Thanks!

For those of us out of the loop, who is Patrick?

Your country’s definition of “of age” and my country’s definition of it is likely to differ. Easier to just implement a birthdate field than try to cover all the global legislations for these things. Especially when there are multiple conditions for “of age” in a single country. Old enough to vote? Old enough to drink? Those are often not the same.

Only if you manage to keep out corrupt elements stealing whatever they can from that funding

Absolutely. All of this is predatory

Framing the Ukraine was as an imperialistic war is western propaganda

What? Russia is free to end this war any time they choose. Doesn’t seem like there can be any peace with Russia as long as Putin stays in power, same as we can’t rely on the US as long as Trump is its head.

I don’t see a need for Europe to include Israel in anything at all these days to be honest

an excuse to get belligerent with an EU member

Which EU member are we talking about here? It’s not very clear, since Turkey isn’t one

Essentially, united on foreign policy but not domestic (barring stuff like human rights)? Superficially it seems sensible enough.

Yeah, because they’ve been doing so for decades. Most of what’s happening today would likely not have been accepted 30-40 years ago, but people have been desensitized by constant, subtle and not so subtle influencing.

Who do you think influences the masses to vote this way, and who put people like trump in the position to be elected?

Doesn’t sound like it failed at its purpose in that case

I love my Cayman S! The biggest risk from what I’ve read is bore scoring, which can end up fairly serious. If that doesn’t happen, it seems most issues are minor. Mine just passed 100k, bought it in 2023 at 70k. Enjoying every minute I spend behind that wheel!

From afar, you get the impression that suits are in charge and if there isn’t already some “proof of popularity” of some sort, it won’t get greenlit

I don’t remember, sorry.
But that is exactly how it should be. Why are we throwing our money collectively after institutions that provide zero benefit outside of the solution they deliver? I don’t imagine service providers will go away, there’s no reason for some municipality of 5000 in a remote region to have their own full IT team, but if everything is open source every improvement that happens in one place can benefit somewhere else.

Fair enough, thanks for the response

I’ve been arguing this for a few years. Create a solid, open source ecosystem for all the things we use for-profit providers for currently. It’d be a massive gain for European governments, and governments/businesses globally to have open enterprise solutions that are maintained with significant budgets (less than what we’re all paying the US now)

I’m curious, since you’re already on Protonmail, why not use their VPN too?

Had to look it up, it’s close. Wiki says the foundations were laid in 1785, so not long after the US independence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaeger_Corps_(Denmark)

in Europe you have to develop and sometimes apply for permits and licenses for each country

Honestly, EU Inc, announced at the WEF, is one of the few good things to come out of that mess. A single framework for running a business in all EU countries, meaning expansion across borders will be simplified enormously. Should allow for easier growth in the future.