Somehow I also had Waluigi in my head when I first saw him.

As a German I would say test that they actually keep up with all their duties. I feel like for many years ours do a terrible job, but at least they don’t try to overthrow the government or anything. So… test that they know and are willing to perform their duties:

The president’s most prominent powers and duties include:

• Proposing the chancellor to the Bundestag
• Appointing and dismissing the chancellor and their cabinet ministers
• Dissolving the Bundestag under certain circumstances
• Declaring the legislative state of emergency under certain circumstances
• Convening the Bundestag
• Signing and promulgating laws or vetoing them under certain circumstances
• Appointing and dismissing federal judges, federal civil servants, and commissioned and non-commissioned officers of the Armed Forces
• Exercising the power to pardon individual offenders on behalf of the Federation
• Awarding honors on behalf of the Federation
• Representing Germany at home and abroad

Currently, German presidency is a deportation track for political pensioners.

what country if I may ask?

I hated languages in school because besides grammar and word mistakes, grading always felt arbitrary. However, that teacher recognized that I struggled, gave me a generalized template and said “If you do it like that, you get a good grade”. I did it like that and got a good grade (we have 1 (perfect) - 6 (trash) and I improved from 4- to 2+ which is quite a big leap). So yea, that was the first time that I perceived that subject and a teacher of that subject as something real and not bs.

It’s not a grammar mistake per se, but I feel like sharing it and it is close enough so here we go.

As a non-native English speaker: How can you have mopb and vacuum the floor but not broom the room?! I know it doesn’t exist, but I don’t care. If we have to phrase it as a grammar mistake: I use verbalisations where they are uncommon.

Police officers? The main issue here is that those laws are about balance. Balance of your rights and the persons’ you are filming. There are some general rules and a large grey area.

In general your vlogging isn’t an issue. However, if you knowingly start recording a specific person e.g. a busker, or in your case a street scammer, things become more difficult - especially because you are vlogging. The expectation that you are going to upload the video makes it unlikely that you are just recording for evidence.

I am not a lawyer. I think the police promarily tried to de-escalate here.

I think you are mistaken. In Germany public photography is legal as long as it is not your intend to photograph/monitor individuals. They can totally be part of the image, just not the focus. Videos are also legal as long as it is not targeted or constant indiscriminate monitoring.

I don’t think other EU countries have largely different laws given how common dashcams are.

Do what it takes to get them to a doctor and let them handle it. For example: "I want to support you, but I am no expert. Let’s see a nutrition specialist to see what the best course of action is. Personally, I think you are not too fat, but if there is something you want to change, let’s do it right.

That’s the beauty. Given that there is no goal, you are able to define your own.

The times we live in are wild. Predicted that, Aldous?

That’s what I call a big update!

France in general does a lot of things right. Their whole open source movement is amazing! Just take a look at https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome and their tools like https://cryptpad.fr/

And politically as well though I can’t pinpoint it to an exact article. Just the general vibe I got from them and the decisions I saw.

Cool image slides! For my use case it is a bit too usage focused. I would like to find something that focuses a bit more on the “Not controlled by one” part and covering Lemmy, Bluesky, Mastodon, Pixelfed, Peertube and such. I like your presentation style though!

The video is great and covers a lot of the information I would like to share, but it’s sadly not professional enough for the use case I am thinking of. Still a great share! Thank you!