@gnomicutterance There's also a handy-dandy map there showing how in the "developed" (I use the term advisedly, as usual) world the English-speaking countries are obvious outliers.
@gnomicutterance @VirtualOdour Well, exactly. For the benefit of Mr Odour here, I'm in Austria (that's the one without the kangaroos) where although physical punishment of children was first made an explicit offence in 1989 the "right" of parents to hit their children was removed from §145 of the Allgemeine Bürgerliche Gesetzbuch in 1977. Here's the 1811 text that was deleted. Happy now?
@froztbyte @AcausalRobotGod "So the tablecloth is the Internet routing mesh, right? Now imagine that this squeezy bottle of ketchup is a provider in Pakistan who just got ordered to block access to Twitter in the country but isn't quite sure of the right syntax to blackhole traffic from a particular AS..."
@Soyweiser Must be the earlier discarded version of Newspeak where instead of compressing the vocabulary to make nuance impossible to convey they did the opposite. It worked okay until a Party member was heard by a 10 year old Junior Spy describing Big Brother as “a doubleshit maxipompous arsetalker” and was last seen being beaten senseless by the Thought Police.
@dgerard me: what is an urbit
wikipedia: look, you really don’t want to know, but if you insist…
me: 🙀
@froztbyte Ah, the mighty Big Clive has spoken on the subject. https://youtu.be/6DlfLthx89E?feature=shared
@gerikson @bitofhope weirdly enough I did a bit of digging into the history of .io and it's most likely that neither the BIOT (which barely exists as an entity other than on paper anyway) or HMG has ever been paid anything in relation to it. https://blat.at/@m/111340851187004203
@Soyweiser I don't think there was anything illegal about being anti-war in general, even in the UK and Canada - it was one of the things that differentiated conscientious objection there from conscientious objectors in Nazi Germany, who tended to get sent to concentration camps and/or shot. A lot of conscientious objectors who were granted exemption from the draft did alternative service instead such as working in factories or as farm workers or miners.
What was illegal, though, was (yes indeed) promoting the idea that the war was bad and therefore Hitler should be allowed to win.
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@mlen @Soyweiser And yes, they do random checks (sorry, Stichproben :) ) but they mostly consist of a person scanning the first few items they grab out of the bag and if they were all scanned previously then you’re good to go. Takes about 10 seconds.