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How is the EU worse?
Last time any part of the EU was anything close to hegemonic was before WW2. Perhaps you should look up how peaceful that period was.
I don't think it follows.
France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
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The Reddit tier anti America FUD on this site never fails to get a chuckle out of me. Every single day the discussion here gets lower and lower quality.
I think you underestimate how much trump is undermining trust in the US. Pulling out of agreements, unilaterally starting unnecessary wars (and then whining that nobody participates), screwing up the world economy and oil markets, threatening tariffs on a whim, threatening Greenland. Trying to push conservative values on the rest of the world (eg companies with inclusion policies get blacklisted) And this distrust is…
What unnecessary wars did the US start so far? And what would you say is necessary to do when there is an extremely theocratic country with a goal of "wiping out" another country is getting close to create a nuclear weapon?
Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
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I think you underestimate how much trump is undermining trust in the US. Pulling out of agreements, unilaterally starting unnecessary wars (and then whining that nobody participates), screwing up the world economy and oil markets, threatening tariffs on a whim, threatening Greenland. Trying to push conservative values on the rest of the world (eg companies with inclusion policies get blacklisted) And this distrust is…
What unnecessary wars did the US start so far? And what would you say is necessary to do when there is an extremely theocratic country with a goal of "wiping out" another country is getting close to create a nuclear weapon?
The second Iraq war was completely unnecessary. The fake WMD stories have been well documented. America then created the power vacuum that allowed ISIS to grow to an international problem.
Afghanistan too, the exuse was 9/11 but the Taliban was never proven to be involved, it was all Saudi Arabians. But SA is a "friendly" nation so they had to go after Afghanistan instead. Meanwhile Bin Laden was living comfortably in Pakistan.
And Iran was not close to a nuclear weapon. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/iran-was-nowhere-... . It was just that Netanyahu had destroyed all he could of Gaza and needed another war to be able to stay in power.
Further back the Vietnam and Korea wars were unnecessary too, America had no business there. If they wanted to become communist that was their right. The only one I can consider justified in some way was the first gulf war, because Iraq did indeed invade Kuwait.
All Trump did was prove to Iran that they need a nuclear weapon to be safe. What would actually have worked (and did work) would have been guarantees. You know like the agreement Obama achieved and Trump trashed.
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How old are you? What are your political views? How do you measure decline and what in your opinion is rising vs. this decline. There have certainly been some trends like globalization, climate change, social media, the pandemic, immigration etc. Can you elaborate on how it's in the interest of a hypothetical French person commenting on Hacker News, typing on their MBP laptop, tuning in to NetFlix, asking ChatGPT for…
> It also has giant homeless camps stretching on for miles, abandoned and collapsing old houses, factories, etc as far as the eye can see. On a political tuning side, I would put this as ultra-rightwing, rather than left. Said homeless camps only exist in right wing media
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Those attempts happened before the US really made such a concrete demonstration it was a security and strategic risk though. That was back in the good old days where they at least pretended to be strategic partners. It's good to be sceptical, but the US really does present a clear danger to the EU and UK now (and the rest of the world). I'm hopeful that this will actually materialise this time, and that Munich and Bi…
The Reddit tier anti America FUD on this site never fails to get a chuckle out of me. Every single day the discussion here gets lower and lower quality.
I'm an Australian and there isn't a single person I know that isn't anti-america at this point, that includes conservatives. This was reflected in the last election, where the party most aligned with the US got absolutely wrecked.
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It would take something miraculous for the direction to reverse towards Europe. People have been complaining about European tech, economy, and freedoms (as in free speech) for decades now. Things have become worse on all of these fronts. I think the AI act is a great example here. The EU came up with regulation for an emerging technology that basically killed the chance for Europe to compete. Lots of people disagreed…
Really not many people outside far right proponents of hate speech (and more recently MAGA shills) have been complaining about free speech in Europe. Yes, there are laws against holocaust denial for specific historical reasons. The UK also had regulations on some Irish republican organisations access to TV, but not other forms of expression. And yes most European jurisdictions accept that speech can cause harm and tr…
People have been fined and their apartments searched for insulting politicians online.
The fact that other Europeans aren't complaining about this makes it worse, because it implies that the society condones this behavior.
I'm sorry, but in no sensible society should the police raid someone's home because he called the deputy chancellor (think vice president) a dumbass on Twitter ("dummkopf"). Or more recently: police started investigating a man for calling Merz (the chancellor) Pinocchio:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/german-police-probe-face...
>but not other forms of expression.
France - fined for calling Macron a "scumbag":
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/m-le-mag/article/2023/04/23/french...
UK - teenager sentenced for a "hate crime" for posting rap lyrics on Instagram:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-43816921
This applies to other European countries too.
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Could you please stop posting personal attacks and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. Comments like these, and you've unfortunately posted many others like them, are not ok here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47612036 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580543 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47561644 We ban accounts tha…
What exactly is a flamebait and what was a personal attack? It seems more like you are rationalizing your personal dislike into justification to use control over others speech in this forum for which you are clearly not qualified. And that is true regardless of what you do or I say. You were given the power to abuse, I merely have the ability to speak and I will not refrain from speaking, even in jocular and challeng…
"People like you amaze me, it’s the cattle" was obviously a personal attack.
I don't do exact definitions, but flamebait basically means tossing inflammatory language into inflammatory threads in order to vent aggression and indignation. That's the opposite of the curious conversation we want on this site, and your account has unfortunately been doing a lot of it.
e.g. "Sorry to piss in your corrupt government/military contract punch bowl" (personal insult), "I see the Germans are very upset and cannot believe that the marketing and propaganda people may be bullshitters" (nationalistic insult), "You mindless drones really love that peasant slop" (personal insult) - it just goes on and on. If you keep doing this, we will end up banning you, because it destroys what this site is supposed to be for.
These are not borderline calls - you've been obviously violating the site guidelines quite frequently.
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Nor "Frenchie" while we're on the topic. It sounds really weird. It's also commonly used to refer to a french bulldog !
I would think of using 'Frenchie' to refer to a person as being affectionate banter. Like 'Yank' for Americans or 'Canuck' for Canadians. It's not incorrect, but would be inappropriate outside of an informal context. French people have 'rosbif' to refer to the English and Australians have 'pom' or 'pommie'. You wouldn't call the prime minister that at a diplomatic event, but it's not offensive to call your friends th…
> I would think of using 'Frenchie' to refer to a person as being affectionate banter
Not sure about other English-speaking countries but I'm fairly sure we don't use that word in England. It's exclusively the dog. We usually call them a frog which is quite derogatory, or use a certain tone when saying e.g. "he's French" (implying "ugh"). We also don't call Canadians Canucks but certainly call USAians we dislike Yanks
We English don't really do affectionate banter with the French. We either like/admire them or hate them lol
I mostly admire them, for the record (but it can be testing at times – we find their arrogance quite annoying ;)
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Im skeptical of the AGI claims but this is a bit too far in the toher direction. I use it to turn designs to code all the time
> I use it to turn designs to code all the time A human can however do the same job. Turning designs into code isn't a fundamentally new capability unlocked by GenAI, it's just a shuffling of costs from employing humans -> renting GPUs
Turning designs into code is the bit I enjoy. I write all my best code when I'm driving my car. It's great - no-one talking to me, no-one phoning me, nothing to distract me, I can just sit and think about stuff.
Show me something that will somehow turn the code in my head into code on a computer, and I'll be interested.
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> You forgot the part where the countries voluntarily join the organisation. It might be worth examining the word “countries” there. Both France and the Netherlands rejected the proposed EU Constitution by referendum in 2005. It was then regurgitated as the Lisbon Treaty (with only superficial changes) in 2007, which was ratified with no public vote. The Irish people initially rejected both the EU-empowering treaties…
That's one interpretation of the irish refs. I think the more obvious one is that the first result was very close and needed to be clarified. That also fits with the second one being emphatic. You're allowed to think that Lisbon warranted referenda in the member states, but it's a minority opinion. On Brexit, you should question your sources: > in the three years that followed everything possible was done to reverse…
> That's one interpretation of the irish refs. I think the more obvious one is that the first result was very close and needed to be clarified.
Ah yes… and if the result was close but happened to be the one the Establishment wanted, do you think they would have called for a confirmatory vote just to be sure? Of course not.
> That also fits with the second one being emphatic.
The Playbook says spend more on comms, emphasise Project Fear, and call for another vote. Repeat until you get what you want.
> You're allowed to think that Lisbon warranted referenda in the member states
How very gracious of you…
> The government didn't take a blind bit of notice.
I think you’ll find that Parliamentary votes were required for the action to take place, and there were three years of deadlock during which the majority of MPs supported remain (an inverse of the popular vote) and certain MPs like Benn and Grieve led to legislation that made it very difficult to negotiate in the UK interests (no deal off the table, so a weak bargaining position).
Article 50 may have been triggered the year after the referendum, but the UK didn’t actually leave until 2020.
> Not by a mile, lol.
LOL indeed. 33.5 million people cast a vote, which was 72% of all people registered to vote. That doesn’t sound “pathetic” to me, unlike your comment in general. It reeks of someone who loses interest in democracy when it doesn’t align with what they want.