I think it’s more complex than that. Why can’t Germans solve this via those democratic solutions and threaten entire EU project by their inability to act against serious threats.

People keep kicking AFD can down the road for years now. I’d point to the paradox of tolerance but this is more of a case of laziness and lack of responsibility - no one has the balls to end the rising nazis. Why?

My original comment implied that this will lead to militarization of europe - I’m not calling for tanks. Polish and other countries will not wait for AFD to start building camps, this will end very badly if not dealt with ASAP.

28% is fucking crazy. What the actual fuck Germany, is it time to split it in half again?

What do europeans do this time? Sit back and watch again? Poland with biggest military in the EU will not be waiting for 2nd Hitler to be elected btw, not again.

Would be a world holiday for centuries to come

I don’t think we’ve discovered anything particularly niche that isn’t public knowledge today. Since Fable-line of LLMs dropped deobfuscating and reverse engineering web and phone apps is very approachable. Github is full of resources and you can start with something like cloakbrowser

None of fingerprint tech is illegal in any way so it’s a free for all and every browser except Brave (which yeah I know sucks) does basically nothing to fix this.

Business dangers from scraping / automation are basically of two types:

• archival record for proof mostly for legal prosecution and contract negotiation. There’s a lot of really bad shit going on on Chinese web despite the great firewall of China and you can hide it in plain sight if it’s ephemeral. So if I sell illegal goods but it’s not archived ever no one can really prosecute me. Gray/black markets players in China just rebrand every month and get away with everything.
• real time data for price/trend competition. Prices and trends move incredibly fast in China, people in the west don’t even understand how far ahead chinese e-commerce is, Amazon is like 10 years behind. So all that scraped info is incredibly valuable for chasing capitalism.

The more you look at the history of this conflict the bigger blunder it appears to be. Yet again Russia has been toppled by a conflict it could have totally avoided.

For a bunch of kgb master mind strategists they sure cant strategise for shit lmao

I did some js reverse engineering work on chinese websites few years ago and it’s legit industry leading tracking tech. Very few websites in the west are even remotely as sophisticated in that regard.

Unsurprisingly China has the best tracking ecosystem but it’s not for the reasons you might think. It’s just so competitive in China that tracking and automation blocking is super important for chinese businesses.

Have you noticed that there’s no such thing like internet archive in China? It’s because nobody wants it. It’s too dangerous to have recorded history of any sort.

You don’t get a pass on assault if someone disrespects your horoscope bullshit though

Child abuse? Lmao, did you even watch the video?

Unless its foggy or cloudy

Lol

not an american but you keep on raging with your dumb tiktok propaganda in hand lmao

So if the west indeed is more free, why are people getting arrested, beaten, scolded and losing jobs for supporting Palestinians

You are incapable of non-binary thinking? It’s more free.

There are people much smarter than you or me who try to quantify freedoms and you know what’s never doing well on these evaluations? China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_freedom_indices

I’ve been to China many times too and it does not rock lmao. You’ve been eating propaganda and it shows. China is extremely oppressive and it’s still incredibly underdeveloped despite LED covered cities you see on tiktok. It’s still a matchmaker and status driven society from 20th century despite EV tech.

Also freedom is not binary, the west is more free than China ever was. At least I can type “LGBT” to my chat app which you cannot do in China because CCP autocrats deem it “western propaganda”. None of this is a worthy sacrifice for faster decision making, I’d rather be slightly poorer but live in a healthier more free society.

You’re a fool.

Singapore has strict laws because it’s positioned as Switzerland of Asia but without actual country. It’s a bland “nothing happens” here haven for billionaires. They get to store their wealth and their kids there exactly because nothing happens in Singapore and if something does happen the surveillance and lawyer state will inform and protect you.

In the grand scale of things maybe one can argue this is good for Asia? But imo it’s disgusting and unethical, it’s distilling society to it’s worst parts of indifference and grifting. The only redeeming thing is academia which in itself managed to grift of this state but that’s good, take something good back from these billionaires and their hiden bastards - maybe they can be turned into real people who actually care about the world they live in.

Yes but CCP controls all trade while it’s much harder in free democracies. If CCP actually cares about something it is done immediately. Just take a look at trade war with the US, CCP is always 10 steps ahead because they can move so fast as they can’t be held accountable. That’s actually why there are so many autocracy proponents in the west now - “democracy is too slow, we’re losing”.

CCP is not pro anything. It’s funny how autocracy founded on explicit design documents is one the biggest real politik actors out there.

“Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.” - 1984

CCP officially justifies these as “use any means for achieving goals” and this is the entire party - just power for power sake. There’s no actual ideology or consciousness - it’s literally “The Party” from 1984. However I don’t want to discredit Chinese people who actually do make meaningful change but it’s in spite of CCP not because of it.

Rule of law is not so different from corruption in Singapore which literally just a tax haven. It goes from “I know a guy who’ll take 100k to fix this” to “I know a guy who will incorporate a shell company for 100k to fix this”. All it does it makes corruption exclusive to mega rich.

Why do you love Singpore? Genuinely asking as someone who visits the place at least once a year.