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.
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Chinese State Grid starts using humanoid robots to man power distribution stations
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US looks at 8% defense budget cut in each of next 5 years, Washington Post reports
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The seemingly random US plan to take over Panama, Greenland, Canada, and Gaza is not random at all.
(peertube.mesnumeriques.fr)
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.
It's fun to live through weeks when decades happen. :)
a pump and dump crypto scheme I presume
lol yeah didn't last long
They've diversified a lot since US tried to kill them off. They make all kinds of mobile devices, run data centres, dabble in cars, they're a leader in networking infrastructure, and so on.
Interesting point, I'd have to think on that. :)
And the clowns are in turn themselves a product of the material conditions. Seems like the accumulation of contradictions in the US is creating a similar environment that existed at the end of USSR which allowed opportunists to dismantle the whole system.
I'm guessing they won't need to do an open dictatorship any more than neocons did. They'll just stuff all the institutions with people loyal to them, and the permanent bureaucracy will be loyal to the republicans going forward. That said, very much agree that there will be more cruelty for the working class as a result.
Yeah good question, I imagine most people who understand what's happening realize the war should've been avoided at all costs.
I expect Zelensky is going to be out of power before the end of the year now that US is calling for elections.
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.