I don’t think anything’s wrong with trees, but maybe we could also have some of these as well as trees ?

First of all nobody is proposing to replace existing trees with that, that would be silly! AFAIU the people who created this also don’t want these to be used where trees could be planted. They are outspokenly designed for already densely packed cities that are already highly polluted and hostile to trees, to start turning things around. Rebecca Watson’s 6min take

I appreciate Rebecca Watson’s opinion. Watched the 6min video, now convinced 👍

Also learned a new term: kneejerk cynicism

I don’t think your dog will see that as problematic.

Tyrants all over the world are cheering you on, Donny! Keep kneecapping America!

Seriously, VOA must be the one American “Freedom of Speech” thing I could get behind: broadcast where press freedom is oppressed. Give the people there a choice, a second opinion.

Just like with USAID he just doesn’t understand that it also means soft power. He really wants to cut down on the USA’s global influence. And none of his aides is telling him what’s what. That alone is circumstantial evidencve that Putin is pulling strings.

I don’t like the phrase “one click” because it’s never really literally only one click, and whenever it’s even close to that there’s just too much stuff going on in the background that a) requires tons of work to code, b) is fragile, c) can never account for all use case etc etc etc

With that in mind I recently installed Debian Stable on my VPS, chose “Web server” during installation, and voilá: it serves!

I was going to say something like “I liked the USA better when it had no clue about foreign politics” but then I realised that maybe that’s just because we weren’t the target before. Is Europe now part of the USA’s definition of Middle East?

The true solution would be to get the people to ditch these idiots, and to do that, we need to fight disinformation and far-right propaganda on social media.

Agreed. But it seems that the EU is also doing something about that. Just like with AfD, they’ve been dragging their feet for way too long but now something* gave them a jolt.

We currently have an interesting success story of Die Linke (proper left-wing party) who managed to garner votes by embracing social media and *cough* populism in, what seems to be, a Good Way.

Nobody’s doing this. You’re arguing against your own fantasies.

They broke the law. You’re arguing for changing the constitution* to let the AfD continue practicing unconstitutional* politics, because you don’t want to make the AfD stronger?

* “Grundgesetz” - close enough

Calendar and contacts (i.e. CalDAV/CardDAV). A blog. Media is just remote-mounted since all my systems are Linux.

I’m always leery of “one app for all” solutions, or in German, “eierlegende Wollmilchsau”.

Hence, no Nextcloud for me.

Maybe I’m a Luddite, but Cloudflare is not my idea of self-hosting…

I hate this so much, helplessly watching a people getting destroyed in real time.

+1 for Canada - Europe axis and more collab. We just might be able to stand up to the 2 biggest bullies on the planet.

the so-called ‘freest nation on earth’

No-one but themselves ever called it that.