Aldi US stores are owned by Aldi Süd, which is different from the Aldi Nord that owns trader Joe’s. You can see it in the logo that Aldi US stores use.
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4·1 day agoThe funny thing is that the DSA explicitly protects citizens’ free speech on internet platforms. You know, the whole thing that was conservatives’ #1 issue when it came to digital policy?
2·1 day agoIf fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler’s bidding.
A divided, unorganized Left cannot possibly hope to win against the fascist party and large militarized institutions corrupted by fascism, the Left needs to organize first.
Unfortunately the “heavenly mandate” is just made up by power-hungry narcissists who are searching for an excuse for their corruption and incompetence. Democracy always leads to better long-term policy outcomes than dictatorships.
Isn’t the definition of an autocracy, a system where laws are used for leaders to control the people instead of people using laws to control the leaders?
Actually a fun fact there, they’re both owned by different Aldis.
[Aldi] was split into two separate groups in 1960 that later became Aldi Nord (initially Northern West Germany), headquartered in Essen, and Aldi Süd (initially Southern West Germany), headquartered in neighbouring Mülheim
The brothers split the company in 1960, reportedly over a dispute about whether they should sell cigarettes. Karl believed they would attract shoplifters, while his brother, Theo, did not. This led to Theo running Aldi Nord and Karl running Aldi Süd.[22]
in 1976, Aldi Süd opened its first store in the United States in Iowa,[a][29][30] and, in 1979, Aldi Nord acquired Trader Joe’s.[19]
1·1 day agoFrom your source:
These are used in zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) – a way for two parties to validate that one of them asserts a fact without learning what that fact is in the process (this is super cool stuff). Users can send their subcredentials to a third party, who can use a ZKP to validate them without learning anything else about the user – so you could prove your age (or even just prove that you are over 18 without disclosing your age at all) without disclosing your identity.
All the arguments against ZKP on the following paragraphs misunderstand the way the state and intergovernmental institutions, and the rule of law work in the EU. Many EU countries already have digital identity providers that are used every day by their citizens. I think very few people are arguing in favor of dismantling them.
Just watch out for Kristi Noem
Unfortunately, Trump and his goons have already appealed to SCOTUS.
Nah the EU has GDPR. Any age verification is completely anonymous.
It seems like they have 3 manufacturing regions:
https://brickhobbyist.com/where-are-lego-factories-located-with-video-tour/
Also pick a brick probably ships from a Danish warehouse, so it’s all manufactured in the EU.
I’m pretty sure that Danish shipping companies simply don’t want to deal with the new Trump bureaucracy.
The Danish postal service has stopped all shipments to the US:
Lego is manufactured in Denmark, with a super advanced fully-automated factory. They could build new factories in the US, but then it would be far away from their engineers and based in a country with a failing economy.
Heres a presentation from the Lego engineers that automate the computer systems:
1·5 days agoDawg, I’m sorry but you just are completely out of the realm of objective fact here.
US definitely suppresses voters, and voter registration/eligibility. All the money and zionist media, and Zionazi first DNC who exist to “gaslight the left into supporting Israel”, but are perfectly happy if candidate the least “unencumbered to finish the job of genocide” is elected
I didn’t say the US was a perfect democracy, or that there isn’t voter suppression. I’m saying that votes are counted correctly in the US, and the results of any federal election in the US is the person who received the winning distribution of votes.
There are statistical models for detecting ballot stuffing, and many countries have very robust vote counting systems. Additionally, many independent sources poll voting booths and their numbers are often very close to the official results.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Abmm85aqeWk
https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/another-successful-uk-exit-poll-ipsos
Votes are counted accurately in western countries, there is no evidence of ballot stuffing.
If there was evidence of ballot stuffing, wouldn’t at least one journalism site tell everyone about it?
You are told that the other countries fake their votes with 0 evidence
There is overwhelming evidence for dictators like Lukashanka and Putin faking elections.
One consolidation of election fraud attempts in Belarus 2020:
https://apnews.com/article/international-news-ap-top-news-europe-72e43a8b9e4c56362d4c1d6393bd54fbAnother consolidation of election fraud reports in Belarus 2019:
https://crd.org/2019/11/22/opposition-wins-no-seats-in-belarus-election/Russia bans international vote counters from participating in Russian elections:
https://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/russia/564329Multiple sources on Wikipedia have used statistical analysis to show evidence of ballot stuffing:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Russian_legislative_electionYou just choose to believe that because CIA/State department are the “good guys” who love you and would never lie to you or manufacture propaganda for warmongering purposes. Domino theory that has existed since Korean war (anti democracy initiative to prevent North winning election to unify Korea) and whose absurdity exists today with “Russia will invade rest of peaceful loving Europe if Ukraine falls, and China will be emboldened to invade Taiwan if we don’t spend another $200B on Ukraine suicidal diminishment of Russia” is an obvious platform for any and all lies to achieve the demonic propaganda goals.
Even if all of this was true, and you’re OK with treating Finns, Ukrainians, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, and Taiwanese as NPCs who are brainwashed by the CIA: That doesn’t mean democracy is fake! There are plenty of current and historical imperialist democracies, look at the US, look at the UK, look at France, look at Nazi Germany, look at Italy, look at basically all of Europe in the 1920s, look at Israel. Just because a state is doing evil things, doesn’t mean that a plurality of people in that country don’t support doing those evil things.
The humanist outlook on the world is “Hey, Russia or Chinese government structure is not what we prefer. We won’t copy them.” instead of everyone must submit or be destroyed.
Nobody has proposed destroying the current Russian, PRC, or US regimes. Peaceful resistence to their anti-democratic propaganda and their imperialism is mandatory as an ethical humanist.
Exactly. Subhuman demonic evil is needed to subjugate humans. Hasbara that these are democratic ideals is part of the demonic evil.
I didn’t say that coercive deplomacy has anything to do with democratic idels, just that it is a necessary tool for liberal states and societies to respond to the paradox of tolerance.
The worm demands kids with more ATP!
I mean, the sheer irony of you claiming democracy is fake in an article complaining about how more and more propaganda is trying to make people believe democracy is fake.
If democracy is fake then why do we count votes. Why do authoritarian fake votes and countries like France and the US don’t fake votes?
You can have carrot and stick diplomacy to pressure other leaders and even entire sovereign countries without completely overthrowing their election system.
Yeah I mean I guess every war technically ends with a treaty or status quo ceasefire, but you’re skipping a lot of steps where all of the most egregious nazis were killed or captured first.
You don’t have to go as far as the Romans did to Carthage to demand an unconditional surrender through force.
Windows users complaining every time someone says they like Linux
8·19 days agoYou can’t prove that Google isn’t shipping backdoored versions of the app to targeted individuals
Thanks for the discussion and thanks for raising the issue.
Yeah, I think its a misunderstanding of European political development to think that EU governments would willingly violate their code of human rights like that.
The same anarchist argument could be made about pensions or the military, but the societal benefits of those institutions outweigh the risks of their potential corruption by autocrats.
Anarchism does have its place, and it’s important that the EU weighs the risk and reward of centralized idps carefully, and doesn’t blindly go for the save the children argument. The use of strict age verification probably isn’t worth the risk outside of extreme risks to children’s health, like pornography, gambling, and drugs. That is something that the European Commission themselves have said too. Stuff that completely misses that balance like Chat Control needs to die.