I hope they fail then. The level of intrusion and power on internal EU affairs the platforms have is immense and getting rid of it would arguably compensate for any losses, especially when we have the rest of the world willing to talk to us.
As long as there is a conditional, I won’t think so.
Ate fried veal brain all the time: it’s sooo good! Since the CJD outbreaks that’s something we learned not to do.
Also, being a genocide in both cases, the ratio to original population size would be relevant.
Do we have any documentation about the origin of the infrastructure providers for Wero?
My attention will be on the selection of providers, planned for Q2 2025. If non-EU (and I would personally exclude also non-Eurozone, because incentives) providers are allowed in the infrastructure, especially American, Israeli or Chinese, the whole thing is not only a joke, but an extremely risky operation.
A private company that is already enshittifying, to be precise. After years of gathering market share by being a zero commissions solution, lately they introduced commissions in some cases higher than what more consolidated payment solutions have.
I hope we will be able to hang a prosciutto or two this time as well. Maybe not just ours this time.
Vance is coming to visit on the 18th, just sayin’
Tiered strategies get my approval. We can start from Hungary.
Qwant (at least the way I would pronounce it, let’s say in a French way) doesn’t sound bad at all.
I agree with the list, but we never had that standard before so it would be difficult to start now. The economic support to Russia is pressing to say the least and it could actually be used as a token, since China could look for slightly higher prices elsewhere while maintaining their trade money.
The newsletter “The European Correspondent” curates this playlist with one song added by one of their correspondents for every issue of the newsletter: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPUDphMVx9xJnO0VptC5DdLqpMaga2UmS
Great stuff there! They may not be hits at the moment, but there are absolutely some bangers there.
In Italy, right now the charts are still ruled by the songs presented in the Sanremo Festival in February, which is sad. Here is the playlist if you want something completely bland to numb your brain with: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvsYXqtYjMYe192jbW-UCQ-NgjtUhz54J
I actually have 2 cool bosses. The other one is a hacker with ties (but I believe not membership) with the CCC, who has worked helping establish humanitarian tech companies in Africa and who self-hosts whatever he can.
Contribution from my cool boss who is a knife enthusiast:
Belgium has both cultra.be and https://atelier185.be/, the first really high quality
My father has one from bulgarian https://duloknives.com/, very nice
I’ve seen these several times, however, not owned one unfortuantely https://www.anvknives.com/ they are Czech
Austria’s very nifty craftsman: https://www.lilienstahl.com/
We have own own Danish riceknife.dk very small very praised
Other than Fiskars in Finland there is also roselli.fi very cool hunting/outdoor knifes, I have one
The name is not protected, so there is many Laguiole, but this is the original: forge-de-laguiole.com sp nice
Then there is German Zwilling and Wüsthof of course, not that sexy but German :wink:
On the obvious list we have Victorinox huge and comercial from Switzerland
Then a very old and very renowned Norwegian one is https://helle.com/
Spanish arcos.com is also very famous and respected
Sure, stop buying Russian oil and you have a deal, Winnie.
Oh didn’t know they were AI generated. I thought it was just the work of underpaid UI designers, kind of a silent protest
One more reason for me to visit Helsinki more than once a year. When is it usually? And are classes given also in English?
https://coltelligiagu.it/ Makers of the Pattada knives, Sardinian shepherd knives.
ProtonMail is Swiss, but (in my view I should say “and”, actually) it still not a moral choice for me: https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/
It will be the end of corporate swag at conferences.