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https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/first-fines-issued-eu-digital-markets-act

Yes… it’s only been 1.1 months since they’ve first issued fines under the DMA… What a long and litigated history! Definitely shows what you claim it does over it *checks notes* 2 issued fines ever.

Funny part is, DMA has been law since MAY 2023. So in 2 years… it issued 2 fines ever… less than 2 months ago.

But right! NO COMPANY EVER DARES IGNORE IT!

LMFAO. Right.

https://www.theverge.com/news/627522/apple-meta-eu-dma-antitrust-fines

The Financial Times reported in January that the EU was planning to soften its regulatory practices around Big Tech following an increase in pressure from the US, with the new EU Commission that took office in December reportedly being more focused on enforcing compliance than issuing hefty fines.

Weird… Doesn’t sound like the commission even wants to issue fines at all!

I don’t think you understand the fact that the DMA allows fines of up to 20% of a company’s global total turnover for repeated infractions.

And how many times has that happened?

None? Great, we’re on the same page now.

The only mechanism of “enforcement” that the EU is levying is fees/fines. M$ can absorb a large amount of fees/fines pretty readily if it means complete market capture.

There is no “force” here when it’s just the “cost of doing business”.

The EU isn’t raiding M$'s headquarters and capturing board members/C-suites. There is no “force”.

I mean they kind of are? It’s not like M$ couldn’t just pay the fines and keep things as is.

I currently live in the US… so it’s not directly come up for me. But it’s something I’ve been looking into here and there because I am interested in buying property and working in my other country. Part of that is driven by my desire to interact with the majority of my family more.

My understanding is that there are firms that do it. It’s the same process as most other taxes though except you can claim a couple other forms and need to declare a few additional items. I tend to do my own taxes now and get by just fine, a couple extra forms I’d likely just hire a firm to do them 1 or 2 times and use that as reference for the future personally. Taxes in general is pretty easy for most people as long as you have a reference/guide and don’t do weird stuff IMO.

For renouncement I think you only have to show that you’ve filed taxes for the past 5 years… and as long as you’re not some uber wealthy person there isn’t an expat cost (I think it’s like 800k on all assets? or something like that). The fee was something like $2k as well. It’s not a crazy hard process to my understanding, but I could be missing a part.

This isn’t quite true. You pay the difference of whatever local tax would cover. And foreign earned income exclusion is massive…(https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/foreign-earned-income-exclusion)… So even if you make 200k, you can exclude ~120k of it, and then the remaining 80k would have your local taxes deducted from it as well. You end up finding out that most people pay virtually nothing.

And if you don’t intend on returning to the USA at all, there’s not a lot of enforcement that can happen. The worst effect is that you can’t renew your passport at a consulate from what I’ve seen.

I’m a dual citizen so I end up researching these weird topics a lot…

There are. You have to apply for them. Which it’s also entirely possible that the mother is currently doing.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.210781/gov.uscourts.lawd.210781.1.0.pdf
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https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.210781/gov.uscourts.lawd.210781.6.0_3.pdf

Indeed. If you read the actual response… no deportation occurred for the 2 year old.

From the petitioner’s council:

The officer overheard and said that V.M.L. would not be deported and explained that V.M.L.’s mother and sister had deportation orders.

From ICE:

Should her mother decide to allow Petitioner Mack and the purported father to take custody of V.M.L., V.M.L. is not prohibited from entering the United States.

The claim is that the father didn’t identify himself (likely because of his own immigration status), so they couldn’t release child to him. Since he didn’t want to identify himself, any claim that the mother wanted to take the child with her must be held, no “friend” can take custody at that point. The only identified parent isn’t consenting.

It looks like there was an exhibit referenced in the ICE response document. That exhibit is likely the letter they reference that the mother wrote.

It’s a shit situation… It’s not good in the slightest, but it isn’t “American Citizen deported”.

Mother can easily state that she would like to give custody to the petitioning “friend” and V.M.L. can return.

Outlets dont really have an orientation. Shouldnt matter which direction the power is flowing as long as you dont exceed 80% the rating of the lowest denominator of the circuit. 800 watts shouldn’t really hurt any circuits, even the 10amp ones which is about the smallest I think I’ve ever seen here.

Backfeeding is only illegal in the sense of safety requirements to my knowledge. These panels dont feed when grid is off (embedded ATS). Which satisfies safety (UL would just need to approve, but likely wouldn’t until the last item below is addressed). At just 800 watts… I doubt you’d ever backfeed anyway. And if you do, good luck collecting any money for it. But to that point, I backfeed 15kW batteries during peak hours. Above and beyond my solar setup… they can’t really say anything about it. But I go full island when grid is down, which sadly happens often even though I’m in a major metro area.

Lower cost of energy does make it a harder sell overall but that wasn’t really the question. These panels are also significantly cheaper since you dont need to pay install fees and such. The equation is a bit different.

The only real hiccup is the nature of our phased systems here… a solar panel in a single outlet will only feed one phase.That’s a problem. One that probably makes it a nonstarter as people simply wont install 240v outlets on their patios/balconies. But I don’t think Ive seen a law that says backfeed illegal, but illegal to cause safety issues on dead grid (eg. you must have an ATS or main service lockout). Do you have a source on illegality outside ot ATS/lockout requirement?

So… if backfeeding is illegal. How does home solar work in the US?

Sorry, but we’re still going to agree to disagree. Unfortunately, we can’t just make up definitions and have a discussion while in complete disagreement on the definition of the word we’re discussing.

Shame is WHY someone would be driven to pursue insight and self-reflection. Insight in of itself isn’t something that people just attain with no other factors.

Had they been taught the implications that alcohol has on your near-term health and consciousness instead, they might have been wise enough to not drink too much out of themselves. :)

Okay? What does this have to do with shame or the current conversation? I would argue that most kids hit the hard wall of realization the morning after and have some shame about the events of the night prior… Many kids realize their shame and gain insight through self-reflection. Some wont learn anything at all… Partially because some people simply have no shame, or simply have no will to self-reflect and grow… I would argue that your own example proves my point and shows that shame is an important part of growth. Others will learn “properly” about the health risks and still not care and conduct themselves in a shameful way regardless.

Shame requires some amount of morals, integrity, and honor. Otherwise you’d fail to feel any semblance of the guilt or impropriety of your own actions. Stating that someone should be ashamed is akin to saying “you’re acting without integrity/morals if you conduct yourself this way”. If telling people that they’re doing the wrong thing and should feel bad about it is now “banned” then you’re just going to have people doing whatever they want with no social feedback at all. You can’t develop the culture of habits that you’re looking for unless society can police social interactions in some form.

You seem to be under some belief that with sufficient education people will just be “good” and do the “right thing” and we don’t require any other pressure from any other social format to maintain the norm… That’s wishful thinking IMO.

Then agree to disagree. I can reflect on a number of points in my life where I’ve decided that I did the wrong thing. I hold shame for those actions and use that to hold myself to better standards now. Guilt and regret is part of shame.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shame

1a: a painful emotion caused by consciousness of guilt, shortcoming, or impropriety

Even in your context of bringing shame to people, or attempting to impart guilt and disgrace… That’s an important metric to build the exact culture of habits that you’re advocating for. Most people don’t care if they litter in the park. It’s only after you guilt them into it that they’ll do it.

But no point in going any further into this conversation. It’s clear your mind is made. Have a good weekend.

Edit: clarification.

Shame should be abolished after all.

Shame is an emotion. You can’t abolish an emotion. And shame is an emotion that a lot of people use to regulate themselves. This is a silly statement on it’s face. All emotions are irrational. Are you advocating for banning emotions?

There is a good reason that old men shouldn’t touch young women. Shame is one emotion that likely regulates many of those men from never doing it. Such that they would feel shame should they do such an action.

If you can’t agree on that, then I’m failing to understand your point or we simply agree to disagree.

That’s some dangerous assumptions you’re making here… Just because there’s a vocal minority that seems to fit the painting you’ve pictured doesn’t mean that it’s valid. It could easily be argued the complete opposite that those who had shame about the incident would hold onto it, internalize it… and never talk about it again. It can easily go both ways here.

But my statement was more of an answer to the implicit question of “why did I get the lifelong lesson when the others around me clearly didn’t?”… That answer could be because a lot of people just don’t feel shame. Doesn’t have to be “they gotta be really slow or something”. They didn’t get the lesson… they felt no shame.

That shame gave me a lifelong lesson.

A lot of people don’t feel shame…

Which would make sense from a censorship point of view as jailbreaks would be a problem. Just a filter/check before the result is returned for *tiananmen* is a much harder to break thing than guaranteeing the LLM doesn’t get jailbroken/hallucinate.