misk

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misk,

Also worth pointing out: referendum campaign has less strict spending limits compared to parliamentary elections so this is one more way (on top of utilizing state media and state owned enterprises) that PiS can outspend competition in upcoming elections which are held on the same day.

misk,

Right now all of the proposed questions are so bonkers that many people will get parliamentary elections ballot and ignore referendum. EU accession referendum is the only referendum ever that met quorum in Poland so putting that question on a ballot could potentially mobilize people.

PiS won’t do it because their long term plan is to sow enough distrust to EU that they would have to “begrudgingly” leave the EU in a couple of years. They don’t need a referendum for that either - previous government (led by PO) passed a law so that only a parliamentary majority is required for that IIRC.

misk,

Yeah, 50% quorum required.

Parliamentary elections turnout will easily exceed 50% so it’ll be a huge cluster fuck to boycott referendum because people will likely be handed both ballots by default. It’s illegal to take ballot away or destroy it. Invalid votes are counted toward quorum. So far it looks like we’ll have to specifically refuse and have this on the record.

misk,

That sounds massively illegal.

Holding elections and referendum together is kinda illegal but who’s going to stop them.

I hope you have a good supreme court.

EU is suing us because supreme court doesn’t meet criteria for being independent and impartial. Constitutional court is even worse.

But even then, people could still vote against the proposed referendum

The questions are “have you stopped beating your wife yet?” themed and any participation legitimizes this circus unfortunately.

misk,

Religion is not the goal of conservatives, it’s a tool to preserve hierarchy in the society. Capitalism is another tool that achieves that.

The people that aren’t wealthy but are conservative benefit from hierarchy enforced by religion. It ensures that they’re not on the bottom of society - that place is intended for various minorities.

misk,

If you’re at the extreme bottom there’s little chance to move upwards in capitalism but it’s comforting to have some undesirables who have it even worse than you.

misk,

Look into OpenCore Legacy Patcher. I updated my GFs 2012 Air to Ventura and it’s running okay. A bit clunky around MacOS updates since you have to specifically run patcher again to get graphics acceleration again but otherwise fine. It’s definitely worth it for security updates.

dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/

misk,

I’m amazed at the lengths tankies will go to argue for overthrowing democratically governments and supplanting one colonial power for another one that comes packaged with Wagner and Boko Haram.

misk,

It’s not an Islamic State takeover but it’s hard to imagine they won’t be taking advantage of chaos and Niger losing French & US military aid.

misk,

Yeah, their algo is fun most of the time but it’s easy to fall into a bubble and detach from reality. It’s also quite transparent how often you’re subjected to annoying A/B testing. I’m glad this is happening because it gives users ability to see general view and get more control over their experience.

misk,

TikTok is absolutely scummy in how they nag you for access rights to phone features / data but I don’t think there’s a way to do this without adding third “Popular” tab next to Following and For You.

If they had this as a setting then it’d have to stay this way. Industry standard is to withhold such setting and constantly default to algorithmic page in the attempt to trap you there or make you tired of switching feed constantly.

misk,

It’s easy - tax evasion, money laundering, secret financing of things you wouldn’t want others to know. All perfectly fine reasons to fight for.

misk,

This is all technically true but cash is not the answer.

Right now there are so many easily accessible ways for governments to spy on people (cell phone geolocation, call metadata monitoring) that I’m not sure that for the purposes you think of you aren’t screwed already anyway. From this perspective fight for cash use becomes a bit theoretical.

The only people that I know of personally that are strongly for cash are either people that frequently skirt around taxes (“minor” stuff like car repair shops) and unfortunately conspiracy nuts. Genuine privacy oriented people exist but realistically the majority will be there for selfish reasons.

The societal cost of tax evasion, money laundering and financing organisations that legally require transparency (political orgs, NGOs etc) are massive and immediate.

What we really need is strong oversight of institutions, government transparency, rule of law and healthy democracy. Those are the things you want to enshrine in your constitution.

misk,

Building complex systems involving humans is hard because humans are flawed. The best thing we’ve come up so far are systems involving extensive checks and balances to prevent thing happening too rapidly and without necessary oversight and even then it’s a tricky part to balance.

For the record, I’m not for entirely cashless society but organisations that are cash heavy have proven to be source of many headaches. There is a balance to be found on thresholds and barring some types of businesses from using cash and where digital money transfer is required. Banks and other money transfer entities will have to deal with scenarios where malicious parties will try to obfuscate their intent outside of those thresholds.

misk,

I prefaced this with disclaimer that’s a personal experience. It’s probably hard to measure because people aren’t that eager to self report tax avoidance.

It is government’s interest though. Hence extensive AML regulations for example.

misk,

Link without paywall:

bnnbloomberg.ca/germany-factory-orders-unexpected…

It's Time for c/Europe to get some rules, and we are also looking for additional Mods in the short future :)

Hey all, this community has grown a lot lately, so moderating it has become quite time consuming. As I’m studying and also working a side job helping hands would be very welcome. I guess we should also have a discussion about Rules so that Mod Decisions aren’t looking arbitrary. So let’s have a discussion about the rules...

misk,

I wouldn’t reinvent the wheel and borrow r/Europe rules as a starting point.

Maybe do a little bit more proactive moderation to that community. r/Europe threads could sometimes go off the rails and had cleanup many hours later - I think it’s OK to lock down before that happens (is locking posts a thing on Lemmy?).

Another approach is to keep rules simple and do a complete philosophy and rule walkthrough separately. I penned this monstrosity for polish subreddit back in the day (linking to archived version since I left since then and it got some meh updates in the meantime).

Yet another approach is to have a philosophy page like Tildes does. It’s clear enough that you disallow assholery and bigotry but community like this definitely needs submission rules on top anyway.

Did anyone have any positive results with CBD products?

Not too long ago, regulations on CBD changed in Germany leading to a plethora of products containing it. As someone who occasionally needs pain medication, I tried some of the products to avoid regular pain killers (ibu). Especially on days with lighter pain, I wished for an alternative to the sledgehammer meds. But I was left...

misk,

THC will cause anxiety and paranoia if your tolerance is low or you use particularly stimulating cannabis strain. This is where CBD is very useful because it decreases psychedelic effect. You can use either a balanced strain (equal or similar THC / CBD content) or supplement CBD in other form.

misk,

Medical marijuana is legal in Germany. If OP needs it for health reasons he could go through legitimate process.

misk,

That’s surprising given how close you are to recreational use legalization. Here in Poland MM is legal but we don’t have any producers and get fair chunk from Germany (Aurora Deutschland, 420 Pharma).

At the same time medical marijuana business got so silly that you basically go to a website, fill out a form, pay ~€20 fee and get an e-prescription in a couple of hours. There’s been some ineffective attempts at cracking down on it in the past weeks that resulted in slight fee increase.

misk,

Pretty good overview of current climate in Poland. Regretfully media citing police chief, Jaroslaw Szymczyk, omit the fact that he remains in his position even after he fired grenade launcher in his own office couple of months ago and that grenade launcher was illegally smuggled from Ukraine.

misk,

That part is annoying but I generally don’t subscribe to channels that overdo it. My remote has a button to skip 10s forward so I keep pressing it until I see sponsored segment is over.

I’d love to be able to use sponsorblock on ATV but I don’t see how it could be reasoned that it makes morally ok to not pay Google and content creators for the service they provide (with cash, ad views or otherwise). Video hosting ain’t cheap.

misk, (edited )

Whoa, this looks awesome and I do have always on server for Usenet/Plex and Homebridge.

Thanks!

[edit] Installed and working great but I had to change os.exit() to sys.exit() in one of the files, looks like it’s not compatible with recent Python versions out of the box. Converted into system.d daemon, now working 24/7.

misk,

Huh? You can Airplay those. Not sure what do you want to stream there that would be a better experience than downloading it outright from Usenet or torrents.

Chromecast is fine for what it is and a very good value but it does not compete with Apple TV or Nvidia Shield.

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