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  • The world is now reversing course to reject Trumpism

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  • If you check the polls, nothing changed in Australia to justify the rapid drop of the right wing, except Trump.

  • TIL that the characters of Vasquez in Aliens (1986) and the stepmother in Terminator 2 (1991) were played by the same actor, Jenette Goldstein, apparently donning brownface for the earlier role

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  • The american obsession with melanin levels is insane. Why cant they be normal and be racist to people who live over the next hill, like us enlightened europeans.

  • Russia removes Taliban from list of banned terrorist groups

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  • Tha Taliban are fighting against ISIS-K. ISIS-K is the terrorist organisation behind the terrorist attacks in Russia. I am pretty sure that even the US had some backchannel communication with the Taliban, in order to drone strike ISIS-K targets in Afghanistan(after the US had left Afghanistan).

  • TIL "NA" in videogames is short for 'North America' and not 'Non Applicable'

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  • NA engines, ie "NA v8", doesnt mean "north american v8", but "naturally aspirated v8".

  • JD Vance says Europe should have done more to stop Iraq War

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  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_the_Iraq_War

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_reactions_to_the_prelude_to_the_Iraq_War

    "On January 29, 2003, the European Parliament passed a nonbinding resolution opposing unilateral military action against Iraq by the United States. According to the resolution, "a pre-emptive strike would not be in accordance with international law and the UN Charter and would lead to a deeper crisis involving other countries in the region""

    "France, Germany and Russia were from the very outset publicly opposed to a US-led war"

    "Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Greece, Austria and Liechtenstein also condemned the war. The Czech Republic, Croatia, and Slovenia were already mentioned above"

    Most european governments opposed the invasion, and most people, even from the european countries that sent troops, opposed it. The invasion of Iraq significantly deteriorated the relations between the european states and america.

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  • For tracking to be useful, it needs data from multiple sources. If it is a brand new incognito session, then it will only have the data you create from that search. If you disable Fingerprinting, it wont have much data and wont be able to reliably and accurately attach or combine that data with other data and accounts.

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  • I just use ddg and for when i want to search something important, i just use Google(in incognito).

  • EU chief sends Trump clear message about future trade after tariffs pause

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  • It is easy to say this when you are just a rando on the internet. But these politicians are responsible for the lives of hundreds of millions of people. Keeping the tariffs because a manchild is in charge of the most powerful country, would have had significant negative effects on those lives.

    The only thing we can do is pivot the EU away from the US, slowly, while building its military/IT capabilities. Trump(and the US) will suffer eventually. Treating the global economy like a shitcoin has severe long term consequences, consequences that will not be reversible for decades, if not centuries.

    But in order to do this while causing as little damage as possible to Europe, it will take time(at least a decade or two).

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  • I mean he is a lawyer, who fought for the environment for decades. You dont become a successful lawyer by reading tweets, you need to actually read and put effort. He is not like most of trump's cabinet, even though he is a conspiracy theorist and a flawed human(though with the upbringing he had, i cant imagine any human coming out as normal).

  • Right to roam: The European freedom that’s illegal in the USA

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  • Some countries have it, not all or even most. Sweden is not representative of the entirety of Europe.

    In Greece you arent even allowed to camp outside of very limited designated camp sites(though laws in Greece are more like suggestions, so many people still go camping in forests).

  • People say they prefer stories written by humans over AI-generated works, yet new study suggests that’s not quite true

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  • Game of Thrones was the most popular series in the world, despite having multiple characters and parallel story arcs. People underestimate other people.

  • Least extreme biophysics phd

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  • Marxism leninism, it's a political ideology, subset of communism. Basically the communists that love USSR, China, Cuba, etc. They love running propaganda about how these authoritarian governments did nothing wrong and how all criticism of them is just negative propaganda by the West.

  • Nato urges EU and Turkey to deepen ties

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  • I dont think Turkey will do anything bad with Cyprus(ie third invasion), any time soon, that would draw too much attention and reaction. The kurds in Syria seem to be close to a deal with the Syrian government.

    However Turkey had a non 0% chance* of getting ready to cause an incident by invading or disputing greek islands(basically what Russia did in Ukraine) but after the Russian invasion, the strong and meaningful reaction by the West(instead of the usual stern letters of disapproval) and the whole F-35 fiasco, Turkey atm seems to have cooled off atm. The Russian invasion was one of the best things to have happened to Greece.

    • Check Erdogan's comments about how Turkey might come one night(to Greece) and how their new missiles could reach Athens. Yup, thats the big ally of Europe, protector of liberal values and democracy, the wall that will stop foreign Imperial ambitions.

  • Christophe Gomart Warns: European F-35s at Risk of US Control

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  • You dont need the F-35 just for the russian planes, you need it for the russian ground to air missiles and radars(and targets that those things might protect). While you can suppress enemy air defences with non stealthy aircraft, that is much riskier and much more limited in scope. Which is why Russia isnt using its massive airforce in a way that is expected(by western standards). Even Ukraine's very limited anti-air capability has shut down the ukranian airspace to russian aircraft.

    A stealth aircraft allows you to penetrate much deeper into enemy airspace and/or in a safer manner. It unlocks a completely different mission capability.

    This is also useful against airplanes. Imagine if european planes have a radar with 120km range and a missile with 60km range. The equivalent russian planes have a 100km range radar and a 50km range missile. So while the european planes have the advantage, this advantage is anything mindblowing.

    Now imagine a european stealth aircraft, with the same missile and radar but because it is stealth, it can only be detected within 20km of a russian aircraft. That means that the stealth plane can go in, shoot a missile and get out before the russian plane even detects it. The advantage is immense and allows the stealth aircraft to be orders of magnitude more effective.

    There is a reason why everyone, including China, is spending billions to make stealth airplanes. The only reason people think stealth is irrelevant is because of russian propaganda, because Russia is too poor to produce stealth airplanes. The thing is, designing AND producing a stealth airplane is very expensive. There are a few european designs but those things wont be coming out for another 10+ years at the earliest(or in 20 years if we want to be realistic). In the meantime, Europe decided to use the f-35, which is a very capable and cheap aircraft(actually cheaper than rafale, etc).

    It doesnt help that we have 2 different 6th generation airplane designs in Europe. It's a clusterfuck. Maybe Trump will help Europe get its shit together.

  • Christophe Gomart Warns: European F-35s at Risk of US Control

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  • Partially but the big advantage of being in a big alliance, is sharing stuff. That is the most effective way of progressing.

    Take microchips for example. Taiwan is making them, with european machines and the european machines use american technology. Taiwan is able to create cutting edge microchips because they are allied and dependent on their allies. Similarly, a lot of russian technology has its roots in the soviet era, when russians had access to scientists/technology from all over eastern Europe.

    Apes together strong. Thats the strength of alliances. But if you have a bad faith ape, that ape can destroy the effort of all other apes. Thats the weakness of alliances. For strategically important things(jet planes), you might be willing to take an efficiency hit, by creating things independently for security reasons. Which is why the french have rafale.

    But keep making cutting edge things in order to maintain and improve your defence industry capabilities is very expensive. Thats why Canada doesnt have a jet plane industry, even though they used to have a very capable fighter jet industry. Or you could be like Russia, where you can design new planes but dont have the money to produce them, so you are basically spending a lot of money, creating one off planes.

  • Christophe Gomart Warns: European F-35s at Risk of US Control

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  • Because none of them have the capabilities of the F-35. And they are even more expensive than the F-35.

  • Fellow Eurobros, I know it's unlikely, but if it came to this which front would you rather fight at?

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  • Do you think european nations dont have any tanks?

  • Fellow Eurobros, I know it's unlikely, but if it came to this which front would you rather fight at?

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  • Close enough. Especially if you add Norway, Switzerland and the UK.

  • Fellow Eurobros, I know it's unlikely, but if it came to this which front would you rather fight at?

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  • Population means very little when we have to fight tanks, boats, planes and missiles.

    Those things cant automatically teleport to european soil. Aircraft carriers can only do so much and they also cant teleport. Numbers are still relevant, especially when backed by existing european military. Morale is also relevant.

    Europe is a giant place, with shitload of people, that have a strong desire to defend against invaders. Look what happened to Vietnam or Ukraine. As long as you have a large enough group of people, with decent equipment and morale, you can do great things.