@aral Very specifically, this is a German, not an EU, fuck-up. The German tax codes defines a very narrow, and very 1950ies view of whatโs a charitable cause and the Federal ministry of finances has not been moving on this point at all. Notably, other charities with political intent had their previously granted status removed (check Campact for instance). Thereโs another big issue with this in general, and thatโs an EU issue: There is no way to set up an EU-wide charitable cause entity. So youโd have to run 27 entities to get tax deductability (is this a word?) in the entire EU. While itโs sad to read this, itโs absolutely understandable that they took this step. The implications โฆ yeah, yet another Mozilla or Wikipedia foundation with questionable priorities decoupled from the actual project.
But please bash the German government and only then the EU ;-)
@aral Is it just me, or does this sound an awful lot like one of those v!agra spam mail subjects? I wonder if the universe considers humanity partly spam... ๐คญ
"We need to rebuild the #commons. When industries are polluting the atmosphere or the oceans, they are, in fact, #privatising the commons ("considering a #common good as their private trash"). When an industry receives millions in #public#subsidies then make a patent, that industry is privatising the common. When Google is putting the Linux kernel in a phone that cannot be modified easily, Google is privatising the common. Why do we need expensive electric cars? Because the #automotive industry has been on a century-long mission to kill public transport or the sole idea of going on foot, to destroy the commons.
With the new version, #Fedilab asks me whether I want to boost a toot with an image without #AltText. I like! ? If you think you don't have time to make your posts accessible, maybe you're posting too much. ? Take your time for #accessibility!
@mattl Can't speak for others, but we do and many of our friends do. Might be a German thing because the state requires lots and lots of things on paper still. ?โ๏ธ
Your kid craves colouring stuff? Go to openclipart.org, play a little with @inkscape (together with your kid of course) and print it out. It's amazing how their eyes shine :blobinlove:
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