Aren’t Doctors Without Borders active, and also losing doctors to IDF strikes in Gaza? What’s the complaint here?

AI output can never be copyrightable

What Trump is doing makes a lot of sense. It's just standard iconoclasm.

Authoritarian regimes routinely destroy historical monuments to erase a past they oppose, promote their own ideology, and control national identity.

Sooo… we only need the AfD to win in Germany to get the old gang back together? /s

The demands from this admin are meant to specifically crush the spirit of the EU.

deregulate your car legislation and tear up your pedestrian friendly capitals

deregulate your food safety laws, and allow cheap US slop to destroy the traditional EU food scene (no more gruyère, you're gonna have Cheez Whiz)

deregulate your green sector, time to pump those pollution numbers up

The current Labour government believes it can revive the economy via incantation if it yells Growth 3 times in the mirror at midnight

Luddite. Maybe today more than ever, we should all be somewhat luddite-y

I’m finally migrating from iCloud Photos to Immich next weekend. I finally have my NAS setup going

Don’t care, use Linux.

It’s the ethical choice.

Don’t put yourself in the learned helplessness box

In Taiwan, these people are called 民主二代 (second generation of democracy), oftentimes in a derogatory way, referring to a generation that came of age after Taiwan's democratization, sometimes seen as taking democracy for granted.

I kinda half don't blame them, they suffer from the same issues that most liberal democracies face now:

• horribly low pay and worker protections, in your first year working, expect to barely have 3 holiday days offered to you
• never being able to buy property in Taiwan (Taiwanese property market is insane and I could talk at lengths about it)

In this context, Taiwanese politics is a hugely partisan-tribal affair with a lot of drama. A lot of people become apathetic and just go "you can't eat democracy" (a dig at parties that keep pushing this as their campaign slogan rather than talking about kitchen-table political issues (housing, affordability, high cost of raising kids).

Championship back on

pay a premium for the same amount of CPU & RAM you could've gotten from your classic VPS provider fire your sysadmins and hire DevOps Engineers at 2x the salary raise a ticket with AWS and wait every time you need more than 5 instances of the same compute type oops, our biggest DC got knocked offline, here's some compute time credits

the cloud has been the biggest scam in tech history

Milei did it, he managed to turn lazy socialists into savvy entrepreneurs /s

From friends that are thinking or have recently emigrated, stagnant economy and no future prospects for young people, masters degree holders lining up hoping for tobacco packing jobs in Henan.

Talked to a couple Zoomer guys on XHS from Guizhou and they said theyre considering joining the army cause there's not much other work for them.

This is how you rule from a position of deep unpopularity

How have we as a society accepted policymakers that will probably not live to see the consequences of their policies

Another China win:

The age limit for a minister-level appointment is retirement at age 65, and a person older than 58 will not be viewed as an eligible candidate. Department directors have an age limit of 60. A vice premier must be under 68 when appointed and must retire by 72.

NATO has been dead for a while, the main guarantor is either uninterested in the rest of the alliance or actively threatening it. The EU should just take the good that came out of the NATO standardisation and move on to greener pastures

Secular Palestinian Political Organisations existed, Bibi supported Hamas specifically to weaken the secular flanks, because it’s way easier to justify a genocide against Hamas

Idk how to feel about this. If this news came from the UK, the replies would've been:

you got a loicense for that, mate?

But because it's China, people will gladly glaze this move.

Europe… the guys that want backdoors into all encrypted communication… the guys that want to give Google a big fat contract for app attestatio for their age verification apps…

Europe…? You guys thought of Europe? I feel like the entire EU policy right now is anathema to an Open Source Phone