“Not feeling well? I’ll give you something to not feel well!”

You misunderstand, the project aims to have them eradicated by 2050, not starting to eradicate them in 2050. The project isn’t called Predator Free 2050 for no reason.

limits the harm

Harm reduction isn’t really sufficient when every single feral cat kills presumably hundreds of criticially endangered birds per year, is it?

Me too. I’ll even make them full AI.

Please send me $2 billion by Tuesday. My salary as yetAnotherUser CEO & CTO is a modest 20 million/year. Results are expected to appear by 2030.

Huh, I was nearly certain this was the case.

After a lot of research, apparently the state I live in (Baden-Württemberg) did have this rule.

In §60 Abs. 2 Nr. 4 LHG from December 2020 to November 2024:

(2) Die Immatrikulation nach Absatz 1 Sätze 1 bis 5 ist zu versagen, wenn

4. die Person in einem Dienst-, Arbeits- oder Ausbildungsverhältnis steht oder sonst beruflich tätig ist, es sei denn, dass sie nachweist, dass sie zeitlich die Möglichkeit hat, sich dem Studium uneingeschränkt zu widmen, insbesondere die erforderlichen Lehrveranstaltungen zu besuchen

This was dropped in the latest version. Combined with §62 Abs. 3 Nr. 1 (unchanged in the latest version):

(3) Studierende können von Amts wegen exmatrikuliert werden, wenn

1. ein Immatrikulationshindernis nach § 60 nachträglich eintritt,

You were effectively banned from working more than 20 hours a week which I believe comes from some court ruling that working any longer loses your legal student status and makes you inelligble for certain benefits.

Edit: Added links

German students are allowed to work at most 20 hours a week or they will be exmatriculated. Full time jobs are impossible.

Wrong, see below.

TL;DR: Only in one state prior to November 2024.

Is “tgg he stay” an auto-miscorrected variant of “that is still”?

Sure, but the same can be said about pretty much anything. If I were to get bone cancer in my left arm, I’d rather have had it amputated when I was a baby than today. Recovery always sucks.

Nope, the treaty with Ukraine (purposefully) never specified consequences for anyone violating it. It only said (I’m paraphrasing here because I don’t want to look it up) that the signatories will respect Ukraine’s borders.

The US respects this treaty still and doesn’t recognize Russia’s claims to Ukrainian land. The lack of specified consequences for anyone violating it makes the treaty nearly worthless.

Signing “I will respect your border” is very much different from “I will defend your borders”.

The UK had a defence treaty with Poland though. Had this treaty not existed, the UK would’ve probably done nothing.

The UK didn’t start the conflict, it was Germany who forced them to act or lose all trust in upholding international treaties.

The E in EBC is basically as relevant as the E in European Article Number (EAN) which are used globally.

Boo, bad article.

Here’s a better one:

https://www.fortinet.com/blog/threat-research/iot-malware-gayfemboy-mirai-based-botnet-campaign

Highlights:

Upon execution, the malware displays the string “twinks :3.”

The malware uses the string “meowmeow” as a trigger to activate its backdoor functionality.

The known C2 domains include:

cross-compiling[.]org
i-kiss-boys[.]com
furry-femboys[.]top
twinkfinder[.]nl
3gipcam[.]com

Huh, you’re right but the umbrella company was still only called “Old Mutual”.

No, that’s Old Mutual Wealth which rebranded. Wealth, not Health. Maybe this is a mistake in the article?

I would be very impressed if he surgically removed his own legs. I mean, there is a lot of tissue and bone to cut through. That’s not easy to do by yourself. But if that’s the case, that’s where the fraud aspect could come from.

Also, is that a thing? “Disability by choice” so you get a lower payout? But even if, wouldn’t that be paid by some other insurance - like a specific disability insurance rather than your typical health insurance? At least in Germany the latter is very much different, health insurances only pay for treatments, recovery and prevention.

The lie about the cause of the injury must somehow be related to the payout, otherwise I can’t believe how it would constitute fraud. Still, this is really confusing because private health insurances usually cannot decline/reduce claims due to intentional injury.

I don’t understand this story. It’s really badly presented:

Hopper dishonestly made a false representation to Aviva and Old Mutual Health that his “legs had been amputated because of illness rather than self-inflicted injury”, the court heard

Aviva is a private health insurance, Old Mutual Health doesn’t seem to operate in the UK, only in Kenya, Rwanda and South Africa? Either way, don’t insurance companies legally have to pay even for treating self-iflicted injuries requiring amputation?

In April 2019, he used dry ice to freeze his legs to the extent they were no longer viable and required amputation.

The amputation had to happen, else he would have died. Hell, I’d even argue the freezing occured due to mental illness so he misrepresented it only by claiming the amputation was physical illness. How is the cause even relevant for a health insurance?

After the amputation, he made claims to the insurers that resulted in payouts of £466,653.81. He spent the money on a campervan, a hot tub, wood burner and building works.

These are health insurances. Not life insurances or similar that would pay you for losing your legs. Don’t health insurances just cover the treatment (amputation), recovery and prosthetics? Sure they can get expensive - a six digit figure seems like a lot still but not fully implausible - but why would you get a “payout”? Health insurance would only cover bills.

Surely it can’t be insurance fraud to harm yourself and then make an insurance claim for the recovery, right? Otherwise literally everyone who survived a suicide attempt would have to cover all associated expenses.

So where did the fraud part come from?

I’m 95% certain the police and state prosecutor will treat it as self-defense. For “severe” insults you are legally permitted to act in self-defense and I’m sure the police will therefore view the punches as justified.

98% of all police brutality charges are dropped in Germany. This will statistically be one of them.

In the EU platforms can be found guilty for what they publish though. It is the platform’s responsibility and duty to check whether their content is violating the law or not.

If a German newspaper were to publish an ad advocating for the murder of an ethnic group, both the creator of the ad and the newspaper would face charges.

I can’t say much more about the rest but there are certainly legal standards for boxing that need to be abided for a boxing event to be legal. This includes having medical staff on site, a referee which manages the match, gloves being mandated for the boxers etc. If these standards aren’t held, you can charge a boxer for participating in an illegal fight and manslaughter should the other boxer die.

Has anyone actually read this article??

1. It’s about electricity. Data centers are drying up the electricity that can be provided to a city and are causing projects like the electrification of the harbor to be delayed. There is no water shortage on a coast

2. Data centers are built there due to submarine cables and the proximity to Frankfurt. There are like 20 cables landing at Marseille. That’s the best spot to put data centers if a lot of international traffic is expected.

The incident occurred in Kano state, one of 14 majority-Muslim states in northern Nigeria subject to Sharia law.

In northern states governed by Sharia law, homosexuality is punishable by death.

Damn I thought those Americans were exporting evangelical Christianity, not Sharia law. TIL.