Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)H

huppakee

@ huppakee @lemmy.world

Posts
3
Comments
348
Joined
2 mo. ago

  • The next president is going to have some big floppy shoes to fill...

    Jump

  • On Friday evening, January 21st, she repeated the saying on Twitter and Instagram, in slightly different form, adding that it was a Circassian proverb (in Turkish: öküz saraya çıkınca kral olmaz, ama saray ahır olur). At 2 a.m. that Saturday morning, she was detained for ‘insulting’ the Turkish President, which is as strong an admission that she’d hit the mark as it’s possible to imagine.

    I read that Orbán was an inspiration to the writers of Project 2025, but i guess Erdogan might also be a real life example for Trump. He needed a few decades to turn his country from a secular democracy into a religious "democracy". I really feel for the opposition there. How long before Trump puts people behind bars for insulating the president and locks up Democrats because of "corruption".

  • What a brilliant scheme for raking in cash. Devote your life to politics and hold the highest office in the country then write a book about it. Have you heard of this?

    Jump

  • One question though, what is Hunter Biden doing on the platform formerly known as Twitter? The only people he'll run into there are people who post shit like this anyway.

  • Satya Nadella ‘Not Sure’ Who Said Microsoft Wanted to Make Addictive AI, Is Looking for Guy Who Did This

    Jump

  • Or just the "guy" that's willing to take one for the team

  • EU sees no jet fuel shortage amid price surge, transport chief says

    Jump

  • Of course not, we're the highest bidders.

  • Can we just start calling them "weird" again? It seemed to work.

    Jump

  • Didn't watch the video yet, but but my closeted gaydar is making loud noises already

  • Half of Belgium sees the US as a bigger adversary than China

    Jump

  • Yeah i guess i should have written what seems best for Trump & co.

  • Google Wallet ID passes will be available in select EU states this summer

    Jump

  • It's not strange people want an easy life. These features existing isn't necessarily a problem. It only becomes a problem when either laws don't protect consumers against big corporations or when big corporations ignores the law. There are people who see every big corporation as evil (i understand their reasons) and there are people who see all government as evil (i understand their reasons as well). Clearly, US laws don't protect the users of these problems and also these companies (though Google more then Apple) have repeatedly proven they will use user data to increase their earnings. I can totally understand why somebody would want to use these features, but i myself would not trust Google or Apple with my important data, maybe my cinema ticket at most.

  • Google Wallet ID passes will be available in select EU states this summer

    Jump

  • Here are two related posts on Lemmy: i'll edit this comment in a sec with link preview:

    Gedoodverfd opvolger van DigiD is niet te gebruiken zonder Gmail-account of Apple-ID Linked article in Dutch, it covers the tech mentioned in the article of this post. "NL Wallet, the government's upcoming digital identity app, relies on software from Apple and Google, according to research by Follow the Money." For the rest of the English translation it's in a comment; https://vger.to/lemmy.world/post/47664008

    The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everything This post from two days ago links an article about the current Dutch system, which was almost taken over by a big US corporation. https://vger.to/scribe.disroot.org/post/9308733

  • Poland and European allies demand crackdown on Russian Schengen visas

    Jump

  • shouldn't have to allow

    Exactly, it is still either a visa for all of Schengen or no visa at all; which i find quite limited options for a case like this

  • Half of Belgium sees the US as a bigger adversary than China

    Jump

  • Imo the Germans really deserve props with how they treat their black page, compared to how other countries around them still try to hide what they did during colonial times (which to some extent, continues to present day)

  • Half of Belgium sees the US as a bigger adversary than China

    Jump

  • I guess this is so in many more places, we look at the world and wonder who has power. Most Europeans will see two big players: China and the US.

    China (unlike Russia) was never a true enemy, but neither ever a true ally. It has been going back and forth between a dependable business partner and a hostile state, stealing technological secrets, overflowing our market with unsafe low-cost goods.

    The US behaved like a dependable friend for a long time. They did things we ('the rest of the west') didn't like, but they also helped us out all the time. Obvious to anyone here, this is no longer the case. We cannot predict whether their next policy will help or hurt us, the only thing we can say for sure it will be whatever works best for them. That's not the behaviour of an ally.

    I sincerely wonder what the future holds. China doesn't have to be an enemy of the west and vice versa. But i guess we (or actually, each world leader) all have to choose how we position ourselves on the global stage.

  • Poland and European allies demand crackdown on Russian Schengen visas

    Jump

  • In general i find it a really good thing that a single country can hand out a visa for the entire schengen-area, but that it is still not possible to restrict that possibility is beyond me. Russia is a hostile state, obviously not all Russians should be punished for that but some precaution against bad actors is totally logical. It's not like this war started last week.

  • Cologne Cathedral to charge tourists €12 for entry

    Jump

  • I believe you could get around that by giving out a free card to locals/all Germans/all Europeans that gives free access.

  • stop making him look so cool lmao

    Jump

  • It's either that, or it's public education that still has a long way to go /jk

  • Rutte on striking St Petersburg during Putin’s forum: Needs a special decree by Zelenskyy, like parade on 9 May

    Jump

  • "Ukraine is now so successful that Putin is only able to organise a 9 May parade with an official presidential decree by this President," Rutte said, pointing to Zelenskyy.

  • Rutte on striking St Petersburg during Putin’s forum: Needs a special decree by Zelenskyy, like parade on 9 May

    Jump

  • I don't disagree, but how does it relate to this article?

  • ​Why is Europe still not ready for extreme heat?

    Jump

  • Answer: denial

  • Christian man sues employer for forcing him to see a Pride flag on his way into work

    Jump

  • having to see a Progress Pride flag … forces him to “celebrate, recognize, and solemnize conduct and actions that he views as sin”

    If it only was that easy to get people to celebrate, recognize, and solemnize gay sex, world would be a better place no doubt.

  • Christian man sues employer for forcing him to see a Pride flag on his way into work

    Jump

  • Tell me a story about the US without telling me it's a story about the US.