The Strokes. Their debut *Is This It *is one of the best if not the best Rock debuts. Eveything else after is just meh to me.

Using Gish gallop makes people look at you with wary eyes and ignore whatever you have to say, as the only people using this technique are zaelots without facts.

You are intelligent enough to know what logical fallacies are in principle, and you can work on actually spotting them, and presumably at the core of you there’s a right thinking person somewhere. Do yourself a favour and step back a moment and think about the company you are keeping ideologically. And what hill you are deciding to fight on.

How can a toxic wastedump exclusevely filled with trolls, edgelords and questionable porn go downhill? That place’s been as low as possible just about from the start. Can’t believe anyone would voluntarily admit to posting there back here in the civilized world.

Why would you wear either? Have not worn watches since cellphones became a thing in the late 90s and smart watches are just a solution looking for a problem…

I have been playing games since 1980 or so and never have trouble picking up new games to play. Gamepass is awesome that way, I get to try a host of new games each month and one or two stick for weeks, months or longer. I almost never go back to previous games, apart from expansions of course.

If you feel happy with the current state of reddit you should be there. I could not stomach it anymore so I’m at the next best alternative, that has all the potential. You need to take the sour with the sweet in all new ventures. But if that’s not for you just go just go where you feel fine, nobody is making you stay or is invested in having people stick around that do not feel they want to be here.

The case — which dates back over five years to the time when Scholz was still mayor of the Hamburg city-state — is linked to the broader so-called “Cum Ex” affair, under which the German state was defrauded by over €30 billion as some banks, companies, or individuals claimed tax reimbursements from authorities for alleged costs that never occurred. The scandal already hung over the Social Democratic politician’s election campaign in 2021 but had little impact in the end as Scholz’s potential involvement remained unclear. Now it is heating up again after new details emerged that put his previous defense in question.

https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-chancellor-olaf-scholz-parliament-investigation-tax-fraud-scandal-hamburg-cum-ex/

‘Cum-Ex’ is Latin - and it means ‘with without’. In essence, it’s a massive stock trading scam by bankers, brokers, hedge funds, international tax firms, investment companies, lawyers and insurance companies. By acting as promoters to help their clients get a refund for a tax they never actually paid for, they have defrauded EU member states by billions of euros. This rapid trading of shares with (cum) and without (ex) dividend rights thus gave rise to the scandal of the same name.

They are definately not fair. But fair is not an economic or political quantifyable term. Slavery wasn’t fair either.

What is just or not changes with times and societies. If there is political capital to be made by making reparations then they make sense. If the public disagrees they can and will vote out those responsible. For better or for worse that’s our system.

But I personally do not feel there’s such a thing as Sins of the Fathers. I have nothing to do with the slavers of 300 years ago, the whole concept of owning a human being is repugnant to me. And I genuinly feel that should be enough.

Nothing you do for the next 10 years will really matter so just try to have fun and enjoy being young and without responsibilities.

To be fair, reddit for me was always about getting to know like-minded people. And I met my wife through the 40+redditor seeks redditor group so if that’s what it is I’m fine with it. Not in the least as I left that toxic waste dump with the exodus and have not missed 95% of it. (Yes, I miss /r/AskHistorians but I am strong, if I allow myself one subredit it will suck me back in so clean break is for the best).

Legend(2015) has an audience score of 59% for some bizarre reason. I’d think anyone that was onboard for the permise enough to watch it in the first place would enjoy it a lot. I know I did, great movie.

I agree, not earthshattering but enjoyable, better than Hypercube and deserving of more love.

Treat others how you would like to be treated. Adress others the way you want to be adressed.

Dutchman. Whatsapp is not used for business in any instance I am aware off, nor should it be because of many compliance reasons. But private conversations/group chats are next to impossible without whatsapp.

Memes. Communities filled with trolls and most all content created as creative writing exercises or trollbait. Communities filled with indignant self righteous members trying to force their own worldview or morals on the rest. Politicising everything.

I don’t see how your comment history would be considered “personal data”.

From the GDPR definitions: The data subjects are identifiable if they can be directly or indirectly identified, especially by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or one of several special characteristics, which expresses the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, commercial, cultural or social identity of these natural persons. In practice, these also include all data which are or can be assigned to a person in any kind of way. For example, the telephone, credit card or personnel number of a person, account data, number plate, appearance, customer number or address are all personal data.

irrevocable You’ve agreed that your posts are no longer your “personal data” at that point…

No, that is not how that works under European law at all. You can at **any **time revoke this right, that’s one of the basic rules of GDPR. And yes, Reddit falls under GDPR as they specifically enable EU citizens to use their services.

I check lemmy a few times per day, reddit now a few times per week, and only the few subreddits that have no good alternatives yet.

I feel a general creative writing sub would be a nice community, but the cesspool of the obvious fake and ragebait articles from prorevenge, pettyrevenge and AITA are better left in the past at reddit I think…

Because price is not the main factor in people’s decision to buy games, and so they can get away with it. It’s similar to the move from physical tickets to download only, the cost per unit is lower for the provider but by keeping the price the same their margin is larger and they lose next to no sales.