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by petcat 3mo ago
I was shocked to read how late even several prominent European countries abolished it. Most northern US states abolished slavery even before Britain, France, Portugal, and (especially) Spain did.
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by petcat 3mo ago
> The FCC said that the “risks of harm raised on the record regarding Reflect Orbital’s solar reflector are unrelated to the Commission’s role in authorizing use of radiofrequency spectrum.” The FCC only approved that the satellite would
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by petcat 3mo ago
I think this whole heat wave crisis has been shocking to the rest of the world to see that apparently Europeans refuse to install AC even in new-build homes and it is causing enormous numbers of deaths. What is the reason for this? Is it
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by petcat 3mo ago
Another brilliant Jim Steinman song
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by petcat 3mo ago
Celine Dion, Air Supply. Bonnie Tyler's Holding Out for a Hero. This list goes on. The guy was a prolific rock composer genius.
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by petcat 3mo ago
Steinman was a genius. One of the greatest rock composers of all time and he picked his performers brilliantly.
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by petcat 3mo ago
Jim Steinman, Meat Loaf, and now Bonnie Tyler. It truly all has come to an end. I think Celine Dion is the last one still carrying on Steinman's legacy.
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by petcat 3mo ago
I don't want to hear about the EU's "strong digital privacy" laws and protections ever again.
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by petcat 3mo ago
You think USA is the Trojan Horse? Barak Obama said, in no uncertain terms, that Europe needed to mobilize and arm itself. But of course Europe just ignored that warning. Like it anyways has.
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by petcat 3mo ago
Every American president since 1980 begged Europe and NATO to take responsibility and invest in is own security.
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by petcat 3mo ago
Why don't you tell me what you know about this topic
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by petcat 3mo ago
At this point I think it's obvious that EU is in turmoil. They're struggling to come to grips with the idea of a Russian invasion on their eastern borders, and simultaneously USA pivoting to Asia and not willing to front their def
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by petcat 3mo ago
> It would be a pity if I had to have a separate analog camera just for baby photos because then I'd need to learn the whole developing film stuff. Polaroid coming back in business! I would not complain at all if we started reverti
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by petcat 3mo ago
Because it's American tech funded by the USA CHIPS Act and the Department of Energy. Tightly controlled by the US government.
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by petcat 3mo ago
OP was slightly mistaken. The laser itself is provided by TRUMPF, a German company. Cymer (USA) integrates that laser with tin droplet, plasma, optical, vacuum, and control technologies to create the complete DUV/EUV light sources.
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by petcat 3mo ago
> the biggest company in the Netherlands and its products (ASML and high end lithography machines), is built on top of the works of only a handful of researchers. This is... wildly wrong. ASML is a multi-national company that licenses I
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by petcat 3mo ago
I think the biggest issue is that Europe and the EU has gotten themselves into a position where they don't actually offer much anymore except a pretty good middle class consumer market. They've put themselves into a place where t
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by petcat 3mo ago
Every package manager does the same thing: run a script. Would you feel safer if they offered a .deb? Do you unpack and inspect every .deb you install?
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by petcat 3mo ago
The EU's own government websites have these same cookie banners. Are they maliciously compliant with their own regulations? EU made bad laws that have encouraged this kind of behavior. And now we're all suffering. Look at the C
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by petcat 3mo ago
Am I crazy or is this website not allowing me to opt out of cookie tracking unless I sign up for a subscription? I know the EU cookie banners have basically ruined the internet, but this seems like a whole 'nother level of obnoxious.
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by petcat 3mo ago
> In May 2026, Kouloglou contacted the Citizen Lab and we conducted a forensic analysis of artifacts from his iPhone. We found with high confidence that his device was successfully infected with Pegasus spyware on or around October 21, 2
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by petcat 3mo ago
Oh sure, but go up the chain, which is exactly what these guys are doing. As soon as the US prez hears that some French fops in powdered wigs are preventing USA farmers from selling their nectarines in California, he's going to go bal
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by petcat 3mo ago
> In its court filings, Giumarra says all rights to the Monalise variety are owned by Star Fruits Diffusion, a French company that works with plant breeding programs, while Giumarra holds the right to sublicense the variety for testing,
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by petcat 3mo ago
Not sure what that is supposed to indicate? USA was a big place, even then. Most northern states had abolished slavery even before Britain, France, and especially Spain did. Maybe we should have a quick refresher on European values?
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by petcat 3mo ago
How about Spanish servers? I will never understand this helplessness that comes from these European countries. They are choosing to be dependent on foreign powers.
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by petcat 3mo ago
Huawei is the complete data custodian. They are the ones doing the encrypting.
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by petcat 4mo ago
> EU also restricts ASML EUV machines to China It's actually the US that restricts ASML from selling EUV machines to China. The EUV light source itself is American technology developed and produced by Cymer in California. ASML was
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by petcat 4mo ago
My understanding is that these are pretty low-tech chips only for industrial uses?
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by petcat 4mo ago
They'll blame it on WWII but both South Korea and Japan were similarly devastated and both managed to develop world-class technology industries in the ensuing decades. Europe is the outlier and it's pointing to something fundament
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by petcat 4mo ago
> take a decade More like several decades and 100s of billions of euros which nobody is going to pay. It will simply never happen and right now all the politicians are just quietly waiting for this whole thing to blow over.

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