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Engie was lying. They just didn’t want to be in the nuclear business anymore.

Export is only a small part of their emissions.

They are boxing in China. Taking away China’s oil. First Venezuela. Now Iran.

Decoupling from China while taking out China’s allies is the overarching foreign policy.

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ChatGPT has conversation branches. Or do I misunderstand?

Just edit a message and it’s a new branch.

Interesting that most of the shows you like are +- 10 years old. From the early Netflix days.

The US is in fact increasing support right now. Trump lost his patience with Putin.

You also underestimate the Chinese support. The war would have been over in 2023 if it wasn't for China.

The discovery of a Russian decoy drone made up entirely of Chinese parts is another indication of the growing wartime relationship between Moscow and Beijing. ... Beyond components, China appears to have provided Russia with at least some complete weapons systems. In May, we reported that Russia was using a new Chinese laser system to shoot down Ukrainian drones. https://www.twz.com/news-features/new-russian-drone-made-com...

China is actively supporting the Russian army. They don't want Russia to lose. The Russians won't stop in Ukraine. It can't be more clear than this which country is a greater danger to the West.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the European Union’s top diplomat that Beijing can’t accept Russia losing its war against Ukraine as this could allow the United States to turn its full attention to China, an official briefed on the talks said, contradicting Beijing’s public position of neutrality in the conflict. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/04/europe/china-ukraine-eu-w...

EU is building Wero to replace all the national payment systems. It uses sepa under the hood.

https://wero-wallet.eu/

For standard credit cards in EU it’s mandatory to pay the full balance every month. And it doesn’t cost anything, there are no interest rates. Not sure how much banks profit on it, if there’s even a profit.

I think most banks only offer if because customers needed credit cards to order stuff on the internet. Before that they were very rare here.

Edit: I meant the credit is free but I pay like € 2 / month to have my card. So maybe that’s their profit.

Lol, if you don’t understand we need jobs in Europe this debate has no point.

Wow…

The European Union’s chemical sector is facing a series of headwinds that the European Chemical Industry Council, Cefic, says are pushing the industry to ‘breaking point.’

A joint study by Cefic and Advancy: The Competitiveness of the European Chemical Industry, paints a bleak picture, with the report saying that between 2023 and 2024 announcements were made indicating that 11 million tonnes of production capacity would be closed across 21 major European production sites

It’s late, my brain has shut down but I can name 2 on top of my head:

Steel.

Anything chemical. We already lost half our production. :o

You should read some financial newspapers. Things are really bad.

Gas price are still twice as high as four years ago. Whole industries are collapsing because electricity is too expensive for factories. Personally, just heating my home has become very expensive.

Europe is deindustrializing. Especially Germany, the EU economic engine, has been hit hard. So yes, the word crisis is used correctly here.

For instance, BASF, a global chemical giant, recently announced plans to downsize its operations in the country with the reason being unbearably high energy prices in Germany. Now, the company is shifting its focus toward expanding its production efforts in China and the U.S. to access more stable energy costs. Germany’s prime power- the Automotive industry, is also struggling due to immense pressure caused by rising energy costs. A recent study revealed that energy costs for Germany’s automotive sector increased by 20% in 2022 and a similar trend followed in 2023. https://ceinterim.com/deindustrialization-in-germany/

Well, we don't have that capacity.

In Europe we don't have much fossil fuels, so our "hippiness" is not really a choice.

We have plenty of oil and gas (normal and fracking). We have just convinced ourselves its better to leave it in the ground and pay foreign countries instead. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The energy crisis in Europe is a self-inflicted wound.

Batteries can’t cover a dunkelflaute that lasts weeks. Like what happened last year (or the year before, not really sure).

A license key is not a login. And a server like that is not a big deal.

Source: me, I do this way.

A simple license key and monthly ping to license server (5 usd digital ocean) is enough.

Pirates is the cost of doing business. Just ignore them.

No need to make this too complicated.

You can just charge subscriptions for local first software. No cloud is irrelevant. Only the value to the user matters.

Let me be more clear. European emissions are down compared to the 90s. By a lot. And yes, taking into account 'exported emissions'. And yet we consume more.

Time to rethink what you have been told.

exporting all our 'emissions' to China

A popular narrative but it’s false. Even when we take it into account Europe’s emissions keep dropping.

It’s a small % of China’s massive emissions. They produce and consume on a level we can’t fathom. Their middle class has more people than the US and EU combined.

We wanted something that would talk with us — realistically, in full conversations — and actually help us improve. So we built it ourselves. The app relies on a custom voice AI pipeline combining STT (speech-to-text), TTS (text-to-speech), LLMs, long term memory, interruptions, turn-taking, etc. Getting speech-to-text to work well for learners was one of the hardest parts — especially with accents, multi-lingual sentences, and noisy environments. We now combine Gemini Flash, Whisper, Scribe, and GPT-4o-transcribe to minimize errors and keep the conversation flowing.

Your prompt can't do this. I know because I've been trying to build something similar and a prompt just isn't enough. You need multiple LLMs and custom code working together to achieve realistic conversations.

I’m not sure seeing AI art and thinking scam is a thing. Most people can’t even spot AI art.

His website seems fine to me.

Did you change the fan settings? Default is for fans to be quiet. If you go to energy management in settings you can choose “more power” or something instead of automatic. Your Mac will be louder but throttle less.

The humanoid robots will make reindustrialization very cheap.

Marco Rubio said that USAID wasn’t listening to orders. They were a rogue agency. From other things I’ve read it has been an issue for multiple administrations.

Watch here: https://x.com/defiantls/status/1888533363117449619?s=46

French for EU.

It's the most beautiful Mac ever made. I hope they reuse this design one day.

Well done.

You have a small typo in the Lemonsqueezy page for team licenses.

That being said, such a split design may help with improved AI inferencing.

Unified memory is the only reason Macs are so coveted right now for local AI. A single 192 gb ram Mac costs less than the equivalent in standalone GPUs.