It’s still a good thing that they are adhering to the rulings of the European Court of Justice.
There are other European countries which I don’t expect to do the same thing (cough… Hungary… cough…)

I think the majority of people at this point don’t have a computer with a CD / DVD burner anymore. And at least over here the supermarket also does not sell blank CDs / DVDs anymore.

Most people would have to go out of their way to acquire the means to burn their own CDs

Japan and the US during WW2 were not allies. They were enemies.
That is pretty much why Japan attacked Pearl Harbour in the first place.

Today the US and Japan today are allies, however.
The two situations are not exactly comparable.

Africa, Asia, and South America

So we are not counting North-America, where the ICE raids continue then?

The term “AI” is vague and used to liberally imo.

When people talk about AI, they generally refer to Large Language Models (LLMs), which is what ChatGPT, Mistral, etc are.
Machine translation is not that. It’s a different approach that has been around in some capacity or another for a long time.

In the Netherlands you do get taught in drivers ed to use a painted bikelane as a turn-lane if allowed (dashed line instead of solid line) and if safe (you aren’t running someone off their bike in the process)

The idea is that you use the car to block cyclists from unexpectedly overtaking you on the right, reducing the chances of hitting a cyclist accidentally. It forces cyclists to overtake you on the left instead.

Important to note that you are not allowed to stop in the bike lane while doing so, and that cyclists going straight have right of way over cars turning right.

The price sweet spot for HDDs appears to be as high as 16 to 24 TB at the moment (at least here in the Netherlands).
You can get a 24TB Seagate Barracuda for €479,- right now, which comes out to about €20 / TB.

You say you are on a budget, but there is no real clarification what that budget is. That said, I will assume that the budget is tight, and you are looking for the best bang for the buck.

The case looks like a good option, assuming that those are 3.5 inch bays.
It should give you plenty of space for expansion in the future if you want to do that

RAM prices are pretty nuts right now, so I would definitely not got balls to the wall with 128 GB of RAM. 16 GB of RAM should be more than plenty for a NAS server. Maybe you can even get away with 8GB? I’m using 16 GB of DDR3 RAM in my NAS server (which is also running Jellyfin and Nextcloud) and it’s running fine.

Speaking of DDR3… Have you considered buying your CPU, motherboard and RAM second hand? From what I hear the prices of DDR3 RAM are not nearly as elevated as those of DDR4 and DDR5 RAM, and DDR3 is plenty sufficient for a simple NAS.

Be sure not to skimp on the power supply. Most consumer power supplies are not built for only running HDDs. I’m running a Corsair RM550x in my server, which is capable of supplying 130W on the 5V rail.

Good luck with your server build!

In terms of hobbies I would say photography, videography, generally messing around with computers and other electronics.
I also enjoy casually cycling and driving, as well as traveling to see new places in general. Usually I combine that with the photography and videography.

Oh my bad, I completely misunderstood what you were saying. I read your comment as saying we should not be looking to obtain nuclear weapons because it’s ancient tech, instead looking for diplomacy.

I do think that collaborating with France is a good first step towards rebuilding the nuclear ubrella that was lost with the US falling away as an ally.
It gives us time to breathe while wr look at maybe building our own nuclear arsenals.