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manucode , 10 days ago to Connect for Lemmy App in [Bug] Strange pinning issue? A pinned post from another instance in All on .ca

In recent days, I've experienced the same on Thunder. So I'd guess it's not a bug not with Connect but with Lemmy.

manucode , 20 days ago to Technology in Patrick Breyer and Pirate Party lose EU Parliament seats

OMG. Here in Germany you sometimes get an entire booklet of ballot papers, if necessary. You wouldn't even be allowed to bring your own ballot. Otherwise, one could secretly mark their own ballot in some way, thereby undermining the secrecy of the vote.

manucode , 20 days ago to Technology in Patrick Breyer and Pirate Party lose EU Parliament seats

Where do you live that you can print your own ballot?

manucode , 1 month ago to Not The Onion in Texas GOP platform calls for ban on same-sex parenting because being gay is "abnormal"

That's just one member of the village people. Where is the rest?

manucode , 1 month ago to Technology in PayPal plans an ad network built off your purchase history

How is that GDPR compliant?

manucode , 1 month ago to Technology in Male birth control breakthrough safely switches off fit sperm for a while

She would still have to either trust him or take birth control herself as well.

manucode , 1 month ago to World News in Ex-Royal Marine charged with spying for Hong Kong found dead in park

Are you sure he wasn't liquidated? To keep him from spilling secrets on that intelligence service?

manucode , 1 month ago to World News in EXCLUSIVE: ICC seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes over October 7 attack and Gaza war | CNN

The CNN headline is a bit misleading. It's not the International Criminal Court as a whole that is seeking these arrest warrants but the ICC's chief prosecutor Karim Khan. The judges have yet to decide on these warrants.

[Side note: This is the same kind of lazy journalism that uses terms like EU chief or EU leader interchangeably for the President of the European Commission (Ursula von der Leyen) and the President of the European Council (Charles Michel). If this was limited to a short headline, I could excuse it, but CNN continues with the same wording in the first sentence of the article: "The International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for ..." which is absolutely unnecessary, even if CNN clarifies things later.]

manucode , 1 month ago to 196 in Emoji Rule

Japan

manucode OP , 1 month ago to 196 in Rule

Fair enough. The statement in the middle is indeed made from the point of view of a fictional ketamine-consuming character only created for this particular meme.

manucode , 1 month ago to Showerthoughts in In a thousand years teachers will have a hard time explaining the origins of one of the most dangerous and ill-conceived weapons ever invented: the lightsaber

Non-experts far in the future might consider us today naive for considering lightsabers future technology.

manucode , 1 month ago to Memes in Pov: You criticized the first Crusade

This meme is about Nutella.

manucode , 1 month ago to Memes in Pov: You criticized the first Crusade

But not about onions, but pineapple.

manucode , 1 month ago to No Stupid Questions in [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?

Some people feel judged for eating meat if they learn that you're a vegetarian or vegan. As veganism appears more extreme, it causes a stronger reaction.
These people don't like being judged, so they seek to judge you instead. If they can judge you for not eating meat, you can't judge them for eating it, or so they feel.
Some vegans being quite obnoxious in their attempts to convert others, doesn't improve things. Rather, it helps those who dislike vegans to reaffirm their beliefs that all vegans are silently judging them all the time.
All of this is just my theory.

manucode , 1 month ago to World News in Report finds Nestlé adds sugars to baby food in low-income countries

You could pass legislation that requires corporations not to do harmful activities in other countries if these activities are illegal in your country. If a corporation does such an activity abroad it would still be prosecuted as a crime in your country. If a corporation doesn't want to subject itself to such accountability, it would have to stop doing business in your country.