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Basically: In some countries, the pledge is with the constitution or the people, but in others (like constitutional monarchies), its a pledge to the (constitutional) monarch and their successors.

What is your opinion on this loyalty pledge? Do you believe it's a reasonable request?

(For context: My mother and older brother had to do the pledge to gain [US] citizenship so the idea of deportation isn't looming over our heads. I didn't have do it because I was under 18 and my mother's citizenship status automatically carried over to me according to the law.)

It's good if you want the bulletproofness and archiving accuracy of archive.today, but don't want Google spying on you (archive.today requires you to complete a recaptcha challenge every time you want to archive a web page and your cookies expired).

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Welcome again to everybody. Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37869574

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37869574

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Fucking Italians making up fake words. Who invited them? Not me.

Paywall? https://archive.is/zoMJs

France’s prolonged political crisis has turned the country into the euro area’s fiscal flash-point, taking over a role long played by Italy.

Paywall? https://archive.is/R5EQ2

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Still, the bandwidth is awful for the price. I can switch to a way faster plan with another provider (plus a VPN) for a smaller price. Which $10 VPN with open ports would you recommend?

Test finds scrolling shortform videos while logged out of YouTube and TikTok quickly leads to gambling, violent and far-right content

As the announcements for the contest's next edition in Vienna are rolling out, the future is not looking good...

0:00 - The make-or-break year?

1:27 - Boycott pressure

6:40 - Muting the audience

9:24 - No critics allowed

14:28 - Audience protests

17:26 - Spanish commentators threatened

21:04 - Israel's astroturfing campaign

24:27 - Streaming vs. televote success

26:08 - Spoofing the voting app

29:26 - Why vote for Israel?

32:51 - Make-or-break: the answer

A translation of President Lai’s remarks follows:

I extend a warm welcome to Chair Toporovsky, who is visiting Taiwan once again. Chair Toporovsky is an important advocate for the deepening of Taiwan-Israel relations.

Taiwan and Israel hold regular dialogues on the economy, trade, technology, and agriculture. We have also signed 34 cooperation agreements and continue to deepen exchanges.

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I'm looking for a tool to generate a simple personal website (like an online business card) to self host. Preferably a static site generator.

I'm now using Hugo, but it does too much for me and changes too often. (I can't update my current page, because the template is no longer arond)

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/1288762

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