Mastodawn

oh well, I'll join in with my own questions then, just to get an idea:

1) How can the EU achieve Digital Sovereignty when every CPU and GPU need to be bought from US companies?

2) Is a green agenda that respects the planet's finite ressources compatible with an economic system that relies on constant growth?

3) Should there be a EU-wide minimum wage?

4) Do you consider "Social Discrimination" the fact that workers pay proportionaly more taxes than private companies?

@VoltEuropa

Pevin Kinel Mar 17

Cast the Dice Mar 17

Horse Lords return with new album, Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!

https://castthedice.org/?p=32593

#HorseLords

Horse Lords return with new album, Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!

The best news of 2026 are here: Horse Lords are back with a brand new album. Wonderfully titled Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!, it follows their masterpiece Comradely Objects, which was one of our Album Picks of 2022 and remains an absolute favourite. Formed in 2010 in Baltimore, the quartet of Andrew Bernstein,...

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Pevin Kinel Mar 14

"Mining giant Rio Tinto hired an Israeli campaign strategist in 2021 to promote its unpopular plan for a lithium mine in Serbia (...)"

I guess the tobacco and fossil fuel lobbyists were busy, so they went for the campaign strategist of Israel's President Isaac Herzog, a sure fire sign that you're just trying to make the world a better place and that the 60% of the population who oppose the project don't know what's good for them.

#riotinto #mining #lithium #serbia

https://balkaninsight.com/2025/10/24/rio-tinto-hired-israeli-pr-guru-in-serbia-flagged-as-potential-government-official/bi/

Rio Tinto Hired Israeli PR Guru in Serbia Flagged as ‘Potential Government Official’

Mining giant Rio Tinto hired an Israeli campaign strategist in 2021 to promote its unpopular plan for a lithium mine in Serbia, despite due diligence identifying him as a ‘potential government official’ given his longstanding links to the country’s president.

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Pevin Kinel Mar 13

that's all fine and dandy, but we could save even more by tricking stackoverflow users into delivering free burritos!

@lmorchard

Pevin Kinel Mar 12

RE: https://mastodon.social/@euobserver/116209029977249567

undermining anti-pollution laws (pun intended)

<< While environmental groups and several member states expressed their shock and concern about the ReSource EU Action Plan, its release was celebrated by the mining industry, with Euromines claiming it demonstrated “the impact of coordinated industry advocacy”. >>

if you don't have drinkable water, you can always drink champagne

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Pevin Kinel Feb 28

@w0bb1t geebus! as minimizing as they're trying to sound, it's so incredibly awful. i can picture "They make more targets faster" as a button that they just dial up and AI halucinates more targets for them

Pevin Kinel Feb 28

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Artur Coelho Feb 28

Só há uma forma dos americanos conseguirem mover tropas e meios aéreos tão rapidamente para o médio oriente: a rede de bases que têm na Europa, essencial para o seu fluxo global. Sem as Lajes (PT), Rota (ES), Ramstein (DE), Mildenhall (UK), Aviano (IT) Inçirlik (TK), Diego Garcia (BIOT - UK), entre outras, este ataque massivo não seria possível. Estamos a ser coniventes, por inação, com esta forma errada que nos faz regressar aos tempos da diplomacia da canhoneira.

Pevin Kinel Feb 28

They brought democracy, freedom and peace to Iraq.

Then they did it again in Afghanistan.

Now they're doing it to Iran.

At that rate, it won't be long before they bring democracy, freedom and peace to the United States.

#usa #iraq #afghanistan #iran