But there won't be a general election until 2025. And a week is a long time in politics.
jtb
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First principle: "To prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment."
The original purpose of the police was crime prevention. They should be out on the beat, not sitting in the office staring at screens. Having police wandering around deters crime.
The EU plundered Greece to recover unsecured loans.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/08/19/gree-a19.html
The EU is not democratic.
I used to clear my cookies on exit to prevent tracking. When the EU introduced its warnings about tracking I was forced to accept cookies to avoid the warnings, that's my point. The warnings achieve the opposite of their intended purpose. Besides which, sometimes you have to clear cookies for other reasons, or you might use a different browser or recreate your profile.
I wasn't implying anything with my corruption comment. I was just saying the EU is corrupt, because it is.
People on Mastodon are complaining about people talking about twitter, and posting their complaints to the hashtag #twitter which is very odd, as they could filter it.
I expect there will be filters on Lemmy eventually.
Yes but when you see a cookie warning from a website it stores your choice in a cookie. So if you clear your cookies out then you see the warning again the next time you visit the website. So you don't have much choice but to accept all cookies. Each website uses differently named cookies, so can't simply solve it. There are extensions which try, like "I don't care about cookies" but they break things and they have to have a list of websites. There will always be some which aren't on there. The EU could have stipulated what the name of the cookie should be, or stipulated that it should be a browser option like "do not track", but the EU is a massive corrupt bureaucracy.
I think there is a risk that Threads will be massive, and so people will think that the way to get on Mastodon is Threads, and eventually that Threads is Mastodon. C/f Google Groups and Usenet.
They also force you to use cookies if you don't want to see them over and over.
GDPR is an EU law, and cookie warnings existed before GDPR anyway, as a result of EU law.
They won't hold an election if they think they are going to lose either. They will wait until the tide turns. If it doesn't turn, they will wait until January '25.