Yeah now that I think about it I’m not very hopeful of the US system giving them any repercussions…

Finally some news about someone higher up questioning this absolute fuckery that is “rules for thee, not for me [you poor peasants]”.

I seriously hope that these two are put into prison to rot.

I can imagine! Last time I was in spain I ditched the translator app and tried to communicate with my hands because by the time I was able to write something I felt that the other person had switched topics 3 times.

I believe many instances defederate lemmynsfw.com simply because instance admins don’t want that legal responsibility and don’t have tools to keep an eye on it.

It’s been there for quite a long time though, just incase people here were not aware.

We have tried to contact the mod of this community but they haven’t been online / responsive since they went to sleep that one day when this was brought up. We wanted to discuss this.

And I get it, Russia is also European, but if we get into this argument people often forget that Switzerland, Norway, Iceland (to name a few countries) are not EU, and buyfromeu is not “EU/EEA/ETA” community. For example: we already have some nice posts recommending Ukrainian and Norwegian products.

Sunshine made the community before buyfromeu was made and we decided it’s ok to have EU specific community if someone wants specifically EU (although I think the reddit community r/buyfromeu is actually more about EEA/ETA) and we decided to add it to our sidebar.

And while UK has the whole Five Eyes spying coalition we also have problems inside EU with certain governments of EU countries using software such as Pegasus to spy on fellow EU citizens / officials and pushing for Chat Control. The community is not only about software (even though Lemmy has a huge tech community and it looks like the discussion is always about tech). We also have posts about stickers, clothes, microcontrollers, etc. I don’t trust Russian software at all but I also don’t blindly trust every bit of software from inside EU. There are regulations but no checks at the same level EU has for e.g. Food and medicine and product materials.

Now before someone comes in to say something about software and privacy regulations: software inside EU is NOT as regulated as physical products. We’ve got pretty amazing things like GDPR but this pales in comparison to what kind of checks and responsibilities are put on manufacturers and importers to deal with. I personally want stricter regulation and checks for software. Storing data is not as a sensitive topic as e.g. how much your laptop is allowed to interfere with the signals of your phone.

Again, discussion is good, and would be awesome if buyfromeu mod would return to lemmy (hope they are ok) to discuss.

Edit: fixed the text a bit.

Ha! Smart! I once accidentally changed my phone language to arabic and was completely lost with the settings trying to figure out where are the language settings.

Be a proud weeb! That is incredibly cool and a useful skill you should be proud of.

Keep on weebin!

Language indeed has a lot of power and control over how we think.

It’s been in various pieces of classical literature and 1984 is a great example!

That sounds like a good post idea, looking forward to it if you decide to share!

And that’s pretty neat, means I could try watching the show after learning. Great tip, and yeah I have to get back into Anki since it really does seem to be a great way to learn based on your experience.

It is really hard! My teachers tried to give me tips and tricks but honestly there was no way around it: exercising listening A LOT was the only way to learn.

I can 100% relate.

Act of listening is a skill indeed, be proud! I had the same problem that I used to be a terrible listener. Thankfully I’ve had amazing people around me that called it out but were patient and helped me learn.

Must be even better with so many countries and cultures where that same language can connect you to their individual local culture!

Felt like a door opening into a new world when I travelled through German-speaking countries a second time after learning enough to get by.

Although it could also be that inbetween the travels I grew as a person and was more interested in the culture than before.

Agreed!

We at !buyeuropean@feddit.uk decided to keep the community since it also already has nice posts from e.g. Ukraine and Norway and for the same reasons you mentioned.

Again, it’s totally ok to have both communities and we link to !buyfromeu@feddit.org but sadly it seems OP hasn’t been online since they went to sleep and haven’t been able to contact them about possibly linking to us as well.

But yeah, all good!

Hey that is actually really interesting! You could even make this its own post in this community!

That makes a lot of sense and actually motivates me to give up grammar for awhile and learn enough words to understand a bit of context while reading. And I think I need to give anki another chance - I felt like it’s a bit of a drag but I should try to push myself through and form a habit.

Holy shit, thanks for the motivational boost! Also definitely consider making a post about this. I’m certain some people who are not viewing the community from other than their feeds would be interested as well!

Ohh, interesting reason for going with that book, seems like you’ve read into the topic!

I gave up on reading once I realized I’m going to look up every third word even with the most simple books - so taking a break from that (except little prince) until I manage better. Even graded books for my level seemed too hard. But I’ll try again after taking my next course!

Sounds like you’ve got this week covered! I’ve only read L’Étranger in English, but I’m trying out “The Little Prince” in German. Don’t think I could even attempt to read any of Camus’ literature in German yet.

!hmmm@lemmy.world

Is … Is the dog happy about this?!

This is true. !buyeuropean@feddit.uk is for whole Europe and not just EU (the community logo is bit misleading atm).

It’s of course ok to have a more EU specific community but I personally think Lemmy isn’t big enough to have so much fragmentation and incredibly specific communities (yet).

But we can link to !buyfromeu@feddit.org from our community if OP decides that there is need for EU specific buy-community. Fediverse is free and both communities share the same goal: support closer economies!