matlag

There already are private military. Black Water and alike are absolutely private armies. But that could be expensive, even for trillionaires. It’s a much better strategy to privatize the existing military and get it paid by the government. Watch it, it’s going to happen!

I see a lot of people saying “just don’t use it”. If it was that easy…

In some places, FB has took the lion share of the 2nd hand online selling. Historical platforms are in agony and your chance of finding a buyer/seller dramatically reduce if you avoid FB maretplace.
In some places, FB is so common that schools, activities etc. are organized on FB. You don’t have an account, no worry: you’ll be the lone idiot to drop your kid at school the day it’s closed because of a snow storm.
In some places, FB is the personal life blogging platform. So if you want to know about old friends you’ve left behind as you were relocating to different countries, you’re going to miss on some quite important events (death in the family, etc.) as that’s where they let people know.
In some places, if you want to build a network, that’s where “everyone” is. You like trekking and want to find a group for that? They’re all on FB. You want to play board games? Groups are all on FB.

The list goes on and on.

I asked that question before, so allow me again: if the Trump decide to take Greenland, Denmark is going to resist, using their US-made equipment, and will order spare parts and ammos to whom? (oh and prepare F35 flight missions on a US server, no issue there…).

And in a further protest gesture, Denmark will order an additional 3B$ worth of military equipment to US companies.

Time to thank all politicians in Europe who were reluctant to decarbonate the economy because it’s bAd fOr bUsInEsS.
Today we count how much money they’re sending Russia by buying gas vs Ukraine by providing military equipment. All good for the business I guess.
Today we assess how dependent on US gas the EU is in time of crisis. All good for the business too, I guess.
In this context, rolling back the ban on gas cars in 2035 is another great geopolitical move that will guarantee EU’s future amidst international tension and resources depletion (oil extraction is to drop by half from 2030 to 2050, and that means producers will slow exportations and use is primarily for their internal needs).

Trump is actively trying to kill Canada’s car industry. So if China is willing to do so, Canada should lift the tariffs on their EVs in exchange for a quota of cars or components made in Canada.
Long term, it is probably a better strategy as US car makers are falling so much behind on EVs they could go down in the coming years, especially if they hang on petro-cars.

As for the military, it’s never too late to start doing the right thing and diversify its sourcing. No more 100% US by default, and require guarantees on supply and independence.
Europe and other countries have very good and modern equipments also, mind you.

I agree with you on what we’ll hear, but I second the other comment: besides the speeches, Carney will move Canada further away from the US.
He started doing so without saying it too loudly. Only an idiot would not see it. The good thing is only one idiot needs to be fooled.

To escalate, he has multiple levers at his disposal: the everlasting hesitation between F35 and Gripen purchase, the tariffs on Chinese EV (if they were repelled, US car makers could be driven out of Canada’s market within just a few years). And of course dumping US bonds, but that would hurt Canada too.

Can’t tell for all of the equipment (from my understanding, they happily buy 100% US…), but for the F35, that’s not exact. It needs constant update, and from what I read, it is still usable for ~30 days after they would ban it from the network. But “usable” means back to pen and paper on board for missions…

Yep! So if US comes, they will send in their F35, after having keyed in the mission parameters, that will go straight to a Lockheed server in the US to be uploaded in the jets, and with that they will take their ennemy by surprise!

Oh, shit! The jets were shot down! Weren’t they stealth??

Danes will have to order more, then…

Until they introduce Copilot in Powershell so that when you try do D/L another browser, it will chime in and explain you that you should first give a serious try to EdgePilot because it’s so much better and you won’t be disappointed! Here: I D/L its premium version instead of FF as you were trying to do, and I give you one month for free! \o/.

"Sir, it seems like these Epstein files that were released have a lot of mentions of you, and this is causing a stir…

-Well, let’s bomb something!"

The EU is also largely ruled by neo-cons. They will refuse to let billionaires’ wealth go down.

Besides, the treasury bonds selling off is, as you say, a financial nuke: you can use it only once, and it’s a mutual destruction. These bonds have value today, if you abruptly sell them, you lose, the US loses, then what? They give up on their evil plans? What do you have to stop them now?

Not just the Nordics, the entire Europe, Canada, and then the whole world will start a survey of what the US might consider “geopolitically strategic points”.

Russia will enjoy seeing NATO totally collapse as the US invades another member’s territory.

Meanwhile, Denmark keeps buying F35, for some reasons…

NATO is both a protection agreement and a tool to bind its members to somel level of US control. A new alliance is needed without the US. It should start with Europe (not just the EU, it should include the UK and non-EU countries) and it could then attract Canada, Australia, Japan, … But that requires members to get their shit together and rebuild their respective armies. And all the countries that bought F35 just bound themselves to the US for decades again. So it looks really bad right now.

Declare them terrorist and ban their members from travelling to Europe would be a start. Unfortunately the EU is soft most of the time on these issues. See Russia carrying spying and sending drone and even jet fighters without the slightest consequence.

Why the hell would they care about Europe’s interest?? There’s only one country that matters. One above all. One first, and any true patriot should recognize it: it’s Russ… USA! USA!! (Sorry, I slipped! Do you think anyone noticed??)

So, AI will do the same thing as what light extensions already do, but consuming 4GB of RAM and maxing out CPU load?

The fact that so many users go to a fork just because FF can’t get the settings right from the start should be telling! At this stage, every new version, I go through the settings to double check there is no “new feature” I don’t want enabled by default… So yes, I am tempted by Librewolf.

First, there should be a survey on what users actually want, no?

Because if no one wants AI and it’s “always a choice”, what you really do is waste considerable resources with as the only results, more settings users have to go through before starting using their browsers.

I was actually thinking whichever company bringing this for the masses will abandon its support 5y later and 25y from now we won’t be able to read it at all, let alone decode the bits.