rdm_blackhole

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by rdm_blackhole 3d ago
> signing away sovereignty is not reversible Signing away sovereignty is exactly what happens when you get in bed with the EU. That's even the prerequisite to become a member as EU laws take precedence over your own laws by default.
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by rdm_blackhole 3d ago
You can't treat models like drugs. One is physical and the other is digital. To your point, the war on drugs is a colossal failure which has achieved none of the objectives it set out to do. You can now order drugs from your mobile pho
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by rdm_blackhole 4d ago
> Therefore any agreement must either have ironclad verifiability, or must be limited enough that defection would not be militarily existential. How does he propose that such a thing will work? Are we going to have US AI inspectors in Ch
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by rdm_blackhole 4d ago
Teen reading slumps because the students are no longer forced to read enough to break through to the other side where reading becomes a pleasure. It's like anything hard really. If you start learning how to play music, well the first f
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by rdm_blackhole 5d ago
The EU and Macron welcomed the new Syrian president who is a former ISIS fighter in Europe. So much about morals when hundreds of French citizens were killed by ISIS in France. The EU is like the US, it does business with vile and despicabl
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by rdm_blackhole 5d ago
> Geopolitics is way too complicated for such black and white thinking. Your comment reeks of western superiority and exceptionalism. Its not black and white thinking. It just hypocrisy at the highest level. The EU does not spend a singl
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by rdm_blackhole 5d ago
> communists I was talking about France Unbowed (LFI) in France which is radical left parti (and allies of the French communists parti) that wants to burn the debt owned by the French state (their own words not mine) and could be in the
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by rdm_blackhole 5d ago
> Europe and the rest of the world will try to coup with the shock The two major economies in the EU (France and Germany) are both facing severe recessions and a parliamentary deadlock + soon to be elections would will be most certainly
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by rdm_blackhole 5d ago
> Unless they're full puppets for foreign interests, The European parliament has been bought 10 times over by the lobbies. See https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/08/lobbyists-euro... &quo
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by rdm_blackhole 7d ago
I don't see the appeal of this or the Phone 18 for the matter. I have an (old) iPhone 15 Pro that just works so the upgrade just doesnt seem worth it. Also I think it would be quite bulky to carry the Duo in a pocket all day long.
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by rdm_blackhole 8d ago
Your framing is no better: Don't look at how much you are paying in taxes because somehow in the end you are getting more out of it. Of course you should look at what you are getting out of it and scrutinize every euro spent by the sta
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by rdm_blackhole 8d ago
> Let's be real: this "issue" is a strawman. It doesn't really exist, especially in that part of Germany. Just like pretty much everywhere else, the German anti-immigrant far right is strongest in the areas with the f
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by rdm_blackhole 8d ago
> to them, the "illegal immigration issue" is just a vehicle to gain power. Nothing more. If what you said made any sense whatsoever, then the parties currently in charge would have stopped it along time ago. Because if accordi
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by rdm_blackhole 9d ago
> Reddit The problem with Reddit is that all the news subs and all the politics subs are just massive echo chambers and there is simply no way to interact with them unless you follow the agreed upon views espoused by the mods. If you go
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by rdm_blackhole 14d ago
I could technically vote in 3 countries but I vote in none. My preferred voting system is the ranked choice one in Australia but Australia also has compulsory voting which I disagree with. I think in a democracy, it is up to the voter to de
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by rdm_blackhole 14d ago
> Not voting is consent to the status quo. I disagree fundamentally. Not voting is simply not making a choice. If the choices presented do not align with my preferences then I do not vote. Why would I vote for someone who I don't su
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by rdm_blackhole 14d ago
I am not sure why you are being downvoted, because IMHO you are correct. If Trump was an isolated incident, sure, but he is not. In Europe the far-right and far-left parties are rising in many countries and the traditional parties are crumb
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by rdm_blackhole 14d ago
I disagree with your take. You have the right to not vote when you disagree with all parties running. In fact, from a moral point of view voting for the lesser evil is highly objectionable because you are voting for someone who you do not e
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by rdm_blackhole 14d ago
> Most commenters here clutching their pearls as if Claude and Gemini Pro didn't do it already. That's not the point though. The problem is that in the minds of lots of people including here on HN or otherwise, a service based
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by rdm_blackhole 17d ago
If you read /r/europe, you would be convinced that the reason that some people are against the EU is only because of: - Russian trolls - US trolls - Chinese trolls Its never the EU's fault. Never is there a sense of saying, m
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by rdm_blackhole 17d ago
There was already a tweet/post from the Signal CEO in which she said that if the Chat Control v2 law was enforced (aka client side scanning of messages before encryption), that they would simply leave the EU market instead of complying
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by rdm_blackhole 17d ago
> with far right trying to turn people against EU. The far right does not need to do that, the EU is doing it itself just fine. Secondly this push like the one for Chat Control comes from the commission itself and as far as I can tell th
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by rdm_blackhole 17d ago
No that is not what they are doing. This is the same thing they tried to do with Chat Control v2, that is to force providers to access data before it is encrypted and store it in case one day someone becomes a criminal. You should look up a
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by rdm_blackhole 18d ago
I agree that interests rates between trading partners have to somewhat match but the issue here within Europe is that Germany is so big that by default what they say goes. So, if you have Estonia that is in a slump and needs a boost, it can
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by rdm_blackhole 18d ago
I think your analysis is not complete. Yes the Euro is/was stable but not because there are many big countries using it. The Euro is/was stable because behind it there was stable and relatively well managed democracy named Germany
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by rdm_blackhole 18d ago
The AFD is openly campaigning on it and they are currently the most popular parti in Germany. The French RN is not openly campaigning on leaving anymore since its pretty scary to the voters but the intention of Le Pen is to hold a referendu
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by rdm_blackhole 18d ago
Joining the Euro is not the panacea that everyone thinks it is. It comes with some major drawbacks: - no control of interest rates since these apply to everyone in the Eurozone regardless of the current economic situation of a particular co
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by rdm_blackhole 21d ago
> it's not ethnic cleansing because this time the Jews really ARE evil, okay You are right, let's just all push the rhetoric to the max and completely forget how to have nuanced discussions about complex topics. It clearly is a
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by rdm_blackhole 22d ago
> There’s a recurring theme where the EU can do no wrong, despite repeated negative outcomes that only make sense to read as well-meaning but misguided regulatory overzealousness. Forget it. It's like talking to a wall. Go to /
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by rdm_blackhole 23d ago
France is about to have either a very far-right or very far-left president and neither party like the EU very much so I wouldn't count on that. As for Germany, Mertz is disliked greatly and the AFD will most likely win the next state e

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