I agree, but that’s not what Death of the Author means.

It’s not new information but mostly new details - tumblr has been dealing (or really, trying to deal) with this since July.

I wish anglophones wouldn’t waste precious space between the individual parts of their words.

heimatSicherheitsInlandStreitkräfteEinheit

One might argue in favour of StreitKräfte.

homeSecurityDomesticArmedForcesUnit

Edit: ah, too slow.

Consumers are advised to …

Consumers are advised to check whether tea bags in their region are even made of these materials.

Edit: Also, “billions”? The cookie warning is borked on the foodandwine.com article so I can’t read it but: https://www.dpa-international.com/trends-and-features/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:250109-99-540705/ “Tea bags releasing ‘millions’ of microplastics into tea, study shows” - where does that difference come from?

Goddammit Olaf, this is probably your last chance to be vocal and present about something for once.

Demonstrating AGAIN that he hasn’t got the first idea how German politics work.

I guess?

Paywall, so no idea what it’s actually saying. Anyway: correlation =/= causation.

Apparently he thinks the AfD and Obama era Democrats have the same political positions. So. Uh. I don’t know, don’t look at me like that. ¯⁠\⁠(⁠°⁠_⁠o⁠)⁠/⁠¯

They managed to get away with it because it says “we’ll protect your children” - like a roof. Yes it is ridiculous, we’re working on it.

Ah, I see what you’re saying. That might be a way of looking at it.

Wouldn’t that make many (most?) news sites social media since they let you comment on articles? (IMDB dodged a bullet?)

I think you may not have scrolled far enough? The only paragraph I see that fits your description is in the middle of the article. It is unfortunately followed by a subscribe prompt which can be misinterpreted as marking the end of the article, so there’s that.

You don’t consider Lemmy social media? Honest question.

That’s an actual issue I see with this law: how does one define social media? I’ve seen YouTube described as social media which I find highly dubious but I can’t really explain why.