The EU is not the US.

This is an extremely ignorant take.

A think-tank is supposed to inform, but an informed decision can only be made if the person making the decision is fully informed.

First of all - we don’t know if the think-tank said ONLY that. Maybe it was one ten different things they reported.

Second of all - what was the context of the report? Was it “what do we need to do to ensure that age verification is fool proof?” Or was it “IF we introduce age verification, what are some of the pitfalls we can encounter?”

Stop panicking. The EU operates on democratic principles, and everybody knows well in advance about any votes happening.

EDIT: just read the abstract of the report - yeah, it’s a nothingburger. “VPN can be used to bypass age verification” is what it says. Which is a statement of fact. Sure, the language of their tweet is shifty (with a strong push to introducing AV), but who cares? The idea was shot down a couple of times already, and it will be shot down again unless a solution is found that guarantees privacy of users.

Suggesting that Obama-equivalent would threaten allies with military takeover of land, tariff literally everybody fucking up the global economy, start supporting the enemy and rolling out the red carpet for Putin, or attacking Iran for absolutely no reason… is just flat out delusional.

Are you suggesting that, assuming magically Obama won president in 2025, things would be going exactly the same because “masters never changed”?

No, you don’t understand - if you can’t get a 110% perfect leftist president, you might as well just elect the next Trump to reinforce fascism!

I hate when people do this. “The EU does X”.

No, it does not. There’s no law, no resolution, no recommendation towards doing this from the EU.

The European Parliamentary Research Service is a think-tank that’s supposed to inform the MEPs. So, the actual title should be: “a think-tank in Europe calls VPNs ‘a loophole that needs closing’”.

What’s wrong with MIT?

I mean, judging by the “expectation” panel, he just got his first ever girlfriend not a month ago. Give him time, he’ll maybe finally see what women’s feet look like.

Also, especially in the US, probably go with your partner to ensure she gets the help she needs. I’ve read too many stories where doctors ignore women, especially women of colour, especially Black, especially with menstrual-related issues, until “the man” steps in and confirms that no, the excessive bleeding is not, in fact, caused by hysteria.

Black is OP. Get gifted a piece of clothing in non-black? No biggie, will fit with literally the entire rest of your wardrobe, because everything else is black, and black goes with everything.

What is the logic behind giving a company money for the tariffs?

Well, the logic is the fact that the tariffs were illegal.

The honourable thing to do would be to pay that money back to the customers, but that would make the shareholders sad and grumpy, so it’s never going to happen.

SNOW is a beast of a platform that requires a team of skilled engineers to set up properly. 90% of companies don’t hire those engineers and then do a surprisedPikachu.jpg when everything’s on fire.

But I did work at a company that had those engineers once, and I’m still in awe at how excellent that system can be.

An excellent specimen!

Unless you’re a literal basement dweller, you’re processing this much social protocol every single day of your conscious life.

Yep there it is, this is completely contradictory to how GPL 3 works

Judging by their repo tags, they use AGPL, MIT, and Apache, with one repo sitting under BSD. But your point stands.

I did a cursory glance at their GitHub repos - all the ones that state the license terms of the repo are AGPL, Apache or MIT, with one exception - BSD.

So I don’t really get what “licensing terms” are being violated here.

AFAIK, still no conclusive studies that show microplastics having an overly adverse affect on the human body

The problem is that we’ll never know because there’s no control group. Everybody has them, even fetuses still in the womb. You would have to build bunkers with perfect air filtering, and then go through, like, four generations of humans to breed microplastics-free specimen, which you could then use a the control group for the rest… Only them never leaving the bunker would already invalidate the tests… So, yeah…

I’m glad they did this because it finally gave me the push to move all my stuff to Codeberg.

by your claim, the field can have any series of numbers, that there is no way to determine if it is accurate, and the law that this was done to appease is bad, as in not able to obtain its expected result. and so the data is useless.

Yeah, so this tells me you have no clue what you’re actually talking about.

You don’t even stop to think for a second that maybe some enterprise setting requires such fields. Maybe they have software that populates account information based on their HR systems’ data, auto-creating user accounts? Maybe they can find a DoB field useful? Zero clue, zero thought, just “I don’t use it, therefore it’s useless”.

No point in continuing this discussion, I guess.

Again: what authority do you have to decide which data fields are useful, and which aren’t?

How do you personally differentiate between “useful” and “useless”? Is it: “I have no need for it therefore it needs to be removed”, by any chance?