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Got it, so you're using arbitrary metrics of economic success and a number of protectionist policies and other regulations to justify your comparison of the European Union to a state capitalist, planned economy with secret police, auth
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European presences of US providers are still US providers with all the implications of that for privacy, applicability of US laws, government interference and a potential trade war.
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Keep in mind this does not reflect US companies producing cars in the EU. I see as many Teslas in my part of rural Germany as I see any other brand. But Tesla also produces these cars in Europe and so I doubt most of them are imports. That
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Just like the average person doesn't understand income tax (i.e. they think "tax breaks" means they will pay less in taxes even when the tax breaks don't significantly affect their income brackets because they think X% o
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Europeans absolutely agree with your statement. So do Canada and Mexico. Alas, the US declared Ukraine's president a dictator, is literally talking about annexing its allied neighbors, and launched a trade war against them and the EU.
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> the market alternative It's interesting that you imply the European Union is communist or state capitalist in a similar way to the Soviet Union or that European Alternatives are not part of the market, analogous to state-produced
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Arguably, the real problem with humanity's resource use today is not consumerism - not overconsumption - but overproduction. We produce vast amounts of food only to let it go to waste. We produce vast amounts of consumer goods only to
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We know that poverty, high mortality, lack of education and lower social and legal status for women are factors contributing to net population growth. We also claim to be interested in fixing these problems globally - even the most zealous
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We (especially those with an entrepreneurial bent like so many of us frequenting this site in particular) have so effectively been sold the illusion that class no longer exists that most have us have genuinely become blind to the idea that
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> Don't get me wrong - I am all for criticism of grind and exploitation. But let's not paint ourselves, members of one of the most privileged occupations, as victims of the global system. Not having it as bad as others is not t
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> Fastmail is a fine service, built and operated by trustworthy people Yes, but their data centers aren't because they're operated by someone else in the US . Fastmail is slightly better than using a US-based e-mail provider b
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Similarly, with Claude in Cursor I've found that it will assume it's wrong when I even suggest that it might be: "Are you sure that's right? I've not seen that method before" will be followed by "I need to
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Thank you for mentioning DeSantis. It helps that Zelenski also built an image of being a battle-hardened soldier. When Zelenski was criticized by a reporter during the meeting with Trump for not wearing a suit, his comeback was that he&#x27
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Are there any prior examples for AI interpolation in stop-motion animation?
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She got that nickname for her push to mandate provider-level blocking of requests to foreign servers distributing CSAM while working as the German minister for family affairs, which critics argued would create a slippery slope by establishi
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This doesn't matter as far as the concerns about US warrantless surveillance laws go because those laws also apply to subsidiaries of US companies. IIRC Microsoft tried to argue that its EU subsidiary could not comply with US requests
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Fastmail's servers are apparently located in the United States[1] - and the Netherlands, but there doesn't seem to be a way to know in which country your specific mailboxes are stored. > Our colocation providers could be compel
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The formatting actively prevented me from processing more than half the article's content but I agree with the premise as far as I was able to get it: if you're a EU-based company or individual it's a good idea to move away f
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Germany spent a lot on renewables but next to nothing on actual grid infrastructure and storage. Energy prices depend on the most expensive option in the mix at any given time. In Germany that means energy prices are dictated by the gas pri
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> In hindsight, it was premature by Germany to shut down theirs so early This is a widespread talking point that is more wrong than correct: Germany did not shut down its nuclear reactors early. In fact, those reactors should have been s
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Media reporting on this feels extremely misleading if you actually watched the full clip. Zelenskiy remains remarkably calm throughout the entire ordeal. Things only really get "angry" when JD Vance tries to provoke him only for h
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Neither of them is right or wrong, really. "Volk" can have very specific connotations in German (e.g. "völkisch" nationalism is similar to ethno-nationalism but the concepts of "Volk" and ethnic group are not e
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As I feel like having to point out every single time this is mentioned because I know exactly how people try to relativize this: Yes, he tried to use plausible deniability by talking about how "his heart goes out" to people right
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In some jurisdictions (e.g. Germany) "copyright" belongs exclusively to the author/creator and is non-transferrable, the German word for "copyright" ( Urheberrecht ) also literally translates to "author's
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Thanks. To clarify for those who can't muster the attention span to make it to the second paragraph: my point is that the phrase is a red herring designed to trigger an emotional response because we're bad at comprehending how min
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> She would have much more success meeting them where they're at. For example, she can set up an arrangement where the rangers will stop harassing the campers and tearing down their encampments if they keep the surroundings clean. W
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You said heroes are enabling the system. Hero narratives are enabling the system. Those are two different things. She likely doesn't consinder herself heroic. The story about her however is written in such a way to portray her as her
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The obvious problem is that that fear is entirely justified and rational. Even if you disregard history, the current POTUS literally talked about concentrating homeless populations into centralized camps away from the general population. Ho
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I'm not sure if there have been any rulings on this so I don't know what lawyers say about this but based on a layperson's reading of the GDPR, I would expect that the company can not simply unilaterally delete the user'
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This is needlessly cynical. The hero isn't toxic. The narrative of an individual effort in lieu of calling out the systemic issue is what's toxic. I don't see any way she could have better spent her energy contributing to s

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