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Leaked Documents Reveal Secret Russia-China Military Plan to Disable Starlink(united24media.com)
5 points by vrganj 4mo ago|1 comments
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by vrganj 4mo ago
Sure! Like the Sacklers who got rich by... providing the best opiates. Or Zuck, who got rich by... destroying the fabric of our society. Or Big Oil, which got rich by... destroying ecosystems and dooming us all. Or United Fruit Company whic
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Germany's richest man takes on Big Tech(dw.com)
25 points by vrganj 4mo ago|3 comments
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by vrganj 4mo ago
Sure, the planet can't die. But the people and animals on it can. But I have a feeling you knew what I meant and are just being deliberately obtuse.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
>Also, "climate catastrophe" is not a thing. It takes a deep ideological commitment to close ones eyes to the reality in front of us. Our planet is literally dying. The oceans are boiling [0], marine life is dying [1]. Land c
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by vrganj 4mo ago
Heh sure, it's great at optimizing. The problem is it's an optimizing function for the rich getting richer, not for the good of society, not for reducing human suffering, not even, y'know, the survival of the human race.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
You gotta optimize everything for the market man! It's magic! Everything will work out if we only make number go up! Who cares about silly stuff like health emergencies, the climate catastrophe or war. Number must go up!
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by vrganj 4mo ago
Indeed. It is true. However, it's not exactly helping if the other side of the pond burns gas turbines to power their AI dreams and tells us to "just get AC bro". AC does make the problem worse, the issue is just that climate
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by vrganj 4mo ago
Their walls are autoclaved aerated concrete, which is pretty good at both insulating (so less cooling needed) and absorbing/diffusing humidity, so I think in their case it's fine. It's a pretty cool material!
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by vrganj 4mo ago
It also works in homes with wall heating. My parents now have wall cooling, which is much nicer than any forced air AC.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
It's mostly about the perception that AC is a band-aid that doesn't just stall fixing the root cause of climate change caused by excessive energy consumption, but actively makes it worse.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
I'm not sure what you mean. I have not accused you of being any of those things, please make sure to read messages you respond to carefully before deflecting to outrage. Those "citizen journalists" threatening "those in
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by vrganj 4mo ago
> It is precisely on Facebook and Instagram where you find the only popular movements against the current order in Europe, and the citizen journalists who expose and scrutinize the powers. It's a giant political threat towards thos
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by vrganj 4mo ago
The EU is an institution that is democratically legitimized at every level (Either through direct elections in the parliament or through elections to the appropriate national government in the case of the Council / Commission). Sure, i
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Investigation Reveals Deep Military Cooperation Between Russia and China(spiegel.de)
3 points by vrganj 4mo ago|3 comments
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by vrganj 4mo ago
https://archive.ph/AMIxX
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by vrganj 4mo ago
> - Creation of new jobs, continuing reforms and investment in education, lifelong learning, and employment to create opportunities for everyone - Avoidance of protectionism, and coordination of fiscal and monetary policies - - Making Eu
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by vrganj 4mo ago
What are you even saying? As a leftist, I want nothing to do with those fascists.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
Indeed. The vote, however, was about stopping Chat Control. The key term is "derogation" in the title. A "yes" vote was a vote against Chat Control. It failed because it needed an absolute majority of 361/) vote
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by vrganj 4mo ago
I mean sure, but there's no meaningful commie contingent in the EU. The war on privacy at the EU level always comes from conservatives.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
I think they mean local scanning for CSAM - which feels like a reasonable solution that preserves privacy, but still addresses the real problem of, y'know, child abuse?
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by vrganj 4mo ago
Brought to you - as always - by the Conservatives. Conservatism is just fascism with a slightly nicer image.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
The EU was never just a trade union.
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Hungary's Public Broadcaster Goes Dark, Confessing 'Years of Lies'(balkaninsight.com)
7 points by vrganj 4mo ago|0 comments
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Facebook takes no action on AI far-right influence campaign flagged a month ago(independent.co.uk)
7 points by vrganj 4mo ago|0 comments
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by vrganj 4mo ago
It's been regulated "to death" because it's responsible for some of the worst man-made catastrophes of all time and has made large swaths of land uninhabitable for ~forever. Move fast and break things this is not.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
Man, the paranoid ramblings every time the EU gets mentioned here really are something else...
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by vrganj 4mo ago
Boy, do I have news for you: https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/model3/en_us/GUID-EDAD116...
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by vrganj 4mo ago
I've moved countries 5 times in my life. I still haven't been able to fully degoogle.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
I think ideally, one would nip those fascist movements in the bud before they become big enough to be problematic. There's a phrase in German antifascism - "Wehret den Anfängen!", translating to "resist the beginnings&qu

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