China has blocked the export of certain products produced by the Dutch chip company, Nexperia, according to Bloomberg. This is the same company that the Dutch government recently seized from its Chinese parent company to prevent the transfer of what it called "crucial technological knowledge" from leaving the country. This action appears to be retaliatory and highlights the increasingly multi-polar world that is developing under the umbrella of rapid global expansion in AI capabilities, and a rush to secure important strategic chip development resources.
Chinese trade relations with Western nations have been far more fractious in 2025 than in years past. Following increasingly aggressive global trade policies, China has pivoted from integrating with the wider global economy to focusing more on shoring up its own semiconductor development and nearer-to-hand trading partners. Many Western nations have mirrored this in turn, with the Dutch government's latest actions appearing to be just one more example of nations ensuring their own supply of silicon above almost all else.
Yeah uh the, now deposed, Chinese ceo used Nexperia funds to keep a different company in China afloat ... on top of that he kept bringing up ideas to "move all Nexperia company assets & production to China".
This all besides the other political stormclouds blowing in from the US.
All in all it was a good decision the Dutch government made, they will find a way to produce somewhere in Europe probably.
It is far from clear that dependency on the us is worse than dependency on China. A couple of years ago even suggesting it would be lunacy - it's only even remotely credible just now.
What is causing "complete dependence on the US" here? Taking over one single Chinese company doesn't do that.
And chipmaking is dominated by the US, China and Taiwan (which is not immune to influence from the other two parties, lol) so how exactly can one avoid dependency on or the other, except by balancing dependency between the two?
If you really think this means "complete dependence" then explain how.
Have every product of the world depend on china is significantly worst. It seems everyone started to realise how bad it is and start pulling back. Except US, that maneuver is insane.
Just because shit didn't happen now doesn't mean the next in line won't decide to shit the bed.
The Netherlands' move comes after Beijing tightened its restrictions on the export of rare earth elements and magnets Thursday, which could impact Europe's automotive industry.
to secure its own power
You claim these are US vassal, but then you also said to secure their power. You don't secure your power with your vassal if you're already "own" those state.
This reads like the Dutch are protecting Dutch interests. Given the Dutch companies are integral to developing top-tier chips, I suspect they are trying to protect that industry and keep it in their country.
Dependency on financing trade in USD, dependency on US fossil fuels, dependecy on proprietary US technology, dependency on the US military-industrial complex, dependecy on US border and surveillance technologies, etc etc.
The US fosters dependency in all its allies to maintain the empire. China, and the BRICS bloc in general, offers an alternative. That's why the US is forcing all its vassals to turn on China.
All in all it was a good decision the Dutch government made
If the roles were reversed, I bet most people around here would be complaining at "Chinese imperialism" or something. But an European country*, from "the West", part of the "free world", can do no wrong.
For anyone wondering the chinese chips tech is a bit behind, maybe 5-20 years depending on the specific tech, which is similar to America and Russia. Intel if they keep fabs in the U.S would keep the U.S closer to 5 years behind Taiwan and South Korea which isn't terrible considering moving past 2nm is extremely difficult and it's not likely that there will be huge improvements in lithography tech in the near future.
That it's good to see the last living Israeli hostages reunited with their families?
Or that it's good to see a respite from relentless bombarding?
Both those sentiments (because that's what they are: sentiments, not policies) are valid and not incompatible with an anti-apartheid/anti-genocide perspective.
It's obvious also that these two sentiments are not the sum total of Mamdani's analysis.
Apparently saying Israeli "hostages" are being tortured (which they were not), and not calling Palestinians hostages, is totally fine now because Zohran does it.
If you can't see how bad this is then good luck with Kamala 2.0
Yes they were, Israeli sources contain what released hostages themselves relayed and I see no reason why not to believe them, especially as you also hear humanizing stories such as some of them saying they were given accommodations for jewish prayer.
Then, the tweet (and again, you're building a whole edifice out of a tweet!) is not structured as to compare Israeli and Palestinian prisoners/hostages/whatever-you-call-them. It one the one hand talks about Israeli hostages and on the other Palestinians as a whole not being bombed, with the freeing from detention being a secondary topic to, you know, bombs not falling.
Yes they were, Israeli sources contain what released hostages themselves relayed and I see no reason why not to believe them, especially as you also hear humanizing stories such as some of them saying they were given accommodations for jewish prayer.
We’re too obsessed with the cult of personality in this country. It’s very difficult to get anyone to turn on a candidate, once voters decided they like the person. People don’t like admitting they were wrong, so a candidate really has to do something extreme to lose support they’ve gained, and make anyone re-evaluate.
Mamdani’s team knows this. Which is why he’s racing to compromise everything, hoping to add moderates to his base.
I'm glad to see the rapid speed at which more people are realizing Mamdani is a sellout though. It used to take months for people to accept that Kamala was an establishment sellout. A few Zionist Tweets from Mamdani and they know that he is a lost cause now.
Justified Russophobia (there are many more examples across ten centuries from all over the Baltic states, central, southern, and Eastern Europe, and Eurasia to boot).
Poles hating russians makes sense historically, but historically Germans, both Prussian and Austrian , have been just as bad, if not worse with the nazis, so why don't they hate them too?
I think the "russophobia" today has more to do with current events than history. If Germany did anschluss 2 and invaded Austria, I think Poland would be just as scared of them.
The Poles who still remember the war say that there is nothing worse than Russian occupation. Germans had their specific targets, Russians just treated everyone equally bad.
Maybe, but those specific targets were more often than not killed. So yeah, people who survived may say the russians were worse because you can't ask a dead jew who they thought were worse. The Germans killed 36x as many people during the occupation. Yeah the soviets taking your shit and trying to suppress your culture and autonomy sucks but that's better than the Germans doing the same while sending a good chunk of the population to death camps
Again, I think that perspective is more shaded by the more recent soviet occupation after the war. If the nazis won and implemented their full lebensraum plans for Poland, nobody would be saying the russians were worse.
Some true, yet Austria did hit Poland only few times, while Germany, did that many times for over a millennium.
Germans are often hated, true, but for many, they are also allies in NATO, EU, Schengen and work market, so for many, they aren't bad anymore. I mean, for many, there still are, rarely because of history, but many polish nationalists, even nazis, view whole EU as bad, as EU is trying to unify Europe beyond what nationalism wants coexist with others. Polish vs German hate falls under nationalism vs globalism war currently.
But rus, they are good source for smuggling only, and always should be hated.
Usually for latinamerican politics, there's no "good" ones, we are forced to pick the less bad but sometimes people pick the worse because they are angry at the previous parties. Look at México, that's how the expresident won, everyone turned a blind eye to his history to "teach previous parties a lesson".
And sometimes there's no less bad, but we still have to pick.
actually no. I mean yes, it's a worldwide issue, but the point I'm making is that in terms of natural resources and system of governance, Argentina actually has a lot going for it. They have a two round election system, the elections are fair and reliable, the amount of terms someone can serve as president is limited, they have abundant natural resources, free and high quality public education, etc etc.
For all intents and purposes, the argentinian public doesn't have as many excuses as other countries, for having such shitty governments. There's no unfair vote distribution, there's no lack of resources, there's sufficient education opportunities for social mobility and so on and so forth. If they bothered voting for a decent party instead of idiots, they'd be faring far better than they are.
remember when the zelinski blackmail was a big thing. good times. history classes are going to be interesting talking about how the only way trump could do what he did was due to these complicit members in cogress at the time.
I often use pkgstats to check the popularity of Arch packages I use. Sometimes I notice a package is declining in popularity, and I’d like to find similar alternatives that are trending instead. Something like pkgstats.archlinux.de/fun
Are there any sites that categorize Linux software and show popularity within each category, so it’s easier to discover alternatives?
Popular projects get more attention, more contributions and donations, and as a result are fast to add features, fix bugs and have a larger community to help each other. I would choose a program that's comparatively simple and stable than a program packed with features I really like, but full of bugs. I don't think it's unreasonable to consider popularity as a metric to choose apps
Don't forget if a previously popular application starts to become unpopular its typically for a good reason! So watching downward trends can also clue you into issues or problems you would not have other wise known.
People dislike change so it takes something decently serious to actually halt momentum.
I mean, yes, but I don't think anyone is intending to do use packages only based one factor. Popularity is a reasonable heuristic for quality and long-term continued support. And my reading of OP is that they're trying to gauge the popularity to use it for that. I think it's also a decent enough measure for discovery, since usefulness (hopefully) should correlate with popularity and the latter is more measurable.
I don't know of a service that tracks all major repositories to calculate a single popularity index. They are not really comparable to each other anyway.
Depending on what type of application you search for, I think "Flathub" could be one major source. It's a pretty popular "platform" and not dependent on a certain distribution. There are "Trending" and "Popular" categories too. It's excellent to find some new software (or to remind an older one exist) in my opinion. You don't even need to install the Flatpak and can do it from Archlinux repositories (or the AUR if you prefer).
You wouldn’t need to track them all, any distro’s installed package distribution (statistical, not Linux distro) should be strongly correlated with all of the others.
Just like how you can poll a large crowd based on the opinions of a few thousand people. Arch is a good place to look since all packages are explicitly chosen by the user while in other distros the default software packages ensure that their repo stats will be skewed.
When I’m looking into alternatives, I usually just search social media and note the things people recommend. The software ecosystem is small enough that this method isn’t (yet) polluted by bots promoting software.
Repology might kinda help for your use case. It lets you search for software that is packaged on many different "families" of distributions. You can also filter by category.
Admittedly it does kinda depends on your definition of popularity. But it's good at answering these questions:
Is this widely regarded as free software?
Has it been around for a while?
Is it useful enough to have been packaged in many places?
You can search a package name. I made an example graph showing web browser usage. This may not be fully accurate because it isn't showing proprietary browser such as Chrome or Brave.
It's not really a live tracker or tracked by popularity, but if i'm looking for software in a specific category to see what choices there are i often go the archwiki list of applications.
Rylee Brooke Kamahele helped forge a landmark legal settlement requiring Hawai‘i to eliminate carbon emissions from the state’s transportation system in the next 20 years, including cars on all islands, ships and airplanes used for interisland flights.
Now, Kamahele and other plaintiffs in the historic Navahine settlement are pushing back against a major element of the Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation’s plan for reaching the goal. The issue: the department’s proposal to use what’s known as sustainable aviation fuel or SAF— essentially the airplane equivalent of biodiesel — for interisland flights.
The department’s proposed plan to use the fuel aligns with the view of the aviation industry and fuel producers — as well as a local grower of oily plants that can be converted into sustainable aviation fuel — that SAF is the most practical choice to reduce emissions.
Interisland flights are Hawaiʻi’s biggest transportation carbon producer, making up more than half of all emissions related to civilian travel in the state.
The Mercenaries Challenge League will end soon and you may be wondering what will happen when it does.
We really love the Mercenaries mechanic overall and intend on adding it to the game in the future but they will not be added in 3.27. Much like a lot of leagues when they go core we need time to rebalance, adjust mechanics and review how they will fit into the game when not necessarily appearing in every area. They will be returning, just not yet!
So, here's what you can expect when the league ends on Oct 27, 2025 09:00 PM (UTC).
Items you have given them to equip will go into remove only tabs.
Mercenaries will be deleted.
Trarthan Gems will be a new reward you can get from Gem Chests in Heist.
Mercenary League specific uniques will move into the global drop pool.
Thanks to everyone for playing and to those of you still trying to complete your unfinished challenges, you still have two weeks to do so before the Mercenaries League ends. To those of you looking forward to something new, keep an eye on the news for the upcoming 3.27 reveal!
Us sitting here with our fiber internet and recent model phones have it pretty good. But the “i” in iPhone stands for “inequality”. Most people in the world still have pretty bad internet and old/slow phones.
Btw, this is a very old article. PieFed is lightyears ahead from where it was one and a half years ago. KBin ceased to exist. (Edit: And is continued with MBin now.) And I didn't follow Lemmy's development so I can make any statement there.
This guide explains how to construct an energy-efficient cooking appliance powered by a small solar panel. Thanks to its heat storage, the cooker remains ready to use even after sunset.
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Sono già iniziati i vari incontri per discutere della questione, è stato istituito un comitat
Sono già iniziati i vari incontri per discutere della questione, è stato istituito un comitato, ed ora vedremo quale sarà l'evolversi della situazione. Eolico si, eolico no, per quanto mi riguarda non sono del tutto contrario all'eolico, ma se, come sembra essere dai rumors, queste pale NON porteranno nessun beneficio a noi residenti del posto (sembra che l'energia prodotta verrà venduta e non distribuita), allora sono decisamente contrario.
15 Ottobre 2025 'Salviamo le Crete Senesi': questo il neonato comitato di cittadini e associazioni del territorio a tutela di uno dei paesaggi simbolo della provincia di
is this like some strange form of trolling? where you're trying to be a super hated account?
or do you genuinely not know that you annoy people. or do you know it annoys people and you're a reverse troll? cause I can't believe that you haven't discovered how fruitless it is to put that symbol in your comments.
it doesn't hurt any scrapers in the slightest. it only annoys real people. there's no way you haven't figured it out by now, right?
I'm trying to understand if this is just some kind of social experiment or not. cause if it is, the results are quite plain.
This looks more like another instagram clone rather than Facebook. Building a following of strangers rather than a network of people you actually know.
I've yet to see a proper alternative (fediverse or not) to the way Facebook originally helped to keep connected to friends and family. To plan events. To keep your posts only visible to your friends. That's the part that is hard to give up.
(Yes, I know friendica is supposed to be the fediverse answer to that. But it's really not accomplished that yet. It's just a skin over mastodon.)
Approfondiamo le ultime anticipazioni delle nuove registrazioni di Uomini e Donne, che promettono un sorprendente colpo di scena nel trono classico.
#Anticipazioni Uomini e Donne: Sara Gaudenzi conquista un corteggiatore conteso
Martedì 14 ottobre 2025 si sono svolte le recenti registrazioni del popolare dating show di Maria De Filippi, in onda su Canale 5. Le novità riguardano sia il trono classico sia il trono over, portando con sé momenti di tensione e sviluppo nei sentimenti dei protagonisti.
Anticipazioni sulle registrazioni di Uomini e Donne Durante le registrazioni, Jakub Bakkour è stato nuovamente invitato nello studio. Dopo la sua scelta di eliminarsi nella puntata precedente e la decisione di Cristiana Anania di non inseguirlo, la situazione ha avuto un inaspettato cambio di rotta. Sara Gaudenzi, la nuova tronista del trono classico, ha espresso il desiderio di conoscerlo meglio e lo ha fatto rientrare nel programma. Jakub ha accettato subito, provocando qualche polemica che potrebbe creare rivalità tra le due troniste. Di Flavio Ubirti e delle sue corteggiatrici non è stato fatto alcun accenno durante la registrazione, che si è poi concentrata sui partecipanti del trono over.
Passando alle storie del trono over, si riapre il capitolo legato a Gemma Galgani. La dama torinese, decisa a farsi valere, è tornata a puntare il dito contro Mario Lenti. Dopo un aspro confronto al centro dello studio, Mario ha rivelato di non desiderare nemmeno un rapporto amichevole con Gemma, criticando la sua incoerenza nell’alternare complimenti e critiche.
Un’altra storia interessante riguarda Federico Mastrostefano, che ha scelto di riprendere il rapporto con Agnese De Pasquale, lasciando da parte la precedente decisione di chiudere ogni possibilità di conoscenza. Secondo le anticipazioni, Federico avrebbe dichiarato di sentirsi coinvolto per circa il 75% nella relazione. La registrazione si è poi conclusa con la prima sfilata femminile di questa edizione, che ha visto Agnese conquistare la vittoria.
Just the other day I asked AI to create an image showing a diverse group of people, it didn't include a single black person. I asked it to rectify and it couldn't do it. This went on a number of times before I gave up. There's still a long way to go.
Recentemente è cambiata la normativa per gli impianti fotovoltaici. Per saperne di più in merito segnalo questo sito web che ne parla dettagliatamente, permettendo di scaricare i documenti del caso: [url=https://biblus.acca.it/installazione-impianti-fotov
Recentemente è cambiata la normativa per gli impianti fotovoltaici. Per saperne di più in merito segnalo questo sito web che ne parla dettagliatamente, permettendo di scaricare i documenti del caso: biblus.acca.it/installazione-i… . Da quanto ho letto, pare che l'installazione di un impianto fotovoltaico rientri nell'Edilizia libera, a meno che la sede dell'installazione non rientri in aree vincolate o soggette a norme particolari come potrebbero essere i centri storici o aree tutelate. In tal caso, pare occorra una autorizzazione o una dichiarazione certificata. Penso sia bene accertarsi della cosa consultando lo strumento urbanistico del proprio Comune.
My country never cared about this, but recently some people started getting fines. I generally pay for my games; I only use ReVanced and watch TV shows online.
What would be the cheapest VPN in the long run for this? As I said, I don't torrent, so port forwarding and stuff like that I don't care about.
There's also antimalware software bundled with the M365 subscription on Amazon; I've been using the VPN from that for a bit now.
Edit: Btw, do you think an antimalware VPN is safe? It's never been a problem (never like the USA, for example) over here in the EU, but recently they started slightly hunting pirates (never heard of anyone I know though). So yeah, maybe a simple VPN may suffice until they decide to go hardcore style?
I'm human. I make mistakes. I made multiple mistakes in my last post, and there may be some here. I've tried my best.
Pricing is sometimes weird. For example, a 1 year plan for Private Internet Access is 37.19€ first year and then auto-renews annually at 46.73€. By the way, they misspelled "annually". AirVPN has a 3 day pricing plan. For the instances when pricing is weird, I did what I felt was best on a case-by-case basis.
Tor is not a VPN, but there are multiple apps that allow you to use it like a VPN. They've released an official Tor VPN app for Android, and there is a verified Flatpak called Carburetor which you can use to use Tor like a VPN on secureblue (Linux). It's not unreasonable to add this to the list.
Some projects use different licenses for different platforms. For example, NordVPN has an open source Linux client. However, to call NordVPN open source would be like calling a meat sandwich vegan because the bread is vegan.
The age of a VPN isn't a good indicator of how secure it is. There could be a trustworthy VPN that's been around for 10 years but uses insecure, outdated code, and a new VPN that's been around for 10 days but uses up-to-date, modern code.
Some VPNs, like Surfshark VPN, operate in multiple countries. Legality may vary.
All of the VPNs claim a "no log" policy, but there's some I trust more than others to actually uphold that.
Tor is special in the port forwarding category, because it depends on what you're using port forwarding for. In some cases, Tor doesn't need port forwarding.
Tor technically doesn't have a WireGuard profile, but you could (probably?) create one.
Takeaways
If you don't mind the speed cost, Tor is a really good option to protect your IP address.
If you're on a budget, NymVPN, Private Internet Access, and Surfshark VPN are generally the cheapest. If you're paying month-by-month, Mullvad VPN still can't be beat.
If you want VPNs that go out of their way to collect as little information as possible, IVPN, Mullvad VPN, and NymVPN don't require any personal information to use. And Tor, of course.
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I should also have said I sometimes use it for MMO gaming, in case my ISP fucks up and I need to play for a week or so before it's fixed (it just happened this week). I didn't remember this when I wrote the thread
The free plan is very limited in terms of server locations so it might not be a good option for gaming.
I have some friends who've used Mudfish in the past. It's a tunneling service with a Pay-Per-Traffic mode which is affordable if you only need it occasionally.
How long is "long term"? fastestvpn.com/ has a $40 lifetime plan, so that's probably the best value (assuming they stay around, but they've been around for a few years now).
I bought their lifetime license like 5 or 6 years ago, still works to this day. I wouldn't use it for anything other than piracy though, if you actually need a private and secure VPN, use Mullvad, Proton or IVPN.
If you just want to stream, you could always use real debrid (or similar sevice) and Kodi. It also offers downloads through its service as well if you ever need it.
I personally never had a single issue with it, speed, reliability etc. It integrates in FF and has standalone app for macOS, linux, win. android, but I remember reading some mixed reviews too.
How long is “in the long run?” How much can you afford to spend? What country? How many devices?
For what you’re describing it doesn’t seem like places like mullvad or proton are the right choice. Nord is a good way to get past geofencing for decently cheap. Windscribe can also be cheap. Air is cheap if you’re not Italian.
Anti malware VPN services can be okay sometimes, I wouldn’t call them a serious option though because they’re often tied to use of some antimalware suite and may have glaring flaws when used without the rest of that software.
If you want a free vpn, the only option is proton vpn. Personally I would recommend using proton vpn the paid version toom get a year subscription for black friday deal.
Il telefono è tornato a squillare. E con lui, Ethan Hawke. In Black Phone 2, Scott Derrickson riporta in vita il suo villain più inquietante: il Rapace, tra incubi, nevi insanguinate e visioni dal passato.
Un horror visivamente straordinario, dove la pellicola analogica diventa linguaggio di paura — ma la sceneggiatura inciampa tra citazioni e spiegoni.
Un po’ Nightmare, un po’ Stranger Things, con un’anima che resta sospesa tra inferno e redenzione.
I'm looking for active federated communities on the fediverse where users share tips, tricks, and best practices for using the command line. Something similar to the Arch Linux forums but accessible through the fediverse.
I've checked out a few communities like Command Line@lemmy.ml (1.47K subscribers) and Command Line@programming.dev (2.09K subscribers), but they seem to have many subscribers but no active users per month. It feels like Lemmy smothers these niche communities somehow.
Does anyone know of other active federated communities or instances where command line enthusiasts gather to share knowledge and help each other out?
Not my face. I‘m staying far away from those things. I wonder if generating personalized ads can even be profitable. Seems like a lot of effort to dish out some slop.
It probably depends on how personalized the ads are. It should come as no surprise that targeted ads have been a thing as long as ads have existed. Coke ads during family shows, alcohol ads (you'll be cool if you use our product) on MTV, etc.
There are already a number of algorithms to deliver one ad for a product over another, based on likely demographics. Streaming has greatly increased this, since specific demographic details are immediately and directly available when the ad is shown. I won't get the same as on Hulu that you get.
As for generating ads on-the-fly, that seems unlikely. Few ads are fully generated at all, let alone in response to demographics or the specific viewer(s).
There are also risks when deploying ads without vetting. Some of these viewers will be dressed as Nazis, and will happily share the video to everyone.
Humanity could do many great things in this world with AI. Instead we are coming up with innovative new ways to give you ads. Get me out of this timeline.
I have generated videos with me in them and it's a very weird feeling. Actually getting surprised by them in an ad would be brutally unpleasant. They will never do this.
That being said, they will absolutely put people that reassemble us. So personalized ad with someone that has the same hair color, skin color, height, facial structure and age, wearing about the same kind of clothes we usually do.
I surprised you think they will "never do this". They will have some study done by an entity closely connected to an AI firm that affirms that "this makes products X amount more likely to sell!"
Whether it is true or not will be irrelevant. They will do it.
Brazil’s government has signed a 30-year contract to privatize a section of the BR-364 highway, a key part of its plan to create an overland corridor to Peru to streamline commodity exports to China.
Critics warn that expanding the highway into well-preserved rainforest risks repeating its history by attracting illegal loggers and land grabbers, a pattern that previously cleared vast areas for agriculture.
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Fueled by soybean, corn and beef production, [the Brazilian state of] Rondônia is now one of Brazil’s leading agribusiness states, where a pro-deforestation mindset prevails, rooted in a population largely disconnected from the forest, rivers and traditional Amazonian culture. This view gained renewed momentum under Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right president from 2019-2022, who won all 52 of Rondônia’s municipalities in both the 2018 and 2022 elections.
Cutting across Rondônia, BR-364 has become a key route for moving grain, beef and minerals to ports on the Madeira River in Porto Velho. From there, commodities from Brazil’s central-west region are shipped downriver to foreign markets via the Atlantic Ocean.
När Europeiska kommissionen beslutade att etablera sig i sociala medier gjorde den ett ovanligt val. Istället för att bara skapa ännu ett konto på en kommersiell plattform anlitade den Mastodon för att driva en egen server. Kommissionen äger nu sitt digitala utrymme på samma sätt som den äger sina byggnader. Ingen kan ta bort det. Ingen kan ändra reglerna över en natt. Innehållet tillhör institutionen, arkiverat och tillgängligt under dess egen kontroll.
Text message scammers use badgering texts to extract financial information then pay American gig workers to use stolen info to make purchases and send merchandise back to China
An exiled Kremlin critic, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, has been accused by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) of creating a “terrorist organisation” and of plotting to violently seize power.
The FSB said it had opened a criminal case against Khodorkovsky and was investigating more than 20 people as part of the same charge. These include prominent dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza, former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, ex-prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov and leading economists Sergey Aleksashenko and Sergei Guriev.
It comes just two weeks after a “platform for dialogue” with Russian democratic forces in exile was announced by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, a human rights forum of lawmakers from 46 European countries.
The FSB claimed Khodorkovsky was presenting this platform as a replacement for Russian leadership. He was also accused of funding Ukrainian paramilitary units in order to use them to try to eventually seize power.
Khodorkovsky rejects accusations Khodorkovsky denied the accusations and called the criminal case a sign that the Kremlin sees the Council of Europe initiative as “a major problem”.
“Hence the new cases about ‘seizing power’, the lies about ‘recruiting’ and ‘arming the Ukrainian military’,” he said on Telegram.
Ah yes, the latest episode in the ongoing saga of "Putin fabricates bullshit to try to distract the Russian people from the misery and suffering he's putting them through.
On March 2, 2023, Aiden Sagala did what many people do after a long, hot day at work. He cracked open a cold one. Little did he know, that swig of beer would kill him. Aiden didn’t realize that the can was full of liquid methamphetamine, not beer.
When the Chinese government announced a new visa to attract young science and technology talent, it advertised the move as another step toward becoming the leading scientific power, one to which people from around the globe would flock.
To many in China, it was a gross mistake.
In the days before and since Oct. 1, when the visa was supposed to come into effect, commenters have accused the government of inviting foreigners to steal jobs from Chinese people, at a time when young people are finding it harder than ever to land work. They have suggested that foreigners are being blindly worshiped, a longstanding national sore point.
Prominent influencers have also stoked nationalism or xenophobia, claiming that China will be overrun by outsiders. After Henry Huiyao Wang, the president of the Center for China and Globalization, a research group in Beijing, praised the new visa, people on social media called him a race traitor, and their posts were shared thousands of times.
Platforms have been especially flooded by racist comments about Indians, after Indian news outlets reported on the Chinese visa as a possible alternative to the highly popular H1-B visa in the United States, which now comes with a $100,000 fee.
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The public outcry suggests that China may still struggle to attract the world’s best and brightest scientists, even as the United States has cut research funding and pushed many prominent scholars to consider leaving.
Anti-foreign sentiment has grown in China in recent years, as the government has warned of hostile overseas powers and urged people to report potential spies. China has historically had minuscule levels of inbound immigration, and many cultural and legal barriers remain for foreigners seeking to remain long-term.
When the government proposed slightly loosening permanent residency requirements for foreigners in 2020, it eventually retreated in the face of a similar backlash. (China granted fewer than 5,000 permanent residency cards between 2004 and 2014, according to People’s Daily.)
I think that if I were a Chinese multinational company and it becomes a problem, I'd probably just set up an R&D office abroad in a suitable country that doesn't have the degree of political resistance.
Probably still slightly bad for China, but I don't think that it necessarily is going to be some insurmountable problem for Chinese firms.
At this scale of immigration, what matters is going to be the individual's skillset. They aren't going to measurably bolster the country's population. Doesn't really matter that much whether they settle in China and raise kids and such.
Says here that it was decriminalized in 1997. Marriage, adoption, and many other rights aren't legal today. And of course there's discrimination and repression.
Can't escape your material conditions. Doing this while having any significant unemployment would produce such a backlash. Especially if the social development hasn't achieved the eradication of xenophobia yet.
Eu is still a better attractive and safe haven for scientist, china not so much, because the ccp has the ultimate authority how research goes in the country, which is why thier "innovations, or papers" cant be trusted sometimes. conflict of interests, since they cook the books alot. kinda says alot of china is well known for using foreigners likeness to put on advertisement as the face of the company, to make it look more legitimate. thats why they love western white people in MOVIES. theres a reason why the flee to usa, eu, australia for research opportunities, and not stay in china.
For many - probably. For some it may be different depending on some factors like the material base needed for their research, or their own ethnicity. There's plenty of racism in the EU towards some and the recent resurgence of the right isn't reassuring.
This is what the report says. I guess there are weird people everywhere, here in the West, in China, everywhere else. It's just that given the strict censorship in China, the government does not much against this racism. One report is here.
China's government suppresses its minorities. If you are not Han Chinese and not a member of the CCP, you may not climb to high up the career ladder to say the least.
The Chinese government should acknowledge and condemn anti-Black racism prevalent on the Chinese internet and adopt measures to promote tolerance and fight prejudice.
For China, the U.N. summit on October 13-14 is the final, triumphant act of a yearlong show of force from its diplomatic and media mouthpieces seeking to center its “historic achievements in women’s development” and position China as a global model for women’s rights protection.
Yet as officials trumpet their “30 years of progress” to assembled dignitaries, the voices of the country’s own feminists will be conspicuously absent.
That’s because many are in prison, while others face threats and harassment intended to keep them silent – whether they still live in China, or have had to flee abroad.
China’s self-congratulatory narrative on women’s rights has been pushed not just at home, but also abroad: from the halls of the United Nations to the pages of local embassies and media markets in, for example, South Africa, Tanzania, Liberia, Ghana and Grenada. Last month, state-run press even published two compilations of Xi Jinping’s speeches in English for the explicit purpose of “help[ing] international readers gain a deeper understanding of Xi’s views” on women’s rights and much more ahead of the U.N. meeting in Beijing.
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Xi’s views are clear on one point: that shutting down space for critical voices and public discussion on human rights, including topics of women and gender, are essential matters of national security.
Over the last decade, the Chinese state has continued to implement laws and policies that suppress feminist activism – and in doing so has convicted women human rights defenders one by one.
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The five women made famous by their 2015 criminal detentions for advocacy on International Women’s Day continue to work in civil society and to push for policy change – but they are careful to do so in ways that keep them and their families safe. Following their detentions, the costs of speaking out publicly have only risen. For four years, #MeToo activist and journalist Huang Xueqin has been locked up for “inciting subversion of state power” for her social media posts and her efforts to learn about and discuss non-violent movements.
Many other women activists – such as Li Qiaochu, Chen Jianfang, Xu Yan and Zhang Zhan – have languished in prison based on similarly spurious convictions. Vaccine safety advocate He Fangmei was convicted of “picking quarrels” and (absurdly) bigamy in 2024; when she’s released in 2027 she will have spent seven of the last eight years in detention. Her family doesn’t know where her daughters – the youngest one born while she was in detention – are located.
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When Chinese officials wax poetic about the country’s progress on women’s rights, it is essential to remember that this is not the whole story. The government postures on anti-discrimination, locks up women defenders, and criminalizes feminist activism – all out of fear that the system the CCP has built might come crashing down on their heads.
They're progressive in the sense that they don't care over much about specific cultural values, as long as you don't criticize, threaten power or break cultural homogeneity.
This reminds me of Lemmy.ml, hexbear.net, and Lemmygrad.ml - people get used to talking a certain way inside of their echo chamber and then continue to talk the same way even when they venture outside of it.
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After renting a couple cars with electronic door poppers, I find them plainly worse than mechanical door latches. They're a solution in search of a problem, and some implementations are hazardous.
I hear they are a solution to the problem of increasing mileage/efficiency. I am no fan of Tesla, but we have to admit, there is some merit to that argument, however debatable the efficiency benefits are.
That's not to say safety isn't a serious issue. The biggest problem is the reliance on electronics. Now if someone can reinvent the design with a highly reliable mechanical system, with multiple redundancy.
To my knowledge, there are designs which allow you to pop out the latch without the need for electronics.
However, if I'm reading the article correctly those wouldn't be allowed either because in their default state they don't have "enough room for a hand to grip behind them". That wording alone explicitely bans flush doorhandles, and not just electronic doorhandles
The ones that work on springs are inherently dangerous because in the event of a crash it's very possible that some very important bits of plastic will get misaligned and the handle will get jammed behind the frame. The steel construction of the latch is much less likely to be damaged in a crash
I've seen three designs for purely mechanical flush door handles in production use:
A handle with a central hinge where one side is pushed inward to make the other side stick out to be pulled. This design has been used on aircraft for many decades, and has also made its way to a few cars.
A pull-up door handle with an additional flap in front of the access area. This was used on the Subaru XT/Alcyone/Vortex.
A handle that pushes in to open, usually found on a portion of the door that's more horizontal to the ground. Used on the C3 Corvette, among others.
The push-then-pull central hinge is probably not a great choice for the application because its operation will be less obvious to a rescuer trying to get the door open quickly. It's still better than something that requires electronics.
I think having an electric popper on top of an mechanical door latch (actual door handles are standard mechanic, but there's solenoid that can actuate them independently) is okay if you can find an actual usecase.
I mean sure still stupid but at least it isn't dangerous.
Same way electric locks have worked for the past 30 years on cars.
An old civic might be able to unlock from a key fob, but that's only an electronically controlled solenoid controlling a lock which is mechanical in nature, and who's main user-accessible interaction point is mechanically linked to the lock.
I think having an electric popper on top of an mechanical door latch is okay
The problem with having both is that the electronic one is always the primary one, and the one people will use daily. In particular Tesla hides the mechanical ones really well. So in an emergency situation, people panic and have no idea where it is or how to use it.
Same way electric locks have worked
Electric locks actually serve a purpose though. And they're not a danger to passengers inside. What purpose do electric door handles serve? Other than being more prone to failure, more expensive, and dangerous?
What purpose do electric door locks serve? Other than being more prone to failure, more expensive, and dangerous?
An oligarch's fancy?
I'm sure in product meetings it's been brought up that it's a dumb thing and they could save money and make the cars safer by not having them, then the oligarch speaks up.
The problem with having both is that the electronic one is always the primary one, and the one people will use daily.
Yeah that's the design flaw. Thats literally what im saying they shouldn't do. You can make a mechanical-first door with an internal solenoid thats capable of popping the door.
The main and only handles on all the doors should be mechanical only, with door popper buttons for all four doors on the driver-side arm rest (where window controls go)
What purpose do electric door handles serve? Other than being more prone to failure, more expensive, and dangerous?
Electric door poppers ARE NOT the same thing as electric door handles, pick a thing to complain about.
POPPERS (IE:solenoids) allow the driver to open doors for passengers, while also ensuring the main way in and out is NOT dependent on electronics (when properly implemented).
Unnecessary luxury? Sure, but so are cars in a lot of the world. Solenoids are cheap, and the idea is not inherently a danger when done right.
Your issue isn't electronically controlled door poppers. Its cars being made by silicon valley, y-combinator sucking, tech-bro douchebags who thought replacing the mechanical handle with a button was a good idea.
The purpose of the electric latch is to save the frameless window panes. It can lower the window slightly in the instant before it opens, to break the seal and avoid torsion on the glass.
Now, frameless windows are stupid and not necessary, so theres that. One dumb idea propagates another.
The issues could cascade beyond the design. The auto manufacturing industry operates on strict production schedules. Though it builds in time to validate and test whatever new features come in each new model, the sudden intro of a design change late in the process could throw off the delicate timetable.
FFS, it's a bloody door handle, not full self driving tech. Author is full of BS.
A lot of upvotes here, and I think they're ignoring how much is involved in production pipelines and the overhead of sourcing suppliers. That said, Musk has a habit of throwing in last minute changes and the company manages to handle those but much like self driving they ship late
Yeah let's see, if the handle would have to be a different shape, they may need a different cutout for the door, different handle moulds, different mechanical parts, updated electronics... does anyone have a fucking clue how difficult it is to program one of those robotic arms? How expensive new moulds are? Any other potential knock-on effects this may have on the internal design?
People with the mentality of 'it's just a small plug at the bottom of the pool, how bad could it possibly be if we removed it'
By the time you're deciding to make all those potential changes, now the question is, if we already have to reprogram the robots, and get new moulds, do we want to make any other changes on this door at the same time, so that we don't have twice the downtime to make the 2 changes?
You do not know or believe how much shit has to be pipelined to get a simple change on a car design going on the market. If you have knowledge about computers, you quickly notice that the hardware and software running in a car are OLD. I've seen cars sold as new with processors so old, they are "no longer recommended for new designs". This is because every single thing has to be tested and approved to death in a car. Sometimes several times over.
Government's also tend to introduce grace periods. They announced that they are going to introduce a law and that that law will go into effect on x date. The manufacturing now has plenty of time to sell the current run of vehicles and then alter the design well ahead of the law coming into effect.
You don't just introduce a law and then implement it the following day. Well Trump does but no body else does.
Non-functional outside handles are just as bad as non-functional inside ones. Not always is the person on the inside able to open the door on their own.
As long as the model 3/y were mechanically operated, I'm not sure their push to pull mechanism is bad or a problem, but the model s/x have electronically presenting handles that need power to present themselves as they pop out horizontally, not with a hinge like 3/y, and you can't really just make that mechanical like you can the model 3/y ones, and the CyberTruck doesn't even have exterior handles.
And of course their constant insistence on inventing vehicles that already exist but labelling them as a different vehicle, with the capabilities of the already existing vehicle, and somehow insisting that it is a revolutionary idea.
Hey guys look at my cool idea for a train that doesn't need rails.
I remember when people kept trying to assert that Tesla is a "luxury" brand, though it seems that this pretense has finally been dropped. Even so, surely they can figure out something that doesn't seem to be an issue for even the cheapest tier of vehicles available in USDM.
Unless you're planning to drive your car around at about 150 miles per hour I don't imagine that the aerodynamicism of door handles really comes into account. Especially since you've still got wing mirrors, wipers, and aerials on the car.
Source on that? Hobbiest aerodynamics nerd and big into F1 (and did a lot of liquid system design engineering in a previous job). Genuinely curious!
My gut feel is that a half kilo of unsprung weight (those ridiculous wheels), tighter fenders, or a bit of tail teardropping would go so much further than anything door-handle-wise. It's certainly helping promote flow attachment, but you've got poor flow rates there because of the wing mirrors anyway
I'm talking out of my ass. I'm big into (mostly sim) racing myself, but I have no formal training or experience. You probably know way more about it than me!
If you're a racing nerd then you know how strong the suckage can be. My car uses premium fuel and I get about 7L/100km on the highway. That adds up on long trips, so I try to save fuel when I can. I've tried drafting behind transport trucks. Even at only 90 kmph, I was able to get that number down to 5L/100km.
Electric vehicles have a lot of design features to cut down on aerodynamic and mechanical drag. Special hub caps, no grilles, low drag tires, etc. for the purpose of helping their main problem and selling point: the vehicle's range on a single charge. I assumed the flush door handles were just another design feature for reducing aerodynamic drag, where every little bit counts.
Again, this is all out of my ass. I am well aware that aerodynamics are far far more complex than "smooth = better", and that most cars are probably already designed so the door handles aren't a problem. Maybe the door handles make no difference and having them flush is just optics for Tesla.
Ah cool! After i raced irl for like a decade I sim raced for a while. It was super fun! I'd like to get back into it someday. It's a lot better on the wallet and body than IRL stuff (especially motorcycles).
I think it helps, but it probably is more of a selling point and aesthetic than an actual help on the (agreed) biggest selling point number.
It's one of those decisions that someone up top probably made and has these kinds of stupid consequences of moving fast and breaking shit. I wouldn't be upset if it had to go to a normal one
I've been into sim racing for nearly a decade. There's never been a better time to get into it IMO.
Sim racing games and equipment have gotten significantly better and cheaper over the last 5 years. Hydraulic pedals and direct drive wheelbases did exist, but they were in the $2k-$4k price range. Now you can get high quality gear with that technology for under $500.
iRacing and Assetto Corsa are still the kings, but we are spoiled for choice when it comes to excellent sims.
If you are any kind of gearhead you'll love it. There are even thriving sub-hobbies for things like bass shakers and motion platforms, which add back some of the seat feeling that you miss out on versus IRL.
Did you do motorcycle racing IRL? I've seen crazy motorcycle sim builds with motion, lean, etc., but I don't think serious simulators exist yet. I'd love to see it.
As for Tesla, I don't think we can know unless a Tesla engineer/aerodynamicist chimes in. There are other more serious examples of executive meddling in engineering, like the use of visual cameras instead of radar/lidar. Working for them must be a hair-pulling experience for their engineers.
I saw a marketing blurb for the 2026 Nissan Leaf. They are also going with flush handles (hopefully a safer design) and claimed it for reduced drag to increase range. But, market, so could be just short of an outright lie.
Kudos for your humility, but you just said that you have no idea the magnitude.
I didn't mean to discount your awareness of the margins of optimization. It's quite a thing moving the needle in an established market (not to mention the money and years of R&D). But this ain't it
Being able to quickly get out of a burning car is important. If you only ever use the electronic door handle and your electrical system is damaged by...the fire, then you are much more likely to burn. The same problem exists on the outside of the car as rescuers have a harder time getting in to save people.
Getting stuck outside of the car in the winter is also pretty common when there is not a good place to grab when the door is covered in ice.
Car manufacturers have been making normal door handles for forever. Tesla 'fixed' something that wasn't broken.
Dude, you act like you've never been burned by someone in your life. Instead of shaming people for purchasing something and getting burned, we should all be getting together and shaming the companies that are enshitified.
Will it? I’m skeptical of the translation since it’s obviously loose and casual, and more optimistic with the quote from Tesla saying they’re redesigning it …
article says mechanical release handles inside and out. Tesla model y could already be here depending on the details
articles says a hand must fit behind the handle, ruling out flush handles, but depending on the details, the model y may a Ready be there, as is the Opel Corsa in this thread
no mention of the electronic latch. I don’t get it, wouldn’t this be the actual most dangerous part?
Is this because the door handle is some complicated electronic mechanism rather than a latch? Gee who could have possibly predicted that would be a problem.
My neighbour has a Tesla and last year I had great fun watching her trying to defrost her car enough to get the door handle to even come out.
I have had to put quite a bit of force into a car door to get it to open on many an occasion. (Ice is a bitch) A normal door handle just works, stop trying to fix it!
I hate the little flip up style handle on my car, known for its winter capability, which regularly freezes enough that you're afraid it'll break if you pull any harder
Seriously. Every other car maker has figured out how to make normal door handles. You can even buy the parts directly from them if you find it too hard to design yourself.
harder than it sounds... yeah the technology isn't there yet! we need research and scientific breakthrough to invent a door handle that you can actually handle. no one's even thought of the concept before.
You've posted this in multiple places without explaining yourself, and your subsequent follow-ups have also just been questioning the person's credentials and offering nothing of your own. You're a classic example of the bullshit asymmetry principle, flooding the thread with low effort trolling.
Of course they do crash testing, you can go watch videos of it if you want. That's just a bot, or someone who knows fuck all. Their cars are always top ranked in crash saftey.
I mean.. if they didn't test their cars, they really must have the best engineers in the world, being able to go from just engineering plans to getting a 5 star saftey rating at all the agencies. Those engineers would be worth their weight in gold lol.
Top ranked for the people inside the cars. Not so safe for the people mining the material to replace cars that get totaled, etc. but most people don't give enough of a fuck to count anyone but the occupants of the car
Redesigning the handle by 2027 is stupid easy. I have an masters in mechanical engineering, this could be done with mostly off the shelf parts. Tesla is being a bitch like normal.
Your skill doesn't translate into supply chain management, testing timelines, manufacturing setups, all that. Dad was a civil engineer. Didn't mean he could run a road laying company.
Shit. Forgot where I was. My post is sucking Elon's dick and excusing Tesla for fuck ups.
FFS, the issues I'm citing are in the article and they're not quotes from Tesla. Lay off the fucking witch hunt.
so in your mind, what happens when a recall occurs and some defective part is replaced with another part? do you think they run these replacements through all your supply chain management testing setups all that huh?
or they don't replace the defects?
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no, this happens all the time. it allows manufacturers to respond to systems that didn't age well, or didn't stand up to public users, or children, or was unsafe in a way that didn't present itself during testing. these things happen. manufacturers make adjustments, replace parts, change software, and put it back out on the road.
Shit. Forgot where I was. My post is sucking Elon’s dick and excusing Tesla for fuck ups.
Unironically yes, you're all over this story flooding the zone with shit to try discrediting the whole thing, despite having nothing of substance to offer beyond asserting that nobody knows anything except for you and Elon.
I read the article, and I’m calling bullshit on the excuses they’re putting up. The fact that they usually prefer a five year cycle, does not mean that it’s difficult to change the handles on the doors in two years if you need to.
Wtf is "willingness to work from design-first principles"? Do Wired realize that the form of the handle follows the function of designing for better aerodynamics?
Pretty sure they're using "design" to mean "aesthetics" in that sentence. I do think we need to less often use "design" to refer specifically to aesthetics or graphic design; every object and system that humans have made are designed.
I read the article. It sounds like the auto makers concern is that they don't think they have been given enough time to solve the problem (the problem being one which may kill people while we wait for a solution).
I think we should give them all the time they want, as long as they stop selling cars without safe door handles RIGHT NOW.
Hello there, I am working on a little project as a way to improve my cad abilities. I am hoping to build a custom fantasy computer to go along with the pico8 fantasy system. I am basing it off of the Mac se/30 but am obviously hoping to get that nice 1:1 aspect ratio.
Trouble is that decent size 1:1 screens don't seem to exist as far as I have researched, I instead found a small 4:3 lcd panel I can use, and was originally planning to simply rotate the screen and let it render 1:1 while physically covering the top and bottom, but it seems to add significantly more vertical height than I anticipated.
so now I am hoping that I can shift the screen down and somehow get the PI to render only in the topmost visible section.
Included are a couple pictures of what I mean.
I am just wondering if there is a way, in software, to rotate and move up the screen, or at least the pico 8 window
What are you using to draw on the screen? That would determine how best to achieve this. I'd expect it to be doable regardless, but the path there would be different.
The screen is going to be connected to my pi 4 through HDMI, using x11 most likely. I'm still waiting on the lcd controller so I haven't been able to fully test the setup
You should be able to set up letterboxing using either xrandr or your window manager, although I got pretty unsatisfactory results when I searched for "xrandr letterboxing".
Assuming 1:1 aspect ratio is for the physical screen, the resolution most likely won't be a square because of the rectangular shape of pixels. So you'll need to calculate the resolution of visible part of the screen first. After you have found your resolution, you'll probably need to add that resolution config under /etc/x11/xorg.conf.d/.
The integration offers conversational, cited answers instead of traditional links and follows positive feedback from earlier tests in select markets. Perplexity will expand to mobile soon.
I just use homebrew with quarantine disabled (otherwise homebrew will auto-update the package with quarantine enabled again, even if you installed it without).
I use librewolf via nix home-manager to declaratively configure preferences, plugins, engines, bookmarks, and policy settings. My librewolf configuration module is my largest config file by far... At least I don't need to reapply it by hand anymore, but I really wish Firefox didn't suck so much.
Can you back it up with data? Or is it just what your bubble thinks? For whatever reason anti-AI sentiment seems very prevalent on much of the Fediverse, but the Fediverse as a whole is niche.
I prefer waterfox but i normally use them booth as they are awesome (one just with the basic addons and the other with all the addons i want but they could break websites)
I really don’t know enough about Perplexity AI to have an opinion one way or another, which is why I’m upvoting for awareness. I can’t say whether it’s a good or bad thing, although I’m not optimistic given the general trend of shoehorning “AI” in whether it makes sense or not, but I’m sure there are actually useful applications for the product and a better search engine could be one. I want actual search results, though, not a generated slop answer.
Technitium provides software for privacy over the Internet. Technitium MAC Address Changer (TMAC) is a freeware utility to instantly change or spoof MAC Address of any network card (NIC).
Ones that work well take your natural language input, spend time searching and offer results. Not summarize anything. How well does perplexity work in that regard I wonder?
I find that chatgpt and claude try to give you one answer and sounds mildly to very certain about themselves without giving references.
Perplexity actually gives reference links for each claim it makes, which I find better because I can check it's work and fork off and explore further myself at any point along it's reasoning.
As a definite AI Hater, I find it to be a good middle ground LLM / search engine
Dragomus
in reply to MicroWave • • •Yeah uh the, now deposed, Chinese ceo used Nexperia funds to keep a different company in China afloat ... on top of that he kept bringing up ideas to "move all Nexperia company assets & production to China".
This all besides the other political stormclouds blowing in from the US.
All in all it was a good decision the Dutch government made, they will find a way to produce somewhere in Europe probably.
queermunist she/her
in reply to Dragomus • • •FishFace
in reply to queermunist she/her • • •queermunist she/her
in reply to FishFace • • •FishFace
in reply to queermunist she/her • • •What is causing "complete dependence on the US" here? Taking over one single Chinese company doesn't do that.
And chipmaking is dominated by the US, China and Taiwan (which is not immune to influence from the other two parties, lol) so how exactly can one avoid dependency on or the other, except by balancing dependency between the two?
If you really think this means "complete dependence" then explain how.
psx_crab
in reply to queermunist she/her • • •Have every product of the world depend on china is significantly worst. It seems everyone started to realise how bad it is and start pulling back. Except US, that maneuver is insane.
Just because shit didn't happen now doesn't mean the next in line won't decide to shit the bed.
queermunist she/her
in reply to psx_crab • • •psx_crab
in reply to queermunist she/her • • •cnbc.com/amp/2025/10/13/dutch-…
You claim these are US vassal, but then you also said to secure their power. You don't secure your power with your vassal if you're already "own" those state.
jacksilver
in reply to queermunist she/her • • •Dependent on the US for what?
This reads like the Dutch are protecting Dutch interests. Given the Dutch companies are integral to developing top-tier chips, I suspect they are trying to protect that industry and keep it in their country.
queermunist she/her
in reply to jacksilver • • •Dependency on financing trade in USD, dependency on US fossil fuels, dependecy on proprietary US technology, dependency on the US military-industrial complex, dependecy on US border and surveillance technologies, etc etc.
The US fosters dependency in all its allies to maintain the empire. China, and the BRICS bloc in general, offers an alternative. That's why the US is forcing all its vassals to turn on China.
jacksilver
in reply to queermunist she/her • • •You seem to be posing this as if there are only two sides, and that the Dutch (and Europe in general) don't have their own self interests.
Many policies lately from the EU have been pushing back on both US and Chinese interests.
NeilBrü
in reply to queermunist she/her • • •Yep.
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GIPHYdemonsword
in reply to Dragomus • • •If the roles were reversed, I bet most people around here would be complaining at "Chinese imperialism" or something. But an European country*, from "the West", part of the "free world", can do no wrong.
EDIT: spelling
Phoenixz
in reply to demonsword • • •demonsword
in reply to Phoenixz • • •"Everyone that disagrees with me is ."
C'mon, grow up.
rezad
in reply to MicroWave • • •sure....
"china" started this and west "mirrored"
DarkAri
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