baconmonsta

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[–] baconmonsta@piefed.social 8 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Tobias Huch is not a part of the German government. This post title is nonsense.

[–] baconmonsta@piefed.social 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Interesting to see what kind of a press statement Trump will put out as an excuse for not having a peace deal and for not following through with his threats

[–] baconmonsta@piefed.social 22 points 4 hours ago

There was a hint of a possible motive though: "He was travelling with his brother, Kathiruddin, on horseback on the day he went missing. Police said a family feud had forced the two men to leave their home. " But yeah, seems like a pretty plausible accident.

[–] baconmonsta@piefed.social 1 points 5 hours ago

I understand what you mean, and agree that not everything needs to be put in words. At the same time though, it's really healthy to expose yourself to others even if you just write "I like the way you formulated this." or "Makes sense, I hadn't thought of it like this before". That way it turns into a real discussion - a bit like in the real 3d world.

Up/ downvoting is basically anonymous and adds nothing to the discussion.

And, sometimes, other users misunderstand our comments, and then we need to respond to them to get our point through. All of this is a healthy way to challenge our thinking.

[–] baconmonsta@piefed.social 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

What do you mean with chat control BS? Care to share a link?

That being said, there are a lot of worrying politicians out there.

[–] baconmonsta@piefed.social -2 points 6 hours ago

I don't understand what your article has to do with privacy. I understood that is the framework of this conversation. Yes, there's a lot of scary rightwing policing in Germany, but can we stay on topic?

[–] baconmonsta@piefed.social -2 points 6 hours ago (9 children)

I feel like at least in Germany privacy matters are alive and kicking thanks to GDPR / DSGVO

[–] baconmonsta@piefed.social 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Apology accepted! Let's just both agree to pick up some litter the next time we go to the beach.

Unfortunately my hometown still allows indoors smoking etc so we're still pretty far from a ban. But it will come I'm sure.

[–] baconmonsta@piefed.social 2 points 7 hours ago

The problem with regulation is that most of these data giants are US companies, and due to regulatory capture since the 1980s you can't expect much to change there.

[–] baconmonsta@piefed.social 2 points 7 hours ago

Amazing! I did not expect that outcome from my comment

[–] baconmonsta@piefed.social 10 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I'm no expert, but I feel like anywhere they use an algorithm to drive up "engagement" it leads into people being fed rage-bait and then them acting accordingly. This "attention economy" needs to end somehow.

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