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@krist @mfru @jwildeboer What is Frontex then? There seems to be a lot of chatter and condemnation of Chat Control, but yet I've yet to hear anyone condemn mass surveillance done through Frontex outside of EU borders.
> Thanks to funding by EU taxpayers, Senegal has built at least nine border posts and four regional DNLT branches since 2018, supplied with invasive surveillance technologies that, besides the black briefcase, include biometric fingerprinting and facial recognition software, drones, digital servers, night-vision goggles and more.
@budududuroiu @mfru @jwildeboer
A lot of people seen to equate Frontex with ICE.
I acually spend some time on Lampedusa last year. Refugees is a complicated subject, with a lot of moral hazard traps. I don't know the solution either. -
(It took less than an hour for the first "Yes, but" folks to show up and accuse me of being ignorant of the EU border policies and how we drown refugees in the mediterranean. Thank you for giving me that short moment of peace. Everything I have done and do for refugees is irrelevant to you because you just want to make your point. So. Welcome to my blocklist.)
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@budududuroiu @mfru @jwildeboer
A lot of people seen to equate Frontex with ICE.
I acually spend some time on Lampedusa last year. Refugees is a complicated subject, with a lot of moral hazard traps. I don't know the solution either.@krist @mfru @jwildeboer I don't know the solution either, but having Frontex be the best funded agency in the EU structures, while at the same time committing to upholding the Dublin Agreement seems like a bit of a contradiction.
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@jwildeboer that is really good, now do trains 🚂
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Maybe there are two Europes. I think it's possible to be pro-Europe, and pro-European integration and still critical of the EU. I think we all want a socially liberal and more economically just Europe. Some might call it a socialist Europe. One where immigrants are treated fairly. I'm living outside the EU now. (Not my choice) But would want to be part of a progressive EU. But don't want to be part of an ethnonationalist Europe. It feels like that's the way the EU is going. And the UK tbf. Not much of a choice...
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@krist @mfru @jwildeboer I don't know the solution either, but having Frontex be the best funded agency in the EU structures, while at the same time committing to upholding the Dublin Agreement seems like a bit of a contradiction.
@budududuroiu @mfru @jwildeboer that frontex is the best funded agency is a bit misleading. Its budget is still only a tiny fraction of what the EU spends.
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but the EU:
- is intransparent and complex
- is slow to move when it matters the most
- is a supranational entity that can overrule local legislature
- is in many regards a dubious democracy
- did not hold its promise of no more wars on its soil
- has frontex
- is a neoliberal economic bloc
- drives a parliament around between belgium and france for no other reason than pettiness and costs laughably high amounts in the process@mfru @jwildeboer It is great to still be reading the Russian talking points on social media all this time after Brexit became a fact.
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@jwildeboer Ha! Thing is we already had de facto universal charging in that regardless of if the device itself used micro USB or USB-C or lightening everything went into a charger with a USB-A port on it. Then gear started turning up with cables with USB-C at both ends and folk needed to buy new chargers when their USB-A ones were still perfectly functional. And I refuse to concede the often cited notion that carrying 2-3 wires instead of one (which all worked on a USB-A charger) was a problem 😅
@wiredfire @jwildeboer 1/n
1) I am not particularly elderly and still have reasonable hand-eye coordination. A USB-C plug is much simpler to insert into the relevant socket than a USB-A plug is and a USB-A plug is an order of magnitude easier to plug in correctly than a Micro-USB plug.2) Other people's chargers usually come with their own cables. The important bit is that the end you need to plug into your device has a USB-C plug on it. It does not matter what is on the charger end.
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@wiredfire @jwildeboer 1/n
1) I am not particularly elderly and still have reasonable hand-eye coordination. A USB-C plug is much simpler to insert into the relevant socket than a USB-A plug is and a USB-A plug is an order of magnitude easier to plug in correctly than a Micro-USB plug.2) Other people's chargers usually come with their own cables. The important bit is that the end you need to plug into your device has a USB-C plug on it. It does not matter what is on the charger end.
@wiredfire @jwildeboer n/n
3) I can still buy chargers here in Norway with USB-A sockets on them. I can also buy ones that support both USB-A to C and USB-C to C cables. Or ones that just support USB-C to C cables.4) If the only charger available is a USB-C to C PD charger powerful enough to charge a laptop I can still charge my dumb phone from it.
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@jwildeboer you can’t possibly know but I understand all of that better than you might think.
It’s the implementation that’s the mess. Leaving this to millions of websites was a bad idea. It should have always been a browser preference. One exists and could have been adapted.
@xavez @jwildeboer No, no, no.
Leaving it to millions of websites is brilliant.
There are a couple of cookie choice systems in use that are so utterly awful (in terms of having to block "Legitimate interest" cookies for all of their 847 partners ONE BY ONE) that when they appear after following a link from a search engine I can immediately leave that website and then block the site from ever appearing in my search engine again.
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@xavez @jwildeboer No, no, no.
Leaving it to millions of websites is brilliant.
There are a couple of cookie choice systems in use that are so utterly awful (in terms of having to block "Legitimate interest" cookies for all of their 847 partners ONE BY ONE) that when they appear after following a link from a search engine I can immediately leave that website and then block the site from ever appearing in my search engine again.
@xavez @jwildeboer Why on earth am I going to use a web page provided by an organisation that wants to make it so profoundly difficult for me to avoid giving them my data?
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@jwildeboer ich würde mal damit anfangen daß wir den Euro haben, und in doch ziemlich vielen Ländern mit einer einheitlichen Währung zahlen können, ganz direkt und ohne Umrechnen&Umtauschen
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@jwildeboer DONT EVER FORGET; EUROPE HAS HAD ITS LONGEST PEACETIME SINCE EVER.
The EU isnt only a people project, its a peace project.
@Dexruus @jwildeboer how are those different?
Edit, sorry didn't mean to be snarky, I meant more that peace is made by people, and peace comes from people getting to know each other better, so for me peace projects are people projects.
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@jwildeboer DONT EVER FORGET; EUROPE HAS HAD ITS LONGEST PEACETIME SINCE EVER.
The EU isnt only a people project, its a peace project.
@Dexruus @jwildeboer Very much depends on the definition of peace, doesn't it?
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@budududuroiu @mfru @jwildeboer that frontex is the best funded agency is a bit misleading. Its budget is still only a tiny fraction of what the EU spends.
@krist @budududuroiu @jwildeboer best / most funded and being a fraction of the whole budget do not exclude each other, though
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@krist @budududuroiu @jwildeboer best / most funded and being a fraction of the whole budget do not exclude each other, though
@mfru @budududuroiu @jwildeboer I know. But it is more an artifact of how the books are kept. The EU still spends most of its money on supporting farmers.
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@jwildeboer maybe @EUCommission could post it anew ? 😉
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@mfru @budududuroiu @jwildeboer I know. But it is more an artifact of how the books are kept. The EU still spends most of its money on supporting farmers.
@krist @budududuroiu @jwildeboer i don't see how the statement made by budududuroiu is misleading then
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@Dexruus @jwildeboer Very much depends on the definition of peace, doesn't it?
@morre @jwildeboer Last time I checked; Germany and France werent sitting in trenches or France beeing occupied by Germany again.
Thats quite the inner peace, isnt it?
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@Dexruus @jwildeboer how are those different?
Edit, sorry didn't mean to be snarky, I meant more that peace is made by people, and peace comes from people getting to know each other better, so for me peace projects are people projects.
@ainmosni @jwildeboer I was refering it to as "a people project" for economic and demographic reasons.
It started as an economic project, but lead to european peace and interaction.
Thats why i differenced it.
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Spring is a bit further away for me @stefano
That is the frozen Hudson under that ice. Stay warm and I will see you in Ottawa for @bsdcan where it will be much warmer for everyone. #bsdcan
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non smentisce mai la sua demenza...
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@hongminhee@hollo.social making the most of your time away from Korea I see. 😁
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Arrived in @offline@autonomous.zone and met @liaizon@social.wake.st here. Really a great place!
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È difficile pensare a cosa potrebbe succedere andando oltre, persino con una retrospettiva; non si può semplicemente pensare ad una persona di mille anni fa trapiantata nella società moderna, perché il soggetto immortale vivrebbe le trasformazioni personalmente, e quindi non subirebbe il trauma della “cesura” che si ha “saltando” la linea temporale.
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A questo negli anni si sommerebbe l'effetto sul “medio” periodo (centinaia di anni) delle trasformazioni della società, e viceversa sempre piú in evidenza i suoi punti fermi: ci sono bellissimi thread qui sul Fediverso con titoli ed articoli di giornali di uno o anche due secoli fa che mostrano come, con tutto quello che è cambiato, ci sono cose che sembrano immutabili, e spesso anche risalendo ancora piú indietro ai grandi classici romani e greci.
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@oblomov
Penso che sulla questione mantenimento il filone vampiresco offra buoni spunti, infatti non a caso sono sempre stati una sorta di rappresentazione horror della nobiltà.
(Anche un piccolo margine di accumulo portato avanti per lungo tempo genera rendite considerevoli.)
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@hpod16 The state of things. X has 650 Million Active users and Mastodon has 2.5 million. There is a reason. #Musk #Mastodon #SocialMedia
