Most of human history…hmm checks notes… since the invention of capitalism about 400 years ago, yes.

Even serfs under feudal lords had significantly more free time and while basic child labor was common, it was mostly in family run farms.

Afaik only 150b of that is actual new, the rest is just relabled national funding already previously committed. The EU likes to pretend they are doing something big, when in reality its the individual states doing it mostly.

As for not being able to change anything at EU level… that is of course by design so that the national governments can retain control. Very little is actually decided on EU level, most of it is backdoor deals of changing groups of national governments.

Related: https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externalizing-your-costs-on-me.html

And Lemmy instances are also affected.

Mir musst du das nicht mansplainen 🙄

I discussed this on the Lemmy issue tracker and the Lemmy devs are not willing to put some standartized restrictions on password composition to ease such interoperability. Thus the only advise I can give is to change your password to not use any obscure non-ascii characters and keep the length below 60 (30?) characters.

And water is wet 🙄 Those 20% AfD voters are not ghosts that only come out when there is an election.

Ich finde es auch etwas naive. Vom Auto als Statussymbol abgesehen ist es in meinem persönlichen Umfeld ehr so das die Frauen große und schwere Autos bevorzugen, mit argumenten wie da sitzt man höher und sieht besser (was falsch ist, aber so ist das Argument oft), ist sicherer, oder da muss ja die ganze Familie reinpassen, oder man will ja auch mal nen Anhänger ziehen können usw. Solche Argumente sind ehr selten von Männern die oft eigentlich nur einen bequemen Einsitzer haben wollen und von nem kleinen unpraktischen Cabrio träumen.

This is or at least was a problem with cross-posts in the same community in Lemmy as well. I think now Lemmy just prevents posts with the same URL to be counted as crossposts when they are in the same community.

Too expensive to rebuild half the tracks to allow higher speeds.

Seems like a Github sponsors promotion website. Why waste money by using a Microsoft owned middle man, when better projects like LiberaPay exist?

They were the first movers with modern tracks, and now those older tracks hold them back. The TGV itself can go much faster in theory.

Update to Lemmy 0.19.10 was completed. Looks like it went fine. This update will allow us to remove that “Nicole” DM spam a bit better.

In other news: looks like those AI scrapers found a way around out attempts to block them again and this this afternoon we are at near constant 100% CPU utilization again because of this 😢 Lets see what we can do about this. Edit: got slightly better, only 60-80% now. Lets see in the coming days how it develops.

The server can swap to a modified JS that exfiltrates the e2ee key and thus allows the server owner to decrypt the messages, or in more advanced encryption schemes add additional keys without you knowing and achieve the same thing.

Yes you can juryrig something like that with cookies, but it is highly fragile and browser based e2ee is basically a scam anyways as the server serving the website can always swap out the javascript that decrypts the messages.

This sounds a bit like you are falling for the popular game of EU-washing that many local politicians like to play, i.e. push for something at EU level and later claim there is nothing they could have done against it because it was decided by those up there in the EU.

In general the EU is far, far from being the “United states of Europe” and most of the controversial decisions are actually taken by national leaders circumventing the EU and its institutions like the EU parliament. The EU commission is largely just a bureaucratic organ to EU-wash the general neoliberal consensus of local politicians.

And from an anarchist perspective, it is IMHO preferable to have some far away aloof bureaucrats occupying themselves with some non-sense of little relevance and which you can largely ignore, than a local autocratic government that is breathing down your neck.

Maybe also, but I think the argument is rather that once the brown shirts nearby are gone they will find someone else to turn on, and historically speaking this was often their previous allies with some minor ideological disagreements.

e2ee is not really compatible with what you want due to necessary key management, and once you drop that there are so many possible options for what you want that I don’t want to list them all here.

Hmm, no? Where does the OP say that?

I don’t think an EU army is necessarily a bad thing. By itself it isn’t worse than a national army (low bar, I know), but disagreements between nations will make it hard to use for foreign intervention purposes and deep integration will make it hard for parts of it to be used against other parts of it.

And once you think about an EU army it becomes quite clear that cost savings possible by cooperating that way are much better that burning lots of borrowed money on multiple national white elephants like currently often the case.

Well, my understanding on the OPs text is that the means necessarily shape the ends, but instead of a sociological interpretation, it is an equally valid neurological one.

And this is in turn the exact same argument as that the ends should never justify the means, because if you use the wrong means you will never reach the ends you want.