ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝

  • 2 Posts
  • 1.64K Comments
Joined 7 months ago
cake
Cake day: July 14th, 2024

help-circle










  • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyztoMemes@lemmy.mlA.I.
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    17
    ·
    2 days ago

    The thing is, it doesn’t use that much electricity for queries compared to training. So as always, this is squarely on the company, not users. By the way, we are wasting half of all energy going into running the internet on ads.





  • Just an Eastern European perspective on her.

    She and her party basically ensured Orbán’s consolidation of power, which at times was very visible. Orbán basically let German car manufacturers underpay workers and abuse them by eroding labour protections, in exchange Orbán was never seriously sanctioned by Brussels for eroding the rule of law. He used EU money to destroy the opposition, and here we are.

    The current actual inquiries and sanctions started right as she retired.

    Fuck Merkel, she got us on this track.




  • Are you from the Eastern EU?

    It’s not like that. The EU invests insane, Marshall-plan amounts of money into its Eastern member states, and it very visibly goes into infrastructure. Even stuff that is stolen by corruption is just money that goes into shit nobody needs, but still gets.

    Every second playgorund, every motorway and new line of rail, every scientific lab and every second pub has a big-ass sign next to it saying “Built for a kajillion Euros by the EU”.

    Relations with the US are also independent from relations to Germany/France/the EU, especially since the US doesn’t like to deal with the entire EU at once, since they can’t flex their muscles as much. The US also doesn’t really understand it, look at the new chip restrictions cutting the free market zone in half. All that also goes for China by the way.

    Russia is simply incapable of giving a better deal than the EU. It can’t afford and is not credible to even want to spend as much as the EU. Also, Estonian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Polish are official languages in Brussels, would they also be in Moscow? It’s just not comparable. And nobody needs Russia to trade with China. In fact, the big BnR rail line China/Serbia/Hungary is doing - the one that sparked the current protests that might mean the fall of the Russia/China aligned Serbian government - specifically avoids Russia. Most of current Chinese trade actually is mediated by the Netherlands and Romania/Bulgaria.

    All I’m saying is that from the Eastern European viewpoint, if the EU/US and China/Russia are both a bundle deal - I believe they are not - then everyone will choose the one that doesn’t have Russia in it. If it’s not, the US and China are not necessarily different as a trading partner.