In Europe, not having a car generally is perfectly fine

In cities.

For those living in the countryside, not really, as distances are huge and public transport is rare (think a single bus that stops at a bus station a km or two away and passes maybe once every 2h) or non-existent.

That said, over 70% of people in Europe live in urban areas.

By now, given the whole purposeful mass killing of civilians by Starvation, it’s probably at the level of a Holocaust.

At least Doctor Who would’ve been able to go back in time and return with the nurse just after they left.

Probably had a psychologist trained in PTSD available to provide support if needed.

The position “I don’t care about factions, group, tribes or whatever other fucked up up of reducing humans to labels, what I care about is innocent people being made to suffer” is surprisingly badly taken at times even around here.

I’ve had my posts swamped by downvotes at least once by saying “I not pro-Palestine, I’m pro-People” as if I have to favor factions rather than, you know, being against the victimization of people who did nothing to deserve it quite independently of whatever label they’re tagged with.

Even people whose heart is in the right place nowadays seem to come at it from a “chose a faction” angle rather than from a Principled Humanist one.

It’s way easier to manipulate people who support factions (just look at how the Zionists weaponized the support for the Jewish People) than it is to manipulate people who see things based on principles like “people who do no harm to others shouldn’t be harmed” as the latter will judge actions based on their merits alone, not on the labels of the people involved.

And yet the Republic Of Ireland isn’t at all aligned with Britain in this.

Not that I disagree with you, more that I think that there’s more than just that.

I lived in a couple of places in Europe, Southern, Northern and also over a decade in Britain.

IMHO, Britain has is very own cultural twists that make a certain kind of posh authoritarianism much more likely there: an incredibly entrenched dynastic elite (Britain has, I believe, the lowest social mobility in Europe) with a ton of structures to make sure it will always be so (the “public” schools -> Oxbridge -> daddy’s friend’s company “internship” path that makes sure the scions of the elites remain in that class, the Judiciary being almost entirelly in the hands of “public” school graduates even though they’re only 11% of population which gets reflected in quite different legal outcomes depending on one’s class, the The “Honors” System, the Lords with its inherited positions, and more).

This elite has its own sub-culture (even including its own accent) which amongst other things is big on fakeness and very anti-empathy (I’ve personally known a handful of people from that section of society) and meanwhile the other end of society is also quirky as fuck, in a different way (amongst other things more violent and prejudiced than in other countries I lived in, hence things like the Hooliganism phenomenon).

Then there are weird cultural postures than transverse society such as how people’s approach to their position in the social ladder is to focus on keeping those below them where the are, rather than try and climb it themselves, plus there is a general tendency to worry too much (IMHO) about keeping up appearences (to “look right” rather than “be good”) though it’s worse the higher up the social ladder one is (working class are the most genuine, middle class tend to be pretty fake, upper class live their entire lives behind a façade - hence the whole “posh” thing).

Mind you, in my experience this mostly applies to the English and those from other nations are less like that, especially the Scotts.

(I fully support the idea of an Independent Scotland in the EU)

Anyways, my point is that Britain has it’s own set of wierd quirks, which mixed with the shit imported from the US (IMHO, Brits seem to in the last couple of decades somehow have combined the worst of both cultures rather than the best) yields this “Rocketship to Posh Fascism” effect.

I am really, really happy that Britain left the EU.

Sorry to any sane Brits, but the “ever more nuttier” European country not having any voting power in the EU, much less a veto, is a great thing.

Mind you, lots of countries over here might end up like that, but Britain seems to be a decade ahead of the rest in that specific kind of shit show and it and the US might very well serve as a warning for the locals on this side of the Channel not to go down that route (just like the example of Brexit itself crushed any ideas about Leave Referendums in the rest of the EU).

Zero surprise.

This is the guy who is having old ladies arrested as terrorists for demonstrating against a mass murdering of children which he himself actively supports.

People who are so strongly in favor of child mass murder aren’t going to care about children getting raped.

Starmer seems to actually be beating Boris Johnson is the “how low will you go”-scale, which is incredible given that Boris is extraordinarily amoral and a complete total hypocrite wanker.

Translation: “We vote for you to stop resisting and Israel letting you have a land piece of land with a size and location of their choosing which we will call ‘Palestine’ and also decide when you’ll get it, and by the way we’re doing nothing at all to force them to even do that so after you stop resisting you have no guarantees they won’t just exterminate you all”

Small country, big hearth?!

It’s only ever the European far-right, it’s not even all of them and most of the ones which are influenced by America are pretty selective about what they take in because most of that shit in Europe is seen as seriously retarded shit even amongst the far-right here (for example, religiousity doesn’t land well nowadays unless you’re talking about really backwards places like Hungary, outside maybe the UK, nobody gives a shit about the ideas of the transphobes and there is zero support for the kind of gun ownership laws the US has).

Sure, some shit does leak, but the fully packaged message from people like Charlie Kirk would just not work anywhere around here.

My bet it that it was a handful of total unknowns amongst the European Far-Right who maybe get money from American sources (some European Far-Right parties were created with the money Bannon brought some years ago very openly to “create far-right parties in Europe” and I would be surprised if certain American interests had stopped buying such politicians in Europe) that suggested this and the others just went along with it.

When it, naturally, failed miserably to gain traction beyond that handful of obscure politicians, the newspaper owned by Germany’s very own Murdoch-clone then described the reaction to that refusal by the overwhelming majority of the EU parliament to do it, as an “Uproar”

Proton is integrated with the Steam app in Linux, so usually you just install the game and then run it from Steam and it just works in Linux even though it’s a Windows game, without you having to know anything about Proton.

Similarly you can use something like Lutris or Heroic which does the same for Wine and game stores like GOG (it’s even integrated with the store and downloads the game for you, same as the Steam app does for the Steam store).

For some games you might have to learn enough to tweak settings, though for Steam and Proton that’s often just changing the Proton version you’re using for a game in its game launch settings in Steam, which is hardly complicated.

The need to really understand what’s under the hood is generally only when leaving these standard paths: for example if you’re trying to run a pirated version of a game (which might even be for perfectly legit reasons: for example one of my Steam games won’t run in Linux no matter what I do, but the pirated version works fine, probably because of the DRM in the official version) or some old obscure game CD you have around, as the scripts in Steam, Lutris or Heroic that silently configure Proton/Wine correctly for a game might not at all exist for those unofficial or older installers.

It’s almost as if they shamelessly lie…

It’s funny that what looks like a whole Hasbara team has descended on this, including an account used to moderate a very large lemmy.world forum.

Really shows that this kind of thing really worries the Genociders.

It makes sense - evildoers are fine if they can hide behind Country or Organisation because it lets them evade personal consequences for their actions, but when they personally, as individiuals, with no hidding behind some responsibility diffusing entity, suffer consequences for their own participation in the evildoing, it’s a whole different story.

You actually see their fear of their collective cloak being torn down in some of the very “arguments” they’re using here, such as how Israelis should not be held accountable for the actions of Israel (even those who refuse to simply say “I do not support the Genocide in Gaza”), which is exactly about maintaining the nation working as a responsability diffusing cover.

This tells me we need many more actions like this one in Belgium - make accountable the individuals mass murdering Palestinians or supporting that mass murder.

It’s not the AIs which are crap, its what they’ve been sold as capable of doing and the reliability of their results that’s massivelly disconnected from reality.

The crap is what a most of the Tech Investor class has pushed to the public about AI.

It’s thus not at all surprising that many who work or manage work in areas were precision and correctness is essential have been deceived into thinking AI can do much of the work for them and it turns out AI can’t really do it because of those precision and correctness requirement that it simply cannot achieve.

This will hit more those people who are not Tech experts, such as Lawyers, but even some supposedly Tech experts (such as some programmers) have been swindled in this way.

There are many great uses for AI, especially stuff other than LLMs, in areas where false positives or false negatives are no big deal, but that’s not were the Make Money Fast slimy salesmen push for them is.

“This is the technology worth trillions of dollars”

You can make anything fly high in the sky with enough helium, just not for long.

(Welcome to the present day Tech Stock Market)

More specifically my point is that most Western societies have by now better values than Israel.

There’s a lot of West in the West and most Western countries do seem to have evolved beyond the values they had back when pretty much all of them though that white colonialists had a right to take whatever land they wanted anywhere they wanted and if the “savages” in those lands were “violent” then any and all means to suppress them were valid.

Note that I’m not saying that most of the West has actual Humanist values (as you well point out, they don’t, or at least the elites holding most of the power in the West don’t), what I’m saying is that the values in most of the West are beyond the white-colonialist (and even NAZI-like) values that Israel has, especially amongst the broader population.

You will notice that most of the public opinion in Europe is by now against the Genocide by a large majority (the Politicians, on the other hand, are still their usual sociopathic selves, at best being “pragmatic” about it since the US supports Israel which means at the very least refusing to act in any way form or shape against Israel and its interests). Compare this to how in Israel over 80% of the population is in favor of the Genocide.

I would say that a better segmentation would separate the US from the rest of the West and then the elites from the broader population, as all the resulting 4 segments seem to have quite different moral views on this subject from each other (that does mean that I think the majority of Americans have different moral values than the majority of Europeans).

It’s a supposedly Democratic nation, so unless it has been totally controlled by a very tight elite for 8 decades, the project’s “britishness” has long been diluted by a society which is by now overwhelmingly composed of people with a totally different cultural background than British.

Even if that’s not the case, the British culture back when that project started in the early 20th century (so, even before WWII) was as imperialist and racist with complete disregard for human life as Russia was at the time it was the greatest source for new Israeli nationals (mid 20th century and onwards) - remember that Britain itself commited several Genocides in their Empire, including one by none other than Churchill in India, and until the NAZIs invaded Poland the British elites loved the NAZI ideology.

In my experience with immigrants from my homeland, and looking at examples like the Afrikaners in South Africa (who are descendant of 17th century Dutch immigrants), little islands of the culture of a nation when detached from the “motherland” stop evolving alongside the culture of the “motherland”.

Absolutelly, the cultural values in such “islands” do evolve, just not in the same direction as those in the “motherland”.

Israel has, at best, late 19th Century Western European values heavilly influenced by mid 20th Century Russian values.

I supposed you could call it a Western Project in the Historical sense, but the idea that it still is a Western Project (as in, guided by Present Day Western values) is a lot harder to justify given that they’ve detached from it almost a century ago and almost all of the cultural influences it has incorporated in the last 8 decades aren’t those of the West.

It’s the campest mass distributed show on Earth.

Most present day Israelis come from or descended from people who came from, Russia, by a large margin, as shown here

Europe is the second or third area of origin (lots from Europe but also roughly the same from the Middle East - I couldn’t be arsed to add up the numbers from the various countries to figure out exactly which was highest).

If you consider Russia to be an European nation, then you are correct. Under that assumption, Russia would also be the most regressive nation of Europe, which explains a lot about Israel - Israel’s self-proclaimed “Western values” are the same as Russia, hence the imperialism, racism and complete total disregard for human life.