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[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 40 points 2 years ago

One can hope that the store operators will also be heavily fined for their apparent failure to protect their customers' information from infosec threats. Show them teeth, GDPR.

[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Germany: shock

Cyprus: anger

None had any discourse around what the PISA scores measure and if there's any problematisation warranted around the methodology etc. So, in the end, it just serves as a regular outrage topic for the news cycle, but because no-one understands what the scores mean, no-one can do anything about them.

[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Massive parking lots at the edge of the city. At least this was the recommendation of the Berlin Autofrei initiative.

[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago

income-proportional fee structure for government services?

This is income tax.

[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And if the strike spreads to Germany, which it very well could, it could mean the cease of operation of the Model Y factory in Berlin, which would be devastating to them.

A big problem is that Germany's labour laws do not allow sympathy or political strikes. A strike can only be legally called in association with a collective bargaining agreement negotiation/dispute.

Germany will be the weak link in this cross-country wave of strikes.

[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago

For clarity, I'm in favour of changing the terminology to highlight the historical injustice.

I just thought it's important to admit that it's a recent change of linguistic preferences even in the most official Greek publications. Indeed, up to the last couple of years, the adjectival "Elgin" was used in Greek as an accusation of theft, not a recognition of ownership.

[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I wouldn't focus too much on that. I studied in a Greek-medium public school, and the sculptures were always referred to as "Elgin Marbles" in history textbooks produced by the Greek Ministry of Education. Same for journalism and public discourse in Greek.

Diligently correcting the term to "Parthenon sculptures" is a recent cause.

[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago

Yes, but in the absence of other factors, "cold tolerance" is something that can change by habituation.

[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 29 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm not sure how a personal budget app can help you keep track of a Heizkostenverteiler/heating cost allocator. There's many unknowns during the operation time and even the landlord is given a year to crunch the numbers before they bill the tenants.

What is progress is that people on district heating now get their kWh consumption readings every few months.

[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago

There's a rather considerable current of leftism that is libertarian. Over-regulation of what a person can do, especially with something as, well, personal as appearance, is at odds with left-libertarian values.

Left-authoritarianism is of course compatible with such regulations.

[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

Okay, that explains the crowds.

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