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I’m not a gamer, but gamers have my entire support. That industry, like so many others, needs to be reminded they’re not supposed to be making the rules.

Hmmm analog nudes and porno

• With another person(s), that would actually be called having a sexual relationship :P
• With pictures, well, if I recall correctly one has found erotic paintings in Pompeii (destroyed in 75 AD). So, yeah, pornography or at the very least eroticism is kinda older than your average youporn clip watched on a phone ;)

Not as old as Pompeii, not by much some could say, people used to read erotic magazines when I was kid (I knew where my dad kept his hidden) and used to watch video tapes which were like the modern youporn but offline, without ads, without tracking and without any need to use a VPN or to be able to prove your age…

I agree and sincerely hope so.

But pessimistic me also can see them decide the EU is too much of a pain, which it indeed is, and that they could make as much if not more money with their new ‘best allies/customers/friends’ (which happen to also have a lot of money, like the EU, if not more) in those somewhat less democratic countries with a lot less rules… And who would care about democracy as it’s obviously its way out, in the USA as every where else.

I hate our government so much

Hate is of little help, I’m afraid.

The question would rather be how such a sad situation could happen? Alas, I fear answering to that question may not be as pleasing as blaming one guy, no matter how poorly educated and ill-mannered he is, or even a group of people (and btw, not just in the USA many Western countries are playing a very similar sick game). And trying to fix that will take a lot more work, and a lot more time too, than just putting someone else in charge.

Probably because, I’m not a fan of using highlighters

Easy: make your data offline. Or even better, analog.

But the USA would never do that!

They only play by the rules, and they’re the nice guys. Not the kind that would suddenly tell their partners they could go funk themselves because they changed the deal and that we should pray they don’t alter it any further.

They would not.

Not enough to compensate for the coming war(s), I’m afraid :/

EU leaders to discuss measures aimed at making single currency more attractive on global markets

Simple, one just need to follow the USA, step by step:

1. Tell all other countries you altered all the deals you had with all of them. Tell them they now must spend a lot more of their money to buy your stuff, while you will buy a lot less of theirs. Tell them you will also dictate them what their laws and regulations should be like because fuck them.
2. Require them to also arm themselves and stop relying on your own armed forces like you asked them to do for the last 80 years or so, because you suddenly decided that was a shit deal. But don’t let them buy any weapons of their choice, nope, tell them they must buy your weapons, those you have the hand over the ‘off-switch’ just in case the suckers would one day decide to fight against you.
3. Shame/ridicule/insult and threaten anyone disagreeing with you. Insist on shaming and insulting and threatening your closest allies even more so than your lifelong enemies, as that will teach them the trustworthy and reliable partner you’re.
4. And if that’s not enough, well, there is still the possibility to kick their fucking stupid foreigner ass with your big manly bombs that no one as one as big as yours and fuck you all, losers.

Sure, that’s hastily summarized but I would say it remains quite true to the much more subtle original.

No doubt the orange clown will sign an executive order making it mandatory for anyone on the planet to send money to the US (not for us to go there, they just want our money not us), otherwise they will bomb their home.

a “symptom” of a larger erosion of trust between the United States and Europe.

Erosion?That’s no erosion, which would be a slow natural process.

What happened is that Trump, in his usual delicate manner, put a bullet in the head of the US alliance with the EU.

And then, even it’s not been officially acted yet, they also put a bullet in the head of NATO too. One just need to listen to mr Vance first Munich speech as vice-president. Sure, unlike his boss, mr Vance is not an illiterate pig, quite the contrary he is one of the smartest and brightest politician I can think of, but the message was still crystal clear: we the EU are on our own.

And then, seeing how Trump is willing to use ‘his’ economical power and ‘his’ armed forces to play bully against any country he disagrees with or that doesn’t play along the US rules or doesn’t pay the USA enough for his ‘protection’ (like some shitty gangster racketing local shop owners, in an Hollywood movie), I have little doubt what the USA would be willing to do to the EU (and to its too many rules and regulations) if they were given the opportunity. POTUS himself explained to the world we Europeans only exist to “screw America”.

If that doesn’t say it all about the state of any alliance between us I don’t know what will.

And that’s not just Trump being Trump. I mean, US people elected this clown twice meaning that’s the kind of leadership they want to follow. Why keep on pretending the dude is merely an accident and that thing will get back to ‘normal’ after him? Normality is Trump-like. When mr Vance will become the next President he will obviously be (a lot) less illiterate and (a lot) less dumb than Trump is, but he certainly will not make us an ally again. They don’t give a crap, that’s their policy.

It’s rarely a good idea to elect an hateful angry monkey as a leader, we can all agree on that but can we also all agree that the issue is never the monkey itself but the people deciding to put it in charge. And those people,they don’t seem to me that much willing to change for the better, I’m afraid. Hate and violence seem to be the only plate on their menu, it’s just the color of the name on the menu that’s different.

The USA has made quite a few dumb decisions since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Decisions that mostly managed to strengthen their true enemies and rivals while weakening their rare real allies. This is just one more decision like that, but a huge one.

The real info would be 721 million divided between 281 researchers (less than 3 million each).

Personally, I’d rather see that nice 700 million budget be used to focus on a handful of selected priority projects (I don’t care of they’re senior or junior researchers) but that’s just me and since I don’t have 700 millions I probably do not know what I’m talking about.

Also, being the EU, my very naive idea would then raise the question: what are the selection criteria and who is to decide? And since it’s the EU that would lead to the creation of a commission that would study the criteria to use and who to ask, and then to a new commission studying the result of that first commission, and then a new commission deciding of it’s worth using those results validated by the first two commissions because of the public perception that day, and so on and, suddenly, we’re already 25 years late.

But, I insist, I have no idea what I’m talking about ;)

The war in Ukraine revealed our energy dependencies, and now we see there are also digital dependencies."

Better late than never.

Thinking about it, no matter how odd, it looks to me like the EU (and FLOSS) will have to send a warm thank you note to Trump ;)

I’m using them and I will keep an eye on that as I’d need more than one opinion article to consider it’s time to leave them.

The thing I’m really concerned with is not Infomaniak or any other corporation (I would not like to see any corporation decide they they have a right to raise above the law). My issue is with the men and women writing and voting that law.