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Buy European@feddit.uk•Most "EU alternatives" lists stop at the name. I built one that doesn't.English
3·17 days agoYou may include https://opentalk.eu/en as a video conferencing tool, for e-commerce there is https://particl.io/, and for AI there is https://minerva-ai.org/en. The first two are German, the latter is Italian.
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Global News@lemmy.zip•Facing China, one Taiwan Coast Guard officer draws strength from the godsEnglish
2·17 days agoYeh said, adding that his job was to monitor and warn Chinese vessels away using water cannon, loudspeakers, LED boards and radio messages …
The sad thing here is imo that there is a need for such a job to be done (rather than this person’s faith). The Chinese Communist Party’s warmongering in the region show what kind of mindset it has.
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Buy European@feddit.uk•'Feditaler' - new project aims to connect GNU Taler with Fediverse-compatible platformsEnglish
2·27 days agoIt’s at an early stage, but the site says:
In practice, this means supporting bounded payment-enabled interaction patterns such as voluntary support, paid access to selected content or services, and other small-value actions where privacy-preserving digital payments can be useful without distorting the nature of the platform.
As far as I understand, you will be able donate to your platform or instance, or an instance may have some ‘paid content’ for which you can use the Feditaler instead of the usual commercial payment services.
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Global News@lemmy.zip•Mongolian president affirms support for one-China policyEnglish
3·1 month agoNah, this isn’t about a ‘one-China policy’ but rather about money as coal-rich Mongolia aims to boost China trade ties despite dependence risk
Mongolia hopes to boost trade by more than a tenth this year with China, the biggest destination for its exports of coal and minerals, setting a target that will further boost economic dependence on its giant neighbor.
… China’s demand for Mongolian coal is also likely to grow, [Xu Tianchen, senior analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit] said, after a mining disaster killed 82 people in northern Shanxi, putting pressure on domestic coal supplies.
So it’s the typical turbo-capitalism with Chinese characteristics: money and political coercion.
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World News@lemmy.world•Mongolian president affirms support for one-China policyEnglish
6·1 month agoNah, this isn’t about a ‘one-China policy’ but rather about money as coal-rich Mongolia aims to boost China trade ties despite dependence risk
Mongolia hopes to boost trade by more than a tenth this year with China, the biggest destination for its exports of coal and minerals, setting a target that will further boost economic dependence on its giant neighbor.
… China’s demand for Mongolian coal is also likely to grow, [Xu Tianchen, senior analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit] said, after a mining disaster killed 82 people in northern Shanxi, putting pressure on domestic coal supplies.
So it’s the typical turbo-capitalism with Chinese characteristics: money and political coercion.
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Buy European@feddit.uk•Apple wants Europe to blinkEnglish
14·1 month agoYes, and at the same time, Apple has been surrendering to all censorship and surveillance rules made by China without delay.
There is an old documentary from 2021, Profiting from authoritarianism - How Tim Cook surrendered Apple to the Chinese government (Invidious link),
and another one from 2025, Apple’s unsolvable China problem - How Apple sold its soul to an authoritarian regime (Invidious link).
I hope the EU doesn’t give in as it did all too often imo.
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cats@lemmy.world•Operation Meow-Meow: Ukrainian Troops Use Vampire Drone to Rescue Kittens From FrontlineEnglish
3·1 month agoI searched a bit but I didn’t find it on YouTube.
And?
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Global News@lemmy.zip•IRGC declares new regional security belt extending from Hormuz to Red SeaEnglish
1·1 month agoThis is just another cross-post from one of the ml propaganda channels using a left-wing extremist source that is known not just for its anti-Western stance but, more importantly, for spreading conspiracy theories.
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Global News@lemmy.zip•As Executions Surge in Iran, Prisoners Risk Their Lives to Protest the State’s KillingsEnglish
1·1 month agoThey wanted to open an office in Tehran but the Iranian government didn’t offer them enough space.
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Global News@lemmy.zip•Reports: Iran uses war as cover for increased executionsEnglish
1·1 month agoThe Iranian government increases its repression using the war as pretext (not in the least as the ruling class fears new protests as soon as the war ends). An end to the regime in Tehran would help the Iranians.
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Climate@slrpnk.net•World’s largest banks pledged $906bn to fossil fuel companies in ‘unfathomable’ increase in 2025, report findsEnglish2·1 month agoYeah, but the US isn’t the only problem. While European banks and some Canadian banks reduced their fossil financing, some US, Japanese, and Chinese banks were responsible for the largest year-on-year increases.
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News@lemmy.world•World’s largest banks pledged $906bn to fossil fuel companies in ‘unfathomable’ increase in 2025, report findsEnglish
5·1 month agoFrom the original report:
-Over a third of the world’s largest banks (26 of 65) reduced their fossil financing from the previous year, with some European banks and some Canadian banks driving most of that progress.
-The remaining 39 banks moved in the opposite direction, and some US, Japanese, and Chinese banks were responsible for the largest year-on-year increases.
-On balance, the world’s 65 largest banks committed $906 billion to companies conducting business in fossil fuels in 2025, up $64 billion or 7.6% from 2024.
-Since 2021, global banks have funneled over $4.2 trillion in financing to fossil fuels, including $2.1 trillion to fossil firms in expansion.
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Dealmakers and Dealtakers: Top Bank Financing by Country 2025
The US dominates as a financial center providing bank financing for fossil fuels. This petrostate also jumps off the chart (below) as the nation receiving the most fossil fuel debt from banks. In fact, US fossil fuel corporations received 45.4% of all fossil fuel financing in 2025. Comparing countries’ total bank fossil financing to their fossil fuel company borrowers, the US is an outlier. It is the only Big Six financial center [comprising the U.S., Canada, Japan, EU, China, UK] whose fossil firms receive more bank financing than its banks provide. Japanese banks, on the other hand, provide much more financing than the country’s fossil sector receives. In China, the volume of bank financing to fossil firms is about equal to the amount received by fossil firms. This is at least partly explained by China’s more insular financing model: about 86% of 2025 fossil financing from Chinese banks went to Chinese comp
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Climate@slrpnk.net•World’s largest banks pledged $906bn to fossil fuel companies in ‘unfathomable’ increase in 2025, report findsEnglish7·1 month agoFrom the original report:
-Over a third of the world’s largest banks (26 of 65) reduced their fossil financing from the previous year, with some European banks and some Canadian banks driving most of that progress.
-The remaining 39 banks moved in the opposite direction, and some US, Japanese, and Chinese banks were responsible for the largest year-on-year increases.
-On balance, the world’s 65 largest banks committed $906 billion to companies conducting business in fossil fuels in 2025, up $64 billion or 7.6% from 2024.
-Since 2021, global banks have funneled over $4.2 trillion in financing to fossil fuels, including $2.1 trillion to fossil firms in expansion.
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Dealmakers and Dealtakers: Top Bank Financing by Country 2025
The US dominates as a financial center providing bank financing for fossil fuels. This petrostate also jumps off the chart (below) as the nation receiving the most fossil fuel debt from banks. In fact, US fossil fuel corporations received 45.4% of all fossil fuel financing in 2025. Comparing countries’ total bank fossil financing to their fossil fuel company borrowers, the US is an outlier. It is the only Big Six financial center [comprising the U.S., Canada, Japan, EU, China, UK] whose fossil firms receive more bank financing than its banks provide. Japanese banks, on the other hand, provide much more financing than the country’s fossil sector receives. In China, the volume of bank financing to fossil firms is about equal to the amount received by fossil firms. This is at least partly explained by China’s more insular financing model: about 86% of 2025 fossil financing from Chinese banks went to Chinese comp
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Buy European@feddit.uk•Eurovision loses 35 million viewers this year after boycott over Israel’s participationEnglish
1·1 month agoPeople don’t like genociders here.
Unfortunately this is not true for all users and all ‘genociders’ … There is a community here on Lemmy that supports dictatorships, including their genocidal policies.
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Australia@aussie.zone•The brands that Australians are now hating on, and whyEnglish
1·1 month agoWhat an absurdly weird comment. Chinese brands are among the least trusted, and there are a lot of brands people trust, but they apparently don’t trust brands from China.
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Buy European@feddit.uk•UK lawmakers call on government to ditch Palantir NHS contractEnglish
3·1 month agoIn a related report, Neo4j acquires GraphAware to launch Intelligence Analysis Alternative to Palantir Gotham
Graph intelligence leaders will join forces to deliver a customer-proven, open-standards intelligence analysis platform that ensures data sovereignty
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United Kingdom@feddit.uk•UK lawmakers call on government to ditch Palantir NHS contractEnglish
3·1 month agoIn a related report, Neo4j acquires GraphAware to launch Intelligence Analysis Alternative to Palantir Gotham
Graph intelligence leaders will join forces to deliver a customer-proven, open-standards intelligence analysis platform that ensures data sovereignty
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World News@lemmy.world•China's mercantilist squeeze on developing countries | ReportEnglish
1·1 month agocopying the united states empire playbook?
The last time the United States saw a trade surplus was 1975, and the country has been experiencing an increasing trade deficit since.
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Global News@lemmy.zip•Debanking, an Authoritarian Threat to the LeftEnglish
1·2 months agoThere seems to be crackdown on leftist organizations in progress.
There may or may not be such a crackdown (against left-wing and right-wing organizations). In 2024, for example, the Rote Hilfe openly criticized the state upon the arrest of Daniela Klette as she was arrested the year before, and embraced her actions (you’ll find ample evidence on the web). Wikipedia says about Klette:
Klette is an alleged member of the third generation Red Army Faction active during the 1980s and 1990 … Klette is a suspect in the 1991 United States embassy sniper attack in Bonn and the 1993 explosives attack against Weiterstadt prison under construction in the state of Hesse … In 1999, Klette, Burkhard Garweg, and Ernst-Volker Staub were suspected of robbing DM 1 million from an armoured vehicle in Duisburg.
The Rote Hilfe has been embracing her violence. And this is just an example of what they do.
As I said earlier on, there is no difference between the left-wing and right-wing organizations if and when they intend to topple the democratic state, particularly by violence. This is unacceptable and intolerable imo.




















No, they aren’t. But there is a community here that permanently promotes this and similar anti-European sentiment.