It doesn’t need to be random, it can be contextual. For example, if you are reading a videogame review then an ad for a new GPU or a gaming keyboard are probably relevant to you. Or if you reading a travel guide to Rome, then having ads for restaurants and less know museums can be more relevant than something that followed you across the internet.
I once campaigned to have a law that says the Portuguese institutions have to use open standards to store information. The law is in the books for 13 years (and now I feel old), and very little changed because the organisations that were supposed to enforce it don’t give a fuck.
Best our politicians can do is to give our money to Google, Microsoft, and Amazon to store all our data in the US.
If you don’t like it you can let them know through any of Meta’s social networks or X.
You mean the one that’s limited to east Germany and it’s not actually a success because the other parties will work together to keep them out of the government?
That would only be a remote risk if Germany was FPTP pseudo-democracy like the UK and former colonies.
Have you seen the opinion polls? The next government is either going to be CDU+SPD or CDU+Greens. The AfD will not go into the government because everyone rightfully refuses to deal with them.
Not really. The tariffs part is “build this in Europe or pay tariffs”. The IP part is “we’ll help you pay for new factories in Europe in exchange for access to your IP”.
There’s nothing stopping Chinese companies from building the factories using only their own money.
Brussels is planning to force Chinese companies to transfer intellectual property to European businesses in return for EU subsidies as part of a tougher trade regime for clean technologies.
This read less like forcing and more like an offer to buy it.
In relation to the tanks I think Spain said the quiet part out loud. European countries probably had a bunch of broken or missing military equipment that was never reported properly.
As an example, from Portugal, when the Tancos arms theft was discovered, the military prosecutors went to talk with “someone”, and the thieves anonymously returned the stolen arms and some weapons that the army didn’t even know were missing (shoddy bookkeeping on their day time job led to poor bookkeeping on their little hustle).