One buttock XD

That moment when you criticize China on a community hosted at lemmy.ml

It's a typical Eastern European joke. The headline takes it too serious. It is as if she would say "We can kill two birds with one stone" and the headline would be "EU's top diplomat encourages stoning birds".

Money is increasingly needed by the federal treasury, which spends every third ruble on the war

Woah, 1/3rd of the budget is a lot.

Haribo and Chupa Chups now make chocolate?

(BTW +10 respect to Tony's for actually carrying about the sources of their ingredients).

One more out of many, many reasons to vote Tidöavtalet out in September...

Well, we actually produce our wind turbines - and most wind turbines outside of China (https://sopuli.xyz/post/30659580).

And it is different with solar panels than with oil & gas. If China stops exporting the panels today, well, the ones we bought will continue working for decades. If oil and gas stop flowing, we will run out of them in months, if not weeks.

Wait, what? Do cashier's stands in other shops in US?

Shut down and stop is a different thing...

Also, Volkswagen EV sales increased nearly 50% in the first half of 2025 (see link below).

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/07/10/volkswagen-ev-sales-surge-47-percent-in-2025/

It is not good. Infrastructure is lacking in big parts of Europe. As a citizen, I would focus on that, rather than Chinese EVs (if they scare the industry, it is good though).

And busses, trains, bikes. Too much cars in this comm.

Comparing R and RStudio to Israel and USA is mean. But meme still funny.

So: Tesla sold 60 000 less cars, BYD 52 000 more. That's almost equal. But Europeans also bought 25% more EVs in that time.

I think Tesla and BYD buyers have relatively small overlap. Tesla has been branding as a rather luxurious car. The edge of Chinese EVs is that they are affordable. So the Tesla buyers probably switched to some other known brands, e.g., Mercedes EVs (noticed shift in Stockholm Taxi). And then the BYD users are mainly new to EVs, or wouldn't buy one more if not for the cheap option. But this is just my speculation.

EU has AMSL and other key semiconductor manufacturing equipment producers. Nokai and Ericsson dominate the telecom installations in the US, to much frustrations of some Americans, and with even the military getting more and more reliant on them.

The CPUs, GPUs, and Smartphones are much more Asian than American. It's just the immediate shock of blocking mails and office software, and some of the even more critical software as well, that the US has long been preparing to use as a brutal leverage. It is not that much about having leverage, as about the state's ability to use it.

This article in German says they can build up to 280,000 drones a year:

https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/kroatien-drohnenabwehr-eu-russland-100.html

(Note: The company was founded in 2018, so this is what can be done in 8 years with limited funding)

Swedish government be like:

Officially endorse far-right party

Push xenophobic agenda

A mentally sick person organizes the largest school shooting in the country, targeting specifically migrants >

Youth joins far-right groups

That includes a son of a ministry working on how to deport as many migrants as possible, making visa process as painful as possible, even for high-skill workers

But WHY?!!?

Mr Crabs is definitely not acting as if he was a CEO of a million $ company.

So cool! I would also love to see a day train from Malmö/Stockholm to somewhere in Germany ^‿^

Rutte is a clown

Ditch Uber for Bolt. They're European and pay the drivers a bit better

Booking.com is owned by American Booking Holdings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booking_Holdings

• doomscrolling to fediversing;
• getting off Coca Cola and Pepsi Co. products (alternatives are both tastier and healthier, too many to list here, it will depend on where you live, anything from Fritz Cola and Green Cola through VitaminWell to your local kombucha brand);
• Google Photos and Dropbox to Koofr, I got two-in-one;
• Google Search to Karma/Ecosia.
• Google Translate to DeepL and Reverso Context (the latter being much more helpful if you actually want to learn);
• ChatGPT to Mistral and solidagent. Thinking you need a larger model is often like thinking you need a larger car: it really depends how you use it. With some brain power a smaller and less "reasoning" model might give you more to sieve through;
• Google Maps to Citymapper in Stockholm/other big cities (It was always JakDojade in Poland <3);
• it is not a change as much as an add-on, but getting Minimalist Phone on top of my Android (I hope I will get established in a de-Googled environment in a foreseeable future).

And possibly the biggest one: Divesting!!!

As my antivirus expires, I am looking forward to switch to Bitdefender. I've been avoiding most American non-digital services before. Using alternatives to credit cards in real life is annoying in Sweden, but I try my best. It is easy online, though.