You don’t need to subsidize EU industry at the taxpayers expense to achieve economic independence. Refusing cheaper goods for arbitrary reasons just makes EU look stupid. The key is to buy on your own terms under which you never give foreign nation control over you.

Look at France. Their whole country is built on sovereign independence in critical areas. They achieved it buy building their own industry, while taking goods deals from other countries, not by refusing them and making their own people lives harder.

What EU should really do is accept the cheap solar panels from China but under their own terms. No remote access data, storage in EU only, and enforce EU legal jurisdiction for all disputes. China needs a market, they will accept those conditions. It would be huge win/win for both sides.

Moving away from cheap goods to protect non-existing industry doesn’t makes any sense, but that’s what corporate “centrism” gets you in the EU. Buy cheap while you build your own industry and then when you reach competitive state you can change the terms.

Alternative is special interest groups decides for you. Even if I disagree with the majority of people, at least it’s people deciding. And if we are unhappy about stupid people, it’s on us to change that.

The code is owned by a nonprofit foundation, but a lot of the assets and other compnies like an ad agency is owned by their for profit wing.

Most of those forks rely on Firefox upstream updates. Apart from some of their specific features and disabling of existing ones, they don’t develop the actual Gecko engine. We would really need someone with resources to take over the development.

It’s unnexpected, but direct democracy is cool.

In April, one day before Nintendo’s Switch 2 presentation, Nintendo alleges that Genki mass-emailed its marketing list and posted on social media that it would hold its own “Direct” presentation, which Nintendo contests is a blatant infringement of its own Nintendo Direct branding.

Fuck off with trying trademark common use words…

https://www.404media.co/mike-waltz-accidentally-reveals-obscure-app-the-government-is-using-to-archive-signal-messages/

You actually can’t if you are already on record. Only the judge can dismiss you for cause.

That’s one way to get rid of an annoying client…

He’s not wrong. Even more, with them worshiping at the king Trump altar they will even be able to buyout all the competitors that were hurt by these tariffs (no regulators to stop them) and make their monopoly even stronger.

We would be really struggling to stay alive pay ourselves millions in salaries.

Deal is DOA. Trump doesn’t want a deal, in his own words he hates EU because he thinks it was created to hurt US.

Fascists defends fascists? What a surprise…

Israel expands demolitions ethnic cleansing of West Bank refugee homes.

Good to see. CryptPad has been go to for collaborative docs for years now.

Mastodon has taken the strategic decision not to accept venture capital investments for growth <…>

I really don’t like the framing of this. It really sounds like an accusation the the users for not accepting this.

Despite their debt crisis in 2008 they did recover. Their 2024 GDP was ~€240€ billion.

Did you ask school teachers if they want to be armed?

It’s good alongside F-Droid, doesn’t really work as a complete replacement.

It’s hard to pin down what she actually believes in, but if I had to guess she was forced to take those strategists on and their policies to maintain access to the funding that came from Biden.

Even if she didn’t believe in many of the popular policies she mentioned in the early days, I think she had okay instincts, but was too afraid to go against the whole Democratic machine.

Being a strategist is a business and they get paid no matter if they win or lose, so their interest lie in protecting that business model inside the aparatus.

P.S. Nowhere did I defend the Harris or her loosing strategy. I just pointed out factual mistake.