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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • 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.



  • 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.



  • RobotZap10000@feddit.nltoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldAre ya?
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    4 days ago

    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.