Authoritarianism is never passed through a bill overnight. It’s one step in the wrong direction after another, multiplied N times.

Can you give me an example, please? There are many authoritarian countries in the world. Can you tell me how they were created in many small steps?

It’s wasn’t a mistake. You got played. Corrupt politicians and activists canceled investment in nuclear to push Russian gas.

Israel got to kill some children and invade Lebanon. They used this fool to gain couple of smaller and bigger wins again. Nothing else matters here.

Either they just call it a day while publicly claiming victory, which in practice results in an Iranian victory,

That was the greatest victory US ever had. We won, and we won bigly. Iran leader was begging me not to kill him. Iranian children were hiding like dogs. Some people say we didn’t win but they are traitors and communists.

There’s an ongoing discussion in Poland about financing for defense. The government want’s the get EU funds to buy weapons but EU requires to source them from member countries. President claims that US weapons are better and that Poland should not use those funds but come up with some other, unspecified way to finance military expansion.

So if the President gets his way they may end up with no weapons at all…

Those are not mutually exclusive statements. One talks about gas reserves actually stored right now. If all gas supply gets cut off UK will run out of gas in 2 days. If gas supply drops they only have these reserves to help them offset this while they look for new sources.

The spokesperson says they have access to more supplies. This can mean they have ships and pipelines delivering them more gas all the time and that they have those supplies secured for more than two days. He says that sources this gas are diverse and that they are not worried about this being disrupted.

I mean at least the cars thing is pretty legitimately true.

Only in US. Many things are fucked up in US for many different reasons. People support it because of brainwashing. It’s not slipped trough without anyone noticing.

“Once everyone has a credit card they will ban cash so that every transaction can be tracked”

“Once every phone has GPS they will make it mandatory to send your location to the government at all times.”

“Once everyone has a car they will make walking illegal”

“Once everyone has an ID they will make it mandatory to scan it on every step”

“If you let gays get married people will marry their pets next”

Do those thing ever come true at all? Other than US being a fascist state run by corporations, did any country managed to pull off this slippery slope type trick? From what I see people either consent to being tracked in exchange for likes on social media or governments simply push mass face renegotiation and tracking (like in UK) without any sort of “step by step, boiling frog” type bullshit.

In Spain Iñaki Urdangarin, Isabel Pantoja and Julián Muñoz served prison terms for corruption. All of them very rich.

And good luck finding a charger that´s actually next to a highway. Most of them are in the middle of some town so you have to lose additional 20 minutes just to get to them and then back on the road.

the new 1,500 kilowatt (1.5 megawatt) Flash charging stations

Must be nice. In Spain the charging infrastructure looks like it’s literally designed to torture EV owners.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt39389929/

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/27/lucy-letby-inquiry-should-be-postponed-changed-experts

If people cared, they would revolt. They would stop working and stop the economy funding the most genocidal military.

You sound like you’re 10. What are you doing to stop the genocide? Did you stop working already? Are you living in the streets in protests?

Yes, we don’t live in a perfect world because we don’t want to. We could all agree to stop fighting but we collectively decided that it would be too boring.

Such a simplistic take. Wrong as well. Of course people care about atrocities. People cared a lot about genocide in Gaza. Did it help? No, because everyone realizes Israel is backed by the most powerful military in the world so no one suggesting idiotic solutions like invading West Bank. Kamala lost elections partially because she didn’t oppose the genocide strongly enough. Americans didn’t for Trump because they don’t care about it. They are simply stupid.

UN tried to intervene in many different conflicts. I cited report about it. Did you read it? If you did you wouldn’t claim the convention is a scam. Countries do send troops trying to help. Most of the time it doesn’t work and things turn ugly. The treaty was signed when people believed you can send peacekeepers somewhere to stabilize the situation and protect people. Now we know it mostly doesn’t work. You don’t seem to have a better solution, you just complain we stopped doing the thing we know doesn’t work. You would still naively drop some troops in West Bank and Gaza to “protect civilians”. This is primary school level geopolitics. Fantasy land. The issues with this “solution” are so obvious I’m not even going to list them. We let genocides happen not because we don’t care but because we don’t know how to stop them. So far we only know bad solution. My comment was saying exactly that.

deploying their troops to Gaza and the occupied west bank to protect Palestinians

Ok, sorry, I though we’re being serious here but I see we’re playing fantasy geopolitics. In that case I agree. Signatories of the convention should have sent the big bad wolf to huff and puff and blow the deadly gas away from the Kurds. And then the entire world should invade West Bank. Donald Trump should lead the charge himself, preferable mounting a unicorn.

This looks desperate. They already sold $300B worth of data center capacity to OpenAI and this move will save them up to $10B.

They sell software that sits so deep in people’s stack that replacing it takes tons of effort. Companies calculate that it’s cheaper to keep paying Oracle than to rewrite crucial services.

I tested all the alternatives and NordVPN was the only one that worked well with my work VPN. What alternatives do you know that work in parallel with tailscale?

It’s called Hybrid warfare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_warfare.

Yes, everyone who’s not controlled by Russia agrees they are waging Hybrid war on EU. So far the response was purely defensive though.

https://ecfr.eu/publication/from-shield-to-sword-europes-offensive-strategy-for-the-hybrid-age/

Some politicians are slowly starting to talk about more “operational” response. At this rate EU will start offensive operations about 2 years after Russia takes over Vilnius.

You can suspend their rights. That would actually be the perfect solution. They stay in the common market so EU’s economy would not be impacted in any way. You just don’t let them vote. Sanctioning the shit out of them would be even easier. Suspending rights has to be unanimous but I’m not sure who would object it. Slovakia maybe? It’s hard to believe EU would not be able to push this through if they really wanted. Anyway, can’t or don’t want to is equally pathetic here.