ViatorOmnium

Tariffs only apply to physical goods, not services. And tariffs are usually based on origin, not seller. The physical goods those produce don’t come from the US, so they are mostly safe from tariffs. We need to have a digital service tax, but that should used to finance the digital commons (e.g. foss projects), not as a trade bargaining chip.

This is the kind of maddening magical experience you lose when you get an induction stove.

Let’s say you build a bridge. You build the nicest on-ramp, you put the nicest lamp posts, the nicest pavement, and the most beautiful railings in the history of bridges. And the bridge ends on a cliff. There might be some nice views on top of the bridge to nowhere, but it’s a bridge to nowhere.

That’s a work of fiction with a bad ending. A work of fiction is a work, not a person, so where it leads to is very much an integral part of the work.

It was Nicolae Ștefănuță from the Greens–European Free Alliance which was always going to be one of the political groups more likely to support this initiative.

We need to convince MEPs in the PES and EPP to really get a directive approved.

Conservatives also say it, it’s just that their village is a church, a coal mine, and convenience store that accepts company scrip.

FFS. If you are in this situation don’t quit. Refuse to follow illegal orders until you are fired.

The LOTR movies need a lots of hand waving to work. Which is why you get questions like “why didn’t they take the eagles to mordor?”.

All Americans should be quarantined for 2 weeks when they enter another country until they get their shit together regarding vaccines. Especially the oligarchs.

Currently it works just as frontend for git, but it theoretically supports other backends too. Allegedly Google has their own experimental internal cloud+db based backend for big monorepos.

If a child dies of measles in a school all parents of all unvaccinated kids at school should be jailed for manslaughter.

From the economic point of view the EU acts very much like a single country. Even the EEA can be seen as single entity if looking from the perspective of an American trade negotiator.

They had the “We the people” platform, started by Obama. But Trump started ripping it apart, and Biden pulled the plug on his first day in the office.

And even then instead of being people driven, the US administration would choose what they want to address or not. For all the excesses of EU bureaucracy, there are plenty cases like this where it prevents politicians from ignoring people’s concerns; they can still refuse to act, but at least the petition system forces them to go on record.

Are ID Documents numbers validated on submit if you fill the form instead of using eID? Some countries don’t even have an eID option, and Finland and Ireland don’t even ask for document id.

Have you seen the shit AI spews out? It comes pre-drunk out of the box.

Question 1: Where’s the CI/CD pipeline?
Question 2: Why can one person change production alone without peer review (outside of an emergency)?

You don’t have a job, you have a ticking time bomb.

Individual Jehovah Witnesses are nice. The organisation as whole is incredible evil even by organised religion standards.

It makes more sense when you consider that reviewing papers is expected but not remunerated, while scientific newspapers charge readers an extortionate fee.

At this point I’m assuming everyone turning on Tesla’s self driving is trying to commit murder-suicide with a side of life insurance fraud.

Technically it’s because some members of the group trespassed in a military base and vandalised an airplane. Which is trespassing and vandalism. Not terrorism. Unless Starmer has been watching too much Thomas & the Friends and Pixar’s Cars and believes that the poor planes can’t sleep at night anymore, because they are terrified.

That’s the thing, Software Engineers have choices.

Yes, all big companies will do some dubious things.

But then you have big tech that does all those dubious things and is also breaking democratic institutions everywhere with a sledgehammer.

And then you have Palentir, which are literally Hollywood movie villains.

At this point they are light years of their livelihood depending on it. There’s no way they don’t notice where the bombs are falling, they had plenty of time to look around and have decided they don’t care.