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Comment Re:ACAB (Score 1) 85

I saw a fake advert in Germany in May 2021, posted in the name of satire.

Alle 17 Minuten ruft ein Polizist Daten von Helene Fischer ab"
Polizeiship

The advert looked like one for "Parship" which is an online dating service.
The text translates to "A policeman/woman looks up Helene Fischer's data every 17 minutes" (she is a singer) and the small print went into more detail of abusive searches by the police (of just one state) in their online database. A lawyer was getting threatening letters from self-proclaimed neo-nazis at her private address, which is not publicly available. Death threats to her and her daughter. It turned out that the data was from that police database and that the policewoman who retrieved the data held political views which tended in that direction.
To the best of my knowledge, the man who sent the threats is in jail. I don't know what happened to the policewoman, but some of her group were suspended from duty and one of them reacted by driving his car into a tree at high speed.

Flook delivers current data (if they identify people correctly) but the problem is wider than that.

Comment Re:Of course not! (Score 2, Interesting) 122

But this is rationalizing, dude. This is you realizing that you've voted for blatant corruption and the destruction of democracy in the US, and then trying to pretend that the other side is just as bad.

But the simple truth is the other side is not even close to being just as bad.

But, but, Fox News said they were, and that it was all down to:
- Crooked Hilary (is that what he called her?)
- Obama Hussein
- Sleepy Joe
- Hunter Biden, think of the laptop.

Comment Re:Of course not! (Score 1) 122

Isn't it funny how the Republican Party always gets very concerned about spending and the reach of government when the Republican Party doesn't control government; but just as soon as they do have control they start spending like crypto bros and use government to interfere in literally everything that doesn't fit their questionable narratives?

I can think of a few recent Republican presidents where that did not apply, but The Donald is the ultimate RINO - he was affiliated with the Democrats a few years back but they showed no interest in making him president. The problem is that his hostile takeover of the party was supported by those who should have known better, only a few - Liz Cheney for one - demonstrated any sense of responsibility.

Comment Re:Moslems (Score 1) 83

Romansch gets spoken in the valley west of Chur, essentially between Chur and Disentis. It may also be spoken in the valley S of Tamins but I've never been there so I don't know.
Speaking to a local in a small town (maybe Saas Fee) around 20 years ago, he said that the language spoken there had changed in his lifetime - it was German by then and I can't remember what it had been previously.

Comment Re:Question (Score 1) 30

Are you sure?
I thought the ESR version was a Firefox version from the recent past with security updates released at the same time as the mainline Firefox gets updates. My version is 140.9.0 ESR but it may be a bit out of date, my Linux distribution has stopped providing updates for my release level and their new level pretty much bricked my test system when I tested it there.

Comment Re:Moslems (Score 1) 83

German-speaking Swiss, French-speaking Swiss, Italian-speaking Swiss. I have no idea how homogenous (aka "inbred") the country's citizens are.
I was speaking to one of the first category around 15 years ago and he said that on his travels within the country, he'd been somewhere where he did not recognise the language and he asked them - presumably in German - what they were speaking. It turned out that they were speaking the (very) local dialect of Swiss German.
3-4 years ago I was in a Ski resort and went into a local restaurant at lunchtime, ordering in the local language which is German. I was asked if I spoke English - 'cos they didn't speak German. Presumably that's the kind of thing the SVP moan about.

Comment Re:Moslems (Score 3, Insightful) 83

This has nothing at all to do with Moslems.
I'm not sure when things changed, but up until around 20 years ago it was quite difficult to move to Switzerland - you had to have some job skills that Swiss nationals didn't have, at least in sufficient quantity. Then they made an agreement with the EU which granted them access to the EU market (and vice versa) with free movement of population in both directions, I knew several people - mostly in Finance - who then moved to Zürich, Brits, Germans and French. There were presumably some Italians who also headed over.
The SVP is a classic xenophobic party and they've essentially been shouting "too many Germans, and other foreigners".

Comment Re:Flipping an effective tie (Score 1) 227

when in the most recent elections in Britain, SNP, Sinn Fein and Plaid Cymru all won victories. All parties that head movements to separate from England, and in Sein Fenn's case, rejoin Ireland.

Are you talking about the local elections? That was pretty much a vote against Keir Starmer's Labour along with the financial mess Britain is in. The financial mess has a lot to do with the mess David Cameron made of the country (Austerity and Brexit) so voting for Farage's party feels to me like turkeys voting for Christmas. (Yes, Cameron made the mess, but BoJo and Truss compounded it).
If Sinn Fein gets Northern Ireland to being part of Ireland again, NI is back in the EU anyway.
The last I heard, the SNP was pro-EU. They pretty much have to be, their electorate was very much in favour of remaining 10 years ago (I think it was 55:45).
I have no idea what Plaid Cymru wants.

Comment Re:China respects veterans too (Score 1) 52

I'm not an American - and have not been there since the runup to Dubya's Iraq war - but I'm surprised to hear that as well. First person reports I've read indicated that VA physical health care is sub-optimal and VA mental health care severely sub-optimal, although both are very much cheaper than the alternatives.

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