Vampire

Vampire , 4 months ago to worldnews in European Council of Foreign Relations openly talks about vassalisation of Europe by the US

Over the last decade, the EU has grown relatively less powerful than America – economically, technologically, and militarily.

I got curious about this so I checked wolframalpha: in 2009, the EU had a bigger economy than the USA; in 2022 the USA’s was bigger by 53%

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Vampire , 4 months ago to piracy in Piracy is so confusing these days

illegal crypto currency

Vampire , 4 months ago to piracy in Piracy is so confusing these days

Then we had The Pirate Bay

Vampire , 4 months ago to worldnews in ‘A lot higher than we expected’: Russian arms production worries Europe’s war planners

Where have I heard this before??

Vampire , 4 months ago to worldnews in Allies fear the US is becoming less reliable, with growing concern over a possible Trump return

The world’s been a scary place for people under Biden.

I’m not saying correlation is causation but it can feel that way, people might long for the more secure past time under Trump.

Vampire , 4 months ago to worldnews in China Football Association halts partnership with Argentina after Messi is no-show in Hong Kong: Chinese media

The manager has the right to bench whoever he wants, celebrities too

Vampire , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to cybersecurity in [fake-news] Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks — botnet causes millions of euros in damages

Sure, sure… your toothbrush is in a geopolitical conspiracy with millions of other toothbrushes… I’ll just type that up on my invisible typewriter

Vampire , 5 months ago to piracy in Music Piracy Is Back in a Big Way

google sucks too so why aren’t they using the thing that sucks?

Vampire , 5 months ago to piracy in Music Piracy Is Back in a Big Way

Why doesn’t youtube use DRM the way other Big Tech sites do?

Vampire , 5 months ago to piracy in I just realized /c/piracy is the most subscribed community in the lemmyverse!

Wow, impressive

Vampire , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to piracy in Cloudstream equivalent for audiobooks?

What is cloudstream?

Vampire , 5 months ago to asklemmy in I'm looking for email providers that don't require a phone number to use with reddit

Mailfence

Vampire , 6 months ago to asklemmy in solar punk centered movies

Moonhaven

After Yang

Vampire , 6 months ago to asklemmy in Dear Lemmy, **why** Star Trek??

Well I’m not gonna spend that much time on it now am I

Vampire , 6 months ago to asklemmy in Dear Lemmy, **why** Star Trek??

Star Trek is just bad. Just bad.

People keep recommending it, I kept giving it chances.

During the pandemic, I even went to IMDB, picked the very highest-ranked episodes of all time, and watched them, the supposed best-of-the-best, and they’re just awful.