I think Github is a relatively simple issue. There isn’t really a shortage of european (or just selfhostable) alternatives, and the way git works means that most contributors have complete local copies of the codebase. TBH I worry more about the ability of american contributors to continue working on a project if the code is hosted in europe - basically a lot of open source developer teams could end up being split or shut down entirely. And the bigger projects like Linux and a lot of the intermediate layers between the Linux kernel and applications are majorly backed and developed by american companies and their employees.

It would be dangerous to assume that the underfunded infrastructure is an accident, though.

I’ll be pleasantly surprised if the EU and its members don’t fumble this opportunity (both for themselves and for the scientists). Many EU countries are having a resurgence of anti-immigration sentiments and e.g. in Germany the immigration bureaucracy was already extremely awful before the recent shift to the right - it’s one thing to be shitty and stupid about refugees, but by what I hear from friends who have personal experiences it’s pretty bad for highly qualified people, too.

Who else is supposed to be on Roblox … ? Doesn’t really strike me as a popular game with teenagers or adults.

What about products from companies that are owned by US companies, though? e.g. Kraft, Mondelez. They own a lot of regional brands, such as Germany’s Milka.

And Hongkong, and India, and Tibet …

Since when does China give a shit about small countries? Are they trying to sway a UN vote or something?

So, any thoughts on this Ukraine mineral deal situation? It’s interesting that you chose to debate the difference between ‘champing’ and ‘chomping’ instead of engaging with the actual topic of the post and my comment.

Meh, both are considered correct today. Might as well complain that almost every sentence in American English contains misspellings because it’s different from British English.

It’s kind of absurd that “western” leaders aren’t chomping at the bit for that minerals deal. USA might think they’d get the minerals without putting in the required effort, but Europeans can’t hope for that. Maybe we just actually can’t deliver what’s required for a good-faith deal?

This is already literally how it works in Germany. You can also get in with a college/university degree, especially for software dev jobs, but nowadays it’s pretty unusual that people who enter the field just have no related education at all.

Great!

invited people to follow it on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube

Sigh …

They’re not dumb, they’re evil.

Stupid, or just cynical and evil?

Even if Russia didn’t do anything, how the hell is Germany even going to cross the Atlantik without getting blasted into oblivion? If they actually wanted to attack the US they’d have to start with the tens of thousands of US soldiers and secret service agents on their own soil.

Propaganda works and the rich own every popular media …

Germany is voting for a new national government this sunday and the next chancellor is most likely going to be a former BlackRock employee who is decidedly on the anti-woke side of the culture war. If Trump “offers him a deal”, chances are pretty good that he’ll take it.

Examples? The USA is in North America, not Sweden.

The global population doesn’t really matter for this, homicidal fanatical christians or jews aren’t known to travel halfway across the globe to murder people who insult their religion. They’re quite rare in Sweden, and with the Swedes’ penchant for extreme metal and general lack of religiousness, there are a lot of potential targets in that country - shouldn’t be that hard to find someone who burned a bible on stage in Sweden in the last 10 years.

Islam fanatics’ violent response is probably part of their point, it’s going to be a bit hard to prove that point by burning a bible or torah in Sweden. I agree that they were counterproductive, though.