Lot of talk about data, deregulation, and ai. I think more trade involves selling welfare records of various kinds to tech companies.

Why does the title of the source imoly the opposite, that they are looking to lower the dependency on cloud services.

But that is not the title of the article, and the omni summary appears correct. Very strange

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So hard to know if a company is European… But I have four pairs of Pierre Cardin jeans, and will buy two more. By far the comfiest jeans I have ever had. I have to buy sizes for the German market as the Swedish sizes don’t fit well, but those are great.

Very much so. Just the other week or so their party leader had a – probably completely made up – “dream” he spoke openly about, in which he was chased by some insanely racist caricature of a muslim. The reaction was just “haha, quirky”, from basically everyone. That racism is so open and accepted now.

The far-right party here has a youtube channel, and they make videos about how every single person with two foreign born parents do not belong, as well as half of everyone with a single foreign born parent. They are a party started by neo-nazis and an actual SS nazi. The current government is working with them to establish these policies. One of the ministers have an active neo-nazi son, and that is simply accepted. It is horrific what these monsters are doing.

And I think youtube is possible thanks to ffmpeg. Alphabet is a search engine, if even that, without open source.

Ah, yes, the famous absense of economic growth from open source projects! We all know about the open source failures such as linux which checks notes… powers virtually every data center and super computer in the world. Hm, anyone know if all of todays technological infrastructure contributes to economic growth, or nah?

To an enormous extent are todays data centers, cloud providers, and all the techology the whole world use today based on open source. Without linux, curl, ffmpeg, and so on nothing in todays high tech society would work. Google, as it is today, would not exist if it was for all the open source they leech of.

The European Union’s mutual defence clause, Article 42.7 of the European treaty, leaves the decision over what assistance each EU country provides up to national capitals. However, some EU politicians have recently pushed to define more precisely what Europe’s defence clause would mean if it were triggered.

This should have been done when Russia invaded Ukraine. The Swedish PM at the time mentioned casually that this clause existed, because they had not yet shifted to join NATO yet. At that point EU should have made it clear with how they all interpret that clause. Sweden and Finland should have pushed for the EU coming togehter on this.

The Swedish PM has connections to american oil lobby, his wife runs a lobbyist resort, he has been meeting with Theil, and so on. Yeah, I get it, he wants the green the US can offer him.

The man pictured has a son that is an active neo-nazi active club member.

I hope Sweden and more Erupoean contries does the same

Then migration will take years if they already are established in US cloud services

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sPzJjNQaYEA

I never used Windows Vista, but now that that look is back and I’m forced to use mac, I feel like I dodged a bullet and it ricoched back right in my eyes.

Some NATO contries have agreements with the US on how to handle service members, not sure if all of ICE/DHS falls under that, but it is there to keep US personel at military bases safe from their own actions and the target contries laws. The US pinky promises in the agreements to prosecute the persons under US law if the country just hands them over with no fuss. Under current conditions in the US, I take that to mean that US service members can commit any crime in any nation with such an agreement without any consquences.

On top of that there is the ‘invade the Hague act’, but that is just for war crimes.

And I don’t think any EU country have the death penalty (even “life” generally means like <20 years).

Does Italy have the same agreement with the US like Sweden does where, at least soldiers, are allowed to commit unlimited crimes in their country because the US “promise to totally” charge them back home? Then letting ICE in is asking for trouble.

An American movie or TV show I would probably have the same level of understanding as my native language, even on references, puns, etc… English from any other nation, not to the same degree, but I’d say comparable to an american. Speaking I would say I would be quite far off. I’d say I speak a sort of “Erasmus English”, meaning I have almost exclusively had conversations with Europeans, none of which native to english. That means we borrow words which may be common to us, but not english, or accidentally apply our native grammatical rules to english.

Still, huh? Yeah, that is why I stopped using it too.