• 2 Posts
  • 1.35K Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: July 18th, 2023

help-circle


  • That isn’t good enough IMO. Obviously the EU should pass laws immediately requiring complete separation and independence from US counterparts and law, but all code that runs in the data centers should also be open for inspection, including the lowest level firmware.

    Enriching big tech is terrible though, especially after they’ve bent the knee to fascism, so the long term goal should be an EU native cloud that has nothing to do with US tech companies.













  • It should be expanded to everything. Why do we allow corporations to build things that can’t be recycled, and not have them pay for the waste management of the products they create? Taxing them for hard to recycle packaging and products would spur them to create more sustainable alternatives. Why do we let consumers buy shit but distribute the cost of their waste management across all tax payers? Consumers should be charged extra for buying products which are hard to dispose of.

    NOTE: you just charge the companies for the waste management of their products, which will be passed onto consumers.




  • The answer is for Europe to collectively get involved and annihilate every Russian within Ukraine’s borders. Set up permanent EU bases on the Russian border. Offer a massive ransom and immunity for anyone in Russia who neutralizes Putin and his oligarchy. The mafia state must be destroyed, and a message needs to be sent to the US that Europe will come down on them hard if they attempt to use force on any allies. Fascists are bullies, and only learn their lesson through violence.

    Trump does not control the military yet. He can replace leadership but I’d be willing to bet a majority of lifers in leadership would turn against him if he tried to invade Canada or Greenland within the next few years. Better to trigger a civil war now than allow the fascists to consolidate power and fill the military with loyalists.