Doesn’t mean it’s nice to have gum infections though. I can also imagine they are more of a threat to baby crocodiles.

Und dir A-Unterschlagerei!

Es müsste CAPTTTTCAHA heißen.

You didn’t answer my question. Should it be legal?

Swap out “car” with “any electronic device of your choice”. Should Intel/AMD be legally allowed to remove the CPU firmware on a whim making your processor a worthless pile of sand? Should your phone be allowed to be bricked by software updates because the manufacturer wants you to purchase a new model? Should fucking Casio be allowed to remotely disable your F-91 W digital watch because it contains firmware you do not own?

Do you own the software and firmware in your car?

The navigation system might use Google Maps and requires an internet connection to function. The manufacturer may decide to no longer want to pay for Google’s license and therefore disables all software - including software running the ignition, engine management, the speedometer, the center console - on the car with a momentary notice. The car becomes undrivable as a result.

Should this be legal? You didn’t own the software after all.

It might happen here, which is why Dachau would be the more apt comparison in my opinion.

But right now, it’s certainly not anything like Auschwitz. The Japanese Internment Camps you had some decades ago weren’t Auschwitzes either.

Dachau? No, it never became an extermination camp. Hell, I visited the memorial site and know about its history to some extent (though certainly far less than actual historians).

It killed tens of thousands still, especially in the later parts of WW2. But its purpose was still to concentrate enemies of the state and not to exterminate them.

I mean, yeah? An extermination camps is arguably several magnitudes worse than a concentration camp, isn’t it?

That doesn’t detract from both being horrific.

Hyperbole and analogies are just two conflicting figures of speech. The overall message is weakened than if either is used by itself.

Auschwitz was an extermination camp, not just a concentration camp though.

For now, it’s much more like Alligator Dachau. That was the nazi’s first and flagship concentration camp used for propaganda.

Humans regularly kill large animals as well.

Though I’m unsure how much the presence of mines and absence of humans would affect animal deaths.

Diese Tat ist sicherlich nicht dem rechtsextremistischen Spektrum zuzuordnen.

Schließlich kann man ja aus Positionen der Mitte der Gesellschaft unmöglich politischen Extremismus folgern.

Same. Immerhin nur frostige 38°C laut meinem Wetterdienst hier.

The loser of a lawsuit always has to cover the cost of the lawsuit, including the other party’s lawyer fees (except in cases where the state attorney sues and a bunch of other exceptions like when an employee starts a labor dispute). They are very much capped based on the disputed sum though. The higher the dispute, the higher the attorney fees you have to pay when losing.

For example, if the disputed sum is 5000€ the base lawyer fees are ~390€. It can then be multiplied by some factor - I think 2.5 is the maximum but I’m unsure - depending on the length and difficulty of the case.

They aren’t a punishment but rather a consequence of losing a lawsuit.

They are also usually covered by your legal protection insurance which is generally recommended to have.

US awarded “damages” are utterly insane.

How do the judges even come up with those numbers? By rolling a die?

I’m really happy to live in a country where the awarded damages must only cover the damage amount and the damaged party mustn’t profit from them.

They didn’t care at first. The only reason they began destructively scanning books is because they started to care about copyright law:

Anthropic first chose to amass digitized versions of pirated books to avoid what CEO Dario Amodei called “legal/practice/business slog”—the complex licensing negotiations with publishers. But by 2024, Anthropic had become “not so gung ho about” using pirated ebooks “for legal reasons” and needed a safer source.

Copyright law doesn’t allow them to sell the books. It’s almost certainly a violation to scan books for their content and then sell them.

Es gibt noch eine andere Lösung… 🐡

If Batman appeared I would also immediately start believing in him.

That doesn’t make me Batman-agnostic though.

So THAT’S why a biologist had to reinvent calculus in 1994:

“A Mathematical Model for the Determination of Total Area Under Glucose Tolerance and Other Metabolic Curves”, Mary M. Tai, Diabetes Care, 1994, 17, 152–154

It’s literally the exact opposite. This guy isn’t a ghost. He’s a fucking beacon.

Want to be as stealthy as possible? Then be as “normal” as possible. Use only corporate social media and use it frequently. Pay for Adobe Reader. Engage in celebrity gossip and drama.

And then, once you have manufactured this persona, you can actually remain hidden from surveillance and do whatever you want to remain hidden.

For anyone else wondering what a “MENSA” member is:

Mensa International is the largest and oldest high-IQ society in the world.[3][4][5] It is a non-profit organization open to people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardised, supervised IQ or other approved intelligence test.

I was already questioning why school/university cafeteria staff should get any benefits that aren’t present in other jobs.