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@silkester@mastodon.social

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@alice@lgbtqia.space This lock nonsense is the dumbest tradition I can think of. Maintenance workers have to remove these "symbols" on the regular to maintain the integrity of the structures. And it lacks any aesthetic to boot. So it won't stay on that fence or bridge for "eternity" Plant a Sequoiadendron giganteum tree in a national park and hope that corrupt politicians won't remove the protective status of the land.

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@paninid@mastodon.world Four kinds: [1] I suffered hardship, lets prevent this for everybody else. [2] I suffered hardship, I teach you how this feels. [3] I grew up with a golden spoon, and your hardship is my entertainment. [4] I'm good, thanks. I don't give a fuck about others. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@thegarbagebird it doesn't mean that there aren't a bunch of influencers with brains in his orbit who take advantage of his character flaws and lack of brains. @Guillotine_Jones

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@thegarbagebird The economic crisis weakens currencies. There is a fair chance that Trump's crypto friends recognized a chance. Trump might salivate over the fact that he gets a push button to wipe out any stablecoin account with a single command. "All stablecoin issuers must possess the technical capability to seize, freeze, or burn payment stablecoins when legally required and must comply with lawful orders to do so." https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/07/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-signs-genius-act-into-law/

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Signs GENIUS Act into Law

The White House

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Signs GENIUS Act into Law

MAKING AMERICA THE LEADER IN DIGITAL ASSETS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed the GENIUS Act into law, a historic piece of legislation that will

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@megatronicthronbanks @ketan The Cybertruck is a fiasko of a different kind. Worse than Tesla image as a whole, the Cybertruck is a design clusterfuck and an endangered vehicle to be pulled from streets for safety reasons even in the US. Most of the world the Cybertruck doesn't meet the requirements for safety in the first place. Hence design clusterfuck aside from being the ugliest car on the market.

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@michael_w_busch And while Starlink claims they can bring down defective satelites, a claim I only partially believe timeframe wise, every time one of those many staellites is hit with an asteroid or piece of saterlite, space debris from rockets, more pieces shoot around at a davastating speed, damaging more satellites. It will never end. These satellite replacements will require tax subsidies... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuVOM067OOo

Satellite Collision in Low-Earth Orbit Only Days Away With Loss of Maneuverability: Risks Spiking UP

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@silent_john@mastodon.social Because Congress didn't change the name, even in the US the official name is Golf of Mexico. Sadly much of the US is brown-nosing Trump, granting him more power than he actually has. And lern and teach the power of EOs and why Trump gets his kicked out on the regular. It is embarrassing, how much SCOTUS is waisting time on them.

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@papageier Jupp! Statt im Krisenmodus Turbo-Umstellung auf Erneuerbare zu inizieren, die eine Investion darstellt, die sich in wenigen Jahrzehnten selbst amortisiert haben wird. Korruption ick hör dir trapsen!

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@QasimRashid@mastodon.social Do you look in the mirror and still recognize yourself? Look what the Christian Nationalists made you do. WTF has the affiliation to any faith to do with life saving medication? Can we please stop put people in files and just see them as people with inviolable rights to live, dignity, and seek happiness. #Ethics #Zambia #Trump #AIDS

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@michael_w_busch @sundogplanets True. It doesn't mean the smaller objects are harmless, esp when it comes to comercial satelliites where cost cutting is standard operation and Musk is infamous for cutting corner on the expense of safety. Musk is also infamous for milking government grants and exploit via government contracts. Starlink is a very questionable business model and the more satellites are knocked out by fist size bullets and need replacement, cost cutting may be even more prevalent.

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@ahltorp@mastodon.nu @the_wub@mastodon.social @Daojoan@mastodon.social Absolutely correct. In many ways, the CDU/CSU, with its old-boys-club are in many ways the continuation of the Nazi-party with many of its inherent flaws. There was a short period of an honest effort of atonement and reform (Rhine-economy as an effort to prevent fascism), but Strauss and his cabal starved them out, much like NIxon killed the civil-rights movement in the US.

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@madeindex Check out Stablecoin legislation signed by Trump. "All stablecoin issuers must possess the technical capability to seize, freeze, or burn payment stablecoins when legally required and must comply with lawful orders to do so." Source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/07/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-signs-genius-act-into-law/ Stablecoin will be common, provided you have widespread verified identity online.

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Signs GENIUS Act into Law

The White House

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Signs GENIUS Act into Law

MAKING AMERICA THE LEADER IN DIGITAL ASSETS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed the GENIUS Act into law, a historic piece of legislation that will

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@cR0w AI is a catch all term. In warfare AI often translates very precise targeting, at least if you believe the weapon nerds when talking about a German beast that can target tanks with missiles on the go with excellent precision. Ukraine drones hit their target thousands of miles away and when jammed switch to pattern recognition aka AI and find their target, or exercise deflecting maneuvers to give the targeting drones an opening. Ukraine is the defender.

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@dgriffinjones @tootbrute @dantheclamman To 86 someone is slang for ending employment more often than assassinate someone. As the former head of FBI with a boat load full of character witnesses of who is who in the US Justice Department retired, the Trumpianized DOJ will have a very hard time to overcome reasonable doubt even if they go venue shopping by reason of online publication.

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social That's why it is absolute ridiculous to label Elon Musk the richest man. Loans are not his money. The shares in Musk's case are greatly overvalued. It's vibe shares with big loans against And it gets even more ridiculous, when his Tesla shares went down because of his fascist shit and came close to the loan-default line, he buys twitter again, this time with his sub-mediocre AIx with a vibe value.

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@tbachner@ruhr.social Uhm... Nette populistische Aussage. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Damit die Öffis so richtig mit dem Individualverkehr konkurrieren können, muss im Öffi-Netz noch viel mehr passieren als ein günstiges Ticket. Der Ausbau mit den verbundenen Personalkosten dürfte die Gegenüberstellung deutlich relativieren. Aber ansonsten Daumen hoch für die Öfffis!!!

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

Jacque Tilly convicted in Russia for Satire.

German Tagesschau because it shows the float in question, which US media & UK media shy away from:
https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/asien/tilly-urteil-moskau-100.html

#CarnivalFloat #Tilly #Art #Satire #Russia #Law #Politics #Oppression #Censorship #Terror #DickSucker #RussianOrthodoxChurch #Putin

Bissig-satirische Mottowagen: Karnevalist Tilly in Moskau verurteilt

Bissig-satirische Mottowagen: Karnevalist Tilly in Moskau verurteilt

Die russische Justiz hat den deutschen Karnevalisten Jacques Tilly zu achteinhalb Jahren Haft verurteilt - wegen bissig-satirischer Mottowagen. Er war nicht anwesend.

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@rosaluxstiftung Uhm! Ich fühle mich jetzt etwas lausig, denn die entmenschlichte Manipulation mit sexuellen Übergriffen in der Migrationspolitik ist real und beschissen... grundgesetzwidrig... etisch unvertretbar, ... etc (aber...) die Statistik der Frauenhäuser hat einen inherenten Bias. Missbrauchte Frauen mit einem intakten Zuhause schlagen nicht in Frauenhäusern auf.

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@QasimRashid@mastodon.social "killed dozens" is a lie of omission! 170 girls of the age between 7 and 12 were killed and mutilated by a US bomb strike obliterating a school because AI had it registered as part of the base. And Hegseth celebrates their death with computer game aesthetics in gotcha-statements: "Wasted!"

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@the_wub@mastodon.social @ahltorp@mastodon.nu @Daojoan@mastodon.social "As far as I can see all of this is part of the "imperial boomerang" which all western imperial nations have practised in more recent centuries." I totally agree.

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 18mo ago

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@Strandjunker@mstdn.social Learning from past and present successes and failures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqArMy1GPC8

How Hitler Destroyed Democracy from WITHIN: Trump ENABLERS, Take Note! | Lights On w/Jessica Denson

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 44mo ago

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@vowe@social.heise.de Sadly, me too.

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

@alice@lgbtqia.space
Well couples don't attach them to bridges and fences for you to have a cheap source of locks 😂

And the fate of these locks is a heavy duty cutter clipping the metal and thus destroying the lock and recycles with all the other old metal.

So the symbolic gesture is as self-delusional as many promises at the altar but with the locks it is waste of resources. Sure lock sellers love the tradition for obvious reason. But where is the romance in that.

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@the_wub@mastodon.social @Daojoan@mastodon.social Without going into search engine research, I remember two Nazi-esque scandals in VWs recent history. VW using Uighur slave labor in China. VW publishing racist ads in South America And nope, you can't white-wash VW Nazi-history with a change of ownership when most of the Nazis remained in the company. Germany/VW reinvented itself, but it still inherited its history and always will. &sadly, it is just as vulnerable to fascist propaganda as it was in the 1930s

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@davidzipper Lack of insight and willingness to learn from others... ending i a self-fullfiling path of disaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2dHFC31VtQ 3/

How American Fire Departments are Getting People Killed

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@the_wub@mastodon.social @ahltorp@mastodon.nu @Daojoan@mastodon.social Uhm! Only because VW is an ethically and morally questionable company doesn't make Tesla any better. It was the claim that the poster has the moral high ground with VW when the poster didn't. Just a high degree of ignorance.

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@michael_w_busch @sundogplanets As I understand the collision avoidance refers to larger objects. Small pieces shoot holes into satellites on the regular and produce more bullet size pieces shooting with incedible speed. The denser the satellite net, the more this happens, the more small pieces shoot in every direction, threatening not only LEO satellites bit those in higher orbits. Amazon is crowding the lower orbit, a Spanish company announced to crowding lower orbit, ...

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@cR0w Most AI is a form of pattern recognition combined with probability math. And the software of drones fighting the Iranian drones is similar and uses autonomous recognition and maneuvers, if I understood the weapons nerds correctly gushing about Ukraine arsenal, to which the German modular vehicle belongs that can hit its targets on the go. There is pattern recognition and pattern recognition on the next level.

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu Keep out frauds like the types of Elon Musk, who invent nothing but keep their failing business running with well meaning public programs that pave the way to hell.

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@nixCraft The naive belief that your rules in your house apply anywhere else. My first porn not age appropriate was at my aunts house, it was mixed with age appropriate VHS tapes and we kids were sent to the TV room to give the grown-ups space to talk.

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Current status of the flying lit of a Moscow oil refinery, was cause by a Russian missile missing the drone it aimed for.

LOL!

Ukraine still accomplished its goal. The missile probably was the reason for the impressive image of that flying lit that vent viral.

#UkraineDrones #RussianWar #War #Moskow #OilRefinery #flyingLit #RussianMissile #FriendlyFire

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social Musk is not, absolutely not the richest man with this IPO. This is not actually sane based value. Not even close. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHD8BDFYyGI

SpaceX: The Biggest Money Loser in IPO History

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@the_wub@mastodon.social @ahltorp@mastodon.nu @Daojoan@mastodon.social "Or in this post-truth-world do two wrongs really make a right?" It doesn't. And in this world of ours, it is hard not to compartmentalize. The mere fact that I participate in the computer age is a testimony that my purse supports human rights violators and does it every day, because there isn't a computer that doesn't rely on rare earths mined with the most brutal child labor, and those companies don't use their enormous capital gains/power to end the atrocities.

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@the_wub@mastodon.social @ahltorp@mastodon.nu @Daojoan@mastodon.social You're responding to a poster claiming moral high ground. And I can't see much difference between people boasting not caring about human rights (violators), and people too lazy to check the validity of their claim, before making it, when in fact their purse is still supporting human rights violators.

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@foxxie911@mastodon.bd @QasimRashid@mastodon.social The computer game aesthetics and joyful "Wasted" after every footage of real missile strikes does not recognize real human casualties at all from the department of war. see: https://mastodon.social/@thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy/116183738416591463 I would have them pick up the corpses of their missiles and give the victims a proper burial on their personal expense to make them f-ing feel the pain they inflicting on others... hoping they still are capable of compassionate feelings at all.

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@davidzipper These two for example on car design and car safety premises: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--832LV9a3I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo 2/

Keep these Stupid American Trucks out of Europe

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

There is a massive misinformation campaign going on in the US about the 3rd term presidency.
1) Iran would give Trump war powers. It doesn't. Trump can't declare war, hence no war powers.
2) War powers still don't prevent elections in the states. It is up to the states, not the president.
3) Trump is kicked out of office regardless on January 20th, 2029. That's it. Trump turns into a pumpkin.
4) Trump is not eligible for reelection since it would be his 3rd term.

#USelection #Civics #Trump

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@davidzipper How Ponzi style suburbia is preventing the US to get out of an evil circle and cars remain essential... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IsMeKl-Sv0 5/end ...and a few more on the US and why their traffic stats are what they are.

Why American Cities Are Broke - The Growth Ponzi Scheme [ST03]

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@davidzipper Unrealistic expectation and propaganda instead of true stats and an honest assessment... getting it horribly wrong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRPduRHBhHI 4/

Why Nobody Rides a Bicycle in the USA (Vehicular Cycling)

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@ln @sunpig Thermography of the house and the story it tells https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBqEe8IHsuI The video is in German but youTubes AI-Translation may help, if your German is insuficient.

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

"Trump advisers 'increasingly worried' GOP will pay the price for his failures: WSJ" Scrolling pass... thinking:

No single "leader" without enablers. Trump's failures are the failure of the Republicans not using their tools of checks and balances and pulling the breaks.

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@the_wub@mastodon.social @ahltorp@mastodon.nu @Daojoan@mastodon.social If it were only history... The current management still takes profit over humanitarian/human rights concerns. That was way more devastating than continuing the company shortly after WW2.

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 26mo ago

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@pierogiburo@tech.lgbt tiny hick-up in the flowchart. ü is a yes to German. German uses the Umlaute ä ö ü anywhere from start to finish and the tight combo of sz: ß in the middle and at the end of words, aside from the Anglo-Saxon a-z ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Oh boy. First sites tell me I can't get access from the UK. Uhmmmm?! Slight snag there: My IP places me in Germany.

That's annoying.

UK law doesn't apply in GER. Oh well, moved to a US IP via VPN...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#WebRestrictions #AgeVerification #UKLaw #IPLocation #VPN

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@davidzipper I think I should add this one to the list: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHlpmxLTxpw Netherlands having kids out and about on bikes on their own, while keeping them safe.

Why We Won't Raise Our Kids in Suburbia

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Silkester @silkester@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@ketan@climatejustice.social We are still far far far away from "switched off overnight" We might get anther time with car free Sundays... that is car reduced Sundays, since we have a significant number of cars that can run on fusion power from the sun, or kinetic energy from Earth itself, like wind and tides. But I appreciate the motivation that comes with this fossil fuel crisis.

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