The softest pants in the world from outside.

Olvid is French and Signal isn’t, which seems to be très important.

Comes right before honeydew.

Damn, the photographer is kinda hot.

Disappointed but not surprised that was allowed.

If media/publishing companies would just throw the exclusivity model in the trash where it belongs (and let DRM die too), then everyone could pay to see what they want on their platform of choice without this bullshit. As long as that’s not the case, I don’t see myself using these “services”.

That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. The parliament would effectively be useless when it is dependent on the prime minister, you could just elect a king and skip it altogether.

State party funding is actually a thing in some countries like Germany, Sweden or Australia. In Germany, each party with a significant result in any election (regional or local) starts receiving it, and it becomes more for better election results.

I don’t see the problem with small supporter donations, and that is how many parties stay afloat. What I personally find problematic are big donations from single individuals or organizations, these should be regulated in some way. Again using Germany as an example, they at least have to be declared publicly, though through some trickery, this doesn’t always work. There’s more potential for action here.

The definition for “ded” is bespoke:

Laughter and death as a combined concept has been present since Ancient Greece, where it is held that Zeuxis died from laughing at a portrait of an ugly woman he was painting. Ded stems from a folk etymology for dead reckoning. Emerged on the internet in the early 1990s as a representation for regional speech.

Oh god. My heart goes out to the civilians of Gaza.

As a German, I have absolutely no fucking idea why the AfD is gaining traction right now of all times. Its platform is anti-immigration and also anti-progressivism, which the new government has been doing a bit of, but not much. Maybe it is because there’s been a lot of hostility between the coalition’s parties, but that doesn’t really explain it either.

According to the subtitle, this map shows total employment rates irrespective of any other factors.

Yes.

Aren’t black holes per definition always clogged?

lil monkey fella

No, sadly refugees are already treated quite badly here. Germany took in a respectable amount but then left it to the EU border countries to either deal with them with little to no help or just shut themselves off completely. :( What would really be needed is a program to redistribute resources from the wealthy profiting from neocolonialism/climate change to those affected by it, but it’s generally framed as if the general population would need to pay for that which turns them against the refugees.

Nazism is still a shunned no-go, and the AfD knows that (and regularly accuses others of being Nazis). The way I see it, its officials are still Nazis though, but they get around acknowledging that by just positioning themselves as counter-culture opposition to progressive movements, which is great at mobilizing a united front of anyone who feels attacked by any part of progressivism. Meanwhile, they also covertly appease other Nazis and the extreme right through dogwhistles and the like. The anti-progressive voters just ignore or tolerate this. This combination sadly proves successful. When they start building the camps, of course everyone should’ve known they’re Nazis, but no one thinks that far even though it’s their policies’ logical conclusion.

Right wingers don’t actually believe in anything they say about the economy or foreign policy. They just care about power, and they’ll gratefully ally with any industrialist that is able and willing to help them.

Ah, the party whose members are actual Nazis. I would say mask off, but that mask has been off for longer now. Sad that he feels empowered to be this blunt.

Liechtenstein should have a special color for being one of the only 2 doubly landlocked countries in the world.