Uhm, you can run covert compaigns with true facts?

It’s nothing new, the only new thing is that the natural resource is sunlight.

Just like yesterday

Sometimes on Lemmy i see car vs bike posts, airplane vs train, etc. At least in the end of the day, we can all agree no mode of transport sucks more than that brexit bus. Most expensive tickets and the worst possible destination. Yikes what a shitty ride.

I think Canada would be a lot easier to integrate than Turkey.

If you compare the people of Canada and Turkey to the people of Ireland, obviously Canada seems easier to integrate. But if you compare the people of Canada and Turkey to that of Greece or Bulgaria, then it’s much less obvious. The fact that Turkey has territorial disputes with Cyprus and Greece makes Turkey an unlikely member state, but culturally the people of Turkey (not the political system) are not that much less south-eastern European than Canadians are north-western European.

But i think practical ease of integration doesn’t have to say much. If you look at ‘compatibility’ also Belarussians would make perfect candidates for integration, but even if they would want it the political reality doesn’t allow it. Same has been long true for Northern-Macedonia joining, but in this case the blocking comes from inside forces rather than outside forces. And even where the political reality doesn’t allow it, the people might not want it (e.g. Switzerland and Norway right now), the same could appear true for Canada (or Turkey) even if it doesn’t seem like that today. If calculation are made, perhaps it might turn out Canada doesn’t end up on the receiving ends.

Would Canadians also be interested in joining if it means increased taxes to pay for the benefits of people on the almost opposite side of the globe? Especially if countries like Morocco and Turkey join at the same time, argument will be made Canadians are paying for the development of those economies. Perhaps they will argue Canada is much better off as a strategic partner than a full-on member state, despite “its legal and cultural institutions grew directly out of European predecessors”.

Either way, it has to be a two way desire, much like a friendship between two individuals. The reasons are less important than the desire. Both could become member for totally different reasons. One might join for economic benefits and the other for military strategic benefits for example, but in either way it in the end the European people (via their representatives) have to agree regardless. Again, the people of Ireland would likely be much more in favour of Canada joining than Greece or Bulgaria would be.

You need to imagine a future where this ocean is populated and as active as all the other planet’s coastlines.

That’s more a perspective of the coming centuries then it is of the coming decades though. It’s not like migration follows gradually and in line with each degree the temperature rises. Also in that scenario the temperature on the Pacific coast lines will likely rise much more then the temperature on the Atlantic coast lines because of the likely collapse of the AMOC (meaning the red line might even expand further south, perhaps making european migration away from the North Pole more likely then migration towards it).

I can’t imagine the EU letting a semi-democratic country in. It shouldn’t happen according to the paper reality, but Hungary made sure it won’t happen in the real reality either.

Especially if there was a multi-tier eu where there is a geographic part to it and a (financial) policy part. Australia could easily follow the same product safety / social security laws, and if they are willing to do so they should also have a say. Maybe a bit like Eurovision, you can participate in our politics as long as you don’t ask us to travel all the way over there ;).

I think if Turkey ever reverts back to a secular democracy, you might change position on that. I think the ‘they’re Muslim’ part is a smaller problem then you (or at least a lot of people) think, and the ‘they’re not democratic’ part will keep them from joining anyway, regardless how anyone feels about it. Turkey really isn’t as middle-east as the countries a bit more east.

So the article doesn’t provide a map, and this is the most effort i’m willing to do:

via: www.webglearth.com/#ll=70.39917,-22.27100;alt=17018971

Inhumanely housing people + minimaly feeding them - having them do labour = negative costs

Feudalism 101

Or just the “guy” that’s willing to take one for the team

Of course not, we’re the highest bidders.

Yeah i guess i should have written what seems best for Trump & co.

It’s not strange people want an easy life. These features existing isn’t necessarily a problem. It only becomes a problem when either laws don’t protect consumers against big corporations or when big corporations ignores the law. There are people who see every big corporation as evil (i understand their reasons) and there are people who see all government as evil (i understand their reasons as well). Clearly, US laws don’t protect the users of these problems and also these companies (though Google more then Apple) have repeatedly proven they will use user data to increase their earnings. I can totally understand why somebody would want to use these features, but i myself would not trust Google or Apple with my important data, maybe my cinema ticket at most.

Here are two related posts on Lemmy: i’ll edit this comment in a sec with link preview:

Gedoodverfd opvolger van DigiD is niet te gebruiken zonder Gmail-account of Apple-ID Linked article in Dutch, it covers the tech mentioned in the article of this post. “NL Wallet, the government’s upcoming digital identity app, relies on software from Apple and Google, according to research by Follow the Money.” For the rest of the English translation it’s in a comment; https://vger.to/lemmy.world/post/47664008

The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everything This post from two days ago links an article about the current Dutch system, which was almost taken over by a big US corporation. https://vger.to/scribe.disroot.org/post/9308733

shouldn’t have to allow

Exactly, it is still either a visa for all of Schengen or no visa at all; which i find quite limited options for a case like this

Imo the Germans really deserve props with how they treat their black page, compared to how other countries around them still try to hide what they did during colonial times (which to some extent, continues to present day)

I guess this is so in many more places, we look at the world and wonder who has power. Most Europeans will see two big players: China and the US.

China (unlike Russia) was never a true enemy, but neither ever a true ally. It has been going back and forth between a dependable business partner and a hostile state, stealing technological secrets, overflowing our market with unsafe low-cost goods.

The US behaved like a dependable friend for a long time. They did things we (‘the rest of the west’) didn’t like, but they also helped us out all the time. Obvious to anyone here, this is no longer the case. We cannot predict whether their next policy will help or hurt us, the only thing we can say for sure it will be whatever works best for them. That’s not the behaviour of an ally.

I sincerely wonder what the future holds. China doesn’t have to be an enemy of the west and vice versa. But i guess we (or actually, each world leader) all have to choose how we position ourselves on the global stage.