Repost from https://todon.eu/@marcohackney/115992340469511552 with ALT text added.

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@nerdherz I found the original pictures and have replaced the cropped ones with them so now with the commission logo. Thank you for pointing that out and my apologies for not doing my research right away.

[dexruus@chaos.social]

@jwildeboer DONT EVER FORGET; EUROPE HAS HAD ITS LONGEST PEACETIME SINCE EVER.

The EU isnt only a people project, its a peace project.

[stiefel_fan@troet.cafe]

@jwildeboer
And don't forget the Euro €! Going to The Netherlands, France or Greece and you don't need to go for an exchange desk, just pay with the coins you have in your pocket. 😁
I really like to go for Czech Republic but there you need to change, hope they will join someday ... 🤷🏼‍♂️

[krist@wehavecookies.social]

@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.

[stiefel_fan@troet.cafe]

@jwildeboer
Even the original toot has a nice blocklist recommendation! 😜

[budududuroiu@hachyderm.io]

@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.

[kennergf@mas.to]

@jwildeboer that is really good, now do trains 🚂

[iinac@climatejustice.social]

@jwildeboer

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...

[krist@wehavecookies.social]

@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.

[the_wub@mastodon.social]

@mfru @jwildeboer It is great to still be reading the Russian talking points on social media all this time after Brexit became a fact.

/s

https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/116004502701588492

#brexit #epstein #thiel #sarcasm

[the_wub@mastodon.social]

@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.

[the_wub@mastodon.social]

@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.

[the_wub@mastodon.social]

@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.

[the_wub@mastodon.social]

@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?

[laberpferd@sueden.social]

@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

[ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu]

@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.

[morre@chaos.social]

@Dexruus @jwildeboer Very much depends on the definition of peace, doesn't it?

[mfru@mastodon.social]

@krist @budududuroiu @jwildeboer best / most funded and being a fraction of the whole budget do not exclude each other, though

[krist@wehavecookies.social]

@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.

[jaxom_kaplan@mamot.fr]

@jwildeboer maybe @EUCommission could post it anew ? 😉