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seems some people in german universities still do useful things - this is pretty nice:

deutschestextarchiv.de/

historic german texts scanned, processed by ocr and it seems also proofread. 10/10 would science again.

@phryk

Correct. I have made this argument for decades.

Corporations that are convicted of a crime should serve that sentence in jail, i.e. no activity for the jail term, no sales and marketing, no development, nothing...

Instead we have fines, which corporations simply call "cost of doing business".

And the anarchist in me says; Corporations are a State construct, to provide a veil of freedom when it is an instrument of further control (tax collection most obvious one).

I sure haven't and for me this figures into the whole issue of corporations being legally considered "persons".

Like, if we have a bunch of places where people can be killed through a court order – why can't the same be done to companies?

And if people can get jailed – why can't companies?

Do they really just get the benefits of "personhood" without any of the negative ramifications that are supposed to hold persons in society accountable?

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@Vasta218 Watching the coverage of Russia-Ukraine conflict is like pregaming myself for electioneering media coverage.

It takes a lot of nerve to tell someone to change their name because it’s offensive in a different language

Ok I spoke too soon, this just came out today. Australia is still fucking insane. Unvaccinated teachers who were fired last year were invited back to work this year and now they are going to have their pay docked as a penalty for not getting the completely useless vaccine.

People who think this is ok go ahead and unfollow, mute or block me if you didn't already do so last year when I spoke out against this bullshit because this is absolutely indefensible and if you think this is ok you are just plain fucking wrong.
www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/westfa…

Die Polizei bittet, dies zukünftig nicht zu tun. Die Fahndung nach Kindern sei ausschließlich Polizeiarbeit, denn nur so könne ein Kind bestmöglich geschützt werden.

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