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Schnauzer | Deutsche | English Wer in Berlin einen Reisepass beantragt, seine Steuer über ELSTER abgibt, sich einen Termin im Bürgeramt erkämpft oder sich bei seiner Krankenkasse einloggt, tut das alles in einer Rendering-Engine, die er nicht kontrolliert, nicht prüfen kann und die sich über Nacht von einem Server an der amerikanischen Westküste neu schreibt. …

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Schnauzer | Deutsche | English Every German who renews a passport, files taxes through ELSTER, fights for a Bürgeramt appointment, or signs into a statutory health insurer does all of it inside a rendering engine they do not control, cannot audit, and that rewrites itself overnight from a server on the American west coast. The …

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As a life-long sailor, with extensive open water experience, let me try to explain why the Russian sabotage of sea cables is obvious. This is a story about large ships that “accidentally” drag an anchor across undersea cables, in the same way a large truck could “accidentally” run over a Volkswagen and drag it 100 …

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This is Andrew Jackson in 1835, ordering the US mail inspected to suppress abolitionists, asking Congress to criminalize antislavery speech, and stoking state sanctioned mobs to arrest and torture Americans who opposed slavery. This is Stalin’s Article 58 (PDF) of the RSFSR code, where “anti-Soviet agitation” was a crime that meant whatever the interrogator needed …

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I was watching a report about the Tesla murder of a woman in Texas, and this chart popped up. This is Tesla’s Vehicle Safety Report rebroadcast without a single control applied. CBS intentionally, openly, runs a fraudulent “safety” graphic claiming roughly 8x safer (5.5M ÷ 660K = 8.3, 1.6M ÷ 222K = 7.2) in a …

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