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The article isn't, but many accounts now dish out anti-EU narratives in any topic remotely touching Europe.

A lot of it for sure is either direct propaganda, or internalized anti-EU sentiments after reading too much of that propaganda on other platforms.

Weak Europe is what both Russia and the current US administration are explicitly promoting, so it's not surprising to see an uptick of those comments. Most countries now have pro-Russian alt-right/left parties, and their supporters are very exposed to foreign state sponsored messaging.

What. Strict branch naming like feature/, bugfix/, chore/, release/ has been the standard for probably 10 years now in all projects I've been in, often enforced by auto-rejecting pushes that don't comply.

? This isn't about new vs. old reddit, but rather that there's now no access without login.

I see it all the time in Europe. Many German online shops have Paypal as the default payment method and may even process card payments through Paypal.

Also, it's often the way people transfer money between each other.

Yes, and often it was clear what was copied and what was written by your colleague. Everyone has a signature style of code. I would often in review catch odd looking code, find the origin of it, and require a rewrite.

Reviewers seem very happy with the new Framework Pro, have you considered it? Of course, it still wont have quite the same level CPU/GPU.

I'm annoyed mostly because I always surf with private browsing, so I always have to log in again and again. And for some reason I haven't bothered checking, Firefox doesn't save the username field.

This is true, and the collective agreements set lower bounds for almost all jobs. On the flip side, employers often treat collective agreements as the only salary option they're willing to offer for blue-collar positions, and the only wage increases may be the percentage bumps negotiated by the unions. In this case the only way to meaningfully increase your salary is to advance in your career. Doing the same work with double the efficiency will not be reflected in the pay.

Mind you, this does not apply to white-collar positions like IT in the same manner. The salary bands are still quite strict -- 6 figures is still a rarity -- but you do negotiate them and can get meaningful raises.

And I use Google's own Gallery app instead of Photos. Like for others, the backup notification is what renders Photos unusable for me.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

I've never seen dd-mm-yy. It's usually dd.mm.yy, dd.mm.yyyy, or yyyy-mm-dd, with some dd/mm/yy sprinkled in for general confusion.

Well, true, Russia has a long history so I was overly broad. Aggressor in almost all conflicts is more accurate.

In WW2 it was the second major aggressor of course. WW1 Germany declared war before Russia invaded, so debatable. Wasn't an aggressor in the Napoleonic wars as far as my history knowledge serves me.

> I wonder what you mean

I thought I was clear? I mean the western corruption isn't in any shape or form comparable to Russian corruption, and how it pervaded all the Eastern Bloc. It does take long time to root it out, as it affects and degrades the whole society. You really, really can't compare it to what we have in the west, and everybody is better off when they get to escape it.

Yes, but he has access to free information, so can easily check what is the current and historical Russian contribution to the world. At that point, siding with Russia is of course an active stance of supporting the crimes of Russia. Patriotism is not a valid excuse if your motherland is always the aggressor.

All countries distancing themselves from Russia and aligning with the EU have managed to reduce corruption. It's a winning formula, so will very likely happen with Ukraine too after the corrupting Russian influence is eradicated.

He's spreading overtly obvious Russian propaganda, he's clearly very aware of it and just prefers to take the side of evil.

I've been in quite many Telegram chats, none of which has enabled it. For most practical purposes you can just consider Telegram not to have e2e since it's no good if it's not used.

> With amount of oil tankers just burning out in the open the "carbon emission" goals seem like a joke

If you refer to the burning Russian tankers in the Azov, that should reduce emissions. The carried oil would've been used internally in Russia, so it's better to just burn it before it gets used, the same emissions would've been there anyway. And burning the tankers and refineries restricts Russian oil production, which is is a win both for the environment and mankind alike.

Please don't just provide LLM answers in human discussions. It's rude.

> Yes. Beyond that, if they didn't work they wouldn't be used.

My usual experience from London was extremely leaky single pane sliding windows, that's why the question. To be fair, that air flow was probably the only saving grace against mold in those buildings.

> then why not Europeans start company in Sweden instead of dealing with Germany for example? Do you by chance require residence and have residence-related obligations and costs?

You can open a company in another EU country, but if you don't live there, your domestic tax agency may/will interpret the company to be under their jurisdiction based on your residency. Now you have double the paperwork, and likely a more complex tax situation to deal with.

Can sliding windows be properly insulated? In general cold is a bigger deal in Europe than warmth, and will continue to be so.

German style tilting windows close as tightly as the regular (or door-like as you say) do. UK has windows sliding up, but is also famous for being drafty as the windows are never tight. I suppose good sliding windows can exist though?

I have myself pondered the problem with regular windows and a movable AC. My apartment has old school 4-pane windows with 2 layers both having their own window handles, so 8 independent small windows for each opening. They do look great in an old building but I don't see any reasonable way to set up AC with these. Thankfully no need yet as the apartment has never reached 30C inside, but we'll see what the future brings.

What nonsense. QR codes exist but seem quite rare around here, it's definitely almost all proper menus.

Or use an ad blocker.

What do you mean? I have 4 DualSense controllers connected to my Steam Deck for couch co-op, and Overcooked works just fine with them?

There's also a XCancel Firefox extension to redirect all your browsing: https://addons.mozilla.org/android/addon/toxcancel/

The tax office can decide that the company is, in fact, a German company if the founder lives and operates in Germany. Now the company paperwork has to be done in two countries. I don't know what the tax implications are.

Applies to all EU countries btw, you can't just choose a different jurisdiction for your new company risk-free.

When using contactless payment with my card, about 10% of the time the payment terminal tells me to insert the card to the reader slot instead and enter my PIN. I assumed this is a general security feature, but I guess it depends on the issuing bank then. This in Europe.

> In basically all of the western world minors can enter into debt contracts, but are generally not seen as particularly creditworthy.

No, that's not legally permitted in many places. I was under impression that minors can't enter into debt contracts anywhere in EU, but that, too, was an incorrect assumption.

https://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2017/mapping-minimum-ag...

I grew up in one of these "not under 18 even with parental consent" countries, so that coloured my view of the matter.

Would they be given their own credit card, or would it be under the parents? Over here minors can't enter into debt contracts like credit cards, so it'd be a direct debit until they are adults.

All businesses based in Russia should be boycotted, also second-hand (so businesses that deal with other businesses based in Russia).

If I knew someone was sending money to Russia, I would of course avoid any contact (let alone financial ties) with them.