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  • Germany's top court rules far-right party ineligible for funding

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  • Can you elaborate on the "the GOP wants to return to the confederacy" thing? As you can probably tell I am not American, don't really follow your politics that much. Referencing anything in particular? I don't think I've ever heard of it.

    Anyway, I feel like you have kinda overlooked my last point, where NPD is openly claiming areas in the borders of their neighbours. That's a pretty big deal, coming from a neo nazi party in the country that started WW2. And I don't recall reading about the GOP having similar policies.

  • Germany's top court rules far-right party ineligible for funding

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  • I haven't actually bothered looking at what AfD stands for (obvious disclaimer: I'm not German, I'm allowed to not care lol)

    Just wanted to make it even more clear that this party wasn't the one causing the people in Berlin to storm the streets.

    EDIT: I tried opening your article, and aside from the language barrier, which my browser extensions were able to overcome, it looks paywalled.

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  • No you don't. As bad as the American Republican party might be, they are not THIS bad.

    From the NPD wikipedia page:

    The Homeland is a neo-Nazi political party. [...]

    The Homeland argues that NATO fails to represent the interests and needs of European people. The party considers the European Union to be little more than a reorganization of a Soviet-style government of Europe along financial lines. [...] The Homeland is strongly anti-Zionist, frequently criticizing the policies and activities of Israel.

    The Homeland's platform asserts that Germany is larger than the present-day Federal Republic, and calls for a return of German territory lost after World War II, a foreign policy position abandoned by the German government in 1990.

  • Germany's top court rules far-right party ineligible for funding

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  • Props to OP for making it clear in the post body, but the headline made it a bit more clickbate-y than it should have been. That article is about NPD, a very minor and actual neo nazi party. The anti-right protests that have been happening recently, instead, are about the AfD (alternative for Germany) party, which is set to gain a sizeable 23% of the votes for its far right coalition ID during the next European elections.

    In other words yeah they are cutting funds from a far right party, but not from the far right party.

  • I can't believe I've become a cat poster

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  • The world needs more cat posters. Thank you for your service, OP

  • The European Union’s remarkable growth performance relative to the United States

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  • Oh do they? Never heard about that. Guess I've learnt something new. I wonder if it would be different for us, given how fewer big companies the EU has compared to the US.

    I'm not familiar with the Delaware situation. Is it similar to Ireland's, then?

    Foreign-owned multinationals continue to contribute significantly to Ireland's economy, making up 14 of the top 20 Irish firms (by turnover), employing 23% of the private sector labour-force, and paying 80% of the collected corporation tax.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Republic_of_Ireland

  • The European Union’s remarkable growth performance relative to the United States

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  • I agree, it would be great! Also definitely more efficient than the 24 official languages we currently have, lol.

    I guess Hungarians and Finns wouldn't be too pleased by this division though. Hehe.

  • The European Union’s remarkable growth performance relative to the United States

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  • I don't think the language barrier is that big of a deal. And more importantly I think the cultural value it provides us vastly outweights the economic benefit of a shared tongue.

    I think one of the more urgent reforms that could help the EU prosper would be a common fiscal policy. We have the same tarifs on goods coming from abroad and most of us share the same currency, but countries are still offering varying tax rates. I think having an EU wide tax policy would help spreading the European branches of foreign companies more evenly. Though I reckon not everyone would like this (wink wink, Ireland).

    EDIT: oh and also. I agree with your overall point, but using Lemmy as an example for "great innovation coming from the EU"...

  • The European Union’s remarkable growth performance relative to the United States

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  • I love Interlingua, as a Romance speaker I find it awesome, but after having consulted with some Germanic and Slavic friends it seems pretty unintelligible to them. Unfortunate, cause it's so easy and effective for us.

  • Has anyone defederated your instance? An update to the Defederation Investigator

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  • I'm sorry could you please elaborate on why the rest of the Fediverse would be enraged, or how this could be used for harassment? I don't think I follow. I'll admit, I only interact with the Fediverse through Lemmy so maybe there's some dynamics of the Masto-sphere I'm not picking up.

    My understanding is that Mastodon admins can choose to hide their /domain_blocks endpoint to either outside users or even to all non admins. (source), and as a matter of fact almost a thousand of the 1700 Mastodon instances I'm querying already do so, so really I can only get the federation status of the few hundred that remain.

    I think the admins that prefer not to show their defeds, in fear of harassment, are already hiding them, so it should be ok for me to query the remaining ones.

  • Has anyone defederated your instance? An update to the Defederation Investigator

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  • Yeah sure. Assuming you are only targeting Lemmy instances (other softwares make this a bit more complicated), A "can interact" with B if:

    • A hasn't blocked B
    • B hasn't blocked A
    • Neither A nor B are on allowlist. If either is on allowlist, it must have explicitly added the other one to its allow list (this is very uncommon, the only big instance using allow lists is hexbear.net)

    So, to verify this, you could query the Defed Investigator with the instances you care about, one at a time. Only select the softwares you care about (likely only Lemmy) to make the query faster. Say you wanted to verify the compatibility between lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works (just making an example). Go to https://defed.xyz/check?name=sh.itjust.works&software=lemmy

    • ✔ lemmy.world doesn't appear in the "Instances defederated from sh.itjust.works" (this means .world hasn't blocked SJW)
    • ✔ lemmy.world doesn't appear in the "Instances defederated by sh.itjust.works" (this means SJW hasn't blocked .world)
    • ✔ lemmy.world doesn't appear among the "Instances not allowing sh.itjust.works" (this means .world isn't on allowlist or, if it is, it has explicitly allowed SJW. Again, this is very uncommon)

    Also make sure the instance you are looking for isn't among the "Instances that returned errors", of course.

  • European Union institutions gear up for a fight over Orbán's rule of law record, funds for Hungary

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  • Funny seeing Von der Leyen in the thumbnail when really the "EU institutions" in questions are the EU parliament, who is trying to take the Commission (lead by Von der Leyen) to court for being too kind with those EU funds.

    If anything, she's the target of this "lawsuit".

  • Has anyone defederated your instance? An update to the Defederation Investigator

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  • Like @iso@lemy.lol said, can't query from the backend if there is no backend :)

    It's all serverless, so this is as good as it gets.

  • Overall life satisfaction in the EU, 2022

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  • Yeah agreed. You always hear people complaining about literally everything, turns out we still are above the EU average though.

    On the other hand over here everyone talks about Germany as if it was heaven on Earth, but apparently the Germans disagree with that statement.

  • National animals

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  • Unfortunately Italy does not have an official national animal, meaning no animals are enshrined in our constitution or any of our national symbols. However if we had one that would definitely be the wolf.

  • Tories facing 1997-style general election wipeout

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  • Uh interesting, thanks for the explanation.

  • Tories facing 1997-style general election wipeout

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  • Interestingly enough it looks like the SNP has lost quite a lot of ground in Scotland. Can anyone explain why?

  • Carrefour pulls PepsiCo products in four EU countries over price hikes

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  • From that article

    Carrefour has been one of the most active retailers to challenge big consumer products and food companies over prices. Last year, the French multinational started a “shrinkflation” campaign of sticking warnings on products that have shrunk in size but cost more.

    Incredibly based move from Carrefour. Guess I should shop there more often.

  • Object Storage for embedded pict-rs on from scratch install? · Issue #287 · LemmyNet/lemmy-docs

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  • Fair enough :)I was wondering if you were trying to run Lemmy on some place you are totally not supposed to run it on. Like a nintendo64 or a samsung smart fridge lol.

  • Object Storage for embedded pict-rs on from scratch install? · Issue #287 · LemmyNet/lemmy-docs

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  • Glad you were able to fix it!