TankovayaDiviziya @ TankovayaDiviziya @lemmy.world

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I can't remember the details, but if I remember correctly, Firefox used to get a lot of cut from hosting Google's ad. But Google cut that deal and Firefox lost 90% of its revenue as a result. That's why I can't blame Firefox for doing what they are doing at the moment.

Us users want services for free but we can't have our cake and eat them in the current paradigm of the internet. That's why we have to think outside the box and I advocate for a publicly funded internet. It is the same model as NPR and BBC and that is why they have little to no ads unlike private broadcasters. The same principle should be applied to the Internet if we want to keep using it for free.

We are still in a capitalistic. Money still prevails.

This is why I am an advocate for publicly-funded Internet, like how people fund NPR and BBC.

I don't blame Firefox because at the end of the day, they are still a business and need to cover the operating cost. I blame the system that we're in and the elites will tell you there is no other alternative.

I wasn't convinced at first that NATO is dead on Trump's first term. But here we are and it is a long time coming.

Some analysts think that the unipolar world is over, and that we're heading into a multipolar world again but dominated by regional blocs. The EU is definitely there, and sometime later the African Union will become more cohesive and globally influential. But I don't see Latin America having as strong regional grouping as the EU. In Asia, we can forget it because Asians tend to be insular. There is ASEAN but they do not have the same solidarity as the EU.

I totally forgot it exists, meaning I thought it was already dead.

But that's different!

Honestly though, is "but it's different" a proper informal fallacy?

Our collective terrible singing, worse than the siren of Stuka and more terrifying than the brrt of A-10, will surely deter the both the Americans and Russians.

"You will be happy with the breadcrumbs we give."

Trump is kinda right. Charles De Gaulle wanted a united Europe to prevent Anglo-American influence. Aside from his Anglophobia, he vetoed UK joining then EEC because he thought UK is a Trojan horse for American influence into Europe. He also thought that the British are reluctant Europeans anyhow, so why let them in?

Fast forward 60 years later, and De Gaulle was found right. US companies tried to lobby the EU through UK. The Brits voted for Brexit, and the US finally became an unreliable ally.

For so much of the French being chauvinistic in a cringey way, they are right not to commit to Anglo influence or Atlanticism, presciently. The French still likes to assert their own global influence but in multilateral way with other countries. Macron and De Gaulle are correct for looking for strategic autonomy.

Edit: I also want to add, that the Brussels effect forces other countries to adopt higher standards and regulations if they want to trade with the EU. Obviously, many right wing Americans such as Trump don't like this.

I have Proton email and will ditch it soon.

There are willing to become tradwife after all.

Are you talking about money though? The German military is in rut for years under Merkel, and the number of German military personnel is quite low. It is France, Poland and UK who have the largest number of active personnel in Europe. What Germany will do is fund them instead.

That woman has low standards when picking for a rich person to go with.

So much for "government efficiency".

I guess Squid Game's thesis that rich people do stupid things for their own bemusement is true.

Isn't it a good thing that this bureaucracy, which so many rail against, is what keeps corporate-fascism in check?

I have been thinking, even though there are genuinely tone deaf, smug, urban elite centrist Democrats who call everyone who disagrees with them as plain stupid-- instead of acknowledging that the once reliable working-class and rural voters that supported Democrats felt abandoned by jobs outsourcing went over to the Republicans-- I reckon some accounts are also bots to amplify this disdain by centrist Democrats on the conservative-voting working-class, in order to further widen the partisan gap.

So much had been reported of Russia funding far-right populist parties, but there is also Russia funding the left or at least being suspiciously friendly. Putin is cosy with the former centre left German chancellor, Gerhard Schroder, who have worked in Russian energy firms. Jill Stein rob votes from Democrats during presidential elections and she is hesitant to call Putin a dictator (like Trump). Many far-left parties in Europe also either have warm or ambivalent feeling towards Russia, and are reluctant to support Ukraine.

Unlike during the Cold War when the Soviet Union solely funded radical far-left groups (while the US supported right wing dictatorships), the current meddling and psy-ops from current Russia don't have any ideological preference to support in order to destabilise the West. Russia simply throws all the wrench they could get into the machine.

I swear that guy is stuck in the 90s with his obsession with the letter "X". Probably because it still taboo to officially call something "SS" in spite of him doing Nazi salute.

The broccoli hair of Gen Z and alpha is a revival of the '80s broccoli hair. Ultimately, we are mocking the boomers and Gen X.

Elon just started an AI start-up (can anyone guess the name?), and his obtrusion into government data is to train the AI of his new company.

I am not normally a fan of long form videos unless I'm in the mood for it, but Philosophy Tube is my go to. Thanks to her, she (he before she transitioned) actually taught me what liberal really means, socially progressive but economically conservative.