I imagine if a Chinese company far away can pull all this off for so long without getting caught, the entire close by Russian government could do much, much more.

It would probably help if you didn’t have to buy the floor every dang time

The USA also has a low unemployment rate. I used to live there. I already know what it’s like to live in a place with essentially indentured servitude. It’s fucking pointless to make money if it doesn’t cover food and rent even.

If you like having an economy like that, go for it. I don’t live in shitty places like that anymore. There’s a reason Finnish people go to Greece often for vacation - because we can actually have vacations, and because clearly people don’t make much and that’s why it’s so cheap.

Fix your damn worker rights already.

Pointless if you’re barely getting paid though

To be fair, the randomness is part of the lore too and has to do with the effects strong magic has on most users, and maybe a chaos god I think.

Interesting it briefly went back up in the 90s for many before dropping again.

I imagine it was because of the transition from analog to digital in many things

By that logic probably shouldn’t use a search engine and you should go to a library to look things up manually in a book, like I did.

Keeping Hungary in the EU at this point is almost as bad as having Belarus.

Or maybe equally so.

There’s still exceptions.

For example, Spanish is my first language. I didn’t really care for it much, but the more I learned other languages the more I’ve come to really like Spanish because it has well defined rules and a LACK of EXCEPTIONS (looking at Finnish specifically. English at least is so broken you can understand it when grammatically wrong, but Finnish clearly needs a revision).

What’s the point of learning the grammar rules when 25% is “actually there’s no reason behind this word not following the rules so you’ll just have to remember it’s different”??? Even more frustrating when the rules can still perfectly work with covering the topic or the word! To the point of you can say it “wrong” by following existing grammar rules but still be understood sometimes because it makes more sense than the damn actual usage of the word!

And then some rules are dumb. Either go full out like Chinese and make a writing system separate from your spoken system or actually have one comply with the other.

Nah, fossil fuels are the most expensive energy there is, hands down.

Climate change isn’t cheap.

Paying a tax to help prevent that is much better than dealing with it. Solar and wind should get subsidies too. Treating climate change like it’s a capitalist rather than a socialist won’t solve it.

Oh dang didn’t see China perform this year. Mr. Sanchez works fast.

I didn’t mention free speech, and this was about the comm, not the country, in particular.

Where did I say posts about the middle-east are not allowed here if they are in relation to Europe?

Literally this whole discussion is happening under the premise that discussion on Palestine is restricted.

when creating this community there was absolutly no reason to avoid feddit.org as the hosting instance over legal concerns specifically related to the state of Israel.

Yes, and I’ve stated, if legal concerns are so troubling there needs to be censorship on the topic, moving to a different instance outside of Germany would make more sense, assuming the moderation and administration team cared about the censorship about an ongoing genocide of which multiple European countries’ governments are partaking in. Other large communities have changed instances as well successfully.

I, and I imagine many others, would have also understood if such restrictions were in place until such a move could occur. Instead, it’s clear the decision was made to defer to an unjust and unethical law.

No, since with “black lives matter” (which I think could have used a better name anyway, like Black Lives Also Matter, which has the nice acronym of BLAM), it isn’t the oppressing group.

In the case with Israel and Palestine, Israel is very very much the oppressive group, currently conducting a genocide, a claim backed by multiple researchers and experts in the field.

So does this mean Eurovision discussion isn’t allowed either, since Israel and Australia aren’t in Europe?

What about the EU? Does everything in the EU count? If so, does that mean South American and Caribbean discussion is allowed because of UK and France for example? Or do you mean only Europe the continent? In that case, are we talking about the 7 continent English model, the 6 continent Greek model, the 6 continent Eastern Europe (/Russian) model, or the geological model? Because some models would include Israel while others would exclude say Azerbaijan.

If you’re going to start restricting discussion on what is and isn’t, you’ll need to start clarifying what is and isn’t too.

The whole post is about how this moderation is happening because of the threat of law, so I’m not sure what you mean by “the legal situation affecting its admins and some of the moderators here”.

It’s specifically stating that this is happening because of the changed legal situation in Germany.

Secondly, Europe is closely tied, topic-wise, to Israel. The creation of Israel itself and the conflict occuring there is due to a major war in Europe, and many European countries still do a lot business with Israel. The double standards with how Europe has dealt with Russia versus Israel are glaringly obvious as well. It’s also a political topic in many countries, including as mentioned in the post Germany to the point that there’s now censorship laws affecting speech on the matter.

To pretend it doesn’t apply because “it’s not in Europe” is extremely disingenuous since plenty of news and topics about other countries outside of Europe that affect Europe are allowed here, such as the US tariffs or China, who are also trading partners.

If we are to take this comment you made in good faith, then the enforcement would be that only domestic news and topics are allowed strictly, and anything that remotely mentions a different country outside of Europe is not allowed. Not even comparisons.

But that’s not what’s happening here, and instead only speech about Israel/Palestine is being targeted.

If you’re going to act like a standard corporation in terms of what speech is allowed, why should users use this comm over say, reddit, which has the same rules but a MUCH larger community?

You’ve kinda defeated the purpose of Lemmy by doing this. Corporations forsake ethics for the convenience of law anyway, so from a logical perspective, people might as well use something else.

You could easily just get new mods who are NOT in Germany if you’re this terrified of legal action, but instead you’ve chosen to follow unjust and unethical laws - no different than Reddit and whatever justification they make up as well.

By your own logic and stipulations, if Germany is taken over by the AfD in the future as well and they pass racist laws making it illegal to ban anyone using racist language for example, you’ll also comply and allow racist language too. Either because ethics don’t matter to you, or because they align with the law passed. Those are the only two logical conclusions.

And before you say “well it’s a lot of resources to change things” - it was also a lot of resources to start this whole thing up and grow it in the first place too, yet that didn’t stop you either, did it?

At that point I’d recommend Bazzite instead. More stability and support. The creator of Nobara stated he made it primarily for himself and his computers, while Bazzite is made by an organization to support a wide range of devices.

I would try Fedora KDE and then adjust the color profile on it.

I read 500 years ago, and "thought well I guess then the Roman Salute make a little bit more sense? ".