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Merkel, as Varoufakis put it, sending your failed minister to Brussels is a good choice because “In Brussels, you can’t hear them scream”

Don’t care, use Linux.

It’s the ethical choice.

Don’t put yourself in the learned helplessness box

That’s basically every westerner passing judgement about China, so I’ll take it that his artistic message punched through

Broke nation sells out national security… more at 11

The demands from this admin are meant to specifically crush the spirit of the EU.

deregulate your car legislation and tear up your pedestrian friendly capitals

deregulate your food safety laws, and allow cheap US slop to destroy the traditional EU food scene (no more gruyère, you’re gonna have Cheez Whiz)

deregulate your green sector, time to pump those pollution numbers up

We can be as ideologically similar, policy-wise, we’re an obedient dog with a masochism kink.

“Yes daddy Trump, we’ll take all your child killer gas guzzlers and destroy our urban planning for more car friendly cities. What’s that? Yes sure we’ll also take a 15% tariff, and we’ll do it with a smile”

Meta returning to their roots it seems

It has a lot to do with the article, because of our superiority complex and literally EU politicians saying “we don’t need China, China needs us more than we need them”.

Dealing with China would’ve been a good counterbalance against being screwed over by the US tariff wise.

However, now we have to open up our markets to American cars and ractopamine pork from the US (yes, the deal also includes deregulating EU food safety standards).

Our gloating is literally destroying our standards of life

I live in Europe, I also prefer Euro grass. I just want us to stop thinking we’re the shit, when we’re actually shit and no one cares about the EU because nothing worthwhile comes from this continent atm

The name is literally a generated Docker container name, anyways, I’m European.

What propaganda? That China is by all means, the world’s largest manufacturer, and pushing the envelope in terms of Military Industrial innovations, STEM graduates per capita, etc?

I go to China for work regularly, besides people looking to model France’s ability to get people to fall in love with its brands, no one there cares about the EU, because they see it as worthless and stuck.

Jewish exceptionalism is requiring that your hooligans be granted exceptions not normally granted to other hooligans who exhibit antisocial and rioting behaviour, lest you get labelled antisemitic.

Btw, Israeli police recently banned Maccabi fans from attending games in Tel Aviv specifically for disturbing public safety and rioting.

I hate Western European exceptionalism and smugness.

The EU has been a struggling empty shell of an economic project, with no vision, no progress.

EU politicians should 閉嘴 (shut up), be humble, and learn from China.

The EU should be humble for once and learn how to do manufacturing from the Chinese.

Ignoring China as a world player is naive

The asylum system in Europe is broken, and it’s being exploited by state actors to sow discord in the EU (Wagner actively supports migration paths from the Suhel and other areas it operates in to Tunisia, for example).

You can’t have a welfare state and an open door asylum policy.

I love how the UK today is basically: “give us more surveillance powers so we don’t do anything about it… unless you’re a dissident”

When you accept and reframe the situation from the POV that the EU is an American vassal, everything will click into place.

God forbid we align closer with China and create a Eurasian pole of power /s

I think most companies don’t have a three nines SLA with their customers, yet were sold the idea that cloud (… and then serverless) should be the right decision for them.

When the initial cloud migration happened I’ve seen a handful of startups and scale-ups go bankrupt doing lift and shift

Don’t get me wrong, I agree with what you’re saying, my point is more towards the tribal consensus that was built in the tech community around 2016-2018 that the cloud is the future, for everyone, and that managing your own infrastructure is being a brute

I was going to reference this Medium article on how paying extra for “uptime” and reliability isn’t just a 50-100% premium, but many times a 7-8 figure premium. These figures are make or break a business model type figures.

The irony is that Medium, a site hosting mostly static content, is still down due to the AWS outage.

pay a premium for the same amount of CPU & RAM you could’ve gotten from your classic VPS provider fire your sysadmins and hire DevOps Engineers at 2x the salary raise a ticket with AWS and wait every time you need more than 5 instances of the same compute type oops, our biggest DC got knocked offline, here’s some compute time credits

the cloud has been the biggest scam in tech history

I’m finally migrating from iCloud Photos to Immich next weekend. I finally have my NAS setup going