Instead of “by 2027”, they could just as well say “never” though.
Maybe a little harsh, but I still find solving the issue within 2 years time a little unambitious, especially given the unhelpful regime change in the US (as well as the unhelpful regime changes that are likely in the near future within the EU).
You’re not totally wrong. I still think a little more time would have been necessary, say 6 months. But at that point in time, we should have made sure to cut every major connection, oil/gas/nuclear/steel/wood and to redistribute Russian foreign assets. We could have used the multiple GWp of Chinese solar panels stranded in European ports to quickly reduce dependence on gas in spring/summer/fall. We could have announced major investment in wind/solar/heat pumps.
Instead, we got the half measures you mentioned, assets only frozen, Russian LNG and tanker oil somehow still flowing freely, but with new middlepeople getting a cut and EdF keeping its mortal dependence on a Russian nuclear supply chain. And we got almost no new green investment.
Gaia X is basically compromised by AWS and Azure at this point…
That’s a bunch of nonsense.
No no, I am sure they criticize all genders equally. (What the wording?!)
Because it would have meant a massive economic turndown and within weeks any popular support for Ukraine would have vanished.
The subtext to “don’t be vassals” is a hearty “fuck off”. And that’s basically all he meant to say, I suspect. And tbh, I am starting to question whether his advice of forging a European path is actually good, given who it’s coming from. Otoh, there is an angle from which European armament could be profitable to him, and that is US arms sales.
Bush could have done it without the UK and Poland. Not that their support didn’t matter at all, but I don’t think they could have prevented that war.
Sanctions against the US could have been a good idea, except it basically would have meant destroying NATO.
It’s quite explicitly a phone for people who are either ideologically behind the project, aren’t afraid of tinkering, and have a bunch of disposable income.
You do realize that the Librem 5 has been out since … checks Wikipedia … September honking 2019.
Doesn’t have anything to do with Linux–software and hardware development are immensely expensive. Software usually being free and hardware cheap has everything to do with scale and easy replication.
Unlike most everyone else, Purism is trying the organic-funding model rather than the VC unicorn sellout rollercoaster. I use a phone with Calyx which is free but the only reason it can be free, is free is that Google is doing 99% of the work. Purism is bringing Gnome to a phone, so they only get 95% for free which completely tips off the balance. (The numbers are invented but they’re only here for illustrative purposes anyway.)
None of this is to say that I would ever buy their phone because for all intensive purposes, it sucks.
Our new chancellor is a Blackrock board member
“used to be” not “is”!
Sure, it’d be great if he’d never been on that board but otoh, at least he does not have an outright conflict of interest right now.
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He was indeed not completely consistent, but he never mentioned a 900bn€ package to sidestep the debt brake. He dithered between “absolutely no changes, the others are idiots and I will solve this with my superior instinct for economics and cutting social systems” and “maybe loosen it up a little bit but continued austerity is the goal.”
I was trying to find a rationale. Not saying it’s a good rationale. Or the most likely one. Or the only one.
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Just a theory: Frankfurt has big AWS data centers, Munich has big Google and MS development locations, I’m sure there’s more. You wouldn’t want to endanger those locations and jobs, right?
Now I see. What I meant was (as Wikipedia helpfully translates) “hastening the apocalypse”.
Wikipedia also helpfully includes a paragraph that explains where I know the expression from:
In Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson’s fictional The Illuminatus! Trilogy, the evil scheme uncovered late in the tale is an attempt to immanentize the eschaton, a secret scheme of the American Medical Association, an evil rock band, to bring about a mass human sacrifice, the purpose of which is the release of enough “life-energy” to give eternal life to a select group of initiates, including Adolf Hitler.
You may notice that there’s a plotline similarity here between the book and the US under Vance’s/Thiel’s accelerationism ideology as well the Silicon Valley obsession with eternal life.
So you’re saying it’s a response to the meme itself? If so, I am puzzled as to what it’s supposed to mean.
Corruption is a good way to kill overall morale though.