1. It's not a visa but an ESTA. The visa is still granted on the fly on entry.
  2. The U.S. require the same the other way around, only the one granted by the EU is $10 cheaper and valid for 3 years instead of 2, so still U.S. citizens get an advantage
  3. EU citizens (like all other non-immigrants) have to, as far as I understand, disclose all their social media accounts when applying for a US visa

Sources for (3):

For VISA applications, https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Enhanced%20Vetting/CA%20-%20FAQs%20on%20Social%20Media%20Collection%20-%206-4-2019%20(v.2).pdf should apply.

What if applicants participate in multiple online platforms? Are they being asked to list all of their handles, or only one?

Applicants must provide all identifiers used for all listed platforms.

I reached that document via https://www.ustraveldocs.com/de/de-gen-faq.asp#qlistgen21 ("Apply for a U.S. Visa in Germany") and didn't find any hint for exemptions for German citizens or E U citizens, so I assume it applies. (But I might still be wrong.)

I live on 7 acres of mostly heavily wooded land

Well, the activists target SUVs in the middle of Hamburg. That's not really a comparable situation. I agree it would suck if you visit a big city and get targeted there, but I would hope the activists can decide between a polished up city-only SUV and an actual working-vehicle and act accordingly.

Well, if they want to go shopping right now, chances are for this one trip they'll take their spouses smaller car, public transport or maybe even walk. If SUVs become generally unreliable (because you never know if you have air in your tires when you need it), people will look for something more reliable. They'll bitch about it, they won't act out of conviction or so, but who cares.

They target SUVs and alike. In what area do you live that a much more affordable and less gasoline consuming car wouldn't work for you?

That is why I like this targeted actions over the gluing themselves to the road ones. This is targeted to people destroying the climate. I don't think there is any good reason to drive an SUV or a sports-car in a city, and it is actively harmful. To pick up your equivalence: Feminists fight misogyny and inconvenience those guys actively showing it without necessarily alienating average guys.

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From the article: *Large SUVs were particularly affected. According to the police, notes were attached to the cars indicating that they were harmful to the climate. The tyres were not punctured, but merely deflated. The cars were parked in the area between the S-Bahn line and Elbchaussee around Kanzleistraße. *

Personally, I like this protest way more than glueing themselves to the streets, causing traffic jams where cars burn gasoline for hours and ambulances / firefighters / police gets stuck, putting innocent life in danger.

The article is in German. Warning: this link leads to google translate.

Controversial opinion of an atheist:

Most religion is incitement to hate-crimes. While I think Sweden has probably bigger Christian societies and should probably rather burn bibles, the guy burning the Quran is an Iraqi, and therefore choosing the Quran is understandable. Afaik, he protested against his own former repression by Muslim religion whe still lived in Iraq.

Religion is notoriously used to reduce other people's freedom. Be it fundamental Christians e.g. in the US or Poland denying healthcare to pregnant women, be it the atrocities committed by the "moral police" in Iran, be it other religions killing people for their sexuality. I support the idea that religious law should be limited to followers of that religion, and no person should be forced in any way to follow or keeps following any religion. Those are fundamental human rights principles in my eyes.

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I wish for a world where this wasn't news and wouldn't matter anymore, but as the world is right now, this is still an issue in many countries, and therefore imo noteworthy and good news.

(I have no idea if he is a good president otherwise, I'm not promoting his political leanings because I don't know them.)

They are trained to give answers which sound convincing on a first glance, for simple questions in most fields that strongly correlates with the correct answer. So, asking something simple on a topic I have no clue has a high likelihood to yield the answer I'm looking for.

The problem is, if I have no clue, the only way to know if I exceeded the "really simple" ralm is by trying the answer and failing, because chatgpt has no concept of verifying it's own answers or identifying its own limitations, or even to "learn" from it's mistakes, as such.

I do know some very similar humans, though: Very assertive, selling guesses and opinions as facts, overestimating themselves, never backing down. ChatGPT might replace tech-CEOs or politicians 😁

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Stephen hawking, not only one of the physics geniuses, but also exemplary for not giving up in spite of a terrible disease, and a pop-star of science, died aged 76 in Cambridge.

There is nothing wrong with using standard phrases, but everything wrong with gatekeeping them.

And yes, I'm looking at you, @ElBarto777@reddthat.com!

/scnr

"Read" means they are displayed in your browser. I used to have Twitter open and hit reload once in a while during work, I definitely loaded more than 300 Tweets per day, especially when clicking on an interesting one once in a while loading all the replies automatically.

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Seems windows are still dangerous in Russia. The article does not provide any information why she fell; it seems she had a visitor at the time who was subsequently questioned by the police, and by quoting other "accidents" the article seems to insinuate this might be a sanctioned hit, but there is no further speculation on the rumour.

“almost all sub accidents are the result of pilot error”.

But it was his error, and as far as I know, he also was the pilot, so...

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by twitterfluechtling@lemmy.pathoris.de to c/news@beehaw.org

Apparently Prigozhin should better have requested to get his amnesty in writing... According to Kommersant and three main news agencies, the case is not closed and still investigated. An unidentified source claimed there had not been enough time to close the case.

In other news (yahoo news, so I would treat it as a rumour at best and don't want to link it here) it was mentioned, threats to Prigozhins family and the families of his officers stopped the revolt. I find it quite hard to believe, though, that they didn't see that coming and didn't take such threats into account.

Good luck with that... I recommend to stay ground-floor and to avoid tea and guys with umbrellas?

But I wonder what will happen to Shoigu. I mean, getting rid of him wasn't part of the Putin/Prigozhin deal, but wasn't it a huge failure on his part to let Prigozhin proceed that far? Wouldn't Putin have to sack him for that, even if that looks like giving in to Prigozhins demands?

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The article raises most of the questions we were already asking ourselves, giving some background, but obviously no answers...

  • What will Putin do? The whole situation makes him look week, will he lash out to show strength? Purge annyone seen as not supportive enough during the whole situation?

  • What will Prigozhin do? It would look out of character for him to just leave in silence?

  • Will Russian troops want to fight alongside Wagner troops after this? Will Wagner troops accept now to be integrated with the Russian army?

"Elon Mode" just means it's to cater to Musks wet dreams to keep him in the believe the feature is just around the corner, because "see, it's already in the car, we just can't set it live due to stupid formalities" while in reality, passing trial is the major hurdle and having a demo is miles away from having something working reliable in all corner cases.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by twitterfluechtling@lemmy.pathoris.de to c/humor@beehaw.org

Due to copyright I just post the link, but the laugh is just one click away :-) I was considering to replace "weather" with "climate", but thought then it's not really funny any more

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Shouldn't books be sorted by ISBN? :-)

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I have my self-hosted instance now, but there are some issues / open questions:

  • When going to my admin-page, I see tons of banned users I never banned myself. Who banned them, why do I need to know about it?
  • Concerned I might have left my instance too open and they might have used my instance for spamming, I tried to look for all users on my instance. By directly accessing postgres:lemmy and checking the user-ids, I saw it's just the expected ones, however, I wasn't able to find the usernames, neither easily in postgres nor on the lemmy admin page. Any ideas?
  • I see timeouts when accessing my lemmy instance, however, the host doesn't show high cpu-, memory- or network-load and I don't see anything immediately suspicious in the logs. According to iftop, there aren't insane amounts of connections, either. Sometimes it seems to help temporarily to restart my apache server. Any ideas, what to look out for?
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