And the ones arriving are coming at a premium. And it’s not only because of the value of the tariffs. There are plenty of people complaining that American companies are being required to pay imports up front because no one wants to take the risk of rejected deliveries due to surprise tariffs. This often means that American companies will need to get loans to pay for their orders, and those costs will be passed to the customers.

I also saw posts of people saying that hospitals aren’t buying some medical equipment anymore because the sales price is locked by contracts with insurance companies and buying it from China would put them at a loss, so it’s more profitable to refuse service to patients - hurray for private healthcare ! /s

That’s still no reason for us to give them money. We can’t negotiate with the BRICS as BRICS because every cent we give to Russia is a cent that Russia will use to to buy things to fire at us.

They can’t win a war, but the way their regime is set they need to fight a war. And while they can’t win they can ruin many lives in losing.

The plotting war against each other was also prevalent in the allies. There were people in the Soviet Union that wanted to keep marching west to spread communism and there were people in the UK and US that wanted to pick up what was left of the Wehrmacht and march east to eradicate the Soviet Union.

The cold war was a compromise solution.

Wikipedia has always been subject to EU laws regarding personal dignity rights, like the right to be forgotten for example. The GDPR is not even relevant for 99% of those cases, and they predate GDPR and even then web by decades. There have been court cases about it, and Wikipedia complies with court decisions. It’s not an Achilles Heel it is the normal balancing act between the public’s right to be informed and the individual’s rights to a private life.

2 and 5 are also fine at best. Good cutlery needs to have proper “thick” handles, these all look cheap and unergonomic.

You can keep personal data without consent for security and fraud detection. What Wikipedia does is perfectly compatible with GDPR.

Edit: case in point, Wikipedia is already subject to the GDPR, it’s a very high profile website, and it hasn’t been sued for violating it.

It’s a bit different criticising a party for courting thinly disguised bribes from oligarchs and plutocrats, and wanting to remove all funding a party.

Before we even get close to have this discussion, we would need to have an AI capable of experiencing things and developing an individual identity. And this goes completely opposite of the goals of corporations that develop AIs because they want something that can be mass deployed, centralised, and as predictable as possible - i.e. not individual agents capable of experience.

If we ever have a truly sentient AI it’s not going to be designed by Google, OpenAI, or Deepmind.

You mean how they are helping middle east tyrants supercharge corruption in sports?

If you think what Trump says about Greenland is bad, you should hear what Russia keeps saying about the baltics and Poland.

Russia is not being particularly secretive in their plans for a war with the EU.

It depends on what kind of weird shit you’re into.

Well, for that their only solution is to use their Central America regime change guidebook closer to home, and hope everyone forgets the US’s propensity to elect imperialist assholes.

Well, the R in BRICS makes it even more toxic than the US.

Given they don’t actually need farms to produce wine, the federation might see Chateau Picard as personal (as opposed to private) property that supports Jean Luc’s little hobby and preservation of traditional knowledge.

China’s ability to mix and match the worst of communism and capitalism in a single dystopian package never ceases to amaze me.

If you are in Europe, you can try to do a GDPR request to nuke the old account.

But never at level of the US, which can run on absurd levels of debt without running out of funding. The Eurozone sovereign debt crisis of 2009 wouldn’t have happened if the EU had the same exorbitant privilege the US does.

If you have a self-consistent human rights framework all rights support and in some way encompass all other rights.

I love how the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union frames if, by starting with with “Human dignity is inviolable. It must be respected and protected” as the foundation that is so fundamental it’s just recognised and not “given”.

Who said anything about Christianity? Eggs and rabbits are symbols of fertility, and [insert your favourite fertility goddess] will be worshipped.

Probably the only newspaper in the world that didn’t have this article already written down and refined over the last few years.