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  • EU can no longer afford national vetoes on foreign policy, says Germany's Scholz

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  • It seems pretty clear that EU is not acting in the interests of the people of Europe given how EU economy is doing,

    Is it impossible that the people of the EU are okay with tanking the hit, for now, if it's necessary in order to stand up to a bully, in their opinion, Putin's Russia?

    Nobody's denying the US will profit of this, that's tangential.

    Who sent all that military equipment to Ukraine: the governments of Poland, Lithuania, Slovakia, France, Germany, etc... or the EU?

    How is any of this an argument for the EU institutions' democratic deficit, which is what we've been discussing here. The EU seems aligned with the wishes of most of the countries.

    If you want to claim liberal democracies themselves are undemocratic, you'll be moving the goal post then, because that's not what you've been claiming so far.

    And here, I'll move it for you too. So, liberal democracies are just democracy for the capitalist bourgeoisie, more so than in China. If that's true, why are they choosing to ruin their economy, they're the first ones that want their businesses to do well, no, and for the economy to not stagnate? Are you claiming all of Europe's capitalists are somehow directly bought out by US money, to the extent that it's more so than what they lose by the economy going down? I don't think that's even mathematically possible.

    Maybe it's an economically bad move to support Ukraine's fight, and it might end up having more instability as a consequence, but I'm pretty sure it was Europe's wish, as much as it can be.

  • EU can no longer afford national vetoes on foreign policy, says Germany's Scholz

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  • EU can no longer afford national vetoes on foreign policy, says Germany's Scholz

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  • The government in China ... depends on social stability to stay in power.

    The EU bureaucracy does not have this relationship with the people...

    I don't follow.

  • EU can no longer afford national vetoes on foreign policy, says Germany's Scholz

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  • It would obviously be preferable to have sovereign governments that act in the interests

    Most complaints about the lack of EU institutions' democracy and high "bureaucracy-ness" is the exact opposite, that the people can't directly vote on things like the Commission president and Commission members, and that the EU-wide parliament has limited powers. As is, they are basically chosen by the various countries' politicians, hence the " bureaucracy-ness".

  • EU can no longer afford national vetoes on foreign policy, says Germany's Scholz

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  • The government in Italy is about to fall,

    Happens every other Tuesday.

    war mongers in France suffered a huge defeat

    That's a good thing then?

    German government will likely fall next

    Based on what?

    Why are you always such a western doomer?

  • EU can no longer afford national vetoes on foreign policy, says Germany's Scholz

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  • submitting to an unelected bureaucracy that runs EU

    Let me guess, you think China is democratic even tho it has a very pyramidal electoral system, hierarchical electoral system, where only local People's Congresses are directly elected and everything after that (many layers) are elected pyramid-ally, through layers of representatives, with the added bonus it's not only bottom->top votes there, but also top->bottom screening/vetoing.

    In the EU people vote directly (in many countries by politician name/not lists) on their city level, county level, the province level, the state level, the country level, and also for the EU parliament, the EU level.

    The thing that's not quite as democratic and is bureaucratic is the European Commission (only one part of the EU "government"), the president of it is suggested by country leaders essentially, and is then voted/approved/reject by the EU Parliament, and then the Commission members themselves get suggested by the various respective countries' ministers and then voted on by the EU Parliament. The rest of the EU "government" are the ministers of the various countries themselves (Council of the European Union). And honestly, as much a minister is indirectly appointed in literally any country, so is a member of the EU "government", essentially.

    Btw, the "head of state" of the EU is the European Council - the "heads of state/government" of the various countries.

    The biggest problem is the Parliament can't suggest legislature, only vote on it, but that's in the process of being changed as we speak. Also, there's also the Spitzenkandidat, whereby even the Commission president could be directly elected theoretically.

    Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutions_of_the_European_Union

    I feel like, due to your dislike of unrestrained capitalism in North America, and the US attempted hegemony and imperialism (I say attempted because they haven't really succeeded), which is understandable on its own and totally fine, you're blinded into a state where you dislike anything "western" without any objectivity.

  • How do you call a community "sub" in Lemmy ?

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  • Or "le mutiny" for added zest, in line with lemmy's revolutionary tendencies, mirite?

    Jokes aside, I like community.

    Edit: If cross-instance same-named multireddits are ever to become a thing, I'd be okay with those being called sublemmies (y'know, like lemmy.ml/c/cheese+cheese@beehaw.org+cheese@sopuli.xyz, kind of thing, all under /f/cheese).

  • the west

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  • Meme: Russia, not communism.

    Yogthos: Communism.

    Edit: Also, as well, selective. Give stats for the Baltics, Poland, Czechia, etc... ex-yu is irrelevant, as it's about Russia, not communism. No offense, but it's like you're literally Mel Gibson in the meme. :P

  • Can consumers have too much choice?

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

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

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

    "Attempts to duplicate the paradox of choice in other studies have had mixed success." ... "This phenomenon in particular has come under some criticism[3] due to increased scrutiny of scientific research related to the replication crisis and has not been adequately reproduced by subsequent research,[4] thereby calling into question its validity. "

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • New Firefox privacy feature strips URLs of tracking parameters

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  • Close, uBlock Origin had it, but not Firefox itself.

  • The Strange and Secret Ways That Animals Perceive the World

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  • Nice article, ty for the post.

  • Swedish minister of culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth's participation in a "racist spectacle" in which she carved up a cake depicting a naked black woman (2012)

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  • While this indeed looks absolutely horrible and is extremely tone deaf, and probably even does show some kind of level of closeted racism by the minister, for choosing to proceed with this, this was an art piece about racism and the issues of female genital mutilation (most common in countries of Africa) by a Swedish POC artist, and all of this happened within an exhibition about artistic freedoms, to which the minister got invited to and all of this happened over a decade ago. I remember reading about it when it happened. Not exactly news, not sure why post it now.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makode_Linde#Painful_Cake_2012

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Adelsohn_Liljeroth#Political_Life

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  • Noise pollution is a real thing, I experience it on the daily.

    Just one of the reasons electric cars, public transit, and bicycles are great, not just for combating air pollution and global warming.

  • Why This Computer Scientist Says All Cryptocurrency Should “Die in a Fire”

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  • You don't need to, but it would be healthy.

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  • Everything you've ever wanted to know about the working of mechanical watches

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  • I love this guy's stuff, it's always so informative and in-depth.

  • Do you know any opensource tool to generate 3D buildings?

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  • Major solar breakthrough means energy can be stored for up to 18 years

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  • Not a single sentence in the article of how this actually works. I found the original progress from 2017 and newer research and the newest stuff that caused the article. Plus the full thing.

    The main benefit compared to photovoltaic cells plus classic batteries appears to be the fact that one chemical, a liquid, does both the energy absorption from the sun and serves as the storage medium. And it's long term storage. Also easy to transport.

    It works based on a specially designed molecule that changes shape when it comes into contact with sunlight, storing energy. And that energy is later released at any point in time as heat by running the chemical through a catalyst, and converted into electricity in a small chip-scale thing.

    Obviously, this is still early research, long way until it's a freely available and economically viable technology. Still great tho, looks promising. I wonder how much energy it packs per kg or liter.

  • How did you find out about Lemmy?

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  • I honestly don't remember. I think I was actively looking for a federated reddit-like site, because I really liked the concept of a federated platform as an alternative to the monopolistic social media giants, and I stumbled upon a link to lemmy somewhere. The project seemed great and I stayed.

  • A place for everything about web development @lemmy.ml
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    What is Server-Side Ad Serving?

    www.kevel.co /blog/server-side-ad-serving/
  • Science Fiction @lemmy.ml
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    The Long Chase - A Short Story by Geoffrey A. Landis (2002)

    www.lightspeedmagazine.com /fiction/the-long-chase/
  • Technology @lemmy.ml
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    spaceprob.es - Catalog of the active human-made machines that freckle our solar system

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  • Space, the final frontier @lemmy.ml
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    spaceprob.es - Catalog of the active human-made machines that freckle our solar system

    spaceprob.es
  • Green - An environmentalist community @lemmy.ml
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    Edible Packaging: Seaweed Extract Sodium Alginate and Milk Protein Casein Mixed with Calcium Ions, Water and Oxygen Resistance, Respectively

    www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov /pmc/articles/PMC6935892/
  • Science @lemmy.ml
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    Humanity Is Flushing Away One of Life’s Essential Elements: We Broke Phosphorus

    www.theatlantic.com /science/archive/2021/02/phosphorus-pollution-fertilizer/617937/