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CAVOK

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  • TIL: About TILVids on peertube.

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  • I think that's just the nature of the fediverse. But yeah, I'd prefer a built in search that would search through most/all instances. Not sure how that'd work though.

    Sepia is the best I've found so far.

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  • The things people do in the search for true love...

  • Europe has a 'real opportunity' to take in Americans fleeing Trump. Is it ready for a 'brain drain'?

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  • The fact that the EU manages its borders just like every other country/union in the world is proof that Europe hates migrants?

  • Europe has a 'real opportunity' to take in Americans fleeing Trump. Is it ready for a 'brain drain'?

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  • What's the basis of that assertion?

  • TIL: About TILVids on peertube.

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  • I usually use https://sepiasearch.org/ to find things. It's not prefect but it's the best I've found. I agree that it's hard to find good content.

  • Why Norway is edging towards a fresh EU membership bid

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  • As opposed to the miniscule say we would have as one of 28. It would hardly make much of difference if Germany or France wanted to push in a different direction, or if the budding dictatorship member state decides to veto.

    Smaller countries have a bigger say than they should, to prevent the bigger nations from steamrolling them. That said it would take a few, which is why the UK leaving was a bit sad. They were usually on our side.

    And again, what is there to gain to trade our sovereignty for? It would also make essentially impossible to ever decouple from EU if it starts going a direction we don't want to follow.

    But right now Norway has NO say, and follow almost everything we decide. How is that better? What sovereignty are you afraid of losing? Don't you think banding together with the other nordics and perhaps the baltics would give you more of a say? And as the UK is finding out as we speak, it's very, very, hard and expensive, to decouple from your closest neighbour and trading partner. Canada is also in a similar situating, but for a different reason.

    We budget ~5 billion dollar annually in foreign aid. The annual EEA "membership cost" between 2014 and 2021 was ~0,4 billion. The cost really isn't much of a concern. And it's not like you stop sending money to the EU once you become a member. E.g. Sweden is a net contributer to EU with 1,6 billion euros spent in 2023.

    Oh no, membership costs, especially for rich countries, but a rising tide lifts all ships, so it's not a bad deal. But as an example, at the time of joining, Poland had the same GDP as Ukraine and now Poland has 5 times the GDP of Ukraine. Numbers taken before the invasion.

    I'm happy for you, and not at all salty that we'll never have Scandinavian union instead 😔

    We can have a nordic union within the EU. Norway would absolutely strengthen the north. I'd welcome you, as well as Iceland and I'd also take the UK back, in time.

  • Why Norway is edging towards a fresh EU membership bid

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  • I'm not going to tell you what to do, but not being part of the EU is a bit strange to me. You follow about 80% of our EU rules without any real say about them. You pay into the EU budget. You're almost members already, so I feel full membership would just confirm what you already have. It's pretty good for us other nordics, so I believe you'd be just fine. But again, that's up to you.

  • Refusal to Ease Sanctions Shows EU Doesn't Want Peace, Kremlin Says

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  • Refusal to withdraw troops to Russia proper show that Russia doesn't want peace.

  • How to get rid of Mastercard and Visa?

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  • Not sure about Vipps/Mobilepay, but for Swish I don't think you do. It's connected directly to the bank account IIRC.

  • How to get rid of Mastercard and Visa?

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  • If you're in the Nordics I suggest Vipps/Mobilepay/Swish as payment methods.

  • Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providers

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  • We already have a lot of these. For maps you have OrganicMaps or OsmAnd. For Waze we have MagicEarth.

    What will be harder is indeed the productivity tools like office etc.

  • Don't lecture us on peaceful Russia.

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  • Care to give an example of an EU country that illegally annexed part of another country in the last 80 years or so?

  • USA asks Lithuania for eggs after Finland and Denmark, internet calls it ‘Door to door begging’

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  • If you look in /r/conservative on reddit they have a completely different view. Prices are down according to them. If you check from November. I can't be arsed to check because I don't care.

    That whole subreddit is a huge circlejerk, so small doses are required or you'll get nauseous.

  • USA asks Lithuania for eggs after Finland and Denmark, internet calls it ‘Door to door begging’

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  • I'm sure Ukraine would send eggs if asked. 5 eggs for a patriot missile, 10 for a fully equipped abrams tank.

  • EU in disagreement over confiscating 200 billion € of Russian assets | DW News

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  • Also depends on the definition of tank i think. Is the CV90 a tank in the mind of the politician who said there are 19? I don't know. Still, 19 is a lot, even if so.

  • EU in disagreement over confiscating 200 billion € of Russian assets | DW News

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  • The fact that we have 19 different tanks in Europe is mind blowing. I don't know what the number should be, but 19 feels WAY to high. If we're going to ramp up spending we also clearly need to make some changes to increase efficiency too.

    Maybe a "Abteilung für Effizienz in der Verwaltung"? (Ok, I'm not being serious with this one)

  • Time to ditch US tech services, says Dutch parliament

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  • 7 Ways Brexit Transformed the European Union

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  • Someone need to get that sweet, sweet ad-revenue though.

    Annoying as it is, this seems to be the world now. I agree that this could have been a 2 min article, but it's also a little convenient for me to listen to in the background while doing other things.

  • The Swiss government enthusiastically ordered a plush $117 million private jet for its officials - runway too short, hangars too small.

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  • Ah, so fake-ish news then. Thanks for the extra info.