And with “dependent” they mean, the US and Russia had the free capacities, so it was slightly cheaper use them… Already ten years ago Galileo satellites where launched by Ariane5 or Soyuz in parallel (where Ariane5 transported twice the amount in one launch as Soyuz, or as Falcon9 in later years for that matter…).
It’s really sad how “dependence” has become a totally hollow term.
Yeah, actually just minutes after this comment I saw the latest joke at Spiegel writing about far-right European parties and the AfD in Germany in particular building up connections with MAGA in the US… while just -and totally concidently of course- forgetting to say a single word about the fact the the governing CDU did exactly the same and there are several loud massive MAGA-fanbois in their leading ranks right now.
That’s not journalism. That’s a laughable “Look over there! Nothing happening here”-diversion.
Sorry, but no.
There is nothing left even remotely resembling journalism and they only focus on Trump so they can ignore the MAGA friends in Germany’s goverment doing variations of the exact same shit.
Close. The correct answer is: “Lol! No! Fuck off!”
it’s quite obvious to everyone, including the press and citizens, that the current implementation is not sustainable long-term.
No, that’s just the neolibaral capitalist propaganda talking. The actual unsustainable part are the less than 1% sucking up most of the money while the remaining fraction is supposed to sustain social, health and pension system from their stagnating wages.
It’s actually very easy to look up facts and numbers. The rate between people working and people sustained by them has basically not changed in nearly a century. Sure, children/pensioneer rate changed but that isn’t actually a problem as long as the general rate keeps steady. And as long as the workers don’t suddenly become much less productive of course.
Funnily the systems worked in the 1950s, in the 1970s, in the 1990s… and then with -as mentioned- roughly the same amount of workers in the total population AND a massively increasing productivity (GDP per capita increased to ~x2,5 in the last 50 years; naturally caused by the exact same progress that also raises life expectancy) it suddenly didn’t work anymore and we have to constantly increase the quota of wages workers have to spend on health and social costs. (And the same is true for taxes: how can countries that build infrastructure once fail to even sustain them nowadays?) So what actually changed?
The aswer is quite easy. Up until the 1990s (in Germany… but we see the same bullshit happening in other countries, sometimes a few years earlier, sometimes a bit later) wages and pensions kept in pace with the GDP. And then neoliberalists sold the fairy tale of privatisation and other means of not only funneling money to the top but also stopping to tax that money. And while wages stagnated the whole system was still linked those wages.
Seriously… production per capita is high as never before yet -magically- neither health, social and pension contributions based on those wages nor basic public functions based on taxes are sustainable anymore? If you seriously believe the constant propaganda of how you (or better those indolent youngsters) are just lazy and need to remember how to be productive, how <insert whoever is in the government right now) is just wasting money for nonsense, and -most importantly!- how we only need to get rid of all those lazy immigrants exploiting us, I have this really fancy bridge here that…
Als Anschauungsmaterial:
Wenn du also das nächste mal in einem unbedeutend scheinenden Nebensatz das Wort “Binnennachfrage” hörst, denk einfach mal darüber nach, wieso sich Menschen in einem der reichsten Länder der Welt nichts mehr leisten können, während die Milliardäre im Land ihr Vermögen alle paar Jahre (in Krisenzeit tatsächlich noch schneller) verdoppeln.
When you say “consensus” do you mean an actual one (as in: the population agreeing) or a manufactured one (as in politicians and the media drowning us in the narrative 24/7)?
Because the government that just increased debt by about a trillion needed for investments (which of course aren’t spend for their intended purpose) doesn’t have any money until we finally dismantle social security.
And so they can sadly do nothing because they don’t have the manpower to investigate anthing or enforce any legislation (for complicated reasons I’m too dumb to explain this even includes tax investigators who would bring in ~10 times their cost…).
I mean seriously… it’s already so much work to keep all actual issues out of the widely consumed media and constantly invent new populist narratives as a diversion should something slip through. We really can’t expect even more hard work from them.
Yet what they all have in common primarily is that their population is majorily made up by morons. And so they all happily vote for right-wing populists preaching “nationalist interests” and “souvereignity” over common cause and blaming someone else for the problems they actively cause to enrich themselves.
No, “they” are not alone because those “Europeans” discussed here are not on Europe’s side but exclusively their own.
Just like the <1% everywhere else they will simply throw the population under the bus to be on the authoritarians good side as one of them.
Are we -the European populations- alone? Yes, very much so. But that’s okay because propaganda-induced brain-damage is for a long time preventing us from even recognizing reality. So we will happily keep voting people into power that are only there to enrich themselves and their buddies while blaming imaginary scape goats… immigrants in most cases still, then LGBTQ+ -as we can see in those countries without relevant immigration already-, probably followed by everyone with another political opinion (if history is any indication), then intellectuals in general because people still thinking on their own -even if they keep quiet- are a risk. And once we reached the “random people have to be the scape goat today”-stage they will all cry out and ask how it could have come that far.
I really love all my various Pis but at the moment there are so many refurbished servers available (thank Windows 11) as well as several small form factor x86 PCs that a Raspberry Pi 5 sadly is on the lower end of performance/cost.
I would love to see something similiar for my country’s parliament but just fairly mentioning the most despicable individuals would by far exceed the possible post length…
As if calling it “peace deal” was the biggest problem and not the fact that the shit show that pretends to be western media is constantly pretending that every cognitive pile of vomit coming out of the MAGA clown show redefines reality.
But… how can that happen?
I was told that useless, helpless Europe was already sold out as obviously every brain-fart by some MAGA moron (magically) changes the (geopolitical) reality we simply have to accept… 🤣
No, you don’t have lost track. You are simply reading actual articles and propaganda.
This -for example- is the latter. No, that decision is not the EU backing away from chat control but quite the opposite. They have build the foundation for creating mass surveilance infrastructure without the courts shutting them down as usual because it’s voluntary. Up to the moment there is a reasonable big distraction or some neat pretext and it suddenly isn’t voluntary anymore and fully running just the next day.
Sorry to tell you but if you believe that headline you are the main idiot here.
That’s the opposite of “backing away from chat control” but the base for creating a whole mass surveilance infrastructure now. Then they just wait for a pretext or for a big enough distraction…
In parts maybe because who is actually producing PULS with KNDS only being more of a local distribution partner. It’s Israel’s Elbit Systems.
So that “German” system is in reality an Israeli system (with French-German KNDS still looking for partnerships to produce compatible missiles).
And the “US” system is co-developed by German Rheinmetall (with Lockheed-Martin) and fully compatible to the upgraded M270s (called MARS II/LRU/MLRS-I respectively) which Germany, France and Italy already build themselves under license and also run their own targeting software (UK, too, minus the common software project). In fact GMRS is a truckbased solution with the full-sized 2x 6 launcher like on the M270, unlike HIMARS with halfed capactity.
So that German vs US system in the headline and article are kinda skewed…
Interesting how PULS -developed by Israel’s Elbit Systems and only sold under the name EuroPULS in Europe via German-French KNDS- is a “German” system somehow, but GMARS -developed by German Rheinmetall in cooperation with US Lockheed Martin- is a US system…
I guess “FBI infiltrated group of immigration activist” would be boring and not fitting the FUD about encrypted messaging…
And if you try often enough it maybe even be a working one…