There were still eu citizens left in the UK? Had not expected them to last that long there. Impressive.

Israel commits a genocide.

Don’t want to guit-trip anyone but being critical of what you eat is good for everyone. Eating less meat is good for the planet and your health, even if the meat is not contaminated. If you don’t like CNN you can find very similar content from other sources by using a search engine of your choice.

• Eating more plants linked to lower risk of dementia, even in old age - CNN
• Swapping processed meat for plant-based foods may cut diabetes and heart disease risk, new review finds
• ‘Shift’ to plant-based diets is key to saving world’s wildlife

Yes, I’m cherry picking.

Orange spermy 😂

Continue hating all you want, but you won’t convince me someone doing 2 bad things is equally bad as someone doing only one of them. It’s not black and white and I’m not so blind i can’t understand why you hate, you don’t have to explain it.

Totally, a government choices should be held accountable. Which is why giving the government power is only a good thing in fully functional democracies. I agree. But a Saudi based company is not likely to give you a better treatment as the Saudi government. But either way, on someone else’s platform you’ll have to adhere to someone else’s rules. I like how the Fediverse gives us our own houses with our own rules.

Control as in decide whats allowed and whats not? No thank you.

Control as in enforcing people placing illegal content on the internet, from child pron to hate speech to sexual harrasment to doxxing? Yes please. The regular internet and social media should be as safe as the physical world.

Well it’s not like the UK has always been nice to other common wealth countries. So for a similar reason they are moving away from the US, they are not moving closer to the UK. It would make sense if UK and Canada, Australia and New-Zealand were close friends, but it also makes sense why that is not the case.

The less people use ai that collects data, the less 3rd party data end up there. Example. Imagine your neighbour shares personal data about you every day with ChatGPT, and they switch to an alternative that respects everybody privacy the new data about you does not reach OpenAI and the companies they sell your data to.

The AI haters on Lemmy do not see the middle ground. They are so hellbent on people not using AI at all they seem to forget the fact that not all companies are equally evil. If people are going to use AI, better to guide them to the most ethical ones.

I know there are some serious AI haters on Lemmy and they will say we should not use AI at all. I can see where they are coming from, considering the downsides of AI. But if you want to use it and have the option to stay away from OpenAI’s / Anthropic’s / Google’s / etc platforms, two more privacy-friendly options are Proton’s Lumo and Duck.ai (from DuckDuckGo). They aren’t as advanced as the top-tier models but they are definitely good enough for me.

With support of Germany and other EU powerhouses, it is currently proposed, that, when using personal data “in the context of AI”, companies are generally permitted to do basically anything. The commercial interests of AI companies should generally trump the fundamental rights of users. This general allowance would also apply to individuals who have never been customers of an AI company, or to data entered decades ago, for example in chats or on social media. All personal data that an AI company can somehow get its hands on would fall under the provision. There is no need to ask users for consent – companies are automatically assumed to have an overriding “legitimate interest” if they train or use any AI product.

WTAF.

Also on Nebula for subscribers: https://nebula.tv/videos/eumadesimple-can-ukraine-join-the-eu-we-went-to-kyiv-to-find-out/

This is why nobody was fearing this before - there was never somebody in office willing to do something that stupid.

In the questionnaire that asked what you’d be interested in: standard paper size, a roll or both.

I think both will be possible regarding how much they’ve communicated the roll by now and how they might lose out on a big user base if they force the roll on the user. Their best bet would be imo to have some kind of swappable feeder, on for rolls and one for sheets. Depending on how expensive that would be, they might need to sell versions that only contains 1 of those feeders. Maybe I’m wrong and their design has a feeder that somehow handles both.

I think the Chinese have much more hands-on approach when it comes to realizing their long-term goals and I think the western ‘let’s leave it to the market’-approach is why they had to intervene in the end, but only at a point where it did serious diplomatic damage. I blame the politics and the Institutes they have let it come this far, but at the same time it really seems like a better same then never situation. I’m totally fine with Chinese expansion, it doesn’t have to be a zero-sum game; but in a case like this it really is, China’s economy gains because Europe’s economy loses. I’m glad they didn’t let that happen.

It’s a complicated story of back and forths, but in hindsight it turned out a hostile takeover instead of a symbiotic relation like a joint venture has, with a win for both sides. European and Chinese markets grew more intertwined the last decades, but their political leaders became adversaries at the same time. International relations changing probably caused how this specific company chose to behave. Just like the US does not like ASML doing business in China, they didn’t like Nexperia doing business there, which also caused increased pressure to the new parent company. At some point the US even put Nexperia on their blacklist because of the Chinese ownership. Not to point all fingers at the US, but I don’t think it had to end up the way it did. Still, the new parent would have sucked Nexperia dry and I understand why this intervention was necessary. Europe is already over-dependent on China in many ways.

That reminds me of this classic: https://youtu.be/Ou2vqAwNEW8

… remove the maniacs, stop their genocide and make reparations. would be a more fruitful order to do those things in. Also please kick these genocidal maniacs from the EBU until then.

I wonder if it helps the UK left the EU, somehow I feel the commonwealth countries want to belong to the rest of ‘the west’ but also don’t want to be too close to London either. If that’s true, that’s another Brexit benefit for the non-brits.

This story is getting stranger and stranger. Not saying what the parent company was doing was ok, but somehow i feel this just shouldn’t have gotten this far.