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"If war is what the US wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war or any other type of war, we're ready to fight till the end," China's embassy said on X, reposting a line from a government statement on Tuesday.

Maybe something is lost in translation, but this sounds like they're primarily talking about economic wars. My reading is that they're just saying that they won't accept US bullying, which is good.

Well, we can't trust the US security guarantees and we have an expansionist egomaniac in the east. There's not much choice to be honest. What good are any other investments if anything we build up is just gonna get crushed by Russia?

Problem is that Trump is on the oil companies' pay rolls. Unfortunately he's subsidizing them instead of Tesla.

https://www.theverge.com/news/617235/the-gsa-is-shutting-down-its-ev-chargers-calling-them-not-mission-critical

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/22/24349650/trump-ev-tax-credit-tariff-congress

I should probably have put quotes around "selfhosting movement", because I meant the term itself. Reason for asking is that if it doesn't include shared instances, then it's not a very big movement and most people will not really be able to join it.

That said I'm not trying to start a discussion on whether it's good or bad, IMO it's good and I self-host a lot of things for personal use myself. Just a thought I guess.

Does selfhosting movement include using non-commercial instances of apps like mastodon/lemmy/matrix etc?

Lets hope the aging process accelerates from now on.

Didn't he say something along the lines that EU was created to fuck with the US? Whatever officials and analysts see this as indifference to Europe need to be fired.

edit: reading the article's first paragraph, yes he did

What are people's opinion on this, good or bad? I have a somewhat favorable view of IBM in open source, but not sure where I got it (so it might be misplaced).

Always thought this makes a lot of sense. An attack on one EU country is a severe disruption on all other. Before Sweden and Finland joined NATO, would the EU have been able to continue business as usual without joining in? That said I know a lot of people oppose it because they see it as one step closer to becoming a federation and getting rid of the nation states.

The distinction being that they will not be stationed in areas with active combat, but rather as a militarized police? Sounds like the distinction is quite subtle in reality and might be (willingly or not) misinterpreted, no?

and stands ready to contribute troops if necessary.

Won't this trigger a Russia-NATO war?

Makes sense the option would be appealing for some. Some people in predominantly russian areas who want russian victory, and some people who don't care about said areas and just don't want to die.

Careful Australia, or Trumpatron will slap you with coal tariffs.

This is quite unrelated to Trump though I think? China has been offering these kinds of deals for a very long time. Relations with Sweden were severely soured a while back in part due to denial of some railway infrastructure deal (was denied due to national security reasons IIRC).

A person I know who grew up in China (now living in Europe) described US under this new administration as "China with guns".

Something like this is why I put an if in "if the US ever has another election".

Obviously this is not something you can base a deal on, but I think a lot of the stupid shit Trump is doing will be undone if the US ever has another election. So in four years, the deal will be overturned or renegotiated. Maybe it can even be declared void?

IMO, there's much bigger reasons to be worried about RedNote than security or even privacy.

What are those reasons?

People can weasel themselves around terms like "fascist" quite easily, because there are multiple definitions, many are very diffuse and there's a lot of disagreement around it - but ethnic cleansing to my understanding is quite simple and this is it. Can any serious political commentator pretend it's not? For example the forced removal of Poles from west Poland (annexed by USSR) after WW2 for example was not a slaughter, but is considered an act of ethnic cleansing.

I for one welcome our new Chinese overlords, though dealing with censorship in all their web services is gonna be a bit annoying.