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Nah, they can give out directives and regulations to force the hand of local legislation. It happens all the time for many things. I personally have to deal with the fallout of one atm.

And I already said it costs money. And that is okay. National security costs money The EU spends several hundred billions every year on its military. A safe OS is much more important than a couple more jets. Even if it costs 5 billion euros, screw it even if it is 5 billion every year, it is still cheap compared to what it brings.

I am not just talking about funding, but about investing in operating an alternative OS. All goverment institutions should be switched over. A single entity alone is not able to do this, because they face too many compatibility problems with other institutions/contractors/software companies (this is also why the article says “mostly”, even the military isn’t able to do it on its own, not even just for the office package, leave alone the OS). But if the EU decides to do this, everyone else will follow and start using compatible software.

I’d assume they would probably hire a few developers to get the things they specifically need into the software.

I’ll never not be angry about the EU not developing their own OS/Distro, but using US software with backdoors. It is just insane. Yes, it probably would cost a few hundred millions extra, but a fighter jet also costs 100-130 million € and a safe OS is so extremly more important than a couple of extra fighter jets…

I like how they are building something on top of a highway that has grass growing on it. Is it some kind of ramp maybe? And that they are doing it with their hands and kitchen gloves.

“365*10”???

I think everyone in our company has two monitors, from low level to the CEO (excepts those exclusively working in the field, they only have robust tablets). But it still checks out, we are just a subsidiary, so everyone is a slave I guess.

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Look at the wall papers and chairs. The lower picture has saturation upped to the limit. But true, maybe that was the original photographer and not whoever assembled this meme.

The difference is that this is in a historic imperial palace (Yildiz palace) with (refurbished) historic imperial chairs… They don’t just look like they were build for the padishah, they were build for the padishah (Abdul Hamid II).

You could have decided not to turn up the saturation to make it look worse, as it looks already terrible…

He was designing software for hobbyists and later for the consumer market, he is not Oppenheimer.

I think assuming that militaries would design/use specific software and not use software for hobbyist was a reasonable assumption.

Head of department is middle management. Middle management is certainly the most vulnerable position in situations like this.

The top manager got a nice compensation and very high pension (according to German media ~€1.3 million per year), while the owners (Piech/Porsche family) still earn billions every year.

UK, the red party

You are talking about Keir Starmers party?

I am not only on .world (actually started out there and moved over here), but yeah, for me that was the last straw. That official app is just an affront.

Oh my, if you had stopped voting the lesser evil 20 years ago, you’d not have Trump now. Also, asshole move to derail the discussion by getting impertinent “brain dead” and starting to downvote, simply because you disagree (blocking you for that, as it annoys me).

This whole theory has been 100% proven by the current shitshow here in Germany. Everything I wrote has already happened and fascists much, much worse than Trump are currently the first among polls in Germany as a result.

You could easily argue that the guys constantly chosing the lesser evil brought that catastrophic discourse shift over us, that made the lesser evil of this election worse than the worse evil of former elections.

I am not from the US, so my insight there might be limited. But here in Germany I started to hate the lesser evil fraction so much. The lesser evil here is now openly representing far right ideologies, activley supporting genocide, made it borderline illegal to critizise genocid, killing refugees at the borders, deporting people into regions were they face immediate lethal threats, initiating harsh social cuts while demonizing the poor and are discussing cooperation with open fascists. They are constantly normalizing open fascism, everday a little more. If Germany slights into fascism again, it will be mostly the lesser evils fault.

Fuck the lesser evil. They became more dangerous than the fascist themselves in many respects.

It was also Hindenburg and von Papen back in the 1930s, the lesser evil, who was paving Hitler the way to power.

edit: Lol, I startet this meaning to write 2-3 sentences, seems the lesser evil caused a writing frenzy in me.

I think this is not as simple as A controls B. There are many groups and individuals active in both countries who influence politics and media. I don’t think anyone centrally controlls them. It is a way more chaotic system than that.

Did the meaning of “neoliberals” change? Didn’t that mean conservative economically liberal people like George W. Bush and Dick Cheney?