I hope not, but now Slovakia might jump in instead though.

Article 7 exists. It allows to suspend voting rights of a member state, if all other members vote for that. So far the EU is hesitant to use it, but as I see it, it is about damn time.

Fair enough. But maybe there were also people that were brought in by Google, that actually stayed after Google left again? Well, I guess it’s hard to say 🤷‍♂️

Every time someone brings up xmpp and how Google extinguished it, I wonder if xmpp afterwards was somehow worse of than they would have been if Google never had embraced it. I don’t know, but my gut feeling would be that Google mostly just extinguished whatever they brought in in the first place and in that case EEE would be harmless. Am I wrong? If so, please explain.

lol, this guy…

I already used Galaxus here and there (especially for technology products). It seems to be a swiss company originally.

They also have the option to say “I’m fine if my delivery takes a day or two longer”, which I like a lot. Not everything needs to be delivered as fast as possible no matter the cost for employees.

I canceled my Amazon prime some time ago (no, I would not like some ads with my membership fee), but kept ordering stuff once in a while, because it’s convenient. But I guess it’s time to fully drop that behavior and look into some european alternatives.

I will always assume he is not actually going to put any tariffs up until they are actually in effect and so should probably everyone else.

Artikel 49 EUV: “Jeder europäische Staat, der die in Artikel 2 genannten Werte achtet und sich für ihre Förderung einsetzt, kann beantragen, Mitglied der Union zu werden.”

Auch wenn “europäisch” hier ziemlich weit gefasst ist, schließt das Kanada erstmal aus denke ich. Die Regelung lässt sich theoretisch bestimmt ändern, aber Vertragsänderungen der EU ziehen sich ja bekanntlich leider 😢

I hope our leaders get their shit together and (1) ramp up their support for Ukraine a lot and (2) work on making the EU more independent from the US (and others).

But it’s on the other side of Ukraine and even if he would take over completely there, I’m pretty sure Ukraine would go into guerilla mode not exactly helping an invasion of Moldova. But it’s russia after all, so better not reply on logic alone🙈

How did we end up in a situation that this even needs to be pointed out? 😑 Ugh

I guess we learned by now, that basically nothing Trump says makes economic sense (not for the US in general, that is). That being said: Even though I get used to Trump’s insanity, I’m definitely surprised by this one as well.

Seems such a weird edge case to me. If I pay for a search engine you can rely on me using it as my primary search engine. And I search the Internet daily, and certainly monthly. So this change wouldn’t help me at all

Can’t believe they asked to start EU accession talks after Russia invaded Ukraine and now this. 😔

I mean, yes it is. But how is that “technology”? 🤔

Nowadays I half suspect any tech CEO to have some questionable mindset (to say the least). So it seems more important to me, what the company actually does. I hope everyone complaining about Proton now also does not use Google, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, X, Apple products, and the list goes on. Their CEOs are definitely a lot worse.

Never thought about it like this. Damn this approach does not make sense at all😵

Yes, I tried to set it up before, but wasn’t successful either. So I decided it’s not worth putting hours of work into it, to make it work in some hacky way that will break down anyway any chance it gets.

Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s left-wing president, has also made headlines for her tongue-in-cheek response to Trump, particularly his proposal to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.” She countered by proposing that the continent of North America change its name to “América Mexicana,” citing a colonial-era Spanish map as evidence.

Do it! It would not harm anyone, but Trump would throw a tantrum and that would be funny as fuck 😄