A trusted source once told me that Mac OS 10 system libraries contain a bunch of shims so that Adobe apps may continue to misuse them the way they did in Mac OS 9. Now that they have a tight grip over the app ecosystem, they don’t even bother to help a major OSS framework that powers thousands of apps make the transition.
> And for everybody out there who's thinking about using VPNs, let me just say to you directly, verifying your age keeps a child safe. Keeps children safe in our country. So let's just not try and find a way around. Just prove your age. Make the internet safer for children. Make it a better experience for everyone. That's surely what we should aspire to in this country.
It's a grave insult to think someone would even believe this.
Peter Kyle is the same person who has strongly implied that everyone opposed to this law are siding with pedophiles. Meanwhile, there are pictures of him with his friend Ivor Caplin[1], who was caught in a sting and arrested on suspicion of engaging in online sexual communications with a child[2], so perhaps he should worry more about the people he surround himself with.
Munich streets are a war zone - you always gotta be the top dog. Too much traffic, way too much.
And yet I routinely see morons here and on r/de + r/Munich advocate to build even more housing for people in Munich... I mean, obviously, more housing is good, but as there is no way to meaningfully expand the capacity of public transport it's frankly useless.
The problem is, as I noted: housing isn't everything. You need the support infrastructure as well to develop a new city quarter, and that's all but easy: you need schools and kindergartens with playgrounds (which consume a lot of space and create noise), shopping (at least a grocery store and a pharmacy), a general practitioner doctor, a bakery... and then, you need the "invisible" infrastructure that barely anyone thinks about: public transport, streets able to support the traffic that inevitably comes even with a good public transport system, larger streets in the surrounding grid, water and sewage grids, a power grid, heating grid.
The problem is, Munich got lots of new real estate around the city, but especially the public transport system wasn't expanded anywhere near close enough to what's needed. There hasn't been an actual new rail laid for the S-Bahn or the regional trains in decades (in fact, if you go to Mühldorf near Munich, the railway dispatch tech dates back to the era of the Kaiser, so even before Hitler and the Weimar Republic), the U-Bahn hasn't seen meaningful expansion in the core grid as well (only the leaves were expanded, in the late 90s to Messestadt, in the late 00s to Moosach).
And now, the road and public transport networks are at capacity. Munich physically cannot support more people moving here.
Sure, but until the courts handle this, the damage is already done. Until that point, laws can be changed.
The problem is not that the EU doesn't have checks and balances, the problem is that politicians are willing to offend common decency in the first place and drive the erosion of civil rights.
I wouldn't bet on that. Zensursula is already a well known meme. Doesn't change the chance of her or anyone else in the commission facing any consequences.
I always figured that the president of the European Commission is a member of the European Commission but I wasn’t 100% sure if that is “technically” the case. I did some research and The list of Members of the von der Leyen Commission¹ clarifies that the president – along with the vice-presidents – are included among the 27 members of the “College of Commissioners”.
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