I haven’t been playing in years and this is shocking to me. Like, people pay almost six times as much for mobile games than for PC games? The mobile games I used to play were all simple and free (yes, I do think about Snake, among others).

Yeah, Israel and UK contribute to the Horizon Europe’s budget, and are fully eligible to the grants under the program.

The program is managed by the European Commission. Thus, in theory, the countries outside the EU pay but have no influence on the decision-making bodies. This can be a big disadvantage in more politically loaded processes. I suspect (from my experience with the ERC) that the selection process under Horizon Europe is build very much to focus on evaluating each project separately, not providing equity by country. Israel and the UK get a lot of funds since from there come project that, if not good, are at the very least popular. Or rather: That the decision boards, usually filled with specialists from the respective fields, find to have the highest feasibility times impact (figuratively, as, to the best of my knowledge, no such value is calculated).

I see no conspiracy or a bypass to support Israel with extra money here. They were just good at writing grant proposal (or however you call it in the startup world), and they were allowed to be a part of EU’s research program as they have always been.

They benefit from it nevertheless. And it is high time to end the collaboration. It is already being discussed. And it is good to know it would hurt indeed - thanks for the research, OP’s sources!

https://efe.com/en/latest-news/2025-07-28/eu-suspension-israels-horizon-europe-gaza-attacks/

Great points. Shame I did not mention Taiwan. Thanks!

And the EU, and the UK, and Canada, Japan, South Korea, could easily cooperate. Their goals in the tariff chaos are more or less aligned (maybe apart from the last two not caring much about Ukraine to the best of my knowledge).

EU has AMSL and other key semiconductor manufacturing equipment producers. Nokai and Ericsson dominate the telecom installations in the US, to much frustrations of some Americans, and with even the military getting more and more reliant on them.

The CPUs, GPUs, and Smartphones are much more Asian than American. It’s just the immediate shock of blocking mails and office software, and some of the even more critical software as well, that the US has long been preparing to use as a brutal leverage. It is not that much about having leverage, as about the state’s ability to use it.

So: Tesla sold 60 000 less cars, BYD 52 000 more. That’s almost equal. But Europeans also bought 25% more EVs in that time.

I think Tesla and BYD buyers have relatively small overlap. Tesla has been branding as a rather luxurious car. The edge of Chinese EVs is that they are affordable. So the Tesla buyers probably switched to some other known brands, e.g., Mercedes EVs (noticed shift in Stockholm Taxi). And then the BYD users are mainly new to EVs, or wouldn’t buy one more if not for the cheap option. But this is just my speculation.

50% of the value for a “byproduct” is a lot, isn’t it?

I guess my main point is that we do not need to push the soy cake through guts of animals cramped in industrial farms, losing around 90% of the energy captured by soy and creating public health dangers. If used the soy directly as a food source, we wouldn’t need all the expansion. Even the soy cake can be used for totally healthy and tasty products, such as soy milk or meat alternatives. It would, anyway, reduce the stress on land use substantially. Simply because so much energy is lost in the whole feeding, caging, killing process of factory farming.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-efficiency-of-meat-and-dairy-production https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/protein-efficiency-of-meat-and-dairy-production https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

Interesting point!

In line with the uses of soy globally (Figure 3), the greatest driver underlying the production increase in South America is most likely the pig and poultry industry’s demand for soy cake, although it is given additional impetus by concurrent increases in the demand for soy oil by the food manufacturing and biofuel industries (see section 3).

https://www.tabledebates.org/building-blocks/soy-food-feed-and-land-use-change#SOYBB3

Most of the calories from soy go into the fodder. This is unlike other plants used for oils. I doubt so much soy would be used for oil if not for the profits from “byproducts”.

And most of the soy ends up in livestock feed…

Weird. Works for me without issues (Firefox on Android)

How come? I only can see a controversy from 2022 about hosting RT, and they have since suspended bussiness in Russia. I couldn’t find any other connection.

Thanks, this is much more insightful than the headlines. If we take PMI as the indicator, then for Germany and the Eurozone it has been bad for last three years, and this year actually have seen an improvement in form of a smaller contraction,

https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/manufacturing-pmi https://tradingeconomics.com/euro-area/manufacturing-pmi

For US and China it looks like within the random range for last three years.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/manufacturing-pmi https://tradingeconomics.com/china/manufacturing-pmi

This is so horrible. A country in Europe subsidizes a company working on a technology for the future, but gets not real stakes in it. They build infrastructure in Europe. The government changes, stops subsidies, the management goes berserk (or turns out to just want to make moneys, no morals, what a surprise) in the meanwhile. No restructuring (or - it goes through a US “restructuring” protocol). Then it gets sold to Americans, with the infrastructure.

It’s quite a repetitive thing, but arte.tv has quite some content made from European perspective. mubi.com has arthouse cinema with global coverage, and Europe may well be the most vibrant place for arthouse cinema (though international production and audience is a very distinctive trait of arthouse).

Most of the time I go to a cinema I see this network at the intro - www.europa-cinemas.org Local, indie cinema, even if you watch at home most of the time, might be a great place to look for interesting movies. Some of them also play classics (I know BioRio does it in Stockholm)

I’ve sometimes been sometimes watching “TLDR Europe” and “EU Made Simple” for EU news. They are on Youtube, but I believe there is a PeerTube copy now (would appreciate a link).

News is easy: The Guardian, Deutsche Welle, Le Monde, France24, all have fully working sites in English - whatever suits you.

From podcasts one of the things I’ve tried is the award-winning Living Planet podcast from Deutsche Welle: https://www.dw.com/en/living-planet/program-19028671 Kinda in similar mood, but more hippie/way-out/thought-provoking is “Forest of Thought” based in Uppsala, Sweden: https://forestofthought.com/

In general, I am not sure if “alternative to” approach works for culture. European culture is markedly different from American. At least for me, it is one of the reasons to stay in this part of the world.

“Stays” on Gotogate redirect you to Booking.com. Similarly, most listing from HomeToGo are just cross-links from Booking

Booking.com is owned by American Booking Holdings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booking_Holdings

I think this is what OP meant. Regulation can also come from lobbying. (I.e., it is a tool, that can be used for good and for evil.)

Yes, and Blik also has a contactless option which you can use instead of a card for in-person purchases!

Do we want tech giants, though?

You can cross-post (https://lemmy.world/post/1067695)