Es gibt einige konkrete Beispiele: In der Pixar Serie “Win or Lose” (Disney+) war in der 7. Episode Kai ursprünglich trans, das wurde mit großem Aufwand geändert. In einer ersten Fassung von “Elio” war der Hauptdarsteller queer, in der Version die im Sommer in die Kinos kommt ist davon nichts übrig

Pazifismus ist die Klugheit niemanden anzugreifen. Pazifismus ist nicht die Dummheit, sich nicht zu wehren, wenn man angegriffen wird.

Um Putin zu stoppen, braucht es das Setzen wehrhafter Grenzen, keine Opfergaben. Und diese Grenzen muss die EU alleine setzen, da die USA kein Freund mehr sind

Danke! Werde zusehen dass das bei uns heute auch noch auf dem Programm steht.

At this rate it seems we going through multiple decades per day now.

Not personally. I worked with several people who had and were active in that community, but that was pre-COVID, so I have no idea how all of that has changed. Things definitely got more restrictive during the pandemic. There should be tons of online community resources, though.

Some very unfortunate recent incidents made immigration a very tempting topic for the center-right parties and Musk is latching on to that with the AfD as the anti-immigrant OGs. I wouldn’t overestimate his direct influence.

Happy to help if you run into any questions, re: European beaurocracy

I’ll do my part on Feb 23, and the wave of recent anti-right demonstrations give some reason for hope, but the overall trends (globally) are definitely not great.

The EU started a “blue card” program years ago, but as always totally botched the marketing etc., but that might be with looking into.

Do you have any recent ancestors, i.e., at most two or three generations back, with relevant passports? That would be the best bet in most European countries I’m aware of.

Happy to give you specific pointers if Germany is somehow involved, I helped somebody with this the last time around.

Screenshot of a Hertz rental offer for a Mercedes V class van for four days costing $508718 after a 15% discount

FlyingBlue is really coming through on this Hertz deal, saving a whopping US$95k (converted) on a four day rental! On top the 2.5 million miles I’d earn.

I can only imagine the multiple validation steps that somebody figured to be “nice-to-have” during data entry for this to make it into production