And that is one reading that actually makes sense, except it does not even have to be US propaganda. Enough interests exist in the EU itself to push such narratives. Wouldn’t our dear Royal Dutch Shell like if we were hooked on oil for just a few more decades?

So that’s why I was very careful with my wording here, it just feels something is brewing, but at this point all of these are equally likely and unlikely:

• domestic fossil business wants to push Europe back to fossil and is creating false narratives
• the US wants to push Europe back to fossil and away from China and is creating false narratives
• Russia wants to push Europe back to fossil to maintain leverage and is creating false narratives
• the Saudis want to push Europe back to fossil to keep their income and are creating false narratives
• China is indeed backdooring European solar infra and essentially committed a terror attack against Spain
• the cheapest possible Chinese hardware is just shit quality and nobody really knows what went wrong
• Chinese backdoors exist but not intentionally, they are just shit at security, and Russia is taking advantage to pressure the EU about Ukraine
• Chinese backdoors exist but not intentionally, they are just shit at security, and the US is taking advantage to pressure the EU about fossil fuels and China

Or one of these is true, but EU authorities are trying to redefine the narrative, so that either:

• we can preserve relations with US business interests despite Trump
• we are not as alarmed about Russian/Chinese/Saudi/US capabilities
• we are not as alarmed about the sheer incompetence of the people in charge of buying EU solar power supplies
• opponents of renewables don’t get more fodder to create FUD to block further solar plants.

Without trying to be conspiratorial, I don’t like the amount of articles about funny stuff found in imported Chinese solar power components just after the Iberian peninsula lost power because of presumably disturbances coming from solar power plants.

I mean you can get a licence for 20-30k, the maintenance is deadly on a plane though, you could buy a very nice car each year on that money.

Why is there an example of cruelty beyond human comprehension unearthed every few months in France? Why always France?

I know they are doing very well, trust me, I’ve seen the inside of the beast. It’s not Microsoft either, any megacorp will talk to you in terms of how much they lost by not fully monopolising a market segment.

And that is my point, not that they don’t make insane amounts of money, but that it will never be enough.

Yeah but imagine if they could collect licence fees after every AWS server as well.

The world is not enough for these companies.

2002, when Gyurcsány mopped the floor with him in that debate would be my guess.

I don’t know, I think ml has some weirdness in its software that results in shit like this.

Tried deepseek-r1, with internet search. It was clueless, and the I specifically asked why he might have mixed the flags up.

Given that Romania’s flag (a double-headed eagle with two golden wings, red tails, and alternating horizontal stripes) is distinctly different from Chad’s flag (which features an olive branch, sun, and crescent moon within a blue background), it is plausible that the mix-up occurred due to a simple error or oversight in copying text

Nuff said.

Even if you rawdog the internet with no ad blocker. Actually, especially if you do that.

More and more people are using docker to run shit

Docker is not made that way so people can get out of fixing shit that breaks constantly. The point is more to get rid of once-in-a-lifetime errors for which a reinstall or restart would be faster for anyway, but the main reason is that you get to sleep because if something fucky happens at 3AM, it’s more likely the system will just right itself.

I certainly wouldn’t call debugging a blinking container easier than just fixing shit on the server. In a container though, I can be sure the issue is fixed and it’s not just another bandaid on a growing pile that is going to explode as soon as the guy building the pile retires.

Viornzirgizuetunkuszt

If anything that sounds more Hungarian than German, with the lack of diphtongs and the “sz” at the end, but funny thing, Hungarian does the same thing as German with compound words, except it makes it even worse with turning prepositions into suffixes.

For example:

legösszetettebbszóhosszúságvilágrekorddöntéskényszerneurózistünetegyüttesmegnyilvánulásfejleszthetőségvizsgálat

meaning

Examination for the treatability of the manifestation of the syndrome of neurosis caused by the compulsion of breaking the world record of the most heavily compunded word.

Technically this isn’t correct, as you should put a hyphen in there somewhere between the two main parts to improve readability if it’s more than 6 syllables. Good luck finding the “two main parts” though. Maybe:

legösszetettebbszóhosszúságvilágrekorddöntéskényszer-neurózistünetegyüttesmegnyilvánulásfejleszthetőségvizsgálat

But you can also go crazy with suffixes, the often cited example is megszentségteleníthetetlenkedéseitekért, which is not at all a compound word, it means “for your acts of repeated demonstration of your beliefs that you are unable to be made unholy” (with a plural you).

And finally, you can just do an infinite loop to construct arbitrarily long words using suffixes, like this:

úszik - swims
úsztat - makes someone or something swim
úsztattat - makes sy/sg make sy/sg swim
úsztattattat - makes sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg swim
…
úsztattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattat - makes sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg … make sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg swim

Which is ironic as Blitzkrieg itself is a rebrand of Schwerpunktschlacht IIRC

Let him fly through Ukraine

So how is 19th century imperialism different from Roman imperial expansion or Greek colonialism in antiquity for example? Or the various attempts to resurrect the Roman Empire by basically everyone? Why don’t we call Roman emperors or Alexander the Great or even Sigismund imperialists? Honest question here, I’m not a historian or anything.

Low wages and cheap electricity probably.

They are more alike than they are different to normal people.

And in defense of my annoyance at the CxU, under Merkel they supported the Orbán regime heavily to undercut their domestic labour with artificially inflated Hungarian labourers.

It kinda sucks that we have to hope the neolibs win in Germany against the neofash.

IIRC EU fines are not delayed on appeal, they get it back if they win.