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Comment · 1 year ago
That's the EU law position, but national law may not agree. I believe both France and Germany, for instance, consider their national constitution to be above EU law (even if the EU Court of Justice disagrees) - Though in practice the constitution was amended when necessary to avoid any conflict.
Comment · 1 year ago
This is easy to fix, not an explanation.

Gaming on mac is indeed lacking, but that's really not the reason.

Comment · 1 year ago
My solution is cloud gaming in that case, such as GeforceNow (for compatible games), or Shadow (for a whole PC to do as you please).
Comment · 1 year ago
Sorry if I'm missing something but are you responding to the right comment? Your answer doesn't seem related to what I said.

I'm also not sure how that relates to your earlier point about "Joseki", which I was disputing (like many others).

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Highly disagree.

Fuseki (opening) doesn't matter much for most players. AI confirmed that a wide variety of openings, even weird ones far removed from the usual credo, work very well. At worst you may lose a couple points in doing so, but unless you play at a high level that's negligible and will never be the reason you lost.

Joseki (corner sequences) is also not that important, and certainly not something any beginner should spend time on. In fact, a common Go proverb is to "learn Joseki and lose two stones" (get weaker). We often see beginners learning Joseki, getting confused when their opponent doesn't follow the sequence they have in mind and ultimately blundering their corner. Or they ask "how to punish that?", without realizing that many moves are good even if they are not Joseki, and there's nothing to punish.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
This is wrong though.

France held a referendum on the creation of the EU in 1992, and approved it.

You're thinking of the 2005 referendum, which was about the TCE. The EU already existed before that.

Comment · 1 year ago
By this logic, most of EU governments are not democratic bodies either.
Comment · 1 year ago
> Who do you accuse of genocide now?

The one doing it

> They've just been denied the chance.

Perhaps. Perhaps if they somehow had the time, means and power to do it, they would have killed as many people on the other side, although this is high speculative as the past decades would have played out very differently anyway.

I'm not sure where you're going with that though. Nobody claims Hamas are kind and gently guys.

Comment · 1 year ago
Being a "first-world" country has never been incompatible with war crimes.
Comment · 1 year ago
> For one, having the leader be actually elected by the people and not second hand appointed by corruptible politicians.

That's a strange requirement considering the executive of most EU states is not directly elected by people either. Do you not consider Germany or Italy to be countries?

Comment · 1 year ago
It's common for the executive branch to have the right to propose legislation, and often the main way legislation is proposed in many countries.

While I agree this should ideally also be available to the EP, it doesn't make the EC a legislative branch. It's very much the executive.

Comment · 1 year ago
Sometimes this is indeed merely "fancy" and vacuous, but other times it is a meaningful and more engaging way to present the content. I feel like this is an example of the latter.

Even if you're not a fan and would have done it differently, it seems a bit hard to understand what could be so bothersome that you have to close it in 10s...

Comment · 3 years ago
> The EU continually being jealous that the US continuously runs circles around them and lapping over and over and over and over . . .

You're making up imaginary scenarios which have nothing to do with this antitrust litigation...

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