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[Ziusudra]

... or reignite the troubles and make NI a war zone again.

[hector13]

Or do nothing. Sinn Fein have just won the ability to nominate the first minister. If they came second, they’d be nominating the deputy.

Stormont has essentially a power-sharing thing, in which the largest party gets to nominate the first minister, and then the largest party from a different block (nationalist or unionist, not the same as the largest party) gets to nominate the deputy FM.

The DUP pulled out of their position as FM as a protest against the NI Protocol. They might very well nominate a deputy, but look for the flimsiest excuse to pull out again. That would probably cause issues, but their leader has said he will respect the results of the election.

[MorleyDev]

Nevermind, DUP say they won't do anything until someone manages to square the circle on how you can have a border without having a border.

[TD1]

Or do nothing. Sinn Fein have just won the ability to nominate the first minister. If they came second, they’d be nominating the deputy.

Stormont has essentially a power-sharing thing, in which the largest party gets to nominate the first minister, and then the largest party from a different block (nationalist or unionist, not the same as the largest party) gets to nominate the deputy FM.

Yea, this. The level of 'power' held by Republicans hasn't really increased much, except perhaps symbolically. DUP went down, other Unionist parties went up. It's a mild shift of power and not likely to spark PokeIreland Gotta Catch 'em All: County Edition.

[martinuzz]

The EU wants services like WhatsApp and Gmail to give full access to the content of converations to law enforcement, so they can more effectively hunt child porn.
Privacy guard dogs fear the consequences.

[hector13]

Think of the children is always an excuse for this kind of thing.

Maybe teach kids taking naked photos and sending them to someone is a bad idea, and keep better track of at risk kids and paedophiles. That takes effort though.

[da_nang]

Do you want more eurosceptics, EU?

Because this is how you create more eurosceptics.

[MorleyDev]

Last I checked, EU privacy regulations have been one of the things making it more difficult for a lot of EU member states to legislate that already. So there's been a lot of pushes for that at every level, both national and now international, and they get beaten back each time. So need to beat it back again, but it's nothing new or surprising that a faction in the EU want to push for that.

(Seriously we need to get out of the habit of describing things like the EU or UN or NATO or whatever in 'X wants' terms when legislation is proposed, these are coalitions of multiple actors and not a single brain after all and proposal of laws is not unanimous agreement of law. And unlike a government, proposals in these usually aren't done by whichever faction has majority control so you're gonna get ones that come out and get defeated more often).

[Iduno]

Think of the children is always an excuse for this kind of thing.

Maybe teach kids taking naked photos and sending them to someone is a bad idea, and keep better track of at risk kids and paedophiles. That takes effort though.

No, because that makes children feel like they should have rights. Much more important to give police unlimited power which they will definitely use to stop pedophiles who aren't in government or TV, and not use maliciously unless they feel like it.

[TD1]

Last I checked, EU privacy regulations have been one of the things making it more difficult for a lot of EU member states to legislate that already. So there's been a lot of pushes for that at every level, both national and now international, and they get beaten back each time. So need to beat it back again, but it's nothing new or surprising that a faction in the EU want to push for that.

(Seriously we need to get out of the habit of describing things like the EU or UN or NATO or whatever in 'X wants' terms when legislation is proposed, these are coalitions of multiple actors and not a single brain after all and proposal of laws is not unanimous agreement of law. And unlike a government, proposals in these usually aren't done by whichever faction has majority control so you're gonna get ones that come out and get defeated more often).

Better to say that part of the cumulatively inchoate mass suffers from a certain impulse, not the beast itself, amirite?

The idea of a multi-faceted schizophrenic conglomerate fills me with confidence and lulls me to my own private stretch of the Lethe
With only three cameras observing, because I paid for Premium. 

[voliol]

Ukraine just won Eurovision Song Contest 2022. Not unexpected per-se, but it is something that happened.

[Ziusudra]

The UK got 2nd place, and the question is: is that because the voters thought it was Ukraine?

[EuchreJack]

The UK got 2nd place, and the question is: is that because the voters thought it was Ukraine?

LOL

[martinuzz]

Ukraine just won Eurovision Song Contest 2022. Not unexpected per-se, but it is something that happened.

Yeah I am very sad about that.
Winning the Eurovision song festival isn't something to be proud of.
Horrible kitsch that whole thing. An affront to real artists.

Then again, from a political point of view, well deserved win.

[bloop_bleep]

Eurovision has always been largely political.

But I think Ukraine still put on a good performance on its own merits. I really liked the UK's performance as well.

The jury is partly meant to take out the politics but unfortunately it seems it brought some snobbish nonesense too. So little for Moldova? Really? I agree with someone online who said that the jury is the reason everyone sings basic English ballads instead of something novel in their own language.