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kebab@endlesstalk.orgto News@lemmy.world•California police are killing fewer people. The opposite is happening in red statesEnglish110·5 hours agoI am aware that abuses do happen, what I am questioning is the scale. The situation from the video you’ve sent is of course absolutely unacceptable and disciplinary actions shall be taken against that officer as it’s a clear abuse of power.
Also, I am not pro “authoritarian bootlicking attitude”, just believe that it’s better if the police has tools to fight the actual criminals while taking responsibility for power abuses. In US it went too far one way, in Europe it went too far the other way.
kebab@endlesstalk.orgto News@lemmy.world•California police are killing fewer people. The opposite is happening in red statesEnglish116·6 hours agoI am not an American but having watched many bodycam videos on YouTube, it seems that in the vast majority of the cases when someone got shot, all they needed to do not to get shot is follow the police officer’s orders. Isn’t that so? In the US if you draw a gun on a police officer you get shot and the deal is done. In Europe, if you draw a gun on a police officer, the police starts running away fearing for their life, and the offender just escapes and stays free.
kebab@endlesstalk.orgto News@lemmy.world•In reversal, Trump arms Ukraine and threatens sanctions on countries that buy Russian oilEnglish21·8 hours agoI guess we need to bring up the Epstein files more as it does wonders as a call to action for Trump
kebab@endlesstalk.orgto News@lemmy.world•California police are killing fewer people. The opposite is happening in red statesEnglish217·8 hours agoPolice not killing people is not necessary a good sign. Sometimes you just can’t stop the criminals by other means. In Europe police has basically no power and the weapon use by the police is heavily restricted and gets the policemen in trouble which makes it easier for criminals to just run away
kebab@endlesstalk.orgto Europe@feddit.org•ECB launches design contest for future euro banknotesEnglish2·8 hours agoThis looks amazing! I love the choice of colors and the great synergy they represent
kebab@endlesstalk.orgto Europe@feddit.org•1,500 Deaths in Europe’s Heat Wave Were Due to Climate Crisis, Study ShowsEnglish1·8 hours agoTell this to India, in Europe the coal usage keeps dropping each year. They are on the very same planet as Europe is
kebab@endlesstalk.orgto Europe@feddit.org•German data protection officer wants to ban China's DeepSeek from app stores, says data transfer to China is "extremely critical"English21·8 hours agoFinally Germany not pandering to all the Chinese calls. Good that they’re not getting away breaking the European laws this time
kebab@endlesstalk.orgto World News@lemmy.world•Australia looks to scrap surcharges on most card paymentsEnglish7·22 hours agoThat sounds too good to be true, were they really not taking any cuts from the payments too? If so, can you share the name of the product?
kebab@endlesstalk.orgto World News@lemmy.world•China emerges from trade chaos with record exports and surplusEnglish33·22 hours agoI still prefer the last 40 years of US history over the last 40 years of Chinese history
kebab@endlesstalk.orgto World News@lemmy.world•US imposes a 17% duty on fresh Mexican tomatoes in hopes of boosting domestic productionEnglish3·22 hours agoAt least he learned that tariffing all the products, including those which you can’t produce domestically, is not the brightest idea
kebab@endlesstalk.orgto News@lemmy.world•Trump Cognitively Declines In Front Of The World During Meet With NATO LeaderEnglish6·24 hours agoI have watched the video and while he does ramble about blaming Biden for everything as always, he doesn’t seem to have “declined” during the interview honestly speaking. The headline is quite misleading/sensational in my opinion
kebab@endlesstalk.orgto World News@lemmy.world•Live updates: Trump threatens 100 percent secondary tariffs on Russia tradeEnglish11·1 day agoNice distraction from Epstein files!
kebab@endlesstalk.orgto Europe@feddit.org•Ukraine war: With China’s Help, Moscow Says It Has Tripled Its Drone ProductionEnglish1·1 day agoFirst of all I am actually curious what you think about this as you seem to have done some research on the matter, thanks for your reply!
Sure, would have been better to use the nuclear option 10+ years ago. Let’s see how we got there, to what you describe as a multi-polar world.
When China was taking over the solar industry, in which Germany invested tons of money, just so that China can steal the technology and make profit off that by selling them to Europe which was happily subsidizing them, killing its own industry (China did only subsidize domestically produced solars for context). Then came EVs - again, European companies were busy shifting production to China, sharing technology, and subsidizing all the EVs no matter where they come from again, Chinese included, while China would only subsidize Chinese EVs. Now France is busy exporting plane parts, so that Chinese Comac can build their own planes by scraping together European parts, and gradually replacing the European parts with Chinese clones, and then actually improved Chinese designs. Would be impossible if you just banned plane part exports to China and would delay they efforts for ages, but apparently learning from mistakes isn’t the strongest trait of our leaders. But who could think that sharing technology and shifting production to an authoritarian regime could eventually backfire?
Does this mean that nothing can be done and we have to accept our fate? No, Europe has still many strong sectors. Sure, not much can be done about solars at this point, but, as an example, banning plane part exports and stopping subsidizing Chinese EVs, would still greatly hurt the pace of further growth of the beast that we’ve raised. And Trump is on the same page with China, so if we sit down and talk together with the US, we can actually still do a great harm to the Chinese economy as two of the three biggest polars of the current day multipolar world. Let’s cooperate with Japan, South Korea, Australia and Canada on that, let’s bully India and Vietnam a bit which would love to get some western foreign investments, and China is screwed. Yes, we should have done that in 2016, but we were busy bailing China out when US finally started fighting them. I don’t get why no one did it before and why no one does it to this day.
Regarding cheap oil - China doesn’t need cheap oil anymore. They invented their own, alternative energy sources, and the falling global oil prices are partly attributed to the declining demand from the Chinese side. Their alliance with Russia is not an economic one because Russia barely has anything to offer for China nowadays, with their economy of a size of Spain. What Russia has is nukes, a similar authoritarian regime, a great network of spies, and a will of destabilizing the European continent, which China loves, as it keeps Europeans busy with Russia, and shifts the focus away from China.
kebab@endlesstalk.orgOPto World News@lemmy.world•Trump urges MAGA supporters to forget about Epstein filesEnglish21·2 days agoSorry, it’s the best article I could find on this topic on the internet. If you can find a better one - feel free to share though
kebab@endlesstalk.orgto Europe@feddit.org•Ukraine war: With China’s Help, Moscow Says It Has Tripled Its Drone ProductionEnglish5·2 days agoActual western sanctions and western companies leaving the country. They can only play hard now because of how West is so dependent on China for key manufacturing facilities
kebab@endlesstalk.orgto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•An Immich LXC came up on community scriptEnglish61·2 days agoWhat’s the licensing situation with Immich? Is it still “unlimited trial period”?
kebab@endlesstalk.orgto World News@lemmy.world•Most people in France, Germany, Italy and Spain would support UK rejoining EU, poll findsEnglish35·3 days agoMost people in France, Germany, Italy and Spain would support UK rejoining EU, poll finds
Sure, but as an equal member, without special treatment, which won’t please current UK.
Asked whether Britain should be allowed back in on the same conditions it enjoyed when it left, including not having to adopt the euro currency and remaining outside the Schengen passport-free zone, the numbers changed significantly.
Only one-fifth of respondents across the four biggest EU members, from 19% in Italy and France to 21% in Spain and 22% in Germany, felt the UK should be allowed return as if it had never left, with 58-62% saying it must be part of all main EU policy areas.
In the UK, while 54% of Britons supported rejoining the EU when asked the question in isolation, the figure fell to just 36% if rejoining meant giving up previous opt-outs. On those terms, 45% of Britons opposed renewed membership.
kebab@endlesstalk.orgto World News@lemmy.world•Trump's sudden shifts make his policies baffling to countries trying to negotiate lower tariffsEnglish6·3 days agoUK is probably the biggest supporter of the US in Europe (along with Poland) and is not a part of the EU, hence not affected by the tariffs mentioned by the OP
kebab@endlesstalk.orgto News@lemmy.world•U.S. rocked by four 1-in-1,000-year storms in less than a weekEnglish1·3 days ago“Drill, baby, drill”
Because Führer asked them to forget about those files