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[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I cannot emphasize enough the mind-boggling culture around urban vegetation in Cyprus - something that only became apparent to me once I experienced other countries.

This is normal in Cyprus. It's common for residents to defend it by saying that fallen leaves are a nuisance, and that mature, tall trees facilitate pests entering higher floors of buildings.

At the same time, more than half of the year is unbearably hot in Nicosia, and walking, cycling, or waiting at public transport stops between 08-20h is indeed incredibly challenging.

[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

I think this article totally (but only implicitly) ignores young men and boys being sexualised by other men in ways that are as dangerous as the way young women and girls are sexualised.

Aside from that, I agree with the comment from @Pons_Aelius@kbin.social that it's about misidentifying sexualisation as positive attention and seeking the latter by ways of the former.

[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

The problem with that stance is that there are always behind the scenes talk, before the actual parliamentary vote. So the CDU and FDP-Legislators didn’t just coincidentally voted the same way as there AfD colleagues. There worked actively together to let this law pass.

I will accept that perhaps this might be the case in the specific case, and then I agree with your judgement.

But we have seen the AfD exploiting this in secret ballot votes, from Thuringia for the OG fuckup all the way to the recent repeat elections in Berlin where they wanted to cast doubts on whether the CDU-SPD coalition was voted in by them in the end (and iirc, they pulled something similar with a Left mayor in one of the districts).

I stand by my main thesis, the strategy has an expiry date and it also hasn't produced the expected results. AfD has grown despite this strategy. There needs to be an escalation of measures against them, because otherwise thinking that only refusing to vote the same way as them is enough to push them away verges increasingly on Aktionismus.

[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago

Greece is a relatively large country though, it's not a city-state by any means. Tourism can still be possible there without over-burdening the few islands that suffer under their name recognition.

[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 60 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Es ist lächerlich, wie die Linkspartei sich von einer einzigen Person zur Geisel machen lässt. Mach endlich Schluss, dann kann die Linke ja im nächsten Jahr anfangen, Politik zu machen.

[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Greenshot (GPLv3) is a powerful screenshot tool with its own basic image editor.

[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How is it breaking new legal ground, if toll roads already exist and are legal and overnight stay tax (aka tourist tax) is too?

[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago

Not sure if relevant, but in recent years, several countries have proclaimed universal jurisdiction for certain crimes. Increasingly often, countries assert the right to prosecute their own citizens for abuse of children even when committed abroad, which has been deemed necessary to counter "sex tourism".

Given that this is an accusation of sexual assault, I won't be surprised if Spain claims jurisdiction for sexual abuse of/by its citizens anywhere in the world.

[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago

Mein Herkunftsland, leider. Da ich selbst ein Einwanderer bin, empfinde ich das ganz anders.

Das passende Wort für dies ist "Pogrom". Nichts Geringeres. Die Faschos haben Menschen in Läden verfolgt und angrifft. Da wir Zyprioten und Araber identisch aussehen, haben sie auch Zyprioten aus blindem Hass angegriffen.

[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have been very disappointed that Fedora stopped making changelogs accessible for years. It used to be that you could easily toggle them on in Yum, but with DNF it's always "no info found".

[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

TIL, thanks. This might be a viable path for me.

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