It’s a slippery slope.

Sure, nobody likes the Russians right now, but it also applies to other immigrants and refugees from elsewhere.

In Denmark a right wing party suggested something similar. They know fully well that immigrants don’t vote for them, and they’d love nothing more than to remove their political representation and eventually remove them from our welfare too.

I’d definitely be wary of who and why they want to remove voting rights for certain tax payers.

You can’t just drive around and vote everywhere . You’ll need permanent residence.

EU citizens are allowed to live and work anywhere in EU, so by default they are also allowed to vote in their municipality where they live. info

I don’t know if the following applies everywhere, but where I live this also includes people from outside EU, if they are allowed to live here permanently.

National elections require citizenship.

SEPA is not instant. It’s still one day as standard.

You can’t use SEPA to pay in the grocery store, because the cash register has no way to confirm your payment until tomorrow. That’s the thing cards and various apps like WERO solve currently.

Most of these apps are tied to a traditional card, but some are tied directly to the bank account and some can do both.

Anyway, the independence from American software is still far away, since most people will be using Android or iOS to use those apps…

Imagine if it’s a live stream, changing the plot as you watch dependent on your reaction.

At first it might be fun to see what happens if Frodo doesn’t throw the ring in the lava, but eventually you gotta ask yourself why you’re wasting your time in front of a screen watching weird cat videos.

CS:GO is the best we can do. It’s a EU decision. Can’t change it now.

This was a topic in 2016, where Trump was all over keeping the coal workers in jobs. How many coal workers does actually USA have? Go ahead, look it up. Also look up how many he saved.

When I last did, I found that there were about 40 000 people employed in coal related jobs in USA, and he didn’t save a single one of them. The coal employment decreased during his term and ever since.

Every year, there are more than 3 million people born in USA. All of those will need a job in 18-25 years or so. Every year, 3 million people will be looking for a job. If the unemployment queue is increased by all the 40k coal employees being laid off at once, you would hardly notice it in the statistics.

I also looked up the Finnish companies. They gradually laid off 400 people from 2022 until today based on the decision to stop the coal power plants. It’s completely neligable. They can easily do other jobs. Even in the same industry, just not coal.

The whole talking point is a nothing-burger.

Economic sanctions is one alternative. See North Korea. It doesn’t work very well against Russia because they do have a lot of resources and their population is used to scarcity. This tactic would be more efficient against, say USA, because quite frankly, the western lifestyle is not self-sufficient.

Another alternative is to use Putin’s own “special military operations” where instead of fighting a war front to front, they attack specific targets or throw people out of windows.

This is difficult for Europe to do, because we like to align with each other before doing anything serious. That way, actual democracies are not fit to do this kind of stuff in comparison to a dictatorship, but it’s possible if anyone feels it’s necessary. However it rarely has a positive outcome. It’s like flipping the table and hoping something better comes up.

Overall, all agressive behavior leads to a losing position. Nobody has ever won a war or even a street fight. Both sides lose. The victory goes to those who wins the peace. So that’s what Europe is constantly trying to do by diplomacy.

Even if I dislike spending ressources on military, it might make sense to armour up, just to keep a seat at the table of peace negotiation.

It’s almost funny how the right wing in every country is both claiming to make very popular politics while also being the minority against the “elite”, which is supposedly a secret coalition of everyone else.

At the same time they are themselves swindling EU funds to go to secret meetings where they coordinate by the same playbook. They’re using the same words and strategy in all of Europe. It’s always projection.

They’re very loud, but it’s time for the citizens in all of Europe to show them that facism is in fact not popular. I have had it with politely ignoring them - we all need to speak up and call out the bullshit as it happens.

Yes. The stable genius is doing everything he can to unite all american trade partners against the US. They don’t really have a choice.

It’s the Americans who ought to worry about it the most.

I don’t think the preparation is meant for full blown war. It’s for disruptions.

Russia won’t be able drive tanks all over Europe any time soon, but they are capable of cutting cables to attack energy distribution, hacking payment methods and other infrastructure dependent on networks.

Remember the start of Covid? There was plenty of toiletpapir, hand sanitizer and test kits for everyone, but nobody could get it in stores for a long time because everyone wanted it at the same time. It’s better if everyone stock up over a longer period of time, so it doesn’t crash the supply chain when it is needed.

That’s why you ask for the sources, so you can check them.

I think this kind of prompting is an important part of how to use it in any meaningful manner.

You can also input your own sources and ask it to only use that. For instance by uploading a pdf of a law and ask it to figure out how to do something totally legal and then let it show where in the law it says so. You’ll obviously still need to check that the law actually says so and that it isn’t hallucinating.

It’s usually possible to ask the AI for the sources. A proper journalist should always question the validity of their sources.

Unfortunately, journalism is dead. This is just someone writing funny clickbait, but it’s quite ironic how they use AI to discredit AI.

It makes sense for a journalist to discredit AI because AI took their jobs. This is just not the way to do it, because AI is also better at writing clickbait.