Le sigh. On that day I had recording in the studio with 2 external guests who both say they were negative. My tests (last Thursday, Saturday, will do another one today) are negative. You just can’t trust people anymore :(
@tagomago@michel_slm Which is why I have embraced patience and stubbornness as my personal superpower ;) Compared to 20 years ago, many things have already changed towards the better side. This will continue. Temporary setbacks won’t change the direction we’re collectively taking.
Modeling a full #embargo on #Russian gas for Germany, worst case scenario, with 5 industry sectors coming to a full stop over night, results in a reduction of GDP of around 3%. Tough, but manageable. We had a pandemic drop of 4% and are still here. Source: various research. 1/2
@aral so from a legal perspective everything is "fine". Your WLAN was added to the database with the consent of whatever person who happened to be close to it at some point in time. It's a weird world out there :(
@aral It just needs someone who picks up the WLAN beacon signal (not even having to connect) on an (android) phone with consent to share location and it'll add your router/WLAN with its GPS coordinates to the database. So it's not even possible to really opt-out.
@mihira No. Other services that coillect geolocation data will ignore the _nomap. There is no defined way to *really* opt-out. It's a huge market. Similar to how "they" subverted the do-not-track option in HTTP to do exact opposite. @humanetech@aral
@FailForward Please don’t confuse my dutch pragmatism with fear. I prefer to clearly point out the problems I see and offer solutions too. A fact based assessment of the current situation might look like doom and gloom, but I am an optimist. My hope is that we come out of this with a stronger Europe. But we need to do the work for that.
@FailForward Yes. A point I have made over and over again. IMHO it became really clear with Brexit and moved forward into the pandemic and the first weeks of the war. But the pendulum might have reached a maximum and could swing back - that’s my fear.
And now, after 10+ years of rampant right-wing nationalism in many EU countries, instead of working towards a unified European answer, we‘re back to fingerpointing at countries. Not helpful. It’s destructive, IMHO.
But simply cutting it off, as many demand, would result in negative consequences that will go far beyond German economy. That’s not defending Germany. That’s a factual assessment of a really bad situation.
The European balance of power is challenged from many sides. Putins plan to destabilise the European Union is in full force. France will vote today. Open hate against Germany and Germans is popping up everywhere. European solidarity and unity is shrinking.