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Why is defence of it insane? The article makes a good point re: state guests and needing to erect tents to accommodate them.

Genuinely curious

Don’t care, use Linux.

It’s the ethical choice.

Don’t put yourself in the learned helplessness box

It happened more than once. Charles, Lewis, Lando, wtf is wrong with fans at the Mexico GP?

Yes, but the EU is currently a US vassal and surprisingly weak as a driver of any geopolitical decision.

I wish the EU would have closer relations with the PRC as a balance to being screwed over by the US

Unfortunately such a system doesn’t exist. Britain used to be hegemon before world war 2, then the US, and soon the PRC.

I’m not part of the imperial core (US), so I’d rather deal with Beijing than Washington in foreign affairs.

Unfortunately, my country already has all those discriminations, so the only thing that would change for me is dealing with a more cooperative rather than extractive “pole”

Nah, I think he’s just bad at these tracks, from his 2024 results:

• United States: P5
• Mexico: P8
• Brazil: P8
• Las Vegas: P7
• Qatar: P3
• Abu Dhabi: P10

It’s more likely that AI will become a middle, or upper manager than a floor worker.

Humans are still very cheap to work with, especially if you gut worker protections

China is orders of magnitude more of a force for good than the US is.

China becoming hegemon would unironically be amazing for humanity

That was… hard to watch. Piastri down in 8th… oooh

That’s basically every westerner passing judgement about China, so I’ll take it that his artistic message punched through

Depends on the country, of course there were politicians that disagreed on principle, but the voting on the issue wasn’t done by MEPs , if it’s MEPs you messaged

Broke nation sells out national security… more at 11

The rejection of the bill wasn’t on principle, but technicalities, if you look at most countries that opposed, the bill will be back with edits, Denmark is already aiming for December

The rejection of the bill wasn’t on principle, but technicalities, the bill will be back with edits, Denmark is already aiming for December

Germany used to send their car manufacturers to China to do knowledge transfer, they’d surely benefit from some reverse knowledge transfer from the Chinese these days.

What’s the point of being able to criticise someone publicly, if nothing’s going to change to your material conditions? Sounds like yelling at clouds: feels good, but doesn’t achieve much

The demands from this admin are meant to specifically crush the spirit of the EU.

deregulate your car legislation and tear up your pedestrian friendly capitals

deregulate your food safety laws, and allow cheap US slop to destroy the traditional EU food scene (no more gruyère, you’re gonna have Cheez Whiz)

deregulate your green sector, time to pump those pollution numbers up

Milei did it, he managed to turn lazy socialists into savvy entrepreneurs /s

What Trump is doing makes a lot of sense. It’s just standard iconoclasm.

Authoritarian regimes routinely destroy historical monuments to erase a past they oppose, promote their own ideology, and control national identity.

I can see that, tbf, thanks for the explanation