Are you telling me they ever knew how to build Windows?

There are a handful of EU cloud providers. In addition, at least some EU countries have what amounts to a governmental cloud provider, providing services to government agencies and ministries.

Is that why I make a pretty decent sysadmin? Because I’m a terrible coder? 😅

Well, at least it gives us a common language… I’m not sure the discussion would go so well if I was speaking one of my other languages to you. Enjoy your evening, or morning, or whatever it’ll be on your end

Fair enough, there’s nuance here as with a lot of these things. I used to work in banking IT, I’ve seen some parts of it. It was just the blanket “regulations = bad” sentiment I reacted to, though I see now that wasn’t the intent from your side

Regulatory bullshit? I’m quite happy with the fact that I can generally trust my bank not to fuck me over in a hundred different ways, thanks to all that ‘bullshit’

… In the US. We’re not all from there. I’m decidedly left-wing, but censorship-by-default is a bad stance.

Historians are going to have plenty of work to do describing how the US threw away all of their soft power over the course of some decades. Absolutely wild to see.

I would assume the rodents got close enough to the food, rather

Treating better by comparison is NOT the same as treating well.
What is this “sins of our fathers” bullshit you’re spouting? It’s possible to condemn Western AND Chinese exploitation of Africa.

You’d think the onus here should be on PayPal and Stripe… Do they have anything to say?

That’s hardly fair to monkeys!

Primer is great, really enjoyed that one

Damn, I couldn’t think of a better choice myself

As opposed to what is otherwise one of the LLMs largest databases, Reddit? 😅

Only if you manage to keep out corrupt elements stealing whatever they can from that funding

Framing the Ukraine was as an imperialistic war is western propaganda

What? Russia is free to end this war any time they choose. Doesn’t seem like there can be any peace with Russia as long as Putin stays in power, same as we can’t rely on the US as long as Trump is its head.

I don’t see a need for Europe to include Israel in anything at all these days to be honest

Essentially, united on foreign policy but not domestic (barring stuff like human rights)? Superficially it seems sensible enough.

Who do you think influences the masses to vote this way, and who put people like trump in the position to be elected?