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My general position is that the EU regulates too much that could either be (a) regulated at a lower level or (b) doesn't have to be regulated at all, BUT sometimes EU regulation is amazing. My favourite example is roaming. It used to cost a gazillion dollars to make a call on holiday, now it's 0

My candidates for best improvements in computer UX during my lifetime: - Yanking out a usb drive no longer BSODs - Everything has own connector type -> everything is USB-C - Device drivers install automatically (no CDs/floppys) - No more DOS

The transition from Eurosummer to Hot & Sexy is really peak

We need to stop always making the far right the subject of political agency and the object of voter decisions in our analyses of contemporary politics. The success of the far right is not inevitable. But single elections do not signal the end of the far-right threat to our democracies.

Bin low key weeb für Graz

something i like about columbo episodes is how kinda...charged the show's music and scene composition is making the murders at the start of the ep appear, you can feel how weird and liminal the moment before and after that act is for the culprit since it's such a big moment of change in their life

Der liechtensteinische Polizeibericht vermittelt stets einen trefflichen Eindruck über das aufregende Leben im Fürstentum.

imagine if a democratic candidate anywhere said something like this about a jewish candidate, would be a ten-alarm fire in every media outlet for days. but the literal president promoting this sort of insane bigotry against a muslim won't even merit a story

早啊，还在睡

A Book of Nonsense https://www.wikiart.org/en/edward-lear/a-book-of-nonsense-1846

Literary Chinese for Why Bother With Literary Chinese: 今人乃我類，嚼蠟聞語言。 "People today are more or less like me: Listening to them talk is as dull as chewing wax." (Yuan Mei 袁枚, from 'Written at Random' 偶然作 7 of 13)

Nicht der Obersalzberg! 😱

The world according to the news: economic chaos, rising fascism, climate catastrophe, possible world war. The world according to Adrian Chiles:

Theres people out there who use threads but not Instagram and that's a real scary concept

One cause I am very passionate about is: the tyranid hive mind should not have emotions that we can recognise. It should be complete Lovecraftian horror, too vast and complex for our concepts to limn or our minds to comprehend.

The Ugly American is an extremely bluesky coded movie tbh

Watching a movie from the 60s is always kinda funny because there were like 20 actors back then so it's the same people showing up in all the movies

*I blame science fiction dystopias

Tis the season.

when you're at the being stagnant competition and ur opponent is kotohira nagi

Maybe I'm overly confident but I really do hope that the protests happening now because of the university cuts will lead to something

Stop using HSK anko decks to study Chinese, just read and copy the 3 character classic until you know it by heart

“口音” is HSK7...

The PHP problems are pretty annoying because they directly affect Miraheze and that's where the wiki for the nationstates adjacent thing I'm in is hosted, also I guess the uni website is partially down

AIF Myanmar Statement on the 2nd Anniversary of their founding.

Chloe and her tank

One of the really fascinating things about Charlie Kirk is that his own people’s response to his death was so nakedly opportunistic that it’s like oh, ok, this guy is fair game for literally anything, he’s an object, and now his soul is trapped inside Grok for eternity.

10 Minuten #zibtalk und ein SPÖ-Politiker zitiert die Kronen Zeitung mit den fetten Rektor:innen-Gehältern als Argument warum es schon ganz okay ist die österreichischen Unis kaputt zu sparen. Mission 10 Prozent läuft offenbar auf Hochtouren.

One should make a survey among k-pop fans about what genre they think the music they listen to is in