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disguon Germany is not as stable as we think. Just ask its preppers

It's an interesting article and worth a read but the headline is straight up garbage.

"The earth is not as round as we think. Just ask flat earthers".

"The vaccines are not as good as we think. Just ask the anti-vaxxers".

It's basically a story about this one person.

disguon A Twitter user insulted a German politician, then police raided his house

> Your own link is saying it's disputed.

No it doesn't. There's absolutely nothing in there that even hints at the fact that the numbers are disputed.

> And the Police claiming something, doesn't mean it must be true. Especially if we are talking about someone from public relation, which are notorious for 'miscommunication happening' with such details.

Sure. If you have better data that disputes what she's saying you're free to share it.

disguon A Twitter user insulted a German politician, then police raided his house

They're talking about both and what's your source for the fact that this claim is disputed? Who would even have such data if not the police. Please link your source as well as I've linked mine, which supports what I said.

disguon A Twitter user insulted a German politician, then police raided his house

https://www.bka.de/DE/AktuelleInformationen/StatistikenLageb...

Key word to look for is 'Beleidigung'.

The bigger cases are usually to be found here: https://www.rechtsindex.de/urteile/beleidigung

Keep in mind that the list above is not 100% relevant for these examples. You can also just find articles if you google 'beleidigung' and 'verurteilt'.

Ask any Strafrechtsanwalt in your area and they'll confirm this. This is not even a controversial thing at all.

disguon A Twitter user insulted a German politician, then police raided his house

Official German 'Polizeiliche Krimnalstatistik'. Go here, download the Excel file and look for 'Beleidigung'. It then shows the exact numbers. https://www.bka.de/DE/AktuelleInformationen/StatistikenLageb...

disguon A Twitter user insulted a German politician, then police raided his house

> restricted to defamation of policemen

This is 100% completely wrong. There's §185 and that applies to all citizens. That's the law, there's no such thing as Beamtenbeleidigung or other stuff that gets quotes often. We have to work on educating people that insulting the police is no different than insulting your neighbor. Such a law just doesn't exist and it never did.

disguon A Twitter user insulted a German politician, then police raided his house

A spokesperson for the Hamburg Police said that they've carried out a ~50 raids of homes of people for insults/hate speech. And that's just one city. So more than once a week in a single city.

Source: https://www.heise.de/news/Du-bist-so-1-Pimmel-Hamburgs-Innen...

disguon A Twitter user insulted a German politician, then police raided his house

People get sentenced for insulting police all the time. What are you talking about?

disguon What’s ugliest about M1 Macs and needs improvement

That's weird. I have the same mouse and it works perfectöy fine on the Mac Mini M1.

disguon Israel tries to limit fallout from the Pegasus spyware scandal

How is that a reason? This stuff is always justified by claiming it ensures the safety of people. Another justification has never existed for any of these.

disguon Boeing discloses a new problem with the 787 Dreamliner

I think that video was not correct then or they talked about something else because Boeing has outsourced critical parts whenever necessary at least since the 80s. I think the parts came mainly from Germany and Japan but I'd have to look it up.

disguon China’s gene giant harvests data from millions of women worldwide

> comparing the actions of a democratic country that promotes rule of law globally (although I am well aware sometimes realpolitik and worse happens) versus a country that has no regard for a rules based order or anything other than increasing their own power seems like a false comparison

Are you aware that most of the world sees the US not as a country that promotes the rule of law but the one country that's the biggest risk to world peace? It has been like that for many years.

The US completely ignores and shits on every single rule it claims to uphold the very moment it becomes inconvenient to keep following it.

disguon IBM unveils first quantum computer in Germany

Yes, that's the correct use of the phrase and how exactly how it's being used 100% of the time.

disguon Allies Believe U.S. 'No Longer a Good Model of Democracy,' Poll Shows

This is hilarious. You literally only read the word democracy and started with the "federalist republic" nonsense without reading any further, which is exactly why you completely missed the point with your post.

disguon Allies Believe U.S. 'No Longer a Good Model of Democracy,' Poll Shows

You're completely missing the point here and the federalist republic argument has always been a terrible one to defend this complete deafness when people criticize the US' democracy. It's like a dictatorship saying they're simply a one party system.

disguon Apps supporting account creation must also offer account deletion

It's been EU law for a while that a company must delete all user data upon request.

disguon Apple Robbed the Mob’s Bank

But not once has the problem been the fact that Facebook serves ads. It's also not a problem when Apple does it and the problem also isn't how much real estate the ads take up on the store or wherever they're shown. The problem has always been how Facebook gathers and uses the data they collect on you to better find out what ads to serve.

disguon History of Techno

That has got to be the worst scrolling behavior I've ever seen on a website in my entire life.

disguon Iran Says It Will Enrich Uranium to 60%

If you look at Iran's advancements you'll notice that any interference by Israel or anyone else is just slowing things down a bit. If Israel's goal is to not let Iran advance their nuclear program then they've been hilariously incompetent at it.

disguon Adobe charges subscription cancellation fee

Having lived in the US this reasoning makes absolutely no sense. It's not like every store charges MSRP or that stores don't have sales. Every store pretty much has its own pricing and they have no problem showing this specific store's pricing without the added tax. It would be ridiculously simple to show that specific price with taxes added.

disguon Stop Spotify Surveillance

I like that the campaign website complains about tracking and surveillance when Spotify does it but then uses Google Analytics on their own website fightforthefuture.org/.

disguon Stop Spotify Surveillance

Willing to bet that you're using at least one piece of software on a daily basis that's made by a company that - just like Spotify - files "ridiculous" patents all the time.

disguon Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak

> But if you do a test you first have to physical sign of that other people are anonymized informed that someone they likely had contact with has covid

This is false. I've been tested about 15 times within the last year and none of the things I "signed" included any of that.

I didn't have to physically sign ANYTHING at all. What are you talking about?? It's just a click field on the online application and that only says that you're okay with your data being shared with the lab that also sends you your test results.

> then when you get the result you still need to agree again to share this information.

This is also absolutely untrue as Covid, among others, is on the list of illnesses that the local Gesundheitsamt has to be notified of. It's not even optional. It's the law. https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ifsg/__6.html

Honestly curious where you got that information from?

disguon Silicon Valley’s Rape Problem

That's complete nonsense. There are plenty of good journalists out there. Of course no reputable one would publish this as there's no proof and it's mostly just the author talking about himself.

disguon Silicon Valley’s Rape Problem

This article is like 60% talking about how awesome the author is, 30% about how everyone should be as awesome as him and 10% accusing someone without naming them and without any evidence or anything.

That's why you don't self-publish this stuff if you're an amateur. It throws under the bus anything worthwhile you might have had to say.

disguon I Am Leaving Substack

Are they actively seeking and rewarding only those types of content? That isn't being answered anywhere as far as I can tell. "Actively seeking and rewarding" could be anything. Is offering a platform actively seeking and rewarding? I don't know much about Substack or the people on there so genuinely curious.

disguon Backblaze Privacy Update: Third-Party Tracking

They literally sent file names and file sizes over to Facebook. That might very well include very personal or confidential data. The fact that they don't even mention this and make it sound like some random unimportant tracking happened without them noticing is completely ridiculous.

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Greenwald is someone who often asks for verifiable proof. Is there real proof or is it people saying there is proof? Can you _link_ the proof he ignores so we criticize him for ignoring the _verifiably true things_? I have multiple examples of where he seemingly ignores stuff he doesn't want to talk about for one reason or another but that's where I've personally failed in the past.

I was very critical of Greenwald for quite some time after championing him for his work with the the Snowden revelations but once someone on Reddit asked me to see if there was actual real proof for the things I thought Greenwald was deliberately ignoring, I understood a bit more what he's about.

I think many people are so used to having the media cheer for "their team" while criticizing "the other team" 100% of the time that they completely forgot what journalism is supposed to be.

disguon TikTok wants to keep tracking iPhone users with state-backed workaround

That's according to "I know China evil" or is this based on anything? We know that China was playing catch-up when Snowden leaked his stuff so they might have caught up. Can you link the corresponding leaks? I'd love to read some of the Chinese ones because the most recent big things I could find were Snowden leaks.

disguon Justice at Spotify

And I value the creators of Spotify who create good software and a great infrastructure for the service they're offering. I think we should move away from this sleazy consumer mindset that the creators of Spotify should not be rewarded for the service they're offering.