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Not aligning with the United States does not socialism nor anti-imperialism make

While it's an option and certainly preferable to on street parking in high density areas, it's also prohibitively expensive unless 1) the city is well off and 2) the majority of residents are using alternate modes of transport that require far less expensive infrastructure.

A good example of this is the Albert Cuyp garage, which has parking for 600 cars at a construction cost of around €60'000 per car. In contrast, the bike garages being built around Amsterdam's central station will have parking for around 22'000 bikes at a cost of around €4'000 per bike.

It's also worth noting that public transit does not require huge parking garages, and bikes can generally be parked on the street without issue.

Or you could design cities to have green in the first place by designing for better modes of transport than cars. Cars take up a huge amount of space both while traveling and while not in use, instead of spending all that money and space on cars you can have public transit, cycling infrastructure, walking infrastructure, and greener cities.

In the case of GDPR it is not just for simplicity. It's because companies that operate in the EU need to provide those protections to all EU citizens, even those across the pond. You cannot check if someone is an EU citizen so if you operate in the EU you effectively need to treat everyone like an EU citizen.

Just a small note, universal healthcare isn't an EU thing and not really adopted properly across the EU's constituent countries

The good news is that GDPR protects you somewhat regardless of where you're from and who you are. If a company fucks with the privacy of an EU citizen living in the USA they are still on the hook, so companies generally adopt the measures (e.g. the ability to request and delete all your data) globally. You can even just get a VPN and set it to somewhere in the EU.

Accepting cookies is not a GDPR regulation. It's the cookie law, which is a lot older than GDPR.

How does free articles relate to transparency? It just means their funding scheme isn't people paying for articles. If anything that makes it more likely they need to rely on less transparent funding.

Why not have a state-run instance on an open platform? It's better than relying on a corporation's platform. The government is 'the people' more than corporations are.

They decreased over the past 13 years.

While that's an option the desktop site is barely navigable on a desktop let alone on a mobile device

Aren't they also pushing changes to have mobile browsers redirect to the app with no option for staying in the browser?