I never spent a second of thought on that.

“I promised this buddy of mine a leg up since we’re in the same business.” - the business of grifting.

I never thought of Hummus as a typical leftover food. Is that so?

“Scandal! Top MAGA admires MAGA-adjacent asshole!”

So what? Unless he’s done significantly more than just speak to Count Rape I really don’t see how his reputation could have gotten worse.

Simple as that. But Russia knew since day 1 that “the West” won’t want to commit itself fully. Easy prediction since that’s exactly what happened in 2014 and basically all Russia’s expansionist activity since the 90s.

Well here’s to hoping that this will change. It has to change, really.

Dumping basically means saying “hey, I’ve got the entire US GDP here in cash USD, I’m selling it for 100 EUR”, and watching the US go hyperinflating.

Oh. That sounds like a lose-lose situation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_of_the_willing#Military_and_political

On March 1, 2025, Czech president Petr Pavel made a social media post on X, calling for the formation of a coalition of the willing to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The next day, British prime minister Keir Starmer echoed this sentiment after an international summit hosted in London between 18 European leaders. He said that the UK would work with France and other European countries to provide security guarantees for Ukraine, with a long-term goal of a peace agreement of some kind with Russia.

On August 18, 2025 President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen termed the emergency summit of European leaders at the August 2025 White House multilateral meeting on Ukraine “the Coalition of the Willing”.

Participants (in diplomatic protocol order):

Donald Trump
Alexander Stubb (Finland)
Emmanuel Macron
Friedrich Merz 
Giorgia Meloni
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Keir Starmer
Mark Rutte (NATO) 
Ursula von der Leyen (EU)

That too.

I was going to ask the same. Also how come a US outlet has this and I haven’t seen anything on Europe-centric channels.

Sometimes one just has to wait a day or so.

I’m also unclear about what “dumping” those trillions actually means? If we truly had the USA by the balls like that I’m sure I’d have heard about this sooner.

Sounds like what these idiots did during Jan6.

All in all it’s just another brick in the wall.

It might take a while, but we will get you all.

I fully agree on the ethics and morals of it, but I also believe that Zelenskyy isn’t unaware of the larger situation here and has good reason to put down his foot.

In the end this is also going to be a litmus test for Russia’s Hybrid Warfare. Let it not succeed.

I hope the powers that be act accordingly before Ukrainians had enough of being pummeled. Well, I think they already had enough, but before it gets so bad that nothing will keep them fighting anymore.

Oh shit

I guess as a user I just don’t want all my apps to open a tab in my browser. I want to move apps between virtual desktops and monitors independently and I don’t want my app’s window to be clattered by all the menus from my browser.

All this is already possible with most browsers.

[X] hasn’t replied to POLITICO’s repeated requests for comment.

lol

Not the main point, but I found this interesting:

Regnier also justified the Commission’s continued use of X as a platform for corporate communications, despite the severity of anti-EU comments posted by Musk over the weekend and the platform’s decision to suspend the Commission’s account for paid advertising.

The EU executive uses 15 social media platforms and hasn’t made a decision to suspend its use of X, Regnier said.

All these platforms are ways to “get in touch to citizens, stakeholders, to do some outreach work, to precisely speak about what we are doing in the EU,” he said.

Statements comparing the EU to Nazi Germany are “part of the freedom of speech that we very much praise in the EU,” which “allows even for the craziest statements that you can imagine,” Chief Spokesperson Paula Pinho said.

The Commission stopped “using paid advertising or any paid services for X” in 2023 and its regular account remains open, Regnier said.

The EU does this already. And I agree, $140million is not much, EU-wide. Last I heard it was just 1 member state who issued a similar fine - times 27 that would already hurt a little.

All the dumber that Musk is making such a stink about what is really less than peanuts to him.

It shows that opposing trumpism isn’t a political stance anymore, it’s just common sense now - in most places around the world.

All major browsers can do this - with the exception of running something in the background I guess. But that is exactly the sort of usage scenario where an Electron app is the worst choice. Coding a separate utility with no GUI would be the sane thing to do here, not put whole browser stacks into memory.

Oh, yet another International Diplomatic Incident.

It’s because people want cross-platform apps and web is the easiest way to do it.

Just use the website then? There already is a suitable browser installed on every system. But no, must have apps. Makes it easier to stop people from having opinions about data collection and such. And the full browser stack needs to be fully reproduced each time. It gets really ridiculous when these apps sit idly in the notification area. Not to speak of security implications because electron apps and such usually don’t get timely updates.