In short:

The complaint accuses the initiative of “systemic concealment of major contribution,” violating EU stipulations requiring citizens to report any sponsor contributions over €500.

The complaint cites PC Gamer’s interview with Scott from June, in which he said “there have been many weeks on the campaign where I’ve been working 12 to 14 hours a day to keep things moving to get signatures.” That promotional work, the complaint argues, amounts to “€63,000-147,000 in professional contribution” if he’d charged a “market rate” of “€50-75/hour.”

It’s also not how the EU’s disclosure requirements work. As Scott notes in the video, the EU’s citizens’ initiative rules say that “individuals providing non-financial support, such as volunteering, are not considered sponsors under the ECI Regulation and do not need to be reported.”

If the petition heads to the Commission after its petition deadline on July 31, we can expect to see even more exciting rhetorical maneuvers.

I sure hope that the EU can withstand these 4D chess 900 IQ rhetorical maneuvers.

No, I’m not old enough for that, and anyone else younger than me certainly never will be. I only ever hear of the good old days from posts like these, but from what I gather, at least some of that magic can be found here, which is why I’ll never leave this place. “Conventional” social media never appealed to me at all, with all of the “trends” and “influencers” and whatnot. Reddit was what had caught my affection, until the APIpocalypse, which sent me right here. Whatever it was in the past that I didn’t get to experience then, I feel like I’m experiencing it now, in one way or another.

That’s certainly the truth and I agree with you fully, but I just wanted to remind people that not being on the web all the time/terminally online might make you feel a bit better. I believe that some people might be so far up Plato’s cave (read: Zuck’s rectum) that they simply might not understand how the technology that they use is actively hostile to them. Your words will land much better on people who have noticed that they are indeed living in the midst of shit, and I think that regularly going outside is the first step of that.

Fahrenheit 451 moment

Go outside. Touch some grass. Leave your phone at home. Do this every day. There’s still an entire world out there, with far more pleasant surprises than you might assume or could even imagine. You can do this. The internet can be a wonderful resource when not abused, but it is in and of itself not a way of life. It may bring you entertainment and knowledge, but only using it won’t bring you the joy and satisfaction that you desire in your life. That will be found elsewhere, oftentimes beyond the screen. Don’t listen to those fat snakes in Silicon Valley that peddle their Facebook/Tinder/LinkedIn but for horses as the one and only way to achieve and get ahead in life these days. They only want you to believe that so that you will get hooked on their ad-revenue machine. You can live your life to the fullest just fine without them.

Such a noble kitty!

lol no

If I want to send and receive messages from another account, I have to press 2 buttons to switch to it. Otherwise, I still get desktop notifications from all of them, I think.

What prompted you to ask this?

NeoChat on KDE allows me to choose which account to login to when I start it.

One day…

May the Horse be with you.

Unless you are specifying a mailto link, you need to preface the username with @ to mention them, i.e @RobotZap10000@feddit.nl

I’ve got this idea that’s been in my head for a long while, the gist of it is this: “What if Celeste had guns and/or fighting game combos?”

What!? Why on earth would that matter?

A shithole.

How dare you not pledge your undying allegiance to the spot of dirt that you were born on!??!?!?

And from what I’ve heard, they can ONLY impact it negatively.

I smell a ten-figure fine cooking in the kitchen of the EU.

Forget Old English, you’re clearly speaking New English