MinorTom

Archive link (no paywall): https://archive.ph/AkB4w

More context (Aug 4, but with a detailed timeline and additional discussions of Texas' anti-abortion laws): https://www.snopes.com/news/2026/08/04/texas-police-83k-came...

-site:reddit.com works for that.

I think it might also be possible to create a new lens from an existing one while blocking a domain.

That's not what I meant, exactly. I'm just trying to argue that we should allow people to transition (from a social perspective, not just a medical one) and respect them and their new gender.

(I don't think they're finding more social acceptance after transition, with some light exceptions as the realization and acceptance of their dysphoria allowes them to find more accepting social circles, and some probably are less accepted by their environment after.)

(I'm also not an expert at this, I've just been parroting some well-known takes but I've looked at research to back them up, as "Source: Reddit" isn't the most convincing)

(I wrote this reply as a comment edit originally, but I'm making this it's own comment.)

I understood your comment to be against social acceptance of trans people, (and honestly still do. Admittedly this isn't a best-faith interpretation of your comment, but it made sense in the context I read it in. )

Therefore, my comment wasn't intended to be only about available medical treatment options (including surgical), but also about social acceptance of trans people, which is a kinda important part of all of this.

If that's not how you intended to mean your comment, that's great, because I agree with you on the medial/surgical side of things.

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It is the best-currently-known-path for least suffering and death. And a lot better than the currently-known alternatives. I'm not trying to say that no better treatment might become available in the future.

(Aside: gender dysphoria is listed in the DSM-5, which is important for health insurance purposes, amongst other reasons. It was previously named gender identity disorder, but was renamed due to the stigma associated with the term disorder. There was also the diagnosis of "transsexualism" (which included homosexuality, amongst others) and the inclusion of these issues in the DSM remains a topic of debate.)

(I'm not trying to convince you of anything, just making this clear for anyone else reading. also: comment talks about suicide)

> In the old days they pretty much had to learn to accept themselves for who they were and not worry about what other people thought, both because no one was encouraging them they deserved acceptance and because few would have budged.

According to scientific research, around 1/3 of patients with gender dysphoria have attempted suicide in the past. The only medically accepted treatment for gender dysphoria is transition. If you're advocating against that then you're advocating in favor of preventable suffering & deaths.

Also, using human nature as an argument is fallacious.

https://www.psicothema.com/pdf/4483.pdf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9501960/

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I understood your comment to be against social acceptance of trans people, (and honestly still do. Admittedly this isn't a best-faith interpretation of your comment, but it made sense in the context I read it in. )

Therefore, my comment wasn't intended to be only about available medical treatment options (including surgical), but also about social acceptance of trans people, which is a kinda important part of all of this.

If that's not how you intended to mean your comment, that's great, because I agree with you on the medial/surgical side of things.

Relatively speaking the German police is better than the US police, but they still lack in accountability.

If you want more information, see the article on the murder of Oury Jalloh [1] and that police department [2]

<(contains murder, rape, police violence, other)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Oury_Jalloh

https://de-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Oury_Jalloh?_...

[2] https://de-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/#?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x...

meat packing =/= burger frying

No it doesn't. Section 230 was created to optionally allow them to moderate their content without being liable, whereas previously they would not have been allowed to moderate.

In Germany the standard price for an SMS is 9 cent, of which somewhere around 2-3 cents are paid to the recipient's carrier. Unlimited plans are common, but only because nobody texts anymore (same applies for phone calls).

Late answer:

If your foreign card is a Visa or MasterCard you should have to choose credit for your transaction to go through. In this case you still have the same chargeback rights as you would have for a transaction at home, but that might not be any (nb: even if chargebacks aren't a thing in your home country the brand rules on them still apply. Some banks will do one if you ask them nicely.)

If it's a Maestro card you should probably try credit first, but I'm not sure.

If it's a VPay card you're relying on pure luck anyway.

Wow. I remember reading about buying books by the foot in a communist satire book, I didn't expect reality to catch on that quickly.

Some other pay-with-cash methods in other countries are paysafecash (like viacash), paysafecard (only anonymous if you meet strict KYC requirements), some gambling related one (whatever) and cash-by-mail.

Do note that all of them have significant fees and probably not that many users.

This distinction between payment fee and platform fee (ignored in this article) is relevant even to non-legal-scholars bc. if you ignore it you get results like this (yes, this is based on real rulings):

> Apple plans to charge developers of dating apps a 27 percent commission on any in-app purchases made via alternative payment systems in the Netherlands, the company has announced. The change comes in response to an order from Dutch competition regulator, the Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM), which has demanded that Apple allow dating app developers — and only dating app developers — to use alternatives to Apple’s in-app payment system in the country. Twenty-seven percent represents a reduction of only 3 percentage points compared to the 30 percent commission Apple typically charges for developers using its own payment system.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/4/22917582/apple-netherlands...

In addition to mschuster91's point, you should know that the cap only applies to four party scheme card transaction interchange, not to scheme fees nor to your acquirer's fees. In reality you will pay somewhere between 0.9% and 2% for your transactions, whereas local schemes can be as cheap as 0.2% or even pennies.

Compared to the US's 1.15%~2.7% +10ct interchange (not including other fees!) it's still quite cheap.

You're absolutely right, which is why the IA buys physical books, scans them, and makes them available online under so-called "Controlled Digital Lending". Renting out one digital copy at a time is covered by fair use, they argue, although it hasn't been tested in court.*

* That is expected as a part of the publishers lawsuit against the "National Emergency Library"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_digital_lending

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive#National_Emer...

Regulation requires 2-factor verification of sign-ins and transactions (and no, WebAuthn and TOTP aren't allowed). That leaves three options:

* Physical hardware (what?)

* SMS at 9 cent each

* An app

The issue is likely not with Cloudflare, but with the connection between your ISP and Cloudflare. That's why this speed test is relevant - if your ISP can't manage to make good, settlement free* connections (=peering) to Cf it's not a good ISP.

Example: Rackspace Sydney (AS58683) has (likely paid) peering with AS7474, who has peering with German Deutsche Telekom (AS3320). Peering with DT is significantly more expensive than many others because they have a regional monopoly.

* Cloudflare is present at many regional Internet Exchanges and any good ISP connects to these, too. Some don't, however, like Deutsche Telekom.

> Also how does the second illegal thing work, is that subletting basically?

I'm not sure if this is what gp meant, but:

In some cases the current tenant (who is looking to move out) offers you the landlord's contact details if you agree to buy their kitchen for way too much money. This works because for a landlord looking for new tenants is a lot of hassle so they're likely to take you if you contact them.

The EU isn't exactly a model democracy, with its three levels of indirection.

> So if an application on your PC makes it overheat and break the PC is at fault for being defective and you get to RMA it?

Kernel code can absolutely brick your PC due to how much it can do. This could be fixed at a UEFI/microcode level, but not without taking a lot of control away from the OS and the end user.

That Hetzner price doesn't include acceptable peering with Telekom (Germany's largest telco), I can only imagine how bad the international peering will be.

After they changed (raised) their pricing they simply removed the cloud drive with no notice and no way to access existing files.

> - Change their constitution

That isn't possible

> - Change their interpretation of their constitution

The BVerfG tries really hard to interpret the constitution in a way in line with EU regulations, but it reserves the right not to (if they're "ultra vires" - beyond their power).

> - Leave the EU

Not going to happen.

> It's a basic principle of participation in a Union.

Note that the supremacy of the German constitution over EU law was well known at the time of signing the relevant treaties and all parties agreed to proceed anyway.

> Germany's or Poland's case is the same as if a State of the US decided that some federal law or the US constitution doesn't apply [...]

The EU is not a nation state.

Legal Cannabis stores

> Block my website for European visitors?

Under a strict interpretation of the law, yes.* (GDPR does apply to blogs, even if they're private) In practice removing analytics for EU visitors would probably be enough.

* Note that the physical location of the data won't matter for you because you are located in the US and are the data processor.

Somebody has been fined for reporting illegal parking to the city. Yes really, they say he has no legitimate interest in reporting people who park on the sidewalk in a way that's endangering pedestrians.

https://www-mucbook-de.translate.goog/wenn-datenschutz-falsc...

> a post box

It needs to be a specific kind of legal service address. Using a post box is illegal and can cost you a lot of money if a competitor finds out.

> new analytics

It's a lot more than that, under Schrems II you can't use any good cloud provider, nor most SaaS.

> Registering a business is something you can do rather easily,

Not in Germany, doing so will cost you at least ~€1000.

It's a pull from your bank account. You give the merchant your account details and sign* an authorization and they "pull" the money from your account. Afterward you can cancel the charge without giving a reason for a few weeks, or if the charge was unauthorized for up to 2 years. The only downside compared to chargebacks is that you are not protected in case of insolvency of the merchant.**

> What are the expensive consequences you are talking about?

The system offers no security for the merchant - in fact cancelled charges cost a fee, even if the charge was completely valid.

* yes - physical signature on paper, except when paying online

** this is a topic for a full comment on it's own, but here's the gist: Under German law you can't "take back" your money from an company that has filed for bankruptcy - in fact even payments made to you before the filing might be clawed back by the administrator - which means that you will receive (and customers from insolvent airlines have received) an angry letter demanding the money back. With chargebacks this is less likely to happen as the chargeback will be paid for by the merchant's bank, not the merchant directly, but the legal situation is unclear.

> The second baffling thing is how HN's react to USB-C and HDMI so differently. With USB-C / USB 4, more than half of HN expect the consumers to know which cables and port offer which features. It is the consumers's fault for not choosing the right cable or knowing what their port does. I dont see how that is different to HDMI here. All it takes is one bad actor in the market. And it will be a race to the bottom.

With USB-C I get something out of the confusion - a really versatile cable standard. With HDMI there is no downside (to the consumer) in just calling HDMI 2.0 so.