🔏 Matthias Wiesmann

@thias
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Generic IT geek with too many interests: languages, aikidō, trains, DIY, fixing stuff and bikes. Based in Zürich. Parle français. Kann deutsch sprechen.
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Trump would not have been possible if the entire US political system, on a bipartisan basis, had not become a game of elite impunity, if it had not nullified any accountability for political actors, and if it had not repeatedly encouraged imperial military violence under multiple administrations, shrugging off any sense of moral responsibility for the death, chaos, and misery the country unleashed each time. This is the result of a political culture that whines about "purity tests."
-0.749751059747143 + -0.026731474958047435i at zoom 1.3600434521e+05.

Once there is:

• A luxury hotel atop Everest, or
• A settlement 500m below the surface of any ocean; or
• Any city getting 30% of its veggies/grains from subway hydroponics; or
• Vegas making all of its own water;

...then I will concede that we have solved the first 1% of the problems needed to be a spacefaring species.

Absent any of that, putting monkeys in a can is just a premature stunt.

This timeline sucks.

People are way too obsessed by big things, when a wall is about to collapse, the small pebbles falling out and the cracks are important. I find it fascinating how this is not a big headline in the US…

https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20260404-french-central-bank-nets-%E2%82%AC13bn-from-us-gold-sale-consolidates-reserves-in-paris

French central bank nets €13bn by pulling gold out of US reserves

France’s central bank has sold off the last of the gold it held in the United States Federal Reserve and replaced it with higher quality bars in Paris, taking advantage of rising prices to make nearly €13 billion as it upgrades its holdings.

RFI
Auch Orange, aber ohne blabla

The new American dream, for some of its citizens, is to no longer live there.

(Wall Street Journal headline)

On n’a jamais vu une végétation aussi en avance. Au 5 avril, presque toutes les espèces ont déjà débourré, alors qu’à cette période, le réveil végétatif devrait à peine commencer (carte anomalie du "vert" en Europe). 2/3
Tech Companies Are Trying to Neuter Colorado’s Landmark Right-to-Repair Law

A bill in Colorado is a glimpse into the future of how corporations are working to limit the freedom people have to make their own fixes and upgrades.

WIRED