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by rdm_blackhole 1mo ago
> Not voting is consent to the status quo. I disagree fundamentally. Not voting is simply not making a choice. If the choices presented do not align with my preferences then I do not vote. Why would I vote for someone who I don't su
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by rdm_blackhole 1mo ago
I am not sure why you are being downvoted, because IMHO you are correct. If Trump was an isolated incident, sure, but he is not. In Europe the far-right and far-left parties are rising in many countries and the traditional parties are crumb
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by rdm_blackhole 1mo ago
I disagree with your take. You have the right to not vote when you disagree with all parties running. In fact, from a moral point of view voting for the lesser evil is highly objectionable because you are voting for someone who you do not e
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by rdm_blackhole 1mo ago
> Most commenters here clutching their pearls as if Claude and Gemini Pro didn't do it already. That's not the point though. The problem is that in the minds of lots of people including here on HN or otherwise, a service based
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by rdm_blackhole 2mo ago
If you read /r/europe, you would be convinced that the reason that some people are against the EU is only because of: - Russian trolls - US trolls - Chinese trolls Its never the EU's fault. Never is there a sense of saying, m
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by rdm_blackhole 2mo ago
There was already a tweet/post from the Signal CEO in which she said that if the Chat Control v2 law was enforced (aka client side scanning of messages before encryption), that they would simply leave the EU market instead of complying
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by rdm_blackhole 2mo ago
> with far right trying to turn people against EU. The far right does not need to do that, the EU is doing it itself just fine. Secondly this push like the one for Chat Control comes from the commission itself and as far as I can tell th
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by rdm_blackhole 2mo ago
No that is not what they are doing. This is the same thing they tried to do with Chat Control v2, that is to force providers to access data before it is encrypted and store it in case one day someone becomes a criminal. You should look up a
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by rdm_blackhole 2mo ago
I agree that interests rates between trading partners have to somewhat match but the issue here within Europe is that Germany is so big that by default what they say goes. So, if you have Estonia that is in a slump and needs a boost, it can
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by rdm_blackhole 2mo ago
I think your analysis is not complete. Yes the Euro is/was stable but not because there are many big countries using it. The Euro is/was stable because behind it there was stable and relatively well managed democracy named Germany
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by rdm_blackhole 2mo ago
The AFD is openly campaigning on it and they are currently the most popular parti in Germany. The French RN is not openly campaigning on leaving anymore since its pretty scary to the voters but the intention of Le Pen is to hold a referendu
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by rdm_blackhole 2mo ago
Joining the Euro is not the panacea that everyone thinks it is. It comes with some major drawbacks: - no control of interest rates since these apply to everyone in the Eurozone regardless of the current economic situation of a particular co
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by rdm_blackhole 2mo ago
> it's not ethnic cleansing because this time the Jews really ARE evil, okay You are right, let's just all push the rhetoric to the max and completely forget how to have nuanced discussions about complex topics. It clearly is a
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by rdm_blackhole 2mo ago
> There’s a recurring theme where the EU can do no wrong, despite repeated negative outcomes that only make sense to read as well-meaning but misguided regulatory overzealousness. Forget it. It's like talking to a wall. Go to /
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by rdm_blackhole 2mo ago
France is about to have either a very far-right or very far-left president and neither party like the EU very much so I wouldn't count on that. As for Germany, Mertz is disliked greatly and the AFD will most likely win the next state e
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by rdm_blackhole 2mo ago
Why is someone critiquing the EU such an affront to you? Is the EU above reproach for some reason?
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by rdm_blackhole 2mo ago
You shouldn't. The French government is not to be trusted with the data you give it. https://cybernews.com/security/ants-hack-france-19-million-r... https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/artic
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by rdm_blackhole 2mo ago
You can't ban alcohol because it's been proven that it doesnt work or have you forgotten about the prohibition era? You can't ban the sale of tobacco either because its been proven that any attempt to soft-ban it like they ha
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by rdm_blackhole 2mo ago
Absolutely spot on. To think that your data is safe in the EU while the EU is actively pursuing ID checks for social media and pushing Chat control every 6 months is delusional. No, your data is not safe here. If the EU wants it, it will ge
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by rdm_blackhole 2mo ago
But you are cheery picking a few things while ignoring others. In the US, you are free to buy a gun and walk around with it. In the EU you can't But if you ask a person from the EU, they will think that this "freedom to bear arms&
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by rdm_blackhole 2mo ago
> China has not known freedom for some time, but citizens of the United States have a long experience of it. This sort of statements are too broad and impossible to falsify. Freedom in what context? Political? Societal? Also can you have
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by rdm_blackhole 2mo ago
Nobody is stopping the western countries of doing the same exact thing with their own industries. As a matter of fact, the EU and the US are subsiding a lot of their own companies or even entire sectors of their economy (agriculture/ar
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by rdm_blackhole 2mo ago
And you believe that no other western country on this planet is doing the same exact thing? Every country spies on its enemies, allies and trade partners. That is just the name of the game. I copy you, you copy me and hopefully I can copy y
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by rdm_blackhole 3mo ago
The worst part of this whole enterprise is not the designs per se (although the buildings look like soulless buildings from the former USSR but that is besides the point), it is that very few stores actually accept 100/200 euro notes.
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by rdm_blackhole 3mo ago
As always the EU does not disappoint regarding it's stance on privacy. What a joke.
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by rdm_blackhole 4mo ago
Your comment is all over the place and you are moving the goal posts quite a bit. Since we are talking about Renault specifically, I will assume that you are not French otherwise you would not have written your comment. Basically, it comes
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by rdm_blackhole 4mo ago
> But what annoys me the most about the article is this constant praise of „China Speed“, Cost-Advantages and Love of the Free Market, as if not every single Chinese Automaker, including its Suppliers down to the tiniest screw is a State
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by rdm_blackhole 5mo ago
Ads in my opinion are not the problem. The problem is the expectation that services/apps/radio/tv-channels need to be free when we know that there is nothing really free in this world (except maybe the air we breathe?). This
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by rdm_blackhole 5mo ago
But that is a the problem though. You get stronger job protection because its very hard to find a job. If you could find a new job quickly and if the job market was more fluid, you would only rarely need this sort of job protection.
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by rdm_blackhole 5mo ago
I mean we are still waiting for the European Apple or Microsoft or Google or anything of that scale aren't we? China has it's own version of all this stuff, where is Europe's?

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