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I agree.

Ideally, there are two types of profiles:

Archivalists who have a lot of storage and need pretty good uptime, but no need for high bandwidth. They should be rewarded for archiving, because they don't really get a lot of upload credit.

Distributors who need low storage, high bandwidth, robust connections when online, but not necessarily high uptime. They just distribute the new and popular stuff.

I think the better private trackers recognize this and have systems in place to provide credit to people who seed rare torrents.

There really need to be financial incentives to get companies to switch to European IT solutions.

If just a few European enterprises would purchase these products, there would be enough funding to make them very competitive.

"Getting green" to me means Greenwashing, lots of talk and ignoring actual solutions.

Solving climate change means getting carbon emissions under control as soon and fast as possible.

Which means a focus on energy use by buildings and road transport, and a willingness to use all economic and technological solutions that accomplish that goal.

A whopping 2.5% of global emissions are from air travel.

And I'm fine with it. Solidarity is necessary for a just transition.

But it won't be a significant stop on climate change.

Getting our buildings and cars green will have a much bigger effect.

Could be. It could also just be bribes.

The current situation is really nice for countries like Russia, Saudi-Arabia and China. They just need to pay a few billion to Trump and get stuff that cannot be bought and are easily worth hundreds of billions from the US empire.

I consider myself someone who is always in search of truth.

When I realized evangelical Christianity has some hardcore lies and hypocrisy, I left it.

I did eventually find my way back to a more traditional version of Christianity that is interested in truth and love.

I read up on it. I think the main thing was the many Kurds, especially Turkish Kurds, don't want to fight Turkey anymore. The PKK had a lot of trouble recruiting people. And many Kurdish leaders are actually allied with Erdogan. I believe Erdogan has two Kurdish ministers.

But with their autonomy in Syria and Iraq, the hardliners were still holding out and hopeful.

However, in Syria, Turkey dealt them quite some hard blows these past years and got the US under Trump to abandon them. The final piece is that the new Syrian regime is allied with Turkey and Trump is back in office.

So they basically have a choice, stop fighting or look forward to years of fighting against bayraktar drones.

Of course, I am sure Erdogan put in a lot of deal sweeteners that we don't know about. At the end of the day, Turkey and Syria both need peace with the Kurds for their own stability and growth. And the Kurds have significant leverage, even if independence is not in the cards.

I do agree, but it does take 3-5 years, unless the EU is willing to turn into a wartime economy. But the political will for that is just not there.

Progressives aren't libs, so nothing false flag about a progressive saying "the libs might have been right".

The assumption that anyone who calls liberals "libs" is also pro-Trump is incorrect.

I thought Googlers were paid $500K+ and already worked 60-80 hours weeks?

We (Europe) already did most of the heavy lifting for Ukraine. The US mostly gave old stockpiles of weapons that they would've needed to destroy anyway. We are the ones actually paying cash to keep them afloat.

The problem is, in the post-WW2 order, our defense and our defense industry was made dependent on the USA by design. And even up until last November, Europe didn't want to challenge this arrangement and just went full steam ahead with this arrangement, ordering US made weapons. I think Europe was in denial that Biden could lose or that NATO could ever end.

Only France, and to a limited extent, Sweden and Turkey, have independent defense industries.

In the future, we will have it again. And Ukraine will actually be a key player.

But in the short term, there is no magical button to press that can produce the arms.

Undoing decades of integration isn't going to be easy.

Israel wants all its neighbors to be divided, weak and poor.

This isn't surprising.