Charles De Gaulle didn’t.

US has a more advanced early warning satellite systems than Europe. Unfortunately, Europe is still playing catch up.

My suspicion is social media. The hustle culture and billionaires are glazed over; as in there is subliminal messaging to condition to the plebians to worship the rich and lick their boots.

Chinese authorities are pretty strict with health and safety. It’s the businesses and establishments who don’t care. I’m Asian and a lot of establishments still have that old school mindset to do the bare minimum allowance of resource allocation, but maximising the extraction of profit. It’s not just old school thinking, but very short term minded because the consequences will always catch up.

The new Fairbuds sounds like (pun intended) it’s going to have a better audio quality.

This was released on Tuesday and I ordered already.

I’m not surprised. People don’t even wash their hands after using the rest room.

I’m not Brazilian but I have followed the broader Brazilian news.

Lula is unquestionably way better than Bolsonaro, but the main issue with him is that he’s still part of the party embroiled in a corruption scandal of a state-owned oil company, which turned Brazil upside down in mid-2010s. Lula may not have personally benefited and he was exonerated from corruption charges, but the fact that he is still running with a corrupt party leaves question marks as to why he’s still rubbing shoulders with convicted politicians.

Don’t get me wrong, Lula still has goodwill from the people. He is responsible for the uplifting of millions of Brazilians from poverty during his first stint as president in 2000s, but his association with a corrupt party left an ink on him. He’s also old and he has not succeeded in steering the country against inflation, which to be fair, is what a lot of countries are struggling with not just Brazil.

Thank you Ukraine!

I’ve come to realisation that since many Lemmy users are IT workers, they feel resentful in training AI to replace them. Many had been laid off after all since the (irrational exuberant) coming of AI. That’s why I don’t begrudge many Lemmings hating AI as something that could never do anything good. I’m lucky enough that my work isn’t going to be replaced by AI. But for how long?

It depends on what you’re doing. I deal with lots of data entry and when there are corrections to be made, I had to scour through troves of information which could also cause data entry error when i am going through with it. In other words, it’s “secretary work”. AI had been helpful on that front to minimise the tedious work that does not add value or improve productivity.

AI is only good at secretary work. But for tasks that require critical thinking and analysis and creativity, don’t rely on AI.

True but given that the American institutions bowed down to Trump, the sanctions on Russia will be relieved.

Yes, but just in case…

Yup. It’s like headlines of “finding cure for cancer” (which is actually misleading in most cases) but never heard from again. It’s what happens after that matters most.

I never said Google, not sure what you’re trying to read. I use Duckduckgo but I admit it’s getting terrible over the years and I might start using Startpage because I think it’s slightly better.

The Amazon pages have bettee localisation and better translation to many languages, unlike Firefox translation which I still find clumsy.

Does it take more time to give something without Amazon? Yes. Does it take a lot more time though? Not really. In the end, it really comes down to just not caring enough about fascism/climate/corruption.

That’s a fair enough argument.

1. I don’t use Google.

2. I went to a Polish site and they don’t deliver to Ireland.

You’re literally just not searching hard enough.

That’s fair but now you see why there isn’t a European Amazon? Amazon makes things convenient. They operate on a single language and have good localised pages for many parts of the world. I could have my Firefox browser translate but it’s still done awkwardly. Europe doesn’t offer an alternate Amazon because of multiple languages and different structures because each countries do their own. The closest rival is Wildberries but there is sanction on Russia.

Sorry to be flippant, but again, people who speak on high horse about completely avoiding Amazon speak from their own experience and incorrectly think it’s universal. If it’s that easy to boycott Amazon, it would have already gone bankrupt.

Easy to speak from a high horse when you live in a place where there are better alternatives to Amazon. I live in Europe and either I go to the alternative but doesn’t deliver to Ireland, or the site has very limited selection.

For a normie like me, i stick with Bazzite.

Healthcare, consumer staples and utilities are considered to be defensive stocks because they are always needed regardless of economic situation.

I am minimising my exposure to US stock market as well. There is the perception that the European stock market doesn’t have the explosive growth the way that US stocks does but it is at least safer.

Japan could also be considered safe and their stock market have been on the rise after 30 years of stagnation.

ESG scores in general do not mean anything either.