this is one of the reasons why european nations drag their legs on the NATO 2% GDP commitment, because all the money goes to the US anyway, imagine levying a 2% GDP tax on all your allies

OOOHHH, nvm, sorry, i was out of the loop on this one, flew right over my head

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china sent more drone to russia? it's ok, we're sending more posters over

no, you don't get it, russians are for sure making economic decisions on the basis of websites they cannot access because of sanctions and whose trending algorithms work on a per-country basis

he needed to warn him about the cannibals

there are dozens of us, dozens

oh yeah, let's talk about the people who are really affected by the european elections: the ukrainians; you know, those people who are unilaterally not allowed to live in the EU anymore because Ukrainian embassies and consulates refuse to renew their documents

not beating the allegations

oh yeah, well, the jerk store called, and they're running out of you!

damn, i see operation prosperity guardian was a fulminating success, americans sure showed yemenis why they don't have healthcare

that's funny because most people that either play shooters don't know how good gyro aiming is, and refuse to use it, so even if they did add it, it would probably not matter at all

"unprecedented steps", followed by "an app"

I can see how someone would think that, but to me, it's like starting to abuse coke because you're an alcoholic anyway; that's just making it worse.

that's what kills me, nosocomial infections are not uncommon and can be lethal even when you observe all the safety protocols, some hospitals are simply too old and the decades of pee pee poo poo has seeped into the walls and there's nothing to do but bulldoze it and start from scratch (which would be great if we lived in the part of the world where the government can still do things)

yeah, it would be nice to have more greenerty, not i've yet to see a hospital that doesn't have at least a very small patch of greenery somewhere, or like, a tree in the parking lot, just build a garden next to the damn place

i'm partial to burger quing

Schrodinger's wokery makes a game woke only if it sold poorly, if it sold well, then there's nothing to see here, please move on. I remember chuds lambasting BG3 while it was in early access, but when it launched and it became popular, they all shut up and moved on to the next target.

could be ok, too bad it's done by capitalists; remember, in the west the prevailing attitude to stuff like stem research is also "ew gross" and china is beating our ass in that area

After some very cursory research I see that copilot is just a chatbot on telegram. Copilot is not built-into telegram, but you can interface with Microsoft's servers running copilot by "starting a conversation" with it. That does not mean Telegram now ships with Copilot. Believe you me, I have written chatbots for telegram and your installation of it does not ship with my crapware, telegram also doesn't pay for my server costs, lmao.

Telegram is still unsafe but for a lot of other different reasons. Others have already pointed out the problems Signal has. Matrix is simply not there yet, and it might never be. In reality very little of this matters because your friends will just continue using whatever spyware they were before, your chatgroup will not use your bespoke xmpp solution just to chat with you. Idk, send sensitive stuff over e-mail or something.

as someone with an econ diploma, i've never seen this use of the phrase "shadow economy" lmao