Inciting others to boycott the vote was criminalised in 2021. On Sunday, Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (Icac) said that four men, aged between 31 and 44, had been arrested for allegedly inciting others not to vote, or to cast invalid votes, in social media comments. The Icac said all up it had arrested 11 people for allegedly contravening laws in relation to the offence during the current election, and three had so far been prosecuted.

It seems people not voting is less preferable for the regime than them voting for a puppet.

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Anything Elder Scrolls kept me busy much longer than the main story, most notably Morrowind. Also, I replayed GTA IV (+ stories) last week, was heaps of fun, especially compared to GTA V which I played a few months back. Read Dead Redemption 2 is a good one for this list as well, I enjoyed that one immensely, but I mainly focused on the main quest during that run-through, so this is a good reminder to myself to pick this up again soon (sadly I fell back into the pull of Satisfactory so it might be some weeks/months/… before I get to it)

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Wow, reality is worse than I thought.

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Why would any woman want to… That’s like being mad they don’t have access to servant jobs on Epstein island.

Good thing the AI did not generate pro-Palestine videos or TikTok would have been banned already.

I hadn’t meant to accuse you of pride, it was a poorly chosen term to indicate whether ‘union of a limited subset of cultures’ is a positive thing (= something to be proud of). I had no idea it would cause offense.

Some Belgian news articles mention bread mainly, also other wheat products like pasta.

Schengen is about free movement of goods and workers. You might infer cultures from there, but as soon as that culture is Syrian or Afghan, there is pushback, so I’m not sure a union of cultures actually exists here… Perhaps for a very limited subset of cultures, but I’m not sure that’s something to be proud of, as that smells more of fascism than inclusion.

It was never a union of cultures. It started as an economic union of Coal and Steel…

Confiscating money held by a (private) clearing house to pay your debts seems iffy at best.

62% in Belgium, kind of surprising as the minister of Defense, a Trump admirer himself, is quite popular in the north.

Even more modern than good old surplus value extraction! We’ve been waiting for over 2 centuries now for these chains to be upgraded (again).

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Already the government’s optimism bites them in the ass. Seems another round of billions-finding-meetings is in order, while the previous conclusions still need to be finalized. After more than a year. Amateurs.