Justin @ jlh @lemmy.jlh.name

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They "can" win, but a war of attrition is always difficult for all parties, and is not guaranteed.

Zelenskyy said European leaders should not ask themselves what Trump would do next, and said that they instead needed to take collective steps to defend their continent at a time when it was under aggressive attack by Russia.

“We all need to unite,” he said, adding: “Europe needs to learn how to fully take care of itself, so the world cannot afford to ignore it.”

Zelenskyy showing some true leadership in Davos.

Also, Germany, Hungary, and Slovakia need to shape up and stop blocking Ukraine in NATO (and peace in Ukraine).

Like hell he will

It's possible to tax the sale of credits so that the money goes to the EU instead of China, but that would be blatantly protectionist.

EVs aren't here to save the environment, they're here to save the car industry.

The question is whether we really want to continue to commit our manufacturing base to expensive polluting cars, or if we want to retrain towards more productive endeavors and let China and the US keep digging that hole.

Genocide Joe Donald

Space elevator companies seem to think that materials exist that are strong enough, just that they are not long enough.

https://www.isec.org/space-elevator-tether-materials

Very much layman conjecture, but my assumption is that this material is stronger than carbon nanotubes and graphene.

Basic democratic principles and checks and balances will be largely undermined, the legislature, law enforcement and media will be robbed of their independence and misused as a political arm, Big Tech will be given co-governing power

I think this mainly means that tech companies will be able to regulate online speech and commerce, which is forbidden in the EU under the DSA and DMA.

Paper link: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads4968

Any law that prevents me from counterfeiting money is an intolerable encroachment on my right to free speech

technically 1 second in UTC is not the same as 1 second in TAI.

If enough employees join the same union at a company, they can vote to install a union board to negotiate a CBA on their behalf.

This isn't correct, this sounds like they are thinking of the US's National Labor Relations Act. In Sweden, the coercive option that a union has to implement a collective agreement ("kollektivavtal"), is only to organize a strike against the employer until a collective agreement is signed.

This is why Tesla employees in Sweden have been in a strike for over a year, and why many unions in Europe are engaging in solidarity blockades against Tesla. As Tesla has refused to sign a collective agreement with its employees, something that would be illegal under the US's NLRA. Obviously, strikes are very costly for a company, as they must both preserve the positions of those striking, but also buy in labor from non-unionized employees to replace the shortfall. But it's obviously a worthwhile cost for some people's political goals, as the Tesla strike nears its second year.

There is also a large loophole in Swedish labor law, where a company can simply sign a collective agreement with another union than the union that the employees are members of. All employees are then banned from going on strike, as they technically have a collective agreement. This is a loophole that Klarna exploited in order to prevent their tech workers from unionizing. I believe that the courts have not yet ruled on whether this is legal or not.

everything is degradable with enough heat

I'm not very involved in the community either, but I would say though that community trust isn't a binary thing, and all people, even leaders, are allowed to make mistakes. From a pure political perspective, I don't think there will be enough of a hostile response form the users to start any significant fragmentation of the community, which is the main concern when leaders lose trust from the community.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/official-trump/

It would probably be strong enough, but not viable to manufacture.

it's very lightweight though, so it could reduce plastic usage by mass, by reinforcing plastic/other materials.

There's also no reason why polymers need to be made out of oil: See PLA, cellophane, viscose, etc.

molecular chainmail

they could have easily repealed it

14 yo's were 6 when Trump's first term started