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We should be divesting from unethical businesses, not from american ones.
Nationalism can be so seductive but if you engage in it you're being pulled down to "their" level.
Instead, consider your true "country" is the set of good people, no matter where they live. Keep spending your money on ethical american businesses, and european ones, and russian and chinese ones, if you can find them. Stop spending your money on unethical businesses, even if they're local.
Doing my bit: migrating my small company's db this weekend from AWS RDS to Hetzner VPS + volumes. Fingers crossed! Already done: replaced SendGrid with Sweego. Later: move domains from US registrar to EU based. The difficult bit is the Microsoft Office because we are also using Azure DevOps for code, tickets, wiki and ci/cd.
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That's not as simple as it may seem. I've been running my own mailserver on an alternate domain for decades now and it is one thing to be receiving mail there but to send it is a nightmare. Google, Microsoft etc have made it all but impossible to get through their anti-spam measures to the point that they reject tons of perfectly good mail.
I have used Fastmail for years, and now Migadu for years as well. Never lost a single email?
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They also do not carry out the audit themselves (for the same reason) but the do all the legwork for you. Huge benefit imo.
Makes sense. We're working toward making the auditor connection easier on our end too. Not there yet, but it's on the roadmap.
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"You're either very stupid believing that the American Engagement in Europe was just charity or just a very good troll." Europeans always imply that NATO is some sort of vast American conspiracy. But they are hardly ever able to give compelling examples of American benefit. The US benefit from NATO always remains a sort of esoteric wisdom which is mysteriously beyond the grasp of the average American. I suppose if we…
It seems that you have great difficulties with reading comprehension. I was mentioning Iran (Pre-Mullahs) where the UK and US overthrew a democratically elected president because of Oil. Leading to the current theocratic and oppressive government. Also your reasons to invade Iraq were made up Lies about Weapons of Mass destruction, and the US propped up the Taliban against the Soviets in the first place. Both were qu…
I think your narratives are oversimplified or inaccurate, but ultimately it doesn't matter.
The important point is: Since US intervention is so bad, according to you, can you understand why I want to withdraw from NATO? Can we at least agree on that? Don't you want to save your continent from the evil US intervention such as all the billions we've sent as support to Ukraine?
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I'll feel very sorry for you and your country's horrible administration when the Russians are invading your country.
I would worry more about the secret police in your state murdering randomly people if I were you
I need to worry about secret police in my state murdering randomly people. I have no time to think of Europe. Hence it is best to withdraw from NATO. Agreed?
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If you really believe that Congressmen in the US thought they were subsidizing foreign nations while their own citizens suffer out of their goodness of their hearts, and not because some Lobbyists donated huge sums to their campaigns and "convinced" them in some meetings, Boy I do have a Bridge to sell you. American Politicians are really famous worldwide for being selfless, defending other nations interests to the d…
The lobbyists probably said something like "it is good for drug companies to make profits so they can innovate new drugs for global benefit". Same way the defense companies probably said something like "it is good to deter Russia so that Europe can remain free and democratic". Hilarious, isn't it? Anyways shouldn't you get back to work so you can afford all the new weapons you're going to have to buy? "American Polit…
Have you thanked the French for getting involved in US wars?
And when you say "we", does that include yourself?
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> EU Hacker News isn't infeasible my argument is rather that it's largely pointless Ok, but what are your actual arguments against it? Again your comment contains things about the EU and US which I don't know why you keep bringing up. Do you have any arguments against a European Hacker News that isn't related to the EU and US geopolitics or government policies?
Just seems needless. Like "We should have Hacker News for musicians" or "We should have Hacker News for City Dwellers". I think there's more value from the broader audience than from specialising what is already a fairly niche site. This isn't Facebook or Youtube, it's both less technically sophisticated (no offence to Dan & co keeping it working) but also much smaller in scope. I'm sure musicians and city dwellers c…
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The lobbyists probably said something like "it is good for drug companies to make profits so they can innovate new drugs for global benefit". Same way the defense companies probably said something like "it is good to deter Russia so that Europe can remain free and democratic". Hilarious, isn't it? Anyways shouldn't you get back to work so you can afford all the new weapons you're going to have to buy? "American Polit…
> Well yes, we did that for you guys for 80 years after WW2, a very peaceful and prosperous period for Europe by historical standards. We got nothing but hate and laughter for it We got nothing but hate and laughter for it. Have you thanked the French for getting involved in US wars? And when you say "we", does that include yourself?
>And when you say "we", does that include yourself?
Yes, in the sense that me and my ancestors have been paying taxes to support a military which was supposed to be able to win against the USSR. That money should have stayed in the United States for peaceful purposes. Euros should've defended themselves. If the USSR took over the entire continent that's not our problem. We have to focus on our own problems instead of playing world police.
You can't both demonize the US for its every foreign policy move, and also demand the US protect you. That makes zero sense. You can't both trash the US for its every supposed problem, and also demand that the US pay more attention to Europe's problems. That also makes zero sense. There's nothing coherent in the European ideology beyond just "America Bad". Fine, we'll take our toys and go home. I sure hope it makes you happy.
Thought I'd have another look at mail providers, but from what I can see, none support the features I use with fastmail (custom domain, security key, unlimited on-the-fly aliases for sending).
Gandi.net offers mail with custom domain and unlimited aliases. You need to have your domain registered with them though.