Authoritarianism is usually imposed from above, not below.
In democracies, you sometimes can see authoritarians being elected. Current situation in the USA is one example.
Readit Newsedwinjm commented on The World Happiness Report is beset with methodological problems yaschamounk.substack.com/... · Posted by u/thatoneengineer
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Huh, where I live you often can use many different parking apps, and the one i tried is very simple and user friendly.
Start app, wait for gps, turn time wheel, press start.
Turn time wheel? How do you know in advance how long you stay? Where I live, you start and when you leave, you click stop. You also get reminders in case you forgot to stop.
edwinjm commented on Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft? dub.uu.nl/en/news/can-dut... · Posted by u/robtherobber
Unfortunately part of it is that it likely goes both ways. For example illegal subsidies to Airbus. And US companies still buy Airbus. I think all of these go into the calculus of the decisions to purchase though. It’s likely you value open source much higher than they do based on your own principles.
What’s the alternative?
WTO says US gave illegal aid to Boeing
https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/wto-says-us-ga...
edwinjm commented on OOP: The worst thing that happened to programming alexanderdanilov.dev/en/a... · Posted by u/lr0
Is this a new way for Russia to undermine the West?
Nice, especially the last one
edwinjm commented on Denmark wants to push through Chat Control netzpolitik.org/2025/inte... · Posted by u/_p2zi
You would think the Danish are smarter than this.
> I’ve submitted my sitemap to GSC
Google Search Console should tell you what’s wrong. What does it say?
The Nobel Peace Prize, which he really wanted, isn't a priority anymore, is it?