Because people here accuse Poettering of being an asshole: I've read some of his blogposts and seen some talks of his and him doing Q&A: He answered professionally, did his best to answer truthfully, did acknowledge when he didn't know something. No rants, no opining on things he didn't know about, no taking questions in bad faith.

As far as I can tell all the people declaring him some kind of asshole are full of shit.

We knew about this stuff, but I guess it's really only official once the NYT writes it down.

Apparently the way to write about one nuclear power being heavily involved in strikes on another nuclear power, except for actually pushing the button, which they strongly advise their proxy to do, is to make it kinda cool and daring and not terrifying. This reads like some character drama. Note how the Ukrainian characters seem a lot more flawed.

That they used euphemisms, like "point of interest" instead of "target", to obfuscate what they're doing isn't that surprising, but seriously fuck these guys. Learn this one weird trick on how to avoid WW3: just call it something else. I wonder how insane someone has to be to be a general.

Also makes me wonder what they're leaving out of that story. The Ukrainians did that one on their own, trust us. Sink Russian flagship? No US involved. Invade Kursk? US didn't know about it. Attack Russian oil infra? Yeah not cool Ukraine, not cool. Also no word about who blew up that dam or Nordstream.

Everywhere else though? Yeah basically the US did all that. Total involvement.

We're told it only went south when the Ukrainians stopped following orders. Not doing exactly what the US says is bad apparently. It's either reckless or stupid, and it actually for real doomed their 2023 offensive. For sure that one would have succeeded if the stupid Ukrainians listened.

Great partnership guys, why oh why would anyone be wary if the US actually has their best interests in mind, let alone the best interest of the their soldiers or population? No, you see, you need to charge up that hill now! Don't look at it first! Don't shell it first! We swear it's just a small number of Russians. And no, we don't trust you enough to tell you how we know that. So risk averse these Ukrainians! And btw, I see a lot 18-25 year olds running around in Kiev, what's up with that? Looks like you are not taking this very seriously Mr. Zelensky! Looks like you don't want to win!

This Fehr guy has all the same talking points I've seen German politicians use as well. And that's essentially across all relevant political parties.

For example, Interior minister Faeser called the Palästina-Kongress, which they shut down last year, and which was organized by secular left-wing groups and a Jewish group, "Islamist". And the press loves to just repeat this stuff. And it's great propaganda. The average German is afraid of Islamists, hates Muslims in general, and will applaud when the authorities suppress anyone labeled as such, and never look into if it's actually true.

Foreign minister Baerbock claimed she personally saw, on video, evidence of rape on Oct 7, even though actual investigations by the UN and others have found no footage like that. She was being heckled at the time by pro-Palestine activists and just made that up, so it looks to an misinformed audience like they're booing rape victims. And people believe this because the press never pushes back on these false claims.

Just straight up inventing blatant lies to cover for the genocide they're committing. How tf can these people sleep at night?

Since everyone keeps mentioning yt-dlp I gotta ask: what's wrong with the original youtube-dl? I keep using it, it works, it's still being updated.

Yeah better discriminate based on nationality /s. But why stop at that? Poor people are too easily bribed can't have them. I hear the CIA recruits from top US universities, can't trust those college grads either. Anyone belonging to some homophobic church or religious group? Better not what if they're closeted gay and get blackmailed? Anyone in a monogamous relationship should be excluded for the same reason, if you think about it. *tips forehead*

Ah yes, the hypothetical second step, in which tracking is going to be outlawed (I'm not holding my breath), except, of course, for the third party services that do the aggregating, which will "sell" (literal quote) the aggregate data, so I guess these are by semantic sophistry not adtech companies but something else.

I'm so glad this genius "plan" can be used to justify Mozilla funneling data to adtech firms right now, because in some hypothetical future timeline this somehow can be construed with a bunch of hand-waving and misdirection to be in my interest.

How about instead we have a browser that only cares about the users, and not give a fuck about adtech? Its number one goal should be to treat adtech as hostile, and fight to ruin that whole industry.

Volksverpetzer liest glaub ich nur, wer eh schon deren Meinung teilt. Und zwar nicht um gut informiert zu sein, sondern weil man sich gerne aufregt und lustig macht. Das erfüllt mehr so die Funktion wie bei mir r/ShitLiberalsSay, oder wieso die Leute Bild lesen, nur halt für grünliberale Abiturabsolventen.

Nur als Beispiel wieso ich die nicht ernst nehmen kann: Die letzten Monate hat Israel eine ganze Welle an Desinformationen rausgehauen, das meiste davon wurde in Deutschland fast komplett unkritisch in der Presse weiterverbreitet. Und ich stolper in der Zeitung auch jetzt noch regelmäßig über Falschinformation, die bereits vor Monaten ausgiebig debunked wurden.

Könnte man meinen, das wäre gefundenes Fressen für das "Blog gegen Desinformation", aber der letzte "Faktencheck" zu Israel ist mehr als 7 Monate alt.

A measuring jug (from oxo) that allows you to see the marks when looking at it from above.

Also I have two timers, and I need and use both.

And while your friend is making tea, he throws a grenade into the basement.

Turns out there's a Palestinian family living in that basement. Actually it's their house. Your friend forced their way in, locked them in the basement, and is now throwing grenades in there now and again. He calls that "mowing the lawn", and he does it just to show them who's boss.

You thank him for the tea, and ask him if the 100 grenades you brought are enough. He's your best friend.

They're sending weapons to Saudi Arabia and Israel. They put sanctions on Afghanistan that are causing a famine. They're funding Frontex, which kills migrants in the Mediterranean and those who make it get put into concentration camps. And that's just some of it. The German government are war criminals and serial human rights abusers. Anyone who takes up arms to defend these people is complicit.

Yes. There's a system of global apartheid, where people in many regions are super-exploited and are forced to live precarious lives without human dignity, safety and their basic needs met. This system can only work due to people getting pushed back and murdered at the borders, and being discriminated against if they make it over the border somehow.

The whole system needs dismantling, and getting rid of the borders is going to be key.

Are we looking at the same image? How's that the correct interpretation?