HobbitFoot

Why are you putting the decisions of others on me?

I’m not denying the slavery. I’m stating what the decisions are that are influencing choosing the UAE as a vacation destination.

The issue seems to come from visiting places that are likely to have police shoot and/or arrest you for not speaking the local language.

Or he got a bribe from the first bridge owner.

China may not be perceived as a military threat, but it is credibly an economic threat. China is returning to a state where Europe has difficulty conducting trade with China as China will only accept natural resources for trade. That can be dangerous for an economy with a large safety net, declining productivity, and little in terms of natural resources.

The EU is comprised of sovereign entities, but those entities have chosen to give up certain competencies to the Union for various benefits. The EU already handles trade diplomacy and monetary policy through democratic institutions; it isn’t that hard to imagine that could also take on competencies related to defense.

The EU also could share the competency of defense with the various nations. After all, there are other countries which have sub national entities that have their own militaries.

They’re already doing it to access the social security website.

Regarding the NJ election, it became obvious that the former Lieutenant Governor bent the knee to AIPAC, both to get money to support her campaign and also to fund a smear campaign against former representative Tom Malinowski since Tom wanted some conditions on aid to Israel.

Looks like AIPAC got Tom out, but Analilia Mejia is likely going to be far worse for them

But the magical box has changed shape and change is scary.

It isn’t even just the performance and bloat issues or the AI.

As you hinted, Windows 11 made a lot of changes to the UI. I can’t think of a single change made which I liked as someone who has had to deal with Windows since before 95. Windows 11 felt like a downgrade from Windows 10.

You’ve got a lot of managers with purchasing authority who developed a ton of muscle memory on old Windows. The new UI changes have made Windows feel alien enough that you can’t use retraining costs as an excuse to keep with Windows.

Windows 11.1.1 for desktops?

This wasn’t built to be a great service, it was built to be a French controlled one.

It is easier to get the public to accept they don’t have a safety driver involved at all with this middle step.

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You chose to write a response in a different language than the rest of the thread then critique my translation.

It isn’t a contradiction but clarification. Your response implies a binary truth where only one statement can be correct. I’m noting that both statements can be correct at the same time.

Before you try to think I’m going to argue otherwise, cartel violence doesn’t justify an American military response.

The current administration may be trying to manufacture consent for a military operation, but cartel violence in Mexico has been an issue for decades. This has included the assassination of Mexican politicians.

I believe enough of them are American and Lemmy is a dumb place to create a bot army.

Do you know the deaths that happened post World War I? Do you know the deaths that happened in World War I on the scale compared to what was before?

You seem focused a lot on “America bad” and I can’t argue that an American led international order was bloodless, but the lack of a power is going to lead to increased conflict. After all, if it wasn’t for the USA, why wouldn’t Venezuela invade Guyana?

Trump has made the American Empire caustic to the international order in part because he is leading the charge to discard the international order for something else.

I feel like the issue at hand is that revolutionaries want to promise a better tomorrow without building a non-American world order without acknowledging that the various wars between the world wars are only going to amplify and that many of the intermediate powers don’t share the same political end goals.