Back in my first year at university (more like college for the anglo-american model), I had a chemistry prof who always liked to tease the local newspaper.

One day, he published a press release that he had found ethanol in the beer of local breweries.

The PR guy of one of said breweries had apparently flunked chemistry at school and immediately issued a denial.

Certainly not, since BioNTech is a German startup.

You do realize that can mean an unwillingness to take responsibility for the consequences of their service? Traumatizing people and when they snap, kicking them to the curb?

Actually, if you serve in the French Foreign Legion, you WILL get French citizenship after a few years - if you want it. You can even get a whole new identity, papers and all.

Note that the common cold is often caused by rhinovirus, though some coronaviridae can also be responsible. And it's not just a matter of competition, it's also a matter of measures taken to curb the spread of respiratory diseases curbing the spread of respiratory diseases.

He's already run into problems with Tesla's gigafactory in Germany. He's already been bitching and moaning about regulations during the construction period. Now, he's offering less than industry standard (in a country with no less than three of the world's leading car makers!) and wondering why he has massive recruitment problems and why everyone he talks down just gives him the finger and leaves.

With Twitter, courts in Ireland have already noted you can't just fire someone implicitly - least of all for not following requests for more work hours when the law explicitly says refusing to go over the legal limit temporarily must not have negative consequences.

a) There is nothing that prevents YouTube, Twitch, or Twitter from using algorithms solely to alert a human reviewer (except personnel shortage, which can be remedied by hiring more personnel). In any case, shortcomings in algorithms are reasons for better algorithms, not excuses for spreading illegal content.

b) With statements about a person having been found illegal in court, the victim has a right under German law to be protected against any further spread of such statements. How Twitter or anyone else implements that is not the concern of the court any more than "I didn't see the speed limit sign" is a valid excuse for speeding.

The EU has taken on Microsoft, Facebook and Google - he has been warned often enough there are rules to follow. He has no one to blame but himself if he thinks they won't come for Twitter

The way things are, Twitter might get shut down completely for Germany or even the EU for failure to comply with the law.

There recently was already a decision by a Frankfurt court that even the previous content removal regime in regards to illegal and defamatory content was not good enough. The court noted that having been notified that certain content is illegal, Twitter has to proactively remove equivalent content and not just wait until those get reported, too.

Wonder how Elon wants to do that when he fired most people involved in the process.

It's very much a Musk problem in that the quantity has substantially increased.

And I think you don't understand that you openly support corporations getting most of the benefits of personhood while not getting the responsibilities that usually go along with them.

And there certainly were other decisions that built on it. Effectively, it gave the "speech" of corporate interests a reach no individual can hope to reach. And yet, an individual, by its very nature, has an individual opinion. What, pray tell, is the "opinion" of a corporation? And what's the purpose of forming one outside matters directly related to its operations?

So?

Digital services come in many shapes or forms, not just things you find on the internet or on your office computer.

Siemens is one of the world's leaders in automation, Bosch is one of the world's leaders in car parts, including automotive software. Etc.

I think you missed that the World Bank explicitly states that they are using national, country-specific poverty lines. What it means to be below the poverty line in the US is something substantially different than what it means to be below the poverty line in Germany.

You present the metrics as something purely positive, but that's not what they actually are.

"Employment" in the US translates to some people working three jobs to make ends meet. In the EU, it's perfectly fine if someone works part-time and tops up with taxpayer money to take care of their family. Growth, likewise, doesn't follow the "the higher the better" notion - there's a potential growth that's optimal for an economy, going beyond that is actually not beneficial.

With inflation, the EU juggles a whole lot of different economies, some of which would benefit from higher inflation, some from lower - as such, the ECB has an inflation target that they try to keep inflation of the Euro close to. Too low an inflation can also have negative consequences, and that's something many here in Germany haven't quite realized yet.

Also, inflation can have different causes - intrinsic structural ones or exogenic ones - the latter are often transitory. Inflation in the US and inflation in Europe are currently driven by fundamentally different problems.

But it is the decision that muddle the difference between legal personhood and individual personhood.

But European legislation distinguishes between a legal personhood and an individual personhood. A company, a chartered society, an NGO etc. are a legal person, because they have to be able to engage into contracts etc. as a "person", as a singular entity, especially inasmuch as they are not owner-led where the owner stands for the company and makes decisions for it.

But that doesn't mean that a legal person has the same rights as an individual person.

And showing monstrously violent children that it's OK to be monstrous to other people is going to help how?

Not sure about the author, but how about instead of setting up the prison system to be monstrous to people, take a look at some other countries? Whereas the anglosphere on both sides of the pond gets off on trying children as adults, other countries allow up to 21 year olds to be tried as juveniles if their maturation is clearly delayed. They also have supervised living arrangements for non-violent offenders etc.

If all you perceive is monsters, monsters is what you're going to get. If you waste any chance at them becoming competent citizens, don't blame them either. Cherrypicking extreme examples just to excuse not putting in even the slightest effort to turn their life around is no less monstrous.

I was able to read the second article without a problem from a mobile in France, so not sure what your issue is. It has interview answers on the topic by a host of experts.

The first article has a freely available abstract

The following blog post summarizes a report by the National Academy of Sciences:

https://www.pattisblog.com/blog/general/forensic-science-a-challenge-to-the-adversarial-system/

Well, as a trained biomedical scientist, I go by reports from within the community and what reports I see.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0015736892730758

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/08/07/is-an-adversarial-justice-system-compatible-with-good-science/

But that's all part of the Great American Show Trial. Much like the trial itself is a show to convince the jury of your narrative and give a f*** about what the evidence actually supports. Experts in the adversarial system are likewise engaged in a d*ck swinging contest, with frequent attempts of lawyers and prosecutors trying to out-expert the expert in cross. That's not how science properly works and it makes many a worthy expert reluctant to do that job.

What matters is that the public is entertained and gets its good vibes that someone is made to pay.

Thomas Sowell is a pretty good example of it himself.

You miss the concept of having teams whose research one person communicates.

From what the local German media report, it was actually an oxygen supply/concentrator rather than an active ventilator - not that that makes it better.

It amused me as the sailor struggled against the waves. Oh, how many had tried before. They were all ground up by the breakers. He, too, would be reduced to a bloody pulp of flesh and bones soon.

Or... not? He kept on swimming! He had reached the rocks... and found his footing!

Could it be? Could I finally have found someone worthy? A true master of the elements? Indeed, his strength seemed still to be intact as he started climbing the rock me and my sisters were perched on. "Please" he begged. "Please" he pleaded, as he reached our summit. Impossible! No one had reached the top before! Could he be the one?

"Please. Please stop! You're so bad at singing!" he sad. As one, my sisters and I gasped.

"Impostor!" I cried. "You dare defy the Gods?" "Death to the false ones!" a sister cried, slinging herself against him, toppling him over the edge. "The Gods?" he incredulously yelped as he fell over the edge.

"Aye, the Gods" I confirmed before we resumed our song, not even waiting for his body to come to a rest at the bottom.

"The Gods Made Heavy Metal And They Saw That It Was Good
They Said To Play It Louder Than Hell
And We Promised That We Would
When Losers Say It's Over With You Know That It's A Lie
The Gods Made Heavy Metal And It's Never Gonna Die!"