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We hold these truths to be self-evident: In the interest of national security, Scotland and Ireland must immediately seize the Trump-owned golf courses on their land.

Someone should quietly explain to him that, if he makes any further movement on Greenland, all his UK golf courses will be vital to UK national security, immediately repossessed, and either rewilded or converted to wind / solar farms...

La dépendance technologique aux softwares & cloud services américains : une estimation des conséquences économiques en Europe - Cigref « La dépendance technologique aux softwares & cloud services américains : une estimation des conséquences économiques en Europe » est une

80% of Europe’s spending on cloud services and software - around €265bn per year - flows to US companies.

Digitally, Europe is less a sovereign power and more a US colony.

www.cigref.fr/la-dependanc...

100%

I rather suspect it's just yet more slop

Oh, perhaps my sarcasm wasn't clear. Germany has no aircraft carriers.

I'd love to know what German ship has an attack jet squadron!

Banning X would have loads of upsides and really not many downsides for the government. The argument for shutting it down (distribution of CSAM) is incontrovertible, the people who are its most avid users hate the government anyway, and it would address threats to social cohesion and public order.

I think the all caps at the end make him look particularly authoritative and legitimate and manly and virile and hard, don't you?

The Good Place finale was so good.

I think it's cute how he wanted to stand on stage with the adults even though they wouldn't let him have a podium... Lol

Time and again, people look back on horrors and wish they had taken action and done things differently. Trump and Putin have brought us to that critical turning point. We either remove them or suffer the consequences for generations.

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness... The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance” Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Tell you wot, Sagan had it on the money...

The thing that surprised me about it is that it is so oooooo funny

Abd when they get bored the other 40 a days sail away at scapa flow can take over. That's not counting capital ships in berths at either end of the country. Germany could not airlift as they had borked the ju52 fleet in Holland. We were never in danger of invasion.

The Germans could have all the river barges they wanted for the invasion. During the 24 hours it would have taken to tow them across the channel the 40 RN destroyers in South cost ports would have just had to steam up and down near them and swamp them. No shots needed to be fired.

Chain home was brilliant and Dowding was the right man in the right place, agreed, yes. My intent was to suggest that the fight in the air in 1940 was in no way an exestential one for Britain.

The idea of the Battle of Britain we have was conscious myth making - the elite justifying their existence, the last time the knightly class came out to save Albion. See Derek Robinson's excellent 'Invasion! 1940'

Oh here's mine. The Battle of Britain either didn't happen (ask a German - if one side doesn't think it's a battle is it a battle?), or if it did, was a 0-0 draw. Germany could never have invaded Britain due to the Royal Navy's supremacy.

Nah two is still absolutely shite

Days after his third dementia screening in six months the president of the United States, who is an open pedophile, abducts a foreign head of state

Arrest Bondi for not releasing all of the Epstein files.
Arrest her Today.

The world is actually FULL of technologies that were created and then went away because they sucked and no one wanted them. it happens all the fucking time. The idea that as soon as they're here we all just have to learn to live with it and find a use for it is just stupid tech industry propaganda.

FT defends London, one of the greatest cities in the world

www.ft.com/content/dd79...

The FT notes that delusional claims about London from Trump, Musk and others are having a reputational impact.

The paper points out the capital's murder rate is a third of that in Berlin, a quarter of New York's, and 5% of that in Washington DC

I don't know about that, I've only ever seen him get truly intimidated and fall over trying to get away... The man is a coward.

Honestly, GOALS!

In my opinion the president shouldn't constantly be like "Holy shit did you guys see this?" and repeating a thing he kinda heard on TV. I don't think that should be mostly what the president does.

They can see him deteriorating same as the rest of us...

Europeans are waking up this morning to find the new US National Security Strategy (quietly) released. And what it has to say on Europe could not be clearer. On the „stark prospect of civilizations erasure“ for example. 👇