Good advice, that I would definitely recommend in a place like Germany. But still: First rule of Usenet is to not talk about the Usenet. :D

I really got allergic to sensationalist headlines like this. “X goes nuclear and destroys Y”. I’m refusing to click on stuff like that…

Reciting every day in school how great your country is, is peak brainwashing to me. When I learned about that, it was so weird to me.

Only a good guy with a car can stop a bad guy with a car though. Also if everyone in a crowd had a car, stuff like this wouldn’t be possible.

/s for the people in the back

Europa Universalis V confirmed?

Any bets that it will take less than 90 days before we get the next tariff circus?

To avoid a kindergarten infinity+1 problem, one side should just explicitly ban all trade at some point and not just do it implicitly by bringing tariffs to the moon. 🤷‍♂️

I hate this timeline

But, you know, Trump is always right! What does backtrack even mean? /s obviously 😵

I’m optimistic that it will happen eventually. The EU generally is moving with stuff like this, even though it is slow as fuck. But well, let’s see, not promising anything…

Agree. That is such an america centric view. Why would italians give enough fucks about DOGE to burn a Tesla store about it. Being a Nazi is what is our primary issue with Musk here in Europe.

Or people not in uniform seemingly. Easiest time ever to actually kidnap people: Get your thugs together, get a van, kidnap your target person from the street, while yelling “shut up, we are the police”. Outcome is essentially the same

Also they might just deport you to some concentration camp in El Salvador for having the wrong tattoo and who knows if you can get out of there ever again. I wouldn’t trust anyone saying “they would never do that to tourists” at this point.

Well, you won’t see me entering the US anytime soon.

Article 7 now! How much more “breaching of EU values” we need to see for something to be done? 😐

I hope not, but now Slovakia might jump in instead though.

Article 7 exists. It allows to suspend voting rights of a member state, if all other members vote for that. So far the EU is hesitant to use it, but as I see it, it is about damn time.

Fair enough. But maybe there were also people that were brought in by Google, that actually stayed after Google left again? Well, I guess it’s hard to say 🤷‍♂️

Every time someone brings up xmpp and how Google extinguished it, I wonder if xmpp afterwards was somehow worse of than they would have been if Google never had embraced it. I don’t know, but my gut feeling would be that Google mostly just extinguished whatever they brought in in the first place and in that case EEE would be harmless. Am I wrong? If so, please explain.

lol, this guy…

Buy the dip 😊