I have four accounts on the four instances that host communities I am interested in.

It's a mild pain and definitely not what we were promised, but I guess that's the only way federation can really work in practice (especially considering when an instance is blocked user on the blocker side just continue to see it frozen in time, with no warning as to what's going on)

I won't buy any paradox games because they invariably end up with 100 DLCs each

What's the point? Is that a legally binding contract? What penalties are there if you breach it?

I'd say it's just social engineering because they have a low bandwidth connection (for the number of users).

Disclaimer: I do find it's extremely rude to overuse a shared internet connection, regardless of what use you make of it.

TBH it's not like a condemnation would make any difference... it would only enrage emperor Trump and expose EU countries (and possibly Ukraine) to his majesty's retaliations.

The sad truth is that - regardless of Trump - Europe can't currently afford to piss off the US... so the only response can be putting on a good face, buying time, and growing stronger for next time.

This is not to say that all EU leaders are actually playing the long game (eg. Italy's Melony said that US attack on Venezuela was a legitimate act of self defense) and, no, I'm not gonna shed any tears for Maduro or his regime.

Have you ever wondered what would happen if a childish gangster was elected president of the US?

even the worst corporations are on the right side of something from time

Well, corporations (best and worst) are always on their own side... which sometimes happens to be the same as their customers' :)

IDK how feasible (or desirable) a global embargo would be, but I sure hope (and at the same time duobt) that the EU has learned that appeasing bullies leads to more bullying.

Definitely a big beautiful deal, just not beautiful for the EU (or... humanity at large)

That's what you get when the social norm allows people to openly discriminate against (among others) LGBT people.

We should all start calling out idiocy whenever we encounter it (for one, I am guilty of just ignoring it to avoid conflict more often than not).

It seems this is the time of diplomacy though vague threats, which further blurs the line between nation states and criminal organizations.

I can't wait. Then I'll start waiting for Fico. Then I'll wait for the EU to devise some sort of way to defend against traitors.

Well, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah is not the kind of "political prisoner" who is in prison for what they said or wrote... he was in prison for participating in actual assassinations (also, being 74 and having served some 41 years in detention, he has probably been an inmate long enough).

That said, being questioned for praising assassins seems a bit much... I mean, do they for example question everyone who praises Netanyahu or Putin (or any other of the too many bloodthirsty butchers that play into current geopolitical events)?

It must be noticed that the article is far from impartial and that its aim is creating a scandal rather than informing its readers, so it's difficult to comment on the whole thing based solely on its contents.

Israel, well known for respecting people's rights, will surely politely comply with this polite request.

BTW: the "article" is from last week and literally consists of 2 lines...

Those are CPU from, like, 2014... they are definitely "beefy" (ie. needlessly powerful regardless of what you plan to do with them) but not more powerful than modern mid-range CPUs (which have way lower TDP).

This is not to mean that the server is necessarily a bad deal (how much is it?)... there's lot of stuff on top of the CPU, but you should definitely factor in the electricity cost (especially if you are not the one paying for it and/or are sensitive to climate issues) and see if you can maybe buy a more "humble" server with a modern CPU and fewer, bigger drives (each hdd consumes more or less the same amount of power, regardless of capacity).

Oh, make sure to check if those old CPUs have hardware-accelearted video codecs if you plan to do transcoding!

Also, make sure to compare prices from ebay.

These people should just go back to their country instead of hindering ICE. (yes, /s obviously)

Doesn't matter: there is just no way EU members would agree on sanctioning Israel.

What I'm trying to say is that, as much as that may make us feel superior, we don't need to win arguments and, let alone having fascists recognize we are right, we don't even need to be right in the first place.

I'll give you a (surreal, thought-experiment-like) example:

Would a blanket amnesty for all of Netanyahu's crimes be "right"? Should we support it, if it meant stopping the massacre?

In all honestly, she could use a bit more thinking before speaking (strategic thinking).

Not that what she says isn't true (BTW what has been attributed to her - ie. that Israel * is an enemy of humanity - is also true), or that the way she is being persecuted (by people who make a banner of "freedom of speech") is anything but fascist...

The point is, if our goal is to obtain any tangible results, we need persuasion more than confrontation, and diplomats more than martyrs.

Public opinion was slowly moving in the right direction before the current (so-called) truce... we should go back to talking about the miserable living (and dying!) conditions of the Gazawis (BTW: we should talk more about the West Bank, too).

We need to keep the focus on the victims, not on the assassins.

We need to make people see what their governments are supporting, and what they themselves are allowing to happen.

We need the massacre to stop.

Justice will come afterwards (and it will be far too late anyway, so who the fuck cares?).

* the current Israeli government, not the people or the nation of course. That I even feel obligated to clarify this says a lot about the current state of the public debate.