@praustrian The point is that the resource of land is being artificially limited by cities. Companies want to build more, but they can't.

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The US lied, claiming no tariffs on Russia due to lack of trade, says Le Monde. America still trades with Putin: the 2024 trade balance hit $3.5B, more than with Mauritius or Brunei.

If Belarus and Russia were on the list, tariffs would be 42% and 24%.

lemonde.fr/international/live/

@praustrian @EUCommission Both the market and the proposed investments will face the problem of limited supply of land in cities. This needs to be addressed. Cities need to step up.

@kel @implementcontrols Not having social media on my smartphone is enough for me.

@tadd @EUCommission It's "europa.eu". You can try to look it up in other sources and see if it matches.

@noelreports I'm worried that there will be interruptions in the election, such as a voting place being struck by Russia and then US will use it to claim that the elections weren't valid because reasons.

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Ukrainian officials have compared the new U.S. proposal on minerals to “lifetime reparations,” according to WP. One senior official said the deal looks as if “Ukraine was at war with the U.S., lost, was occupied, and now has to pay lifetime reparations.”

washingtonpost.com/world/2025/

@clonedhuman @fsfe Try degoogled Android variants like LineageOS or GrapheneOS.

There are also GNU/Linux mobile operating systems, but they are not quite there yet, especially where it comes to app variety.

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28 March 1921 | A Pole, Jerzy Bielecki, was born. A prisoner of #Auschwitz no. 243 (first transport of Poles). On 21 July 1944 he escaped from the camp in an SS uniform taking with him a Polish Jewish female prisoner Cyla Cybulska. They were in love. jfr.org/rescuer/jerzy-bielecki

@dutchking @noelreports They can build a lot of materiel. Their problem is that they are losing it faster than they can build it. However if fighting stops, Russia can start rebuilding its military and stockpiling weapons.

What's worse, once the sanctions get lifted, Russia could purchase weapons from other countries (notably China) to accelerate its rearmament.

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@EUCommission
"Good evening, police. Your unlocked phone please."

@mikkaels @DiogoConstantino @ondra @EUCommission If you think supporting only iOS and Android is fine, then imagine supporting only iOS. I think it's now clearer why this would be bad.

@ziacik @noybeu Yup, hallucinations are expected. If they are a problem, perhaps the solution is not allowing average Joe with no clue about LLMs to access ChatGPT?

@noelreports If Ukraine ordered everyone with a Russian passport to leave, Russian media would present it as an undeniable proof of Ukrainian Nazism.

@mason @wariat @panoptykon Na pewno miałoby to wiele pozytywów, ale pozostaje również część negatywów. Nadal istniałyby algorytmiczne bańki, gdzie ludziom wyświetlałby się tylko jeden punkt widzenia, bo algorytm nauczył się, że lubią takie treści. Aby się z nich wyrwać, potrzebne byłyby świadome decyzje.

Poza tym część władzy przeszłaby z mediów społecznościowych na dostawców algorytmów. Algorytmy mają swoje uprzedzenia, zarówno te celowo wbudowane przez twórców, jak i te przypadkowe.

@noelreports Russia will keep bombing and will make claims like "oh, but it wasn't against energy and infrastructure, there were soldiers in this hospital and that power plant, so they were valid targets".

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@noelreports imagine if Ursula VDL called an American congressmen and told him how to vote in Congress.

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