This isn’t actually a government doing it. It’s just some VC backed company that went to Davos to announce it.

what in particular do you mean by lack of discoverability?

I think they’re automating the photo validation. The CEO mentioned something about giving back by releasing their facial recognition solution or something in the interview at Davos.

Anything any of these people say is beyond worthless.Their position depends on them just parroting what the supreme leader wants.

It’s just how it goes, you only have one administration and people see that as representing your country. Happens with Russia too even though Russians certainly didn’t vote to keep Putin in power for decades so you could just as well say none of them’s to blame but whether reasonable or not people think they should rise up like Ukrainians did in that case…

Again, what de Gaulle thought in the 1960 of the initial stages does not tell you what the EU is today at all.

The reason the EU did not enter into a trade war at least so far is that economists would tell you it’s still less harmful to just negotiate them to be as low as can be and let them be on one side, they hurt the USA more than the EU. Also note that the EU is in the process of negotiating Mercosur and resolving their issues with Chinese EVs so part of their response is to try to open up more free trade with other countries. Trump trying to press for European territory with them and not sticking to anything agreed upon may change the calculus in the future though.

Quoting ancient history that shows France was already fairly independent back then and that Germany wasn’t shortly after WW2 isn’t a very good argument.

Spain is calling for building a common defense capability because that is the one area where the EU isn’t as independent as it should be in light of how undependable the USA has become. This has already started to change.

“At all times” probably is the key. In some countries you may have long periods between important elections, unpopular changes are often frontloaded to the beginning of the term so that voters would forget about them by next elections.

Well there’s software that can make it easier. Just an option. For ZFS specifically there’s zfs_autobackup which I’ve got experience with and I haven’t tried this but just found out about a Web UI that works with it: https://github.com/natankeddem/bale

Modern filesystems like ZFS have snapshots and the ability to incrementally copy those around even over the network. I’d suggest considering using those instead of something that operates on top of the filesystem.

if you are looking at this from the US that is not necessarily the only thing that could be driving prices up though. You’ve got tariffs and a much weaker dollar than it used to be right now…

I agree the shit during cold war was bad and it was good that we had moved past that. Unfortunately it looks like that and worse is now again on the table for USA. What I was really talking about was even further back than that though. The real period of no international norms whatsoever, pre-WW1.

But yeah, I can see you’re one of those tankies who only wants to desperately see one thing so probably not worth continuing.

Looking at all the lawlessness of the Trump administration with regards international law and how it is returning to “gunboat diplomacy” I think that position is a bit difficult to defend as being the only thing it has done.

More nuanced arguments can be made but it is a fact that we can just look at how things were historically if we want to see what the world will look like when there’s no international law or norms.

Democracy has certainly meant a lot more than just that to the countless people who got out of nondemocratic regimes imposed on them against their will. So much so that even the modern authoritarian tries to pretend he is supporting democracy by holding sham elections etc.

Sorry, converted factories in nazi germany to make weapons, while also continuing to sell nazi germany materials and financial services integral to their effort.

Where in particular do you see weapons factories mentioned in that? Some businesses continuing to operate in Nazi Germany, sure. Fairly far from the initial claim though.

He was literally Time’s Man Of The Year in 1938; fascism was seen as the answer to communism.

Time magazine man of the year has never been about making an endorsement. He wasn’t portrayed as an answer to communism in the article but as a threat: https://marcuse.faculty.history.ucsb.edu/projects/hitler/sources/30s/391time/391timemanyear.htm

It was ideologically aligned with them because they liberated the people and increased their standards of living by simply removing the Japanese and holding real elections.

Yeah… that’s not at all accurate. There were no real elections. A hand-picked leader who was loyal to Moscow by the Soviets. Communist as a requirement. Wasn’t great from the start and especially in the long run North Korea really has in fact proven to be the worse option…

Most nations in Europe and the EU didn’t manage much more than that so it’s really no reason for the Germans to distrust UK when they’re doing the same thing… and the reason is that European security is still strongly dependent on the USA, unfortunately.

“Saving europe from the nazis” is far too much credit for the USA… but they did play a significant role, just weren’t the only one putting in work to do it. Unfortunately the Soviets also took the eastern half for their efforts…

I don’t know what you’re referring to with “selling weapons to the nazis” though, the aid in weapons to Britain and USSR was significant before USA entered the war and there was a ban on selling weapons to anyone before that happened.

Same with praising fascism, in general the Nazis tried to demonize the US government and focused on the jewish members of it in particular. There were certainly some American fascists of course if that’s what you’re referring to but they didn’t represent the US as a country…

US splitting Korea is a bit like saying the US split Europe or Germany. It wasn’t the plan at the time but the USSR wasn’t going to let go of what they had occupied without it becoming ideologically aligned with them. The government that US supported carrying out purges is inexcusable of course but on the other hand but an even more brutal regime is now still in power in the North.

That said, post-WW2 USA certainly did it’s share of evil shit during the cold war. It’s just that the other side of that was still generally worse and USA got somewhat better over time. Now all that seems to be out the window.

Because for a time with all its faults it was the best option. The world becoming multipolar with most strong players not being committed to rule of law or democracy will have some pretty significant consequences…

well the thing is that sharing this sort of ideology doesn’t really mean your goals are really aligned on most issues at all since “America First” is necessarily “Sweden Last”. It’s of course especially dumb to push for this sort of worldview everywhere if you’re from a small country that really needs the world to cooperate…

how low has it historically fluctuated to with more normal presidents?

What you are talking about may be because most fediverse platforms only propagate posts to instances after someone from that instance has subscribed to the user and there is no backfilling of older posts once someone does subscribe. You’ll see everything after that though.