But honestly, disconnection from the US cloud providers is a lot bigger than you seem to think. A ton of governmental services are hosted on US cloud providers. Pulling that plug would mean blackout for a crapload of governmental services, which we have grown to depend on.

If so, we have another job for it

When countries vote for their neighbour, that is usually not enough to change the end result. The most popular song usually still wins. But Israel is assembling political votes all across Europe. Only a few percent of the voters need to be rallied to completely overtake the public votes. Also considering that Israel supporters are motivated to vote 20 times, people voting for their favorite song will likely only vote a few times, if at all.

Yes, Eurovision has always been political to some degree, but it hasn’t really swayed the results this much ever before.

Maybe Animorphs was onto something with the Yeerk’s requirements.

I have never liked it.

As a person, I don’t like the inconsistency.

As a developer, I don’t like to not be able to use the local time as a consistent way to order data.

As a father, I don’t like to have to adjust a daily routine of my baby who has just reached a good 24 hour schedule.

I’d like Trump, Musk and the whole republican party to go fuck themselves. For national security reasons.