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Re: The Post-American Internet

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Post by u_sama »

chkchk wrote: post #232
atwrk wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

no it means u_sama has (correctly, IMO) observed that the US has made it very clear in the past year that they don't regard the EU as an ally. I mean the openly talk about annexing EU territory right now .

That assumes that all Americans support the actions of the current administration. I know of no one that supports these actions.

I think this will answer both comments, I said Americans and not America because *both* Democrats and Republicans would antagonize Europeans if they went to bat for their interests (using China as a counterpower to America, protecting industries and becoming as agressive as American administrations have been with protectionism, heavy brain drain, financial abuse and retorting to diminish EU power etc etc)

As a counter to what you say, that is true but in large most are ok with the current administration or the earlier ones. It was under Bush that there was a renaming of French fries to Freedom Fries as a backlash to Gerlany/France not joining the Iraq war. Not every German was a nazi in WW2, yet if you fought a German you will not stop and give him a questionaire to understand his ideology. You lump them as heuristic and act on that.

Re: The Post-American Internet

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Post by u_sama »

worik wrote: post #412
u_sama wrote: post #137

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>There is a saying about how us citizens trust companies but not their government, and how Europeans trust their governments but not their companies. This is a Danish blindspot, Europeans do not trust their governments in large (France is fractured, Southern Europe has endemic corruption, Germany is increasingly authoritarian in order to keep heterodox parties out) and this is in part the source behind the flare up o…

> Germany is increasingly authoritarian in order to keep heterodox parties out Please explain? The Greens are doing well, and certainly are hetrodox. Do you mean "keep fascists out"? Or do you mean something else?

I would not classify Greens as heterodox, because the whole climate policy (and the degrowth movement overall) is forefront in Germany. The move to close nuclear plants and instead replace it with renewables (which are blocked at the local level by boomer Green elected NIMBYs) is not sound, if your objective is to achieve enrgy transition and 0 fossil fuels.

As for the fascists, when one looks deeper into the AfD (not that I like them, more the opposite) they are just the old right + immigration issues. Labelling them as fascist is a dangerous thing because it devalues the value of the word and opens the way for true facsicm to come.

Re: The Post-American Internet

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Post by gsf_emergency_6 »

aebtebeten wrote: post #396
TrackerFF wrote: post #374

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There's no mechanism for the people to remove the president. You can't have a loss of confidence vote that every eligible voter can partake in. There's no coalition system where one part can pull out and essentially dissolve the sitting coalition. No snap election. By now it should be clear to anyone that the only way to remove the president, by lawful means, is to impeach and remove him. But with politicians choosin…

If I understand correctly, this is to say the Soviet Union was more responsive* to its people than the United States is? If the people wished to, could they not make it clear what the results of a primary would be, eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Unio... If legislators are afraid of the President, should they not be more afraid of their constituents? * in the event, it looks like it took th…

soviet mil was a representative slice of soviet demographics. US civilian enforcers: not so much. (Elsewhen- the antiVW movement "worked" because the same was true of the US mil)

That's mostly it I think.

Edit- "anti-Kissinger" movement

Re: The Post-American Internet

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Post by flumpcakes »

petcat wrote: post #287
flumpcakes wrote: post #282

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Which iPhone chips? The A19 in the latest iPhones use TSMC N3P which AFAIK Arizona is not equipped to produce. It appears that TSMC are not deploying the latest nodes to US for multiple years after they've entered volume production in Taiwan.

> Key Milestones: > First Fab: High-volume production on N4 process technology started in Q4 2024. > Second Fab: Construction was completed on the fab structure in 2025. Volume production on N3 process technology targeted for 2028. > Third Fab: In April 2025, TSMC broke ground on the site of the third fab, slated for N2 and A16 process technologies. Targeting volume production by the end of the decade. > TSMC Arizona…

Exactly - so how are the majority of iPhone chips made in the Arizona fab when it can't do the newer node they are using?

Re: The Post-American Internet

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Post by eloisant »

petcat wrote: post #211
clijsters wrote: post #210

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Are you aware that china is not in EU?

"just following the rules" is the same argument made to justify censorship in China as it is in the EU.

The EU rules that X was asked to comply to were not about censorship. There are plenty of articles released at that time that explain why.

Re: The Post-American Internet

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Post by aebtebeten »

gsf_emergency_6 wrote: post #433
aebtebeten wrote: post #396

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I understand correctly, this is to say the Soviet Union was more responsive* to its people than the United States is? If the people wished to, could they not make it clear what the results of a primary would be, eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Unio... If legislators are afraid of the President, should they not be more afraid of their constituents? * in the event, it looks like it took th…

soviet mil was a representative slice of soviet demographics. US civilian enforcers: not so much. (Elsewhen- the antiVW movement "worked" because the same was true of the US mil) That's mostly it I think. Edit- "anti-Kissinger" movement

Question for anyone still living in the home of the free and land of the brave:

Does the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act still apply? Or is it now a case of "except where void or prohibited by law"?

Or are you all at the tender mercies of DHS? Are they at least under something resembling UCMJ? (NB: the Geneva Conventions only apply to uniformed* combatants, not internal matters)

  separated at birth?

  Department  Ministerium
  of          für
  Homeland    Staats-
  Security    sicherheit
* with a command structure. Just wait until someone tries to AI-wash command responsibility!

(note for gsf: sorry, I hadn't understood what you meant by civilian enforcers until now! BTW, something Linebarger has that's missing from what I've skimmed of the current PSYOP FM series: a lucid description of the bright lines [at the time?] between war and murder, and what the requirements are for an insurrection to count as uniformed combatants for the purposes of Geneva Convention protections ... will get back to you later on Katyusha's descendants)

Re: The Post-American Internet

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Post by aebtebeten »

gsf_emergency_6 wrote: post #433
aebtebeten wrote: post #396

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I understand correctly, this is to say the Soviet Union was more responsive* to its people than the United States is? If the people wished to, could they not make it clear what the results of a primary would be, eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Unio... If legislators are afraid of the President, should they not be more afraid of their constituents? * in the event, it looks like it took th…

soviet mil was a representative slice of soviet demographics. US civilian enforcers: not so much. (Elsewhen- the antiVW movement "worked" because the same was true of the US mil) That's mostly it I think. Edit- "anti-Kissinger" movement

I know/knew people who marched first in the CR and then in the antiVW movement.

One important piece of advice from their experiences: have plenty of people during your peaceful demonstration who are ready, willing, and able to eject provocateurs from your midst.

A related lesson from Airstrip One: just because someone is sleeping with you doesn't mean they're not an informant. Of course, if all you're doing is peacefully demonstrating, as you should be, even if they're looking for dirt as hard as they can, you can still screw their brains out with a clean conscience.

MLK sermon on nonviolent resistance: https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/dra...

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN_9VqfVQ9c

Re: The Post-American Internet

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Post by aebtebeten »

gsf_emergency_6 wrote: post #430
aebtebeten wrote: post #204

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Optimists believe the new economic order will be mostly like the old, only perhaps involving a bit more trade[0] with cities like Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Shenzhen, and a bit less trade with cities like Houston, LA, and NYC. (for Singapore, Mandarin would be better, but there English works, lah. Shanghai would need Mandarin, but we have our own financial centres) [0] if the Don were serious about hemispheres, this m…

Pedantry: most foreigners don't speak Cantonese in HQB https://youtu.be/RTftU-8tkJc?t=16m34s

thanks! I hadn't been thinking retail though; I'd been thinking of people who were studying a language in order to signal that they were both interested in and committed to cultivating 关系 before exploring wholesale possibilities.

Wouldn't cantonese help with that? After all, languages are accomplishments, not acquisitions: you can't just buy spoken facility, you have to earn it through study and practice.

Or am I mistaken there too?

EDIT: another practical advantage: polyglots can code switch to quickly communicate things monoglots might have to resort to lengthy circumlocution to communicate.

EDIT2: Walkable city! Sweet! I don't know about Houston, but it looks way nicer than what I remember of LA or NYC. Street trees, even.

EDIT3: do I have these prices right? 8,8 CNY ~= 1 CHF? Meanwhile, YouTube is serving me local ads for kitchen knives at 330 CNY!

EDIT4: "Muslim Restaurant" == halal?

EDIT5: final thought: the narrator, like my friend, could almost be from Louisiana, where the three main topics of conversation are: (1) the food you ate last, (2) the food you're going to eat next, and (3) the food you're eating right now.

Re: The Post-American Internet

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Post by linus8989 »

Quothling wrote: post #4

I've spent a couple of decades in the Danish public sector of digitalisation and in the private sector for global green energy. 10 years ago people would've laughed if you talked about leaving Microsoft and iOS in enterprise. Now we all have contingency plans for just that, and a lot of organisations are already actually doing it. So I would argue that there is more of a crack, but I'm not sure the post-american inte…

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Re: The Post-American Internet

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Post by flanked-evergl »

timeon wrote: post #405
flanked-evergl wrote: post #294

Earlier quoted context omitted.

US provides credible deterrence because the US can more or less take on all NATO adversaries at the same time, while Europe alone cannot really take on even one NATO adversary on its own. US also shown willingness to use forc, which European nations have not shown it. In negotiations with Ukraine, one of the major sticking points is that Ukraine wants security guarantees and peacekeeping forces on the ground, and Eur…

> Instead, we have European nations lamenting that the US is not doing more It is not about what US is not doing but about threats Trump/Vence made.

I promise you if Europe kicked Russia out of Ukraine, the threats about Greenland would never have happened. US sees Europe as some child that has overstayed it's welcome at home. This relationship we have with US is not good for us, and if it is good for the US they can't see how. We need to stand on our own feet, we can and should be stronger than the US and Russia combined.
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