International law is far too complicated to be dismissed so easily when a few states breached a small section of the rules between states. And I’ll repeat there is no legal justification for military action. This is an internal conflict.

And even then, why would European leaders take it lightly to send their boys and girls into an offensive war and potential death against ‘the most powerful military’ in a national conflict?

Biden incited nothing. Ukraine requested assistence in their defense against the Russian invasion. Biden and other European states (too) slowly buildt up military support for Ukraine in the form of resources, training, and equipment. There is only one responsible for the war in Ukraine and that is Russia.

Another question for you then, why would European or Canadian leaders be willing to sacrifice European soldiers for an internal conflict in the states? Americans have the 2nd amendment to protect themselves from tyranny, and many are already protesting. I don’t see a reason yet for foreign forces.

Another difficult aspect of international law is that many states still hold themselves to customary law and other rules. The US themselves breaching this is concerning enough. European or other states also breaching it would bring the whole principle even more so in danger.

First and foremost the US has sovereignty over its jurisdiction and other states can’t enforce their own rules (or those set by the US) in the US.

The only occasions another state is allowed to intervene militarily in another state, is when the state itself allows for this or with a mandate given by the UN Security Council.

The EU already has qualified majority on some issues. Also this has nothing to do with veto, but postponing implementation of a regulation that already is agreed upon.

I’ll add to agree that I’d love to see more things to require qualified majority instead of unanimity.

If this is a compromise to get states on-board (so they can keep their national armies), I’d consider it a promising start.

I remember Virgil van Dijk defending going to Qatar saying something along the line of that there are only a few chances in his career to play at such a tournament. So he allowed himself to neglect all moral questions on selfish reasons.

Later when asked why he wouldn’t wear the One World-band is that if he was awarded a yellow card he could risk a game and he couldn’t let his team down and claimed that would’ve been selfish.

Ja, zeer frustrerend, kinderachtig en onverantwoordelijk. Iemand die ik ken stemde erop omdat hij kosten wat kost niet wilt dat ‘links’ (D66 viel daar ook onder) ‘luie mensen’ helpt… Dit zijn gewoon verwende mensen die niet in kunnen zien hoeveel ze zelf gebruik maken van sociale voorzieningen (otw de ladder onder zich weg trappen (om maar even een engelse idioom te gebruiken)).

Ah well… pedalling 😅

More like a moped, since it doesn’t require paddeling pedalling.

No worries, I get it and understand it is not ‘my music’ but I can’t imagine that the database of songs I liked is much burden on their server. Either way, the point was the threathening messaging they use.

I have used Hezel for a while now to backup and Soundiiz to transfer to Qobuz. I am not too fussed about it either if I were to lose it. It is just sad to see some megacorp going so low as to use these threathening tactics.

Qobuz is definitely not as a refined app as Apple Music. I will stick with them as they have announced some improvements to the app, and hopefully they will increase their team going forward.

For what it’s worth, I have been making occasional backups with Hezel. Now I just moved to Qobuz, which provides Sondiiz. I believe the latter can also be used for other services.

So far I am not aware of a single browser with a different engine, unfortunately.

Firefox have stated that for the time it would not be viable to develop to browsers with different engines for iOS at the moment. I start to feel that by the time Apple allows for a global role out, I have moved to GrapheneOS or something (just holding on to my mini for as long as possible).

Mark: not very usable yet.

In some countries (all EU under GDPR?), private CCTVs, including smart doorbells, are prohibited from filming beyond the private property.

I guess that in many countries it is not a priority for the police and that, unless reported, little is being done to enforce that rule.

Surprised Montblanc (DE) has not been mentioned (Owned by Richemont in HR). It is known for its luxury pens and the ‘snow capped’ pen cap.

Not even magnets… 🙂‍↔️

Thanks for the info and tips! I’ll see how it fares over the next few days.