The funny thing is that the American military spending is not a gift to the world, it is the price to have US military bases around the world.
Me, as a non American, I am happy that there is less power concentrated in the hands of US (and not because US but because concentration of powers is always wrong)
But does this make sense for US? 🤷♂️
Votes. People vote with emotions and fear is one of the most powerful emotion.
This is for giving the various people scared by a world where there are (and will be) more and more deadly diseases (due to intensive farming and whatnots) a simple, reassuring and deadly wrong answer: it’s all a big conspiracy theory for big pharma to make money and for the government to control your brain and Bill Gates to steal your top candy crush score.
This is the same technique at work with economy btw: economy is scary and complex…here a simple answer “Trump will fix it because he is rich so he understands money”
Democrats talk to rationality (and sometimes rationality crosses emotions e.g. with abortions rights), Republicans talk to emotions, where facts, interests, justice doesn’t matter
Do you realise that we are years (decades?) away from viable open source hardware? You likely use a closed source processor with closed source chipset, GPU and closed source ram. And these are the building blocks, then you have the closed source integrations of these blocks
Same applies to fitness watches. Garmin happens to be one of the best (if not the best) hardware for the purpose, with a decent (not great, just decent) software that is very closed source and very closed in interoperability.
You may say to vote with the wallet… but where? Apple that is even more closed and restrictive? Huawei that deserves its own ethical discussion?
I haven’t looked into Suunto and Polaris but I would be shocked if they were dramatically different since this is their business, selling api and integrations
There is a reason states don’t have military 😉
I really don’t think their goal is consumers.
Sure they want consumers to use generative AI so that they get quality feedback so they can improve the product. But that is not the goal.
The goal is enterprises, the goal is replacing workers with AI.
There are estimations that around 300B$ have spent so far for generative AI. This is not for a gadget that close to no-one likes and burns money rather than make money
This is for removing humans from the productive cycle. It is such an ambitious goal that the various CEOs/shareholders are ok taking such an high risk gamble.
Trump will ditch any red tape to AI because Trump openly wants this world, a world where there isn’t any more the need for immigrants or workers or unions.
My ingenuity suggests me that this plan will fail on technical grounds but if it will not, it will be worse. There will be poverty and civil unrest, there will be instability and wars (it’s always easier to look for the enemy outside rather than inside) and, in the end, economy will not do great either (who will buy the crap people will produce?)
Again, I think that this plan will fail on technological grounds but removing red tapes will not accelerate this failure
In the game of nukes you don’t really need many.
You can destroy the world just so many times.
The rest is just for showing who has it bigger (the arsenal)
For a bit of context: the house of Bourbon - Two sicilies has no land for 150 years. They used to rule the south of Italy but after the Italian “unification” (or conquest) they got kicked out and have no real power.
While this may still be a conflict of interest since I am pretty sure they are still filthy rich and they may have economic interests in the US. But there is no foreign power interference here since there is no foreign power 🙂
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In the US banking is a bit different than over here. People still pay rent with checks (that in EU are de facto obsolete) possibly sent in an envelope via mail.
You may wonder why…. Because a money transfer (that in EU is generally for free) in US is often a double digit operation.
It’s a mechanism that is compulsory in EU (and nearby countries like Switzerland).
When you try to spend money online (without the plastic card), you need a second factor. In practice in, let’s say, Amazon there is an iframe with a page of your bank that asks to confirm the operation on the banking app or insert the code they sent you by SMS or things like that
This was at page 1 of Google search last year.
Now at page 1 there is “the best lidar laser of 2025 (updated) (tested) (for real) (DivX)
For this reason there is the “it’s antisemitic to criticise this war”
Heck even Jews have been accused to be antisemitic for criticising Israel.
We live in a post-facts era
Why not?
Your comment sounds whatsboutism but I buy it! Let’s ban flavoured alcohol too.
Prohibitionism doesn’t work because a black market emerges but as long the limitations are small enough to not have a significant black market, it is fine. Blocking flavour in vapes/alchool hardly will create a new Al Capone