@ekZepp @matdevdug “Instead it became the only place consistently posting trustworthy information I could actually access. This became personally relevant when Trump threatened to invade Greenland, which is the kind of sentence I never expected to type and yet here we are. It would be funny if I wasn’t a tiny bit concerned that my new home was going to get a CIA overnight regime change special in the middle of the night.”

@ekZepp @matdevdug “So in this complete breakdown of the press came in the Fediverse. It became the only reliable source of information I had. People posted links with a minimal amount of commentary, picking and choosing the best content from other social media networks. They’re not doing it to “build a brand” because that’s not a thing in the Fediverse. It’s too disjointed to be a place to build a newsletter subscription base.”

@ekZepp funny, I thought this is what Google search is nowadays:
“Threads was worthless because it’s the most boring social media website ever imagined. It’s a social media network designed by brands for brands, like if someone made a cable channel that was just advertisements and meta commentary about the advertisements you just saw. Billions of dollars at their disposal and Meta made a hot new social media network with the appeal of junk mail.” @matdevdug

@europa France has to prove itself, and so far is failing

But the fact is that if France is not ready to face its colours, it is questionable if other continental countries are prepared any better.

@HowRu68 thank you! Yes, you are right. I guess I’ve been posting a very non-standard provocation. I’d understand if this is not welcome and I apologize.

@choui4 most immediately, it destroys habitats, and even if sparsely populated, semi-deserts are habitats to extraordinary species. Totalitarian counties in particular don’t have the mechanisms of internal criticism and self-correctiveness, and as a consequence risk moving too fast for nature to adapt.

Hardly comparable, because we’re talking of an opposing action here, but here are examples of effects of water engineering:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern/_river/_reversal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado/_River/_Compact#Over-use,_climate_change,_and_other_issues
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gk1251w14o

This type of large scale engineering is quite dangerous, but still better this than what has happened for decades around the world and is still happening in Brazil.

@blackn1ght @science

@reabsorbthelight to give estimates, we’d need to see if the increased applications lead to increased awards to US researchers (which is quite probable). One of these grants leads to about a dozen new hires, and it’s very probable that senior researchers would want to pull their teams along.

@reabsorbthelight an average full-time professor does not cover the requirements for an advanced grants. That’s why an average full-time professor doesn’t get several millions of funding.

@Draegur @science just don’t forget all the blinded-by-greed dumb-as-fuck billionaires behind him

“The EC has budgeted €175 billion for the 10th Framework Programme, a follow-up to Horizon Europe starting in 2028. Eurodoc has called for a budget of €220 billion, Dengo says. “Without a substantial increase in funding, and with Europe-based researchers already facing intense competition, additional incoming mobility will inevitably further increase pressure on the system.””

@science

“Advanced Grants — for established principal investigators — saw the greatest leap in US applications, with the number nearly quintupling from 23 to 114. The ERC does not routinely publish information on the nationalities of applicants, but Kieron Flanagan, a science-policy researcher at the University of Manchester, says that he suspects many of these senior researchers are Europe-born or Europe-trained, and are “opting to use the ERC grant as a mechanism to escape the US system””

@science

@lvxferre @Nemo so how is the distinction from the last paragraph communicated in a supposedly non-messy language?

@PixelPilgrim there certainly are. One is going around various platforms on the fediverse under the name of fediversechick.

@alsternerd @atomicpoet @fediverse @crossgolf_rebel would be nice if the [email protected] reference becomes an ActivityPub standard

@lurch they thrive on the same fears as AfD, at least CSU does.

@avidamoeba I was expecting CSU (the Bavarian sister party which is much more hard-line) to be the first ones, but CDU beat them to it

Here’s another one for you. This one is considered “foreign agent” in Georgia. Certainly, in the country, probably also for #MAGA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phu0ypdMDFc

@TheGuardian_uk @MediaBiasFactChecker

I guess bots fail to acknowledge that “unreliable” is not inherited from the level of reliability of @TheGuardian_uk

@MediaBiasFactChecker