And the ones arriving are coming at a premium. And it’s not only because of the value of the tariffs. There are plenty of people complaining that American companies are being required to pay imports up front because no one wants to take the risk of rejected deliveries due to surprise tariffs. This often means that American companies will need to get loans to pay for their orders, and those costs will be passed to the customers.

I also saw posts of people saying that hospitals aren’t buying some medical equipment anymore because the sales price is locked by contracts with insurance companies and buying it from China would put them at a loss, so it’s more profitable to refuse service to patients - hurray for private healthcare ! /s

Wikipedia has always been subject to EU laws regarding personal dignity rights, like the right to be forgotten for example. The GDPR is not even relevant for 99% of those cases, and they predate GDPR and even then web by decades. There have been court cases about it, and Wikipedia complies with court decisions. It’s not an Achilles Heel it is the normal balancing act between the public’s right to be informed and the individual’s rights to a private life.

2 and 5 are also fine at best. Good cutlery needs to have proper “thick” handles, these all look cheap and unergonomic.

You can keep personal data without consent for security and fraud detection. What Wikipedia does is perfectly compatible with GDPR.

Edit: case in point, Wikipedia is already subject to the GDPR, it’s a very high profile website, and it hasn’t been sued for violating it.

It’s a bit different criticising a party for courting thinly disguised bribes from oligarchs and plutocrats, and wanting to remove all funding a party.

Before we even get close to have this discussion, we would need to have an AI capable of experiencing things and developing an individual identity. And this goes completely opposite of the goals of corporations that develop AIs because they want something that can be mass deployed, centralised, and as predictable as possible - i.e. not individual agents capable of experience.

If we ever have a truly sentient AI it’s not going to be designed by Google, OpenAI, or Deepmind.

China’s ability to mix and match the worst of communism and capitalism in a single dystopian package never ceases to amaze me.

Who said anything about Christianity? Eggs and rabbits are symbols of fertility, and [insert your favourite fertility goddess] will be worshipped.

Probably the only newspaper in the world that didn’t have this article already written down and refined over the last few years.

This reminded me immediately of The Coffee Machine short story published last year. Reality manages to be stranger and weirder than fiction.

And centralization solves this how? The other social networks are giving more checkmarks to grifters and scammers than they are giving them to honest people because, spoiler alert, con artists are very good at both building a following and paying bribes.

Putin is in the year 3 of a 3 day invasion, and became a vassal of China in the process.

Trump singlehandedly destroyed American hegemony, removing the tool he would need the most to deliver what the donor class wanted and he keeps losing games of chicken with basically the entire world. And I’m pretty sure Biden would’ve done lots of things differently if he could travel back in time even a few hours.

If they have time machines they are the most incompetent people on the planet.

Does our world sound like a world where any President of the US and/or Russia had access to time travel?

The thing is that they didn’t. If I understood the Supreme Court decision, what they did was saying that official actions of the head of state have to be tried by the legislature and not the courts, which is a common arrangement in other countries. The Congress is the one writing blank checks by refusing to impeach and convict Presidents based on party politics.

Oligarchy is too subtle for what they want. At least Musk is pretty forthcoming on his plans to create a techo-feudalist regime.

The US kidnapped people in broad daylight in the middle of Europe and negotiates the release of prisoners with dictatorships on a regular basis. So there’s a wide range of options with precedents.

Did that ever stop the US when the government wanted to drag someone to the US?

Do you think the bargain bin fascists running the US are capable of original thoughts?

The US is getting away with it on the middle east. Israel is a cautionary tale about why doing on your own doorstep puts your civilian population a risk of retaliation.

Don’t tell him that, otherwise you’ll probably end up with an eugenics program.