HobbitFoot

Even as bad as Bush Jr was, the USA was still good enough to provide Europe a security guarantee and peace dividend.

From the little I read, Tchap only handles text messages while the article is about video conferencing.

You don’t use it, but you need to be able to use it for the threat to be credible.

Yes, France has it. The question is how it gets used to protect the rest of Europe.

Yeah, I agree.

One thing that would help is defining European defense policy. I feel like a lot of countries are spending money without a target for what they should be trying to build.

The big questions with France’s nuclear umbrella are whether France will provide a nuclear guarantee to the rest of Europe, who makes the decision to launch nukes, and who will pay for it.

France has the best military in the EU and would likely form the core of the EU’s defense strategy, but it shouldn’t hold key competencies in defense.

It is going to be kind of expensive for the EU to replace the non-expeditionary capabilities of the US military. There are also some parts, like a nuclear umbrella, which are going to need to be worked out.

It isn’t impossible, but it is going to be pretty expensive and a lot of it should be built at the supernational level, preferably the EU.

I wish Lincoln accepted that set to fight in the Civil War.

That was how the Internet worked back in the day. Site reliability for small sites was shit and going viral would routinely pull a smaller site down.

Maybe you should make some noise until an MP cleans up the issue.

So how does UK law handle federation?

IANAL, but most law that I’ve heard of regarding third party content requires the site hosting the content to conform to takedown notices issued. So, having a good DCMA system requires you to be able to take down content from instances that may not be bad, but governed differently.

As for the law “catching up with” federation sites, I don’t see that happening unless Mastodon and Lemmy start creating massive lobbying arms.

Yeah, if.

Has BlueSky implemented federation yet?

I feel like this is going to become a problem with federation in the future. A Mastodon instance is hosting content outside of its control that may or may not comply with its internal policies or local law. Is that instance protected legally? Likely not.

It would likely be treated the same way as auto forwarding an email would be treated.

Got to do something once Americans got back to cotton farming.

Yeah. I’m sure Palestinians would prefer military aid to go to Ukraine instead of Israel.

A lot of timber piles would be driven into the river bed by pulling up and letting go of a giant boulder onto the top of the pile. Once the timber piles were set, they could then build a wooden bridge deck on top.

It wasn’t a permanent bridge and the Romans would usually destroy their bridge after they no longer needed it.

Yeah. People like to complain about American warmongering, but the period between World Wars I and II was orders of magnitude more deadly.

Not really. All American States have the same level of inherent sovereignty. There are also a lot of federal programs that rely the individual states performing the work. States also maintain their own militaries under partial or complete state control.

In contrast, UK country sovereignty is a mixed bag, with the largest country in the UK without any devolved powers.

The US generally views American state sovereignty more in line with EU country sovereignty.