Ben Matthews

Indeed it seems Trump picked up some ideas about “Juche” (national self-reliance?) from his best buddy “rocket-man”.

US has only 4% of the world’s population, there are now plenty of super-rich in China, India, etc. who like to flaunt i-stuff.

Yeah, but you just gave me an idea too, how about AI-directed canines? “apple-intelligence” applied to follow-your-nose. My dog loves to chase small spots of light, which might be a trick to steer them.

And if chinese buy iphones, do they now have to pay 84% tariff? - maybe HQ in europe solves that too?

As a global company, Apple could just re-establish itself in europe, e.g. Ireland, and continue trading with China, they can just put the US on hold for a couple of years.
Meanwhile for those who really addicted to istuff, coyotes can smuggle iphones across the border, so maybe this solves the fentanyl ‘issue’.

Well thought out article - worth reading

History will recall this as the Trump Slump …

Others, including populist right politicians in several of EU’s own member states …
The article’s intention is good, but does anybody here know how much the EU commission or parliament can do about this, without unanimity, and without it’s own police ? Also does the ECJ have any role?

Diverse views here, even within our lemmy ‘bubble’, suggest it’s not obvious what to do about this (and similar situation in France and other european countries). Banning either individuals or parties can set a risky precedent and does not necessarily diminish a movement. I’d rather go for gradually (but rapidly) changing norms about acceptable campaigning, propaganda, use of social media, ‘fake’ news (lies). That includes faster-acting legal restrictions on funding, ownership, facts/fakes, algorithms, etc… , as well as positively strengthening alternatives like our fediverse.

Well it’s extremely predictable - only dependent on cycles of the moon (and sun). In a specific location there are slack periods every six hours or so, but the phase of the waves shifts as you move along the coast a bit (not too far, on the scale of France) so these could be smoothed out by combining power from multiple locations.

The sequencing of events set up by trump team, getting Ukraine to agree first, benefits putin - while he delays answering he can still initiate some new offensive, but if Ukraine now makes any big surprise move that starts regaining territory, Russia can play the ‘agree to ceasefire’ card to stop it.

Si j’ai bien compris - on vol de la chêne, en Ardenne, pour le transporter via Belgique à destination de Chine - donc problème de coordination contre crime transfrontalier ? Mais ou sont tous ces chasseurs nationalistes, ils ne voient rien ?

Belgian here, and I think all such specific options are wrong.
Any big equipment ordered now would quickly become obsolete, look how drones (both air and sea) evolved just during the last couple of years. Next problem may be countering crawling robots controlled by AI. Meanwhile heavy expensive stuff carrying people becomes relatively inefficient. So what any country needs is multifunctional adaptable factories and teams - capacity to make new equipment quickly, as needed.

The geopolitical situation will also evolve long before any equipment ordered now is ready. And how that evolves depends especially on defence against misinformation. Addressing gaps opened in development aid also influences the geopolitical balance. A smaller ‘diplomatic’ country might play an outsized role in these domains.
If military threats can be reduced, multifunctional factories should be capable to make technically-related equipment to tackle multiple non-military threats including “natural” disasters - such as floods or forest-fires, there was already discussion of a need for european rapid-response teams for such purposes. Build capacity for manufacturing both swords and ploughshares together. This could also gain more sustained cross-society support, and keep personnel actively trained. Building multifunctional capacity rather than stockpiles also avoids driving future leaders to enter conflicts to justify the “investment” (arguably a factor behind this war of Russia, as well as earlier US-led wars).

As for paying US for F35s (which keep whizzing above my head, my dog chases them away…) - crazy waste of money, if as demonstrated last week any mad president in Washington can just switch them off (or refuse to update codes, software etc. - same effect in just a few weeks).

I’d like to have no phone at all, I don’t like small screens, nor being interrupted. Problem is that phone apps are now almost obligatory for IDs, transport tickets, passes, banking, etc. So I’d just like a phone-receiver (modem) with a sim card on a USB stick that can enable phone-app-stuff via my laptop or tablet. (Yes some tablets have data sim cards, but we still need sms and occasional phone functions for ‘verification’ etc.). Any suggestions?

I’m more interested in distribution of users and local-focus of communities than country-based instances, nevertheless the map does illustrate that Lemmy has huge gaps - no country instance in all of Africa, hardly any in Asia… What can we do to make it a more global conversation ?

Too true, and good analogy with building a house extension…

Il me semble qu’il y existe d’offre ferroviaire entre quelque villes connectées avec des grosse lignes sur cette carte - par example Toulon-Nice, je me demande comment ils déterminent ‘suffisante’ ?
Autre problème - les voyages habituelles s’adaptent aux transports disponibles, donc par telle méthodologie on ne va jamais découvrir tous les voyages potentielles, si on remplirait les trous dans le reseau.

Can use Scala to gradually transition away from java - convert code module by module, interop just works, until eventually no java left, can then compile instead as js, native or even wasm (i recently tried this for my climate-system model which evolved from old java). Also, btw, made in europe, not big-tech, and scala3 looks more like python.

I saw somewhere a neat idea to align the panels vertically along N-S axis, two sided facing both E and W to catch morning and evening sun at low angles. This helps to top up the grid at periods of higher demand and lower supply, while leaving a wide open strip in the middle for growing normal crops, benefiting from the midday sun (a time when we already have plenty of electricity).

Two thoughts:

• I’m subscribed to 160 communities, most very small, but see interesting stuff due to the Scaled option - also deliberately avoid the big news communities. Evidently, it takes time to join 160 small cs, so to get started it could be handy to have an all/local except list, and remove the biggest news /memes unless people tick a box saying they like such. Or make an algorithm that prioritises stuff related to what I upvote (which is how other social sites seem to get people started - e.g. i just tried rednote and it quickly learned i like mountains and trains) - but i guess that’s hard to implement as each instance would need to work out ‘related to’.
• 2nd point - there are other user-interfaces - I’m using Alexandrite which has a better layout than lemmy default, but how to make this easier (instructions suggest docker, how many casual users will do that …)?