One of the most rebellious, authority hating teens from my class ended up a police officer and spewing the usual “cops are always right, obey, don’t resist” bullshit.

they’re quite close in the polls to Merz, who represents the much only marginally saner right-wing.

Ftfy

You seem to confuse metric with SI units. And prefixes for the base units (like km instead of 1000m) do exist in the SI system.

Dönertier

Planned economy is not a defining feature of communism, nor is it exclusive to it.

governed by it’s native Population

It’s governed by the CCP that violently suppresses all dissent.

with a public policy centered on general social welfare.

I’m sure the people living in huts they just bulldoze to build highways will agree.

Communism would be a classless society free from rulers. I see neither condition fulfilled.

An important defining feature is ownership of the means of production by the workers (not the authoritarian single party government that claims to speak for them and tolerates no dissent). There literally can be no billionaire company owner under communism.

Any data that anybody collects of you today, they will keep. You might not be doing anything illegal today, but you have no way of knowing what will be declared illegal tomorrow, or by the next government, or the one after that, or if those will honor the principle of not punishing you for past breaches of new laws retroactively.

People in 1930 Germany did not know it would soon be illegal to have a relationship with a jew, or to talk negatively about Hitler. People in the 2024 USA didn’t think they would soon be in danger for filming ICE raids, or tracking their movements in chat groups.

Another argument is that your data that advertisers or the government collect doesn’t necessarily stay with them. Car manufacturers were shown ( article in German ) to have location tracking data of their customers’ vehicles on virtually unprotected servers facing the internet. Researchers were able to deduct from this data alone who worked for e.g. secret services, who likely cheated on their wife, where their kids went to school and so on. What do you think a malicious actor could do with information clearly showing at which times in a week your house is likely to be empty?

Information about you and your family and social contacts and chats can also be used to better scam you by impersonating somebody you know. “Hey dad, it’s X, got a new number. Can you transfer me some money till next week maybe?” Many people fall for that.

There are also other ways in which data can be used against you without anything strictly illegal happening. Do you really want your car insurance to have data about your driving habits?

Do you want your health insurance to know how often you order pizza? Both might get the idea to increase your payments for that in the future.

Would you want possible future employers to know you have a chronic disease that might mean you’ll call in sick more often than others?

Last but not least, have you never said or done anything really embarrassing that you’d just prefer nobody to know?

petrol stations […] hardware stores, restaurants

None in my area have chargers. Some farther away do, but only up to 22kW, see below.

Supermarkets

They’ve got some chargers, but only up to 22kW, only while you’re shopping. I can’t shop groceries for multiple hours while my car charges.

parking garages

None nearby except the one at the supermarket. See above.

at work

My employer declined to buy into the chargers the industrial park put up, so I am not allowed to use them.

I frequently drive 150+ km a day for my job, so I’d need to be able to fully charge up two or three times a week depending on the car model, battery size and season. I either need slow charging in walking distance to my home or public fast chargers, otherwise it’s a non starter.

They are reachable though.

The inability to critically think is the first and foremost requirement to be an American conservative.

Ftfy

And then people are afraid of Vitamin C (“Ascorbic Acid”).

The last government was a disappointment because in the beginning it gave some people hope for actual improvements. We don’t have those hopes with the current one in the first place.

“Necessary” ist always active, that’s the only way you can be relatively sure what’s what.

Fuck you Jeff.

Well, they can keep not doing it. There will be fines though.

They vetoed it’s implementation in Poland. Not for the entire EU. It’s not an issue with the EU mechanisms for once.

The DSA is already european law, and as a regulation is directly applicable in every member state. In Poland too. Nawrocki can cry and bitch all he wants about that. What he blocked is the local implementation which includes e.g. appointing regulatory bodies. In effect as far as I understand it, polish citizens sadly have nobody to turn to when this law is violated, but companies in Poland are still bound by it towards complaints from other member states.

Rolling back, sometimes because of file system corruption (had damaged RAM). Shouldn’t restoring be similar as long as the snapshot is intact?

Well yes, more revenue means more taxes, more taxes mean more (absolute) profit from any given tax break. That doesn’t mean small restaurants don’t benefit from it. It’s also true for any cost reduction. If electricity costs went down, McDonald’s would also profit more (in absolute numbers) than mom and pop restaurants.

The lowered tax is for all restaurants, they just don’t pass it on to customers.

I’ve done that a few times now without issue. What’s wrong with it?

The parent suggested this was done in the interest of the USA

No, I suggested this was done in the interest of the orange rapist, which is not the same. Targeting the person currently in his sights is absolutely meant to gain browny points with him (and likely to work for a time). If it was meant to achieve anything else, it could and should have been done much earlier.

this is in the interest of Venezuela.

Maybe coincidentally. That entirely depends on with whom the assets end up, which remains to be seen.

Also, please don’t call me names.

I did not.