Comment Re: They are not wrong... (Score 1) 76
Ukraine goes out of its way to not target civilians. That is the opposite of terrorism.
Comment Good luck with that. (Score 1) 76
Somehow I doubt that the Emirates are going to extradite a guy to a country that is currently moving drone and missile components from China to Iran where they are used to attack targets in Dubai.
Comment Re:attack (Score 2) 64
Comment Re: Enron Husk desperate to stop the stock freefa (Score 1) 139
It's both. The robots are going to be trained to do human tasks with machine learning. Instead of writing complex scripts for every task a robot does the AI can be trained to do ten thousand similar things ten thousand times in a simulation. Which is a pretty smart way to make robot hands pick up arbitrarily arranged objects in a box, or to sort different kinds of boxes in a UPS sorting center.
Of course Tesla will need ten years to figure this out and by then Chinese companies will be five years ahead. Thus this new round of import substitution.
Comment Blame Canada (Score 4, Funny) 64
Comment Re:Life imitating art? (Score 1) 222
and he answered, "Yes" and that was the end of it.
Which is why you never answer "yes" to anything a prosecutor asks you. It's always a trap. In this case, asking if this is your account and not asking if you sent those messages is the trap.
Comment Re: Hopefully he sues for a few million. (Score 1) 222
Hard disagree.
There are mistakes that can happen - getting a phone number wrong, knocking on the wrong street number, stuff like that, sure.
But all of those mistakes need to be found and fixed DURING the investigation. This is the duty of the police officiers.
Not finding any evidence and STILL going to trial - that's on the prosecution. But I doubt that there would have been a conviction if police had not omitted things or outright lied in court. I doubt any courd would hand down a guilty verdict if all the police involved said that they found no evidence of anything.
Comment Horrifying (Score 1) 222
Comment Re:How old is the author ? (Score 1) 104
Comment Re: How old is the author ? (Score 1) 104
Comment Re:Who would have thought (Score 1) 226
The "pattern" is called police doing their work
You can call a piece of coal "off-white, tending towards darkish", or you can call it "black". Both are technically not incorrect. Only one of them is not intentionally misleading.
The whole shit is obviously intended to chill critique. If you are seriously offended by someone calling you an incompetent ass, then politics isn't for you, go get a real job.
And the police really have more important things to do than scaring pensioners who got a bit emotional online. (one of the most famous raids was in 2024 against a 64-year old guy who had called a minister "Schwachkopf" (english: dimwit).
Tell me you think that justifies sending the police to someone's home. Seriously, these people need to get a grip. You can call me dimwit all day and I wouldn't dream of sending the police after you.
But calling them "raids" is completely dishonest
What else would you call it when police arrives at your home at 6 am to search it because you posted something online? (like they would find a reddit posting in your sock drawer, I mean come on, seriously?)
During the ""Aktionstage gegen Hasspostings" (Action Days Against Hate Speech), around a hundred or so such raids are conducted on the same day, and a substantial portion of those is for insulting politicians.
Comment Re:Can anyone from Germany (Score 1) 226
The details are clickbait, and the take questionable, but there is enough truth in it. From my perspective (I'm Germany, but I currently live elsewhere, but still follow German politics closely):
One, there is a considerable crisis in the German manufacturing industry. And the current government has pushed through (with questionable methods) and insane military spending bill while at the same time complaining everywhere else that there is no money and they need to cut this and that and everything else.
Two, there is a strong US influence in european politics, and especially in Germany. A long list of recent and current high-ranking German politicians has direct connections to US think tanks or corporations, and an even larger number found employ with these or US universities, etc. after they were voted out. One would have to be incredibly naive to think that they're hired for their competence or out of charity.
Comment Re:Who would have thought (Score 1) 226
This is not the only case and there HAVE been police raids and quite a bit of police overreach, all in the name of a law specifically made to protect politicians. There have been several HUNDRED cases brought by politiciians against ordinary people for things they posted online.
You can discuss individual cases, but that doesn't change the pattern.
And, btw., this is not a right- oder left-wing topic. The dude in question here is a right-wing politician (the CDU being Germany's equivalent to the Republicans). Not the most right-extremist-wing, but clearly right-wing, pro-corporation, fuck-the-working-class right-wing.
Comment Re: Siri's Decline (Score 2) 128
My problem with telling Siri to play music in the car is that it just stops working. I say "hey Siri" and nothing happens. To fix it I have to stop the car and unlock and lock the phone. Sometimes I even have to reboot the phone. I guess the listening daemon crashes and nothing restarts it. This is really annoying when I have twenty more minutes of driving before my destination.