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Personally, I absolutely love if we could have something looser, like a "Common European Area": freedom to travel, freedom to study, freedom to live, freedom to work. That's it. No EC/EP or anything like that.
Global adoption of Starlink sure seems like it will be another likely casualty of the current Elon Musk political era. Why do any of this?
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Why? Because Elon like many people is extremely smart on narrow fields, he is not generally smart (he can’t fight for example, which is a form of intelligence. He also struggles with being honest, demonstrating potentially low EQ). That’s not to say he’s dumb - it’s just that there is no one (!) who is generally smart - there is no generally applicable intelligence, experience always matters, and you always learn by…
> ...it’s extremely unlikely that Europe will be successful at this. The future is US-China dominated. I think the events of the last few weeks have been a wake-up call to many people around the globe who now see the value of not having their entire economy (or telecommunications &etc) be vulnerable to the whims of one person, be that the richest person in the world or a president nobody in Europe voted for. I suspec…
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> Could also rope in the Chinese to help
This is pretty funny. That's just switching who you rely on.
> Europe could easily allow them to go over there and practice their skills on a Europe First initiative
In Europe we prefer unskilled labour from third world countries so that they can do uber eats for cheap
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The truth is the normative push has been working very well. The EU is a very successful market. The poorer parts are getting richer far faster as soon as they join and the whole union is peaceful, something which was thought impossible sixty years ago.
The only people who would like the EU to disband are its ennemies and I include the US amongst them.
Global adoption of Starlink sure seems like it will be another likely casualty of the current Elon Musk political era. Why do any of this?
I hope they offer this in the US (it wouldn’t cost them any extra satellites). I’m looking for a starlink alternative. Ideally they could terminate my connection over there and I’d get gdpr protection too.
Unfortunately, like most things from Canada, there was never enough market for it to catch on. Maybe that will change now the US has unlocked the demand.
Global adoption of Starlink sure seems like it will be another likely casualty of the current Elon Musk political era. Why do any of this?
Why? Because Elon like many people is extremely smart on narrow fields, he is not generally smart (he can’t fight for example, which is a form of intelligence. He also struggles with being honest, demonstrating potentially low EQ). That’s not to say he’s dumb - it’s just that there is no one (!) who is generally smart - there is no generally applicable intelligence, experience always matters, and you always learn by…
No way to hand-wave the Nazi salutes away with game theory, though. Those were just stupid. Safe to say that nobody including Trump expected him to go that far.
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I honestly would not be surprised if we ended up returning to a more fragmented EU, it's becoming quite a mess. Personally, I absolutely love if we could have something looser, like a "Common European Area": freedom to travel, freedom to study, freedom to live, freedom to work. That's it. No EC/EP or anything like that.
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Usual American propaganda about Europe. The truth is the normative push has been working very well. The EU is a very successful market. The poorer parts are getting richer far faster as soon as they join and the whole union is peaceful, something which was thought impossible sixty years ago. The only people who would like the EU to disband are its ennemies and I include the US amongst them.
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I honestly would not be surprised if we ended up returning to a more fragmented EU, it's becoming quite a mess. Personally, I absolutely love if we could have something looser, like a "Common European Area": freedom to travel, freedom to study, freedom to live, freedom to work. That's it. No EC/EP or anything like that.
It is pretty obvious that the common foreign policy is more important than ever. Sadly it is too late to include Canada, South Korea, Australia and Japan into that umbrella, at least this time around.
And people here in Sweden are talking about that next we will need to give up our currency and use the Euro since that is what T will weaponize next, going after the smaller currencies.
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I honestly would not be surprised if we ended up returning to a more fragmented EU, it's becoming quite a mess. Personally, I absolutely love if we could have something looser, like a "Common European Area": freedom to travel, freedom to study, freedom to live, freedom to work. That's it. No EC/EP or anything like that.
The idea is that (completely reasonably) if you have a “single market” as you describe, you need harmonised regulation so everybody is on a level playing field; once you have done that then you need some form of democratic governance.
Everyone basically ends up designing the EU when they do this.