Overall that is the problem, yes. But the efforts of Spain, France and Germany on digital sovereignty are promising. Ireland – the real willful bitches of this story – on the other hand is holding them and the EU back.

Spain was a surprise for me also.

One more reason for EU to finally put an end on the lobbying and corruption of the major European technology hub and start proper regulatory enforcement and strategic autonomy

Yes. Feel the same about genre film, really. Genre is a 20th century concept, and became outdated as a aesthetic/narrative model. Only mainstream media (films, popular literature, tv) use it, and mostly to create an easy (i.e. lazy) commercial awareness for their products, it seems.

I was thinking about M John Harrison’s booker when I found the Speculative Reader YT video, actually. My view on this is that, finally, mainstream audiences are getting to know something far better than the slop that inundated the market in the last 10 or so years!

Maybe I’m really wrong, but haven’t got any reports of tourists been beaten by police or protestors. According to my French students, violence was confined to certain areas within the city centre. I may add, these are far less dangerous than the Capitol attack in 2021 – people don’t carry guns. Demonstrations are peaceful during the day. You will be fine and almost surely able to avoid them if staying away during the night (unless rioting is your thing). Just pay enough attention where you go.

–UPDATE-- just read this: https://www.thetimes.com/travel/advice/is-it-safe-to-travel-to-paris-france-latest-advice-20332w88s

You mean EU countries or UK? Former yes (safest place in the world right now)… the latter, maybe (not so safest).

Western European countries are the safest in the world, really:

• No killings by police/ICE and no arrests for undetermined time
• People do not walk around with guns
• Mostly clean — no air pollution and drinkable water
• Higher standards of food safety in the world
• Cheap food and transport
• People are vaccinated
• High level of education mean that most people will speak at least two languages (i.e. dumb-anglophones-friendly)
• Higher levels of data privacy in the world
• very low levels of criminality and disorder, more so when compared with other “developed countries” (i.e. USA, UK)

Can add more to the list more if you need.

@barkas, indeed. Also the triangular sail, which allow the Portuguese to navigate down the African coast and reach the Cape of the Good Hope, and then go “back up” via the other side of the Atlantic (possibly getting an idea of where is Brazil, decades before Columbus reached America).

On Judaism, consider the Persian influence in early Judaism – probably all 3 monotheistic (aka Abrahamic) religious are initially influenced by key concepts from Zoroastrianism… some of the tribes of Israel had links there… but that’s another story…

It’s fun and diverse. The latter is particularly true if you manage to skip tons of US politics-related posts similar to the ones you find on non-Fediverse platforms. Try non-English language channels. Those are far more globally diverse, smart and interesting (aka less US-centric).

Here’s a list of hundreds of communities in the Lemmyverse: https://lemmyverse.net/communities

Mostly prepping to go without food, electricity, travelling or communications because of sabotage of vital infrastructure (in Europe and UK is happening on a weekly basis) and climate catastrophes which are regular in the UK since 2020(ish) and increasing. There are also potential lockdowns because of pandemics (e.g. measles from US). Also Brexit Britain is now inoperative in terms of food safety, really, since it relies on mainland Europe food imports to survive. If something fails or there’s a mega-storm, supermarkets will be empty for days like they were in 2018 or 2020.

Odd thing to say, as the religion these people claim to follow (and the “book” attached to it) is a reworked and simplified (i.e. monotheistic) believe system started in what is now Iran and Iraq. And if it wasn’t for “Arab” maps and maritime science, Europeans would never been able to start their colonial sea expansion and, subsequently, the great-great-great parents of this scum would have reach the Americas … just saying.

The best TV show IN ENGLISH… plenty of better TV show in other languages… just saying.

#MAGA?

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Thanks for clarifying, dragospirvu75@lemmy.ml