I love the headline. That’s how you report on these issues: still clickbaity but focusing on the perps and the effects of their actions.

They did not send them to El Salvador btw, they’re back in Germany now.

But the description of how they were treated is still harrowing:

Pohl and Lepère were interrogated in Honolulu International Airport for hours and allegedly subjected to body scans and strip searches before, finally, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents denied them entry to the country and said they would be deported, according to the outlet.

Officials became suspicious of potential illegal work intentions after learning the teens had not booked accommodation for their entire five-week stay in Hawaii

So everytime I travel I’m a potential terrorist? That’s what (many) backpackers do you dumbasses.

The women said they were placed in a holding cell beside some other detainees who were accused of serious crimes. The teens alleged they spent the night on moldy mattresses in a freezing double cell.

On March 19, the young travelers were allegedly taken back to Honolulu International Airport in handcuffs, where they requested to be sent to Tokyo, Japan.

Now imagine how much worse it is for all those so-called “illegals”, and still how much worse when they get to El Salvador.

TBF, that’s normal. People tend to consume social media in their own language and don’t get the full brunt of what’s going on in the US. People want to stick to the idea that the world is just as normal as it was 10 years ago.

Well, thankfully I’m not normal.

Also, I have partial understanding for these backpackers. They were already traveling around the world, and my experience is that you consume less news or social media while traveling. Much less.

Well, “nothing” surely is hyperbole. The EU is slow and bureaucratic. And, importantly, it has regulations that make it almost impossible to act against a nation once it joined EU. Like kicking it out.

Hungary already has had funds cut etc. by the EU.

I’m hoping stripping Hungary of voting rights is not the last possible step, and yes, I do hope they’d hurry up and stop dithering.

OTOH any such movement always has the potential of pushing the country in question even further towards the fascist fringe.

The EU is still “considering”…

But while Poland was once a willing partner in China’s “Go Global” strategy, its outlook today is far more cautious. As concerns grow over critical infrastructure, technology transfer, and economic dependency, Chinese FDI is increasingly seen through a security lens. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has only accelerated this shift, highlighting the risks of Chinese control over strategic assets.

Well good. It’s pretty clear by now that China isn’t and probably never was the neutral entity it once touted itself to be, and personally I also don’t buy into the idea that they would make a better world dominator than the USA.

Then came the 2024 incident, when Hutchison unexpectedly blocked an American military vessel from docking at its terminal. The standoff delayed the delivery of American and NATO military aid for Ukraine, raising eyebrows in Warsaw and Washington alike. Polish authorities quickly reclassified the terminal as critical infrastructure – bringing it under tighter scrutiny – but only after the crisis had already unfolded.

Does that mean that the Chinese not only built the thing but also run it? Yeah, that’s not so good.

I hope this holds true for Europe as well, and much of the rest of the world.

Nothing brings people together like a common enemy, esp. one so deserving.

I think you meant 1933.

Or maybe I just don’t get the reference.

The headline seems to suggest a parity that just isn’t there imo.

Also, as things stand right now, silence does not seem the worst option.

Mantasaison?

The blurb through a translator:

What is the free software that the state advises in 2025?
The interministerial base of free software has still grown. From now on, there are more than 500 references in the catalog of IT programs that the State advises its administrations. A long -term job, started at the start of the past decade. 473 free software referenced in May 2024, 529 in

The things we do make don’t last long.

I assume you’re from the states? I’ve had my small Made in USA Thermos for 10 years. It’s indestructible.

I could probably think of a few other good and durable things coming from the US - all sorts of guitars, banjos, ukuleles?

Have you considered SailfishOS?

Personally I recommend getting a Sony Xperia and installing it yourself.

SFOS has been my daily driver for 5 years now.

I paid €49 for the license, so it’s a bargain right now at 24.90, and my latest device, an xperia x10ii, cost just €60.

Linux phone

What do you use? Daily driver?

I use SailfishOS on a Sony Xperia. 50€ for the SFOS license, 60€ for the phone.

I definitely have lost at least one install to getting stuck in vim, flailing the keyboard and writing garbage data into a critical config file before rebooting.

fortunes-bofh-excuses on Debian

Even that could be tricky; these weren’t bootable/installable images.

edit: admittedly, I have no personal experience but some years back we tried to help someone install Yggdrasil (in a VM iirc) and did not succeed.

defiance of colonial protocols often landed him in trouble - tainting his reputation

Hm, shouldn’t that have the opposite effect (at least nowadays). But yeah the Brits - willingly or not - still control much of the narrative, globally.

Thanks for sharing.

Ah, the dream of a libertarian paradise.

The promise of the EU were free markets

Free as in fewer hurdles between nations, not as in “the market will take care of everything”.

but the opposite is happening.

Yeah, no. The EU has always strived for a balance there. You bringing up the spectre of “planning economy” is just fearmongering.

You wouldn’t happen to work at the Internet Research Agency?