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yeah it's a really solid platform I find, doesn't get enough attention

yeah ASML is probably the one piece of high tech that Europe has right now that's a critical technology.

Varoufakis does like to use the term technofeudalism, although I personally find it distracting. It's really just capitalism in its final stages.

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Rumble isn't open source though as far as I know. It's just an alternative to youtube that's run by US right wingers.

Yeah, I can't see it happening either. It's just sad that it's right there and it would be one unambiguously good thing the EU could do.

dogecoin is totally going to become official currency isn't it

These countries would still mine the resources, and in fact this is a strong incentive for them to do land grabs as it would be seen as a way to bring economic growth by developing these regions. Powers like US would of course prefer a rump Ukraine where they could do this on the cheap, but they might not have the pull at this point to stop the partitioning.

Jokes aside though, the only realistic path Europe has here is to start massively funding open source platforms. I read there's a bit of that happening, but really it should be done on a far bigger scale. Stuff like Mastodon, Lemmy, PeerTube, or even Odysee, can easily become as good as any commercial offering with even modest state backing. Meanwhile, stuff like NextCloud can completely replace Google services. LineageOS could be developed as a standard mobile operating system, and so on. It wouldn't even be that hard to do because a lot of these projects are already fairly mature and proven. Imagine if the EU spent a fraction of the money burned on Ukraine doing this stuff for the past three years.

Same, Huawei surviving the attempts by the US to kill it and thriving is a real feel good story. Also love the fact that it's run cooperatively.