As a European,

It will take a lot more than these, along with plenty of time and pain, to regain the trust of the rest if the world.

Mostly it will require a turn, in behalf of the USA, to a functioning democracy, with checks and balances, a functioning senate and house of representatives, a functioning justice, a functioning administration, a working economy, fair trade and so on.

I m not very optimistic that the USA will do it in my lifetime if ever.

This. Either UK joins with the same rules as everyone else. No opt outs, no sterilng, or they should stay as they are and not join at all.
I wouldn’t want my grandchildren face the same shitshow I did.

If you don’t own what you pay for, then pirating is not unethical. Period.

Something something Jewish space lasers, once upon a time.

You’re doing the lords work my dude. There are not enough ways to thank you for your work

If anyone wants privacy while maintaing a smart home, then Home Assistant is the solution. Its not adopted widely because it has a learning curve and it needs a bit (or a lot) poking around to make it work. It also has a voice assistant that is not AI powered ( but it could be supplemented by a local LLM if you really want to). A big rabit hole if anyone is interested to go to.

This is Giorgos Mazonakis, a Greek pop singer

Midgard maybe?

A coworker was showing me something in his phone and I was amazed, how clutered it was with all these ads. I don’t know how people can cope with today’s internet without an adblocker