I mean sure, why the fuck not? Who’s left at this point?

Lemmy has thunder?

idk, Trump doesn’t seem to give two shits about TSLA. The whole presidency doesn’t seem to have been a great deal for Musk at all (assuming he’s not eating out of the treasury or something). xAI doesn’t get AI endorsement and oil industry takes priority over Tesla at every turn.

“If war is what the US wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war or any other type of war, we’re ready to fight till the end,” China’s embassy said on X, reposting a line from a government statement on Tuesday.

Maybe something is lost in translation, but this sounds like they’re primarily talking about economic wars. My reading is that they’re just saying that they won’t accept US bullying, which is good.

Well, we can’t trust the US security guarantees and we have an expansionist egomaniac in the east. There’s not much choice to be honest. What good are any other investments if anything we build up is just gonna get crushed by Russia?

Only in the sense that it, too, was formed to screw the US.

Love it, but I think this might be the wrong sublemmy for this.

Problem is that Trump is on the oil companies’ pay rolls. Unfortunately he’s subsidizing them instead of Tesla.

https://www.theverge.com/news/617235/the-gsa-is-shutting-down-its-ev-chargers-calling-them-not-mission-critical

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/22/24349650/trump-ev-tax-credit-tariff-congress

I should probably have put quotes around “selfhosting movement”, because I meant the term itself. Reason for asking is that if it doesn’t include shared instances, then it’s not a very big movement and most people will not really be able to join it.

That said I’m not trying to start a discussion on whether it’s good or bad, IMO it’s good and I self-host a lot of things for personal use myself. Just a thought I guess.

Does selfhosting movement include using non-commercial instances of apps like mastodon/lemmy/matrix etc?

They already did, it’s paying of the debt.

I think there’s a lot of know-how too. Sure we may have researchers that know all about the cutting edge tech used in the batteries, but most researchers are not equipped with the skills to set up a factory. Do we know how to source all the materials at scale?

The competitiveness isn’t the main issue I think as there is strong political will to subsidize the shit out of this industry in order to have a more independent supply chain - as has been shown with Northvolt itself.

Lets hope the aging process accelerates from now on.

Didn’t he say something along the lines that EU was created to fuck with the US? Whatever officials and analysts see this as indifference to Europe need to be fired.

edit: reading the article’s first paragraph, yes he did

I guess “NATO and friends” might be a bit shortsighted?

What are people’s opinion on this, good or bad? I have a somewhat favorable view of IBM in open source, but not sure where I got it (so it might be misplaced).

Meanwhile US is busy slamming tariffs on their allies.

Always thought this makes a lot of sense. An attack on one EU country is a severe disruption on all other. Before Sweden and Finland joined NATO, would the EU have been able to continue business as usual without joining in? That said I know a lot of people oppose it because they see it as one step closer to becoming a federation and getting rid of the nation states.

The distinction being that they will not be stationed in areas with active combat, but rather as a militarized police? Sounds like the distinction is quite subtle in reality and might be (willingly or not) misinterpreted, no?

and stands ready to contribute troops if necessary.

Won’t this trigger a Russia-NATO war?