I can’t believe any democrat who still works with MAGA even as they are literally dismantling the constitution and disobeying court orders is acting in good faith.
I can’t imagine Sen. Durbin is actually this foolish; you don’t become Senator without some modicum of political instinct.
Besides, the entire idea of “negotiating with big tech” (even through legislative hostage situations) is absurd. YOU CAN JUST MAKE THE LAW! Companies shouldn’t have any say in that process whatsoever.
I also have these concerns. It’s really hard for consumers to tell where products come from and who actuslly makes them. We need a lot more supply chain transparency.
I think there’s an EU law requiring some larger companies to explain their suppliers to prevent things like forced labor even outside the EU. But I think it doesn’t nearly go far enough while also not providing an efficient digital path to verify supply chains, thus causing bureaucratic overhead and disadvantaging smaller businesses.
Weil die anderen Parteien die Schuldenbremse spezifisch aussetzen wollen, um damit Ausrüstung für die Bundeswehr zu kaufen. Die Linke will aber eigentlich nur in zivile und soziale Bereiche investieren, also in Infrastruktur, Wohnungsbau, soziale Sicherheit und die sozial-ökologische Transformation der Wirtschaft.
Aus Sicht der Linkspartei ist die Zustimmung zu einer Änderung der Schuldenbremse womöglich das einzige Druckmittel, mit dem sie in der kommenden Legislaturperiode Zugeständnisse von den Regierungsparteien erstreiten kann. Insofern ist es völlig legitim zu fordern, dass sie bei dem Deal mitverhandeln dürfen. Die Linke wird sicherlich keiner Grundgesetzänderung zustimmen, die Geld nur für Aufrüstung bereitstellt, ohne linke Themen zu berücksichtigen.
Ein groß angelegtes Investitionsprogramm für Infrastruktur, Wohnungsbau und die sozial-ökologische Transformation der Wirtschaft; das passt zum Thema Staatsschulden und Entspricht der jüngsten Äußerung von Heidi Reichinnek bei der PK zur Fraktionsgründung.
Kann mir aber auch vorstellen, dass sie das nicht ganz bekommen und es “nur” sowas wie 15€-Mindestlohn oder Mietendeckel wird. Ich fände aber einen Mietendeckel ohne sozialen Wohnungsbau falsch, insofern sollten sie sich da nicht so sehr runterhandeln lassen, dass der Mietendeckel zur Baubremse wird.
There is no inherent goal or point in life. You get to decide. You get to give your life meaning.
It can be hard. Sometimes, material conditions like poverty, working conditions or social pressure make it hard to find meaning. Sometimes, you can loose the meaning, like when you loose a loved one. A good society should help empower all people to give themselves meaning. Sadly this is not the direction many countries are taking nowadays.
But despite everything: You are ultimately empowered to create meaning for yourself. Nobody can truly take that away from you.
Damn, that’s interesting!
Actually, I think it should be possible to protect the fediverse: Each instance must simply not qualify as a social network. For example, the EU has many regulations which only apply for commercial providers with some minimum revenue or user count. As I understand it, none of these actually apply to small self-hosted servers (e.g. a by a local hackerspace or small friend group) even if they allow for federation.
To make this really viable, the Fediverse apps need to become better at discovery among many small instances. Currently, my self-hosted instance barely shows me any posts because it only gets updates for the communities I (or a user of my instance) explicitly subscribed to. This splits up the already small userbase so much that I instead use tchncs.de, one of the larger instances in Germany, where many communities are already subscribed by other users.