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  • California bill would require restaurants to disclose food allergens on menus

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  • This is very helpful. I have two major common food allergies and we have such a law in the EU. Yes, some restaurants just write every allergene on every item and call it a day, but those are usually not the good ones. A lot of good restaurants just write tge actually allergenes and "may contain traces of" on the menu and usually the staff is also informed and trained to answer questions regarding allergies.

  • California bill would require restaurants to disclose food allergens on menus

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  • It is an EU regulation since 2014 though, so it should be required in Sweden.

  • California bill would require restaurants to disclose food allergens on menus

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  • Here in Europe there is a list of the 14 most common allergenes and they have to be listed on the menu. Yes, there are people with uncommon allergies, but the majority of people have one of the common ones and they can be on the menu.

  • Hegseth fires general whose agency's intel assessment of damage from Iran strikes angered Trump

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  • Eriwan is the German name for Yerevan, or the old German spelling, I think nowadays it's Jerewan.

  • Hegseth fires general whose agency's intel assessment of damage from Iran strikes angered Trump

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  • It's Eriwan in German. I didn't look up if it had a different English spelling. :D

  • Hegseth fires general whose agency's intel assessment of damage from Iran strikes angered Trump

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  • My father used to tell jokes about the GDR and Soviet Union when I was a kid. I was in kindergarten when the Berlin wall fell. Nowadays you can tell almost the same jokes about the US...

    Question for the radio station Eriwan: Could the catastrophe of Chernobyl have been avoided? Answer: Principally yes, if only Sweden hadn't spilled the beans.

    Question for the radio station Eriwan: Is there censorship in the Soviet Union? Answer: Principally no, but unfortunately we are unable to further elaborate.

    Question for the radio station Eriwan: How does the soviet government act in a crisis? Answer: We do not provide information regarding the state of our Agriculture sector.

    Question for the radio station Eriwan: Is it difficult to go to the moon? Answer: Principally no, but how do we convince our cosmonauts to come back again?

    Looking forward to reusing them for the US.

  • Call to ban ‘intolerant’ child-free resorts and hotels in France

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  • When I was small my parents just didn't bring me to hotels that weren't explicitly for families. Those normal boring grown-up hotels just weren't for us until we were old enough, so we went to the fun hotels with playgrounds. Why can't we go back to that?

    And people wouldn't be so annoyed by children if the parents didn't insist that they should be allowed to run around and do whatever they want. It's not just "let me go everywhere with my kids", it's "let me bring my kids and then let them yell and smash things and cry as much as they want because they are kids." There's a nice café in my city where I don't go anymore, because it's full of mothers with their toddlers from the nearby playground who just continue playing as loudly as ever. Last time I went I ended up with sand in my coffee when some kid waved around his toy car that was full of sand from the playground. The mother refused to buy me a new coffee because "he's just a kid". A beach bar by the river actual changed their policy and now refuses entry to children under 12, because it had become too expensive for them to keep replacing food and drinks every time a kid threw the sand around. And of course the parents usually refused to pay for what their kids destroyed.

    If parents can't be trusted to make good decisions like "My 4-year-old who can't sit still for more than a minute should not be brought to a spa where people come to relax." or at the very least feel responsible for what they destroy, this is what happens. And if too many parents refuse to pay up when their kid destroys something, owners will prefer to ban kids.

    People who say they don't like children are being hated on, but 99% of the time they just don't like children who are allowed to do whatever they want whereever they are and parents who take zero responsibility under the guise of it's just a child.

  • Trump demands homeless move out of Washington, DC 'immediately'

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  • Oh, he (or someone else in his circle) surely did. Make it illegal for them to be there -> they have nowhere to go -> they go to prison for illegally existing -> free slave labor.

  • Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30

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  • Office isn't the problem, I use Libre Office even on Windows. The problem is very specific software for some courses. Like we needed to work with SQL for one course and they wanted us to use a specific program. It was a group project, too, and I didn't want to be the one who messes up our database because something didn't work right with whatever Linux substitute there is.

  • Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30

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  • I still need to use it for university. We often need to use very specific programs for homework and I don't know if I can always find an alternative on linux. Even if, I'd have to go through the hastle of converting to the requested file formats. And it's not guaranteed that I will always find a solution for every course I'll take. Unfortunately education still expects you to work with Windows and programs that only work on Windows.

  • Travelers to the U.S. must pay a new $250 'visa integrity fee'

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  • It's not going to stop people from Europe etc., but a lot of people might reconsider their holiday plans if on top of everything they have to pay these steep fees.

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL about Alexandra David-Neel, first european woman to enter Lhasa

  • I think Reddit is trying to shift their platform into a media sharing social (like Instagram) rather than a discussion forum

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  • I found the general culture on reddit pretty discouraging, too. You post an answer to a question and all the contrarians flock to it, twist your words or just sift through your profile in order to find a gotcha. "Haha, you wrote X but three years ago on subreddit Y you mentioned you're Z, so that means you can't possibly know anything about X!" Don't get me wrong, sometimes it's necessary in order to point out trolls and liars, but I often found it exaggerated. It made me not want to participate in discussions. Not to mention attacking people for their grammar and spelling when a large part of the platform doesn't speak English as their mother language.

  • I think Reddit is trying to shift their platform into a media sharing social (like Instagram) rather than a discussion forum

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  • Would it be that hard to revive them? If enough people are fleeing Reddit, these platforms could be built again.

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  • I'd argue that the drop in conference and other professional visitors could be even steeper. There are still enough people who'll privately take the risk or aren't informed or think "I'll be Ok if I comply with the laws". Companies or universities however have HR departments and people in charge of travelling and compliance. They would risk a lot more money and possibly secrets if the devices are searched and employees are detained. I think they'll be even more careful and restrict trips to the US. I could imagine a lot of conferences offering online participation and many opting for that rather than risking it.

    And if enough international speakers can't get in even more conferences will opt for moving the entire conference to a different country.

  • Germany: Three construction workers fall to their death

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  • I'm German and I worked in an office with managers and engineers who had a background in construction or related jobs. There is a very strong attitude of "We didn't need that bullshit back when I was an apprentice." There is a lot of scoffing at people who wear saftey gear and follow the rules. Corners are being cut and safety rules ignored because "we didn't need all that bullshit back then and losing a finger or two is just part of the job".

    Some German news articles mention that the company in charge of the project had a bad track record when it comes to following safety regulations and the very same construction site had to be stopped before due to broken bolts in the bridge.

  • Microsoft blocks email-access for ICC prosecutor in accordance with US sanctions over Netanyahu arrest warrant

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  • The University where I studied switched from Linux to Windows because to many people complained that it was "too hard". Even the computers in the library that were just for searching books aka 90% of the time just using the browser were switched from Linux to Windows because the students complained. I now work in a job where most of our customers are public institutions and you won't even get our IT department to let go of decade old outdated software. Too many old people who will throw a hissy fit if anything suddenly looks different from what they've been used to for 30 years.

    My contract also won't be renewed. My bosses reason that he explicitly told me is: I don't fit in because I ask too many questions like "Why don't we use better alternatives for X software." We do "project planning" with email-chains and Excel sheets. No, we can't have any project planning tools, because this is what the 60-year old colleagues have been doing since their first day 43 years ago. If it was good enough for them back then it's good enough for you now. That's just how we do it here, since you can't get used to it we're letting you go. Etc pp, you get the idea. And the people in the IT department are the same! Never change a running system, it's worked for 40 years now, no need to try something new.

    There's just no way you'll get a public institution to switch to open source. Everybody over 50 will scream bloody murder about having to change how they work and it'll be changed back in no time.

  • Trump faces backlash of Maga faithful over plan to accept plane gift from Qatar

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  • Don't worry, they'll have forgotten all about it by Friday.

  • Trump involved in discussions over suspending habeas corpus, sources say

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  • My entire life I've heard Americans lecture everyone how superior the US is because of all their rights, freedoms and "real democracy". The freest country in the world! Look at the constitution and the bill of rights - the most democratic country EVER! Where are those Americans now?

  • Trump has a ‘maximum’ meltdown on social media after hate-watching ‘60 Minutes’

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  • *male anger. Angry women are still emotional and hysterical.