Similar in what nuance? You need some place to pay money to? Try GOG. You can use Heroic UI if you want. It also helps with wine/proton managing.

I see, ok :)

200-300k? That’s serious numbers.

this causes a decline in rents

Why is it bad? Fewer people, cheaper the rent. What’s wrong with that? Of course that isn’t good for the rentier but anything that harms the rentier is good for people.

They openly said, that they want to deport immigrants no matter what. We are absolutely fucked.

Why? Does Germany depend much on immigrants?

Stocks as “share prices”, not as “amount of ammunition in the warehouses”. Pffft.

Putin: Hey, I want that cup too. I’ll be next!

Fight is violence, no? So you’re banned! Please, don’t write anything. Because you’re banned and that’s how ban works :)

Read as “finish from beginning to end” or as “opened and get some paragraphs”?

Example: I’m not a kid anymore and lost interest in fiction literature a long time ago. But I still read technical literature. Of course this kind of books are significantly harder to read (and often there is no need to read them in full) so I don’t think I have read a book in full during the last year.

That’s good: it keeps them busy. You know, like Fortnight keeps crazy kids from other games.

independent fact-checkers, paid by tax money

In my culture, there is a proverb that says, “The one who feeds the girl — dances with her.” Your variant is a straightforward censorship. No idea how it might work in the real world.

we should invest more in EU open source, promote more fact checking and open algorithms (or even banning them) for social media. What is happening with Twitter, Facebook and TikTok is not ok.

I have nothing against “invest more in EU open source” or “open algorithms” but let’s stop pretending that we don’t know where the governmental “regulation” leads. If you’re so afraid of people who might get some crazy ideas then humanity has an excellent method: education. People would be able to dismiss crazy ideas by themselves. But it works only for crazy and stupid ideas. Clever but anti-governmental ideas will linger.

Aren’t you on Lemmy specifically because of that?

Yes, that’s the reason. Overregulation.

Removed by mod

Technobitching in the valley. You just prefer boring conference-tier activities with slideshows, mumbling and occasional pafos hand clapping.

Reddit’s moderation policies are already too crazy and moderators are already abusing whatever they want. I don’t expect anything to become significantly worse.

Yes, and kissing a traitor’s ass doesn’t help.

Inthe case of the actual membership, members would be obligated to do at least something when Russia attack. In the case of fiction membership NATO might just budapesht-memorandum around.

Bacause in the case of “Future Russian Aggression” NATO will find literally THOUSANDS reasons why Ukraine can’t join or why that “Agression” isn’t agressive enough to call the 5th article.

No

And mostly used by Americans, American.

They prefer lawmaking.