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There is no significant ammo production. There are no significant national stockpiles anymore. They all were fed to Ukraine before and during the 2023 'counter-offensive' that flopped horribly and those stockpiles never recovered because all the new production was almost exclusively sent to keep Ukraine afloat after that. Should Europe just disarm itself completely just so that Ukraine won't even win, but just that it won't collapse totally this year?

Crypto bros have just one issue. They are all economic parasites, worst than your average landlord, with no real concrete function, service or product that any society or anybody really depends on. They are not saying that they want to take over states, but at this point they would need to take over states and suck them dry to save their grift.

They have nothing real to offer, since their meme money is worthless by itself and all they want to do is to do speculation by wasting electricity, hardware and compute. Crypto speculation like any speculation is only possible anyway when there is free money and no interests around. You snap free liquidity out of the picture and these cretins would crash and burn all they way to lowest pits of hell where they belong.

Nah, just going along with Ukraine war and letting it get to and pushing to the point of war is a testament that Washington and Brussels are a foreign policy monolith. That finally sold it for me. EU is ready to sacrifice it's interests to drive their perceived transatlantic interests that the two political classes mostly share. EU political elite and media mainly hate Trump because he showed that EU capitals and Brussels are bunch of losers with no real political agency, who got conned into supporting and prolonging this unwinnable war to the hilt and are now being left to hold the bag.

First concrete move towards EU independence would be to stop this war and normalize with Russia, but in this fucked up world Trump wants both and EU wants neither. That is the fucked up world we live in. EU wants further conflict on it's continent and US doesn't want a war in Europe.

I do personally want European independence, but I see that EU in it's current state is not a force for it, nor is it good for Europeans.

So it’s made by the EU in the sense that the maintainers are likely citizens of the EU, I guess

Even after that, be reminded that this current mania in the EU has nothing to with being anti-american or wanting to dump American products or services themselves. The people who are most into this are anti-Trump, not anti-american or fundamentally against Europe being subordinate to the US. Most of them are probably secretly wanting the world to return to 2024 and EU being US junior partner of "the west" and happily eating MacDonalds and using microsoft services. It's not an European sovereigist movement at it's core and therefore it has not staying power after Trump or Maga.

It might be that these people are just Foss enthusiasts with pure intentions wanting to promote the cause by riding the wave. However if the wave is just a meme conjured because of Trump then this project or things like it have no staying power or future even if it really being an EU project or being adopted tomorrow.

I read the sovereign to mean something like an unified platform for EU institutions, that you can dev and train people on.

dependent on the whims of a US defense contractor like RedHat/IBM

A very good point.

Wow this company is not scary at all…

A another tool which whole point is to prevent any change from happening in the name of security. Not only will it not succeed, but because the powers that be want to build dams and not solve contradictions underlying the problem, they will just make the end result more abrupt, violent and bloody.

One major argument for consoles is still that there is a single unified platform that gives better bang-for-buck than PC of the same price, and that studios can dev and optimize their games on more easily.

That is not how their business model works. The consoles themselves are sold almost at cost of production or at a loss. The money for Microsoft, Nintendo, Microsoft comes from those exclusives and live service subscriptions. They want to maximize the amount of their hardware in homes and then make the money on selling the thing that actually makes them useful.

I code using grep's search and replace.

Humble bundle made me do it!

Most of my unplayed games have at least funded wikipedia or some charity.

Looking at the Syrian situation right now, I'm just spitting on the faces of people who equate Assad with Hitler.

Russia isn't willing to let Ukraine stabilize the fronts after Kursk and mobilize more people so they can go on the offensive later.

Those that thought they would agree to this can get in line and look surprised.