Yeah they didn’t beat him to death, great. KICK can revert back to it’s usual self.

His last video was a marathon one where the others induced him into a severe lack of sleep while making him absorb all manners of substances.

His last message to his mother (because the two torturers randomly opened his message app to read out his private conversations to the public) told her he was sick of this video, wanted to stop it, but the two others held him captive.

Fuck the media for bowing to the pressure of big tech who want this story out of people’s mind before it sets a precedence. I’m not saying kick puts pressure, I’m saying the FANGS are doing it.

More than that it’s utter fear from our elites. Not really money flowing from Google and Microsoft into the pockets of politicians. It’s fear of higher tarrifs that motivates the EU to become a fiefdom of the US tech and defense sector.

No it’s all good American firms that are going to take the leadership of our future. Done.

And no: even if one day the democrats come back to power (and how are they ever going to do that?), it won’t change a thing, they also like having their hands around our necks.

Because we want US money. If we start not buying US weapons, energy and tech, Trump could put more tarrifs on our backs and OMG that would be our downfall!

There we are just selling our countries themselves to the US, we already accepted to sell our population’s sanity to all US social media and US entertainment companies. We already accept Google to filter our news and put what is important to them at the front-page of the news cycle.

No one cares anymore. The EU is dead, merely 5 minutes after pushing strong laws against all this.

BACO: Bruxelles always chickens out.

Yes with your own data. But with the data the state has about you: it’s all going across the pond. Whether you like it or not. They have chosen to bow to Trump. As the head of NATO said : “Daddy’s back”.

Georgia wasn’t even in talks with joining NATO or even the EU when Russia invaded it.

NATO isn’t a war bait for Russia. It has never been. Russia hasn’t decided to start this war because of NATO expansionism.

The only reason the US is getting into this is because the EU is their best client. The US has no interest in defending Ukraine. I understand that, it has been made perfectly clear ( not by you, specifically but by representatives of the US nation.)

Oh yeah…

The ever expansionist NATO that keeps pulling the breaks whenever a new candidate appears because this or that already existing member puts up last minute conditions.

That Against the secluded empire that pulls no breaks to fuck up it’s neighbours until they accept the membership with the gun barrel pointed at their forehead.

Anybody who isn’t an oligarch feels betrayed, constantly, by the actions of those who consider themselves to be Ubermensch.

Those two Dofus, and others like them, don’t get we know what they are doing and see through their bullshit 100 miles ahead.

What frightened them with Luigi will only multiply, no matter what control they think they are applying through their surveillance capitalism. It’s simply not possible to control what goes on between our ears. It’s possible to control personas that we all use on the internet but it’s much harder to control the being of meat and thoughts. And this is what will get those monsters as it often got others in history.

Russia and china are only using failures in western policies against us. They don’t create them. It’s up to our nations to resolve those tension spots so they cannot be used against us.

The Russian argument is understandable because it’s what our governments point to as the origin of their failures. It allows them to keep pointing at that “outside interference”, invest in surveillance while not investing in what the subjects used by the interference reveal about the real wants of the population are.

Russia certainly is no friend of democracy and hatred towards the Putin regime is healthy but to fight it does take more than just saying a third of your citizenship is dumb and brainwashed, you have to remedy what they use against us.

It’s going to be worse than you have. Not the same, living there, seeing the things: Europe is on the verge of going the hardest right wing way again, trumpism will look like amateur far-right compared to what is about to go down here.

It sounds like another ransomware gang.

Not gonna happen, it’s time to acknowledge it. Europe is weak and set in its ways. It doesn’t want to lead but be a follower with a theatre of regulations that is not applied to big US corporations.

Europe would prefer to kill 10 of it’s nascent cloud companies rather than push away Microsoft, Apple or Meta.

Expect the same in AI Access to European data.

It’s all smokes and mirrors. We don’t want to be eaten up by Russia and we don’t want to fight. So we stay under the protection of uncle Sam in exchange for what we go all in deep into US tech and surveillance capitalism.

And we are sold cute stories about laws like GDPR or DMA that will never be applied and ridiculously small penalties for the few cases that make it to court.

But it’s not cats or dogs they are asking for, it’s rabbits and chickens… Pets you can find in any supermarket.

That’s good, have it, not using it yet, never had the opportunity to. Brick and mortar will probably be the first time I’ll use it (unless online shows up first, but I usually buy stuff from small online retailers, seldom the big ones that will embrace it first.)

RMS warned of this a bit over 20 years ago. This is why you should get Free and Open source software and not Open Source Software. Preferably with a GPL licence which allows you to download, run, read the code, modify it and share it. Open source can mean you only have the right to read the code and signal to the dev code you’ve saw that could have been better or errors you saw.

He’s got a great GI tract! The best ever!

In the meantime, Russians and Chinese are building bases all over the area, once French and US bases close down and evacuate. So the “live freely and peacefully” is wishful thinking at best. They close down their bases because those are at risk.

“Hey, now we do E2E! No need to worry about where it is, it’s totally opaque except to you! What? You want to review the code? No! Ours is not one of those dangerous FOSS softwares, ours is closed for your security, but you got our word!”

I work for a french public owned company in transport. The whole company uses Microsoft 365, “sysadmin is an idiot and I don’t trust his password system” [ editing done] etc… Oh yeah, no one thought about cleaning up the system so copilot’s here all right, just sipping in the corner.

We are truly f***d .Doesn’t matter whom attacks, the US, China, Russia, indépendants. They can paralyse this transportation network in a snap. And I know it’s far from a lone example.

The french public services are hopeless as far as computing and basic security is concerned. There are a few times when they struck genius and got productive, secure services out, but day to day companies that are the infrastructure of the country itself are hopeless.

I think you have missed a few chapters, it’s not slow moving it’s glacial age moving. The free software policies have been already talked about since 2003., that’s 22 years ago. None of this is new, it did not appear with trump, nor with the Russian invasions. It’s way older projects and it all remains as talks, memorandums, conventions. Never anything enforced, GDPR is not enforced seriously, DMA will not be etc…

Let’s not kid ourselves anymore with the voluntary inaction of the EU.

You cannot understand how sorry I am about it. I am the result of a intra European wedding, I went places thanks to EU collaborations, I owe my wages and work hours in big parts to EU wide regulations. I still am an EU cheerleader in many wide ranging subjects. But on this one, in which European countries have the most economic, work opportunities , attraction pole, social benefits to reap for future generations. They are too much listening to the FANGS and banks and not enough to economists. It’s basic lip service that has been going on for too long.