I mean, their current funding seems dubious at times, where as the wikimedia funding you linked seems far stronger in grass roots sourcing.

But neither are relevant to the user experience of how obnoxious the ads are, (not to mention Wikipedia doesn’t keep bugging me for my email address)

Wow, this site has more donation ads than Wikipedia!

I’m aware of the wording.

Thing is, as the commissioner said themselves, kids are gonna make noise. And I’m perfectly fine with that, as part of their growing up. But peace & quiet is a fundamental right, that’s why I’m not allowed to play the drums at 3 AM. And sometimes, just for a week of two of holiday, I wouldn’t mind it all day long. In fact, I kinda need to zone out of the real world for a bit once in a while, and that’s a luxury I’m willing to pay for.

But you can’t call quiet environments a luxury and then ban providing it. Drinking alcohol is also a luxury. You can’t expect to do it everywhere, but you certainly can ban kids from entering an area where alcohol is expected to be served. And if you’re going to a theme park, don’t expect either luxury, because that’s a place where children are prioritised.

Only thing I’ld argue is that if you’re banning kids due to noise, you gotta ban all noise.

“The absence of children is a luxury, that’s why we’re making it illegal for regular people!”

Either it’s a luxury and I should be allowed to pay for it, or it’s as illegal as weed and it’s getting banned.

Problem with their stance is that most people with common sense will realise that bringing roudy children along is the real luxury. But it’s hard as Commissioner for Childhood in a country with low birth rates to tell people to do their damned parenting job.

Or atleast draw them away from the north, so they can expand their colonies like the genocidal twats they are.

Predicting it now:

This aid will only be allowed into the south of Gaza. Between food and a ground assault, they’ll have the carrot and the stick to push Palestinians out of the north, which they’ll then annex “occupy indefinately”.

Without going into the Gaza - West Bank schism, Hamas has governed the Gaza strip for nearly 2 decades now and its military is de facto that territory’s military forces.

The argument of ‘political militia’ only holds water if there is a significant opposition party with a relatively equally large military force. I have yet to see evidence of that.

It doesn’t help that there isn’t a currently valid “constitution of Palestina” which could regulate military force and who controls them.

He doesn’t understand “no”.

He does understand “then we’re only making trade deals with blue states, not the federal government of the US”

Excuse you!

The devil doesn’t deserve the comparison to that malicious sack of turds

Don’t like the smell of burnt nosehair in the morning?

😂

As a Belgian, I can confirm hell has reached skiing temperatures.

🤢

Thank you, France!

🤮

Sorry, best I can manage.

Except it’s German for bath, and the pic has no tub.

Did someone tell Rutte yet that not everyone in orange paint is acting pro-Netherlands?

Just do it like the chinese do it:

Width of 4 time zones all on Beijing time. (most eastern)

So companies in center/west just shift their business hours instead.

Nobody says your company has to open at 8h, starting at 10 is perfectly legal!

So these franchises now fall under chinese control.

Good thing I was already avoiding Ubisoft grifts games!

“EU wants to regulate banks to use your money for their investments” says Hungarian propaganda machine trying to scare people with cash reserves.

Well that’s some useless labels at the bottom…

Almost half of Brits would support the creation of a European army that included the UK, apart from Reform UK voters who are sticking close to the US.

They mention 46% pro, 28% anti

In case you feel the title is clickbaity

Yeah, you need a VAT number.

It used to be like that in Makro as well, but people basically would use the data of some self-employed uncle to get cards for the entire family, so they dropped the VAT-restriction (but card was still mandatory)

Don’t forget that a lot of the Russian colaboration was an anti-West sentiment.

With Trump being able to smell what Putin had for breakfast, but also ramping up the Chinese trade war, those positions are no longer as aligned.

And with recent economical aversion of chinese influence growing in Europe, they could use a backup plan to maintain access to the European market