Sicherheitsrisiko CxU noch leisten?
Agreed, this can be read both ways. It just goes to show that companies don't give a shit about right or wrong, legal or illegal, and they'll willingly collaborate with democratic institutions and oppressive regimes alike as long as it suits their bottom line.
The handoff (if you can call it that) was extremely sketchy, including the "explanation" on the Syncthing forums. Made me switch to Nel0x's fork of the app.
I don't disagree on the longstanding corruption problem. Yet I uphold the claim that this does not just expose the system to domestic, but also foreign corruption and influence.
"Disproven conspiracy"? In light of the multitude of connections between Trump (or his cronies) and the Kremlin that show up in the most recent batch of the Epstein files, I guess we're on the verge of making that a proven conspiracy.
Until then, just looking at Trump's track record is enough to convince me Trump is 100% enacting orders from Moscow. Why else would he
withholding and threaten to cut Ukraine off from American military aid.
drive a wedge between the US and its former Western allies.
give D0GE unfettered access to the government's most sensitive information (including nuclear ones), only to then have Russian IP addresses try to connect?
gut USAID, thus putting more pressure on Europe through increasing refugee streams
Not an American here, nor a defender of what people did or didn't vote for.
What I was getting at was the massive media manipulation from outside and inside and the obvious foreign control the Dear Leader is under. With the deadly combination of of poor education, widespread media illiteracy and pervasive social media, our democracies have become even more remotely-controllable for whoever is willing to put the money in.
Golly, this thing looks like it has... seen... a lot of action. Is anyone still using that tool? That looks highly unhealthy.