Ditch Uber for Bolt. They’re European and pay the drivers a bit better

It looks so shit cause they’ve already nuked themselves to planetary death. And because of climate change and rising sea level. Also ecosystem degradation and subsequent soil erosion. I’ve heard you need to prevent these to keep Earth beautiful. Just for the aesthetics. Think about the astronauts, what if they had to look at an ugly Earth?

Well, we actually produce our wind turbines - and most wind turbines outside of China (https://sopuli.xyz/post/30659580).

And it is different with solar panels than with oil & gas. If China stops exporting the panels today, well, the ones we bought will continue working for decades. If oil and gas stop flowing, we will run out of them in months, if not weeks.

Comparing R and RStudio to Israel and USA is mean. But meme still funny.

I get your point. But any collective myth will overlook a lot reality. Americans actually help each other and organize themselves in their communities, despite the hassle culture. Chinese had many failed attempts at dominating industries. Many Russians actually prefer a calm and good life to the glory of their country.

In a way, a myth is more about what we want to be than what we are. Or, the part of ourselves we are proud of.

The choice is ours. We simply need to choose whom we admire. Whom we want to recognize as successful. Whom we aspire to be when we grow up. We need to sing the praises of our true heroes: those who contribute to our commons.

It could, obviously, just be international. There are people giving away inventions to mankind all around the world, though not equally distributed. But there is a window of opportunity for big part of Europe to embrace these values as our, though not exclusively our. The local aspect is beneficial, since it gives the universal values a sense of belonging and strong institutions.

I agree and appreciate the article a tonne.

And I think it is more to the point, and less naive, than might seem after the first reading. The issue is the reliance on Google (sorry, Alphabet), Facebook (sorry, Meta), Twitter (sorry, X), Netflix, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. Thinking we need European Google or Microsoft to solve is a failure of imagination. We (largely) have the technology to do it differently. What we lack is the will to do it differently.

Almost everything Big Tech does could be solved with a protocol and diverse server providers. Prove me wrong.

(I mean, what Big Tech does for its presumed users, “the common people”…)

Shut down and stop is a different thing…

Also, Volkswagen EV sales increased nearly 50% in the first half of 2025 (see link below).

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/07/10/volkswagen-ev-sales-surge-47-percent-in-2025/

It is not good. Infrastructure is lacking in big parts of Europe. As a citizen, I would focus on that, rather than Chinese EVs (if they scare the industry, it is good though).

And busses, trains, bikes. Too much cars in this comm.