Airbus Migrating 70 Critical Apps From AWS to France's Scaleway (theregister.com) 104
Airbus is moving 70 critical applications from AWS to French cloud provider Scaleway as part of a broader digital sovereignty push to keep sensitive data "under European control." Eventually, the migration will cover 900 applications, including ERP, CRM, manufacturing execution, and product lifecycle management systems. Airbus says it will, however, continue using U.S. providers for less sensitive workloads. "We do not intend to move away from all non European solutions; we balance our choices based on the criticality of the data," the company said. The Register reports: Catherine Jestin, head of digital at Airbus, told us on Thursday: "The selection of Scaleway is a combination of a very strong technical answer and a very strong commercial offer making it competitive compared to hyperscalers' public cloud offerings. In addition, Scaleway is committed to involving Airbus in the definition of its future product roadmap." "The objective is to host Airbus's most critical applications (those required for the Minimum Viable Company). This represents 900 applications and we will start with 70 of them today hosted on AWS."
Applications being sent to Scaleway include ERP, manufacturing execution systems, CRM, and product lifecycle management. Finding a cloud provider to host its most sensitive applications for defense and industrial workloads was not a certainty when the process began, Airbus told us last year, because European cloud providers do not have the scale of their US rivals.
Jestin said Airbus will continue to work with AWS. Skywise, a platform that aggregates and analyzes aviation data, and Case Management Assistant for customers' technical queries will continue to be hosted by AWS. In a statement, she said: "By integrating a trusted, high performance, cloud environment that keeps our critical data assets shielded from foreign extraterritorial laws, we are ensuring that our digital infrastructure keeps pace with our aerospace innovation, while maintaining control and resilience of our industrial operations."
Applications being sent to Scaleway include ERP, manufacturing execution systems, CRM, and product lifecycle management. Finding a cloud provider to host its most sensitive applications for defense and industrial workloads was not a certainty when the process began, Airbus told us last year, because European cloud providers do not have the scale of their US rivals.
Jestin said Airbus will continue to work with AWS. Skywise, a platform that aggregates and analyzes aviation data, and Case Management Assistant for customers' technical queries will continue to be hosted by AWS. In a statement, she said: "By integrating a trusted, high performance, cloud environment that keeps our critical data assets shielded from foreign extraterritorial laws, we are ensuring that our digital infrastructure keeps pace with our aerospace innovation, while maintaining control and resilience of our industrial operations."
The great fragmentation is happening (Score:4, Interesting)
It's already been going on in the gaming industry for a while. Lots of smaller companies serving their growing niches, and fewer bigger ones capturing the larger markets. It's about time it extends to the larger "software" industry as well.
"Software" is a loose term these days, as it's neither scoring low on Moh's scale nor is it a tangible commodity.
That's not what's happening here (Score:4, Insightful)
So Europe is disentangling itself from America. Which of course is going to fuck the American economy but the aforementioned pedophile does not give a shit. And neither do 37% of American voters who have no fucking clue the shit storm that's going to hit right after the midterms
Re: That's not what's happening here (Score:2)
Any sane nation would avoid working with countries that have nationalized industry for operating a geopolitical agenda. That includes but is not limited to: Russia, China, and the USA.
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Bet those Amazon shareholders will be shocked when they find out that their company has been nationalized!
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Majority shareholder of AMZN is aware of the position his company is in. He did attend luncheons and dinners to grovel at the feet of his new master.
And with a US Treasury backed Trump Account investment, you are getting a piece of BlackRock and info Vanguard ETFs. Nationalized investment options, you'd think that the communists would be super happy right now.
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That isn't how you seize the means of production. But hey keep trying, you'll figure it out eventually.
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It's the other brand of socialism, whose usual abbreviation starts with "Na". But they're close to each other, despite what worshippers of either side say.
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I'm sorry...in what universe is Kamala Harris a 'moderately competent' woman? She made more salad than Sweetgreen!
On premise (Score:5, Interesting)
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There's no France spies. No, siree..
I once talked to a Fed senior security individual, and the conversation moved to the French (I don't remember the path). It was well understood and accepted that unlike the US (at the time) the French intelligence service assisted with industrial espionage for French industries (it was a given). And the French intelligence services (who followed US agency staff at a discrete distance and obviously mirrored any laptop hard drives at their hotel) would, at some point, mention that that they would be able to enjoy the local scenery (i.e. women (men, depending on their interests)) without being monitored that evening, as it was the French way.
The French have long accepted that sex is just sex (an enjoyable activity), and visitors to the country are free to participate in the activity with consenting adults without additional moral hangups or expectations. In this the French demonstrate some leadership.
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The French have long accepted that sex is just sex (an enjoyable activity), and visitors to the country are free to participate in the activity with consenting adults without additional moral hangups or expectations. In this the French demonstrate some leadership.
And in general in Europe it is frowned upon news outlets which invade the private life of citizens and dare to report about their sex life.
And: private life is valued above freedom of press. The press does not have the freedom to put search lights
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have long accepted that sex is just sex (an enjoyable activity),
Not only that, but that it is part of private life and should be held separately than official duties. In France, Bill Clinton wouldn't be in trouble for having an affair. President François Hollande (2012-2017) had an affair with a young actress while being in couple with a journalist; the only thing that happened were pictures in the press. In 2012, Minister Rachida Dati put a man in tribunal to force him recognise paternity over a child; he defended himself saying he couldn't know he was the father
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Just as a point of information, a) the GOP didn't, and don't, believe anyone but them should run the US, and b) they wanted payback for Nixon, so they went on a fishing expedition that would not have been allowed in any actual court.
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It was well understood and accepted that unlike the US (at the time)
Was this in the 30:s before CIA existed? GAC sued the CIA for $7.7M in 1960 for stolen proprietary trade secrets and designs for its STOL Helioplanes
Re: On premise (Score:2)
Re:On premise (Score:5, Informative)
Given the size of Airbus, and given documented past NSA spying [bbc.co.uk], I would expect them to use on-premise installations for critical applications.
This move is not about the posibility of spying. Goverments all over are trying to spy on airbus. But spying is hard.
This is more about a piece of legislation in the USoA called the "Cloud Act".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
By this, a judge can order an USoAn company to hand over data, even if the data belongs to an non-USoAn company or person, the data is located/stored in a datacenter outside of the USoA, and the Datacenter belongs to a local subsidiary of the USoAn company...
This removes pretty much all the hard work required for "spying". I'd rather make the sppoks "sweat it", like in the old days. Trying to hack into my software, or my cloud provider's clud software, or trying to bribe a worker, or trying to plant an asset inside the company, while trying to evade all the monitoring and controls put in place to prevent all those scenarios... Much more dificult than convincing a judge (that oftentimes is friendly) to emit a subpoena, with a gag order to boot.
ScaleWay is the second largest Cloud provider in France, so good luck for a judge in the USoA making a French company to give info belonging to AirBus.
Many companies in Europe are going this route.
As for on-prem vs. on-cloud, you need to put stuff where it makes more sense. If the Airbus instances in ScaleAway are hacked, it would be a devastating blow for ScaleAway. Their whole raison d'etre is to have cloud workloads. Meanwhile, the core of Airbus' business is doing "aerospace stuff". IT is just a means to an end. Probably the Scaleway guys are more motivated and have more practice to keep EVERYTHING (including Airbus' workloads) secure than the internal IT of airbus is. So, workloads that you need to keep internal, you keep internal, and workloads were it makes more sense to move to public cloud, you move to public cloud.
Re:On premise (Score:5, Insightful)
Completely correct about court decisions coupled with legislation mean that the US asserts data sovereignty but will not honor it.
But Europe only grumbled about that until the US selected a geriatric grifter for executive and started providing object lessons in why that wasn't just a theoretic risk.
Honestly, so far this is going easier than Europe could have hoped. I'm sure Piggie will notice at some point and start running his yap and throwing around more tariffs, providing more demonstration as to exactly why Europe has to migrate data somewhere safe. But he's incompetent and impulsive enough that they have a window in which to migrate before he takes his last dump and some more competent fascist ends up in charge.
Re:On premise (Score:5, Insightful)
The Republicans absolutely need to be sat in the naughty-boy corner for a bunch of election cycles till they flush the whackos that have commandeered the party. But its not enough
Part of the problem is that the Democrats also need to think long and hard about who they serve. Trump should have been *impossible*. In a healthy country nobody would have voted for a raging whackadoodle like him.
But ever since the last financial crisis, theres been a malaise about the economy. Its part "vibes" and part people noticing that their pay isnt really going up, but the cost of everything sure as fuck is.
Theres two whole generations of adults, Gen. Y and Gen Z who can't afford to buy into the home owning dream. And no home ownership means no middle class. Cos "I own my house" and/or "This mortgage isnt crushing my life" are pretty much core attributes for any middle class person. Meanwhile the boomers that didnt luck into a life situation where they've built up a fortress of savings are now past their work lives and facing brutal medical costs , and theres a Gen X who feel stuck between the boomers owning all the stuff, and their kids thinking were part of the problem (and some of us are). And a burning sense that the world of financial stability has left the shores and moved to china.
Then you throw in a pandemic that utterly upended everyones lives and left the economy a lot more precarious, and an AI boom where insane fucking wall street and silicon valley assholes are running ads saying "FIRE YOUR STAFF AND REPLACE THEM WITH CLANKERS" and yeah. People are angry and feeling like that the status quo has utterly betrayed them. Every time people try and complain that shits not working out they get told "But the stock market is booming!". Well sure, great vibes for thee but bad times for me. Not conductive to happy campers
And its when there is so much burning unhappiness that the bad actors can win. Trump promised to fix the problems, he actually named the devils, cost of living, manufacturing moving offshore, the housing market being out of reach, etc. And people went "Fuck it, this guy is an asshole, but maybe he's OUR asshole".
Turns out he was also a liar and all those problems have now been turned up to 11. But we're talking here about how he got in, not what he did while in.
The Democrats NEED to address the STRUCTURAL roots of whats going on. Put muzzles and leashes on the fucking AI bros, pour serious money into whatever needs to be done to make the home ownership dream real again, go on an absolute crusade to root out corruption in government (and the supreme court), and actually start putting motherfuckers in jail for it. Then get some constitutional ammendments to ensure that the executive will never ever ever be capable of corrupting democracy, justice, the public service, and the rule of law ever again.
But most of all, the democrats need to chase the wall street backers out of the party with pitchforks. The Democrats have the potential to be the party of power for a generation to come, the kids will back that, and if real positive change is made, not promises, but hard work progress and ACTION, but this can never happen while they are being subverted by lobbyists and big money interests. It NEEDS to be a party OF the people FOR the people and BY the people. /rant
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The Republicans absolutely need to be sat in the naughty-boy corner for a bunch of election cycles till they flush the whackos that have commandeered the party. But its not enough
Australia and the UK are trying this... the Whacko's are making more noise than ever whilst the original party (ALP in Australia and Conservatives in the UK) are being slowly eaten from the inside out. The fact is we put up with the rot and corruption for far too long because some precious little souls didn't like the other party. It's those precious little souls who supported them that need to be held accountable, sadly they're all running to Hanson/Farage because they are so thick and thin skinned that th
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The ALP is doing fine. Albo is still topping the prefered PM ranks , surprisingly considering how far into government the ALP is, and theres no real dissention in the ranks. Its the LNP, the torries, that have fallen to pieces. Brutally so.
However if they want to keep Hanson out, and we'd do well to remember that there are LESS constitutional and procedural safeguards in Australia (we may live to regret the lack of a bill of rights. "Trust us bro" only goes so far) than the yanks do.
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Problem in Australia isn't the same, but the symptoms are. "Party A" spends so much time looking in the rear-vision mirror that it forgets to look ahead and enunciate a vision. "Party B", even full of the most insane shit ever, says "We will make Pi equal to 2" and everyone things "wow, at least there is a vision here".
Liberals and Nationals spent so much time looking at PHON coming up behind them, they took their eyes off the road and crashed. From time to time you've got to jettison the loonies at the edg
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The ALP is doing fine. Albo is still topping the prefered PM ranks , surprisingly considering how far into government the ALP is, and theres no real dissention in the ranks. Its the LNP, the torries, that have fallen to pieces. Brutally so.
However if they want to keep Hanson out, and we'd do well to remember that there are LESS constitutional and procedural safeguards in Australia (we may live to regret the lack of a bill of rights. "Trust us bro" only goes so far) than the yanks do.
True.
That was me fat fingering. I meant to put in the LNP but accidentally put in ALP.... TLA Failure on my part good sir.
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"Widely reviled", by who? You and other racists and misogyists?
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The Kremlin’s propagandists woke up to a real problem this morning, and it isn’t Drapatyi.
Their entire model rests on one axiom: all governments are the same. Everyone lies, everyone steals, protest changes nothing — so stay home and endure.
Then Ukrainians spent six days in the streets, and their government listened, argued, and obeyed.
That footage is now moving through every Russian-language channel, and no censor can fully stop it. Not weapons. Not sanctions. Just the spectacle of
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But most of all, the democrats need to chase the wall street backers out of the party with pitchforks.
Good luck. Now that "money is speech" there isn't any one group that can yell louder than Wall Street.
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The Republicans absolutely need to be sat in the naughty-boy corner for a bunch of election cycles till they flush the whackos that have commandeered the party. But its not enough Part of the problem is that the Democrats also need to think long and hard about who they serve. Trump should have been *impossible*. In a healthy country nobody would have voted for a raging w
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There are about 10,000 people who matter. They are neither Democrat or Republican. They want money and power. All of the money and power. They will get it as they lose it. What a miserable fucking timeline. So fucking one dimensional. At least they are having some fun, but the frustration of not quite getting what you want despite having everything must be quite annoying.
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They are neither Democrat or Republican.
That is the smart way to be. Joining a political party and being loyal to it is a sign of mental incapacitation.
Re:On premise (Score:4, Interesting)
The problem is well, the non-Republican voters. Democrats win or lose by voter turnout - it's why the (R) side is trying to disenfranchise as many voters as possible.
You see, the voter turnout for the (R) side is basically constant - you have people who vote (R) and will always vote (R) every election. Doesn't matter who's on the ticket, as long as it's (R) it's who they vote for.
On the (D) side, it's a lot more variable - they are generally far more complacent. If they don't like who's on the ticket, they don't show up to vote.
Granted, there are small contingents of flip-flop voters - but in the overall scheme of things they don't usually matter too much. Sure they may have flipped a state, but it's debatable in the end if it mattered.(E.g., the LatinX vote went (R) in 2024, because they liked the whole "close the border" thing and "get rid of the immigrants". But of course, they didn't think things through because well, they were the immigrants).
So what matters in the end is the voting contingent - you have (R) when the (D)s don't vote. It's why talk of forcing voters to vote has died down - the (R)s realized that it was a completely bad idea that would have them lose the election because you're forcing basically the (D)s to come out to vote. That's also why there's talk of "steal the vote" and "voter ID" - because the goal is to make sure the (D)s don't vote.
(Incidentally, you can't be for things like "voter ID" and then believe the times when Trump was in power the vote was proper. Because it was improper in the past and thus the 2020 was stolen by Biden, but also 2016 and 2024 was stolen by Trump and thus every one of them was illegitimate without voter ID. Which we all know wasn't true, because the MAGA tried to steal the vote in California and failed miserably to the point of almost getting arrested for trying it. So either you need voter ID, and thus the vote for Trump was also illegitimate, or you don't, and Trump is rightfully the President.
That's really what it boiled down to. Bust Jr. was elected because Gore lost Florida because of potentially uncounted votes.
In the end, all that matters is getting the vote out. All the (D)s though Kamala Harris had it in the bag and stayed home. It's why if anyone claims "they don't bother to vote" or "I don't care" your answer is "so you voted for Trump then". Not voting is the same voting for the winner - if you wanted Harris to win, you'd have gone and voted. If you didn't care, you basically voted for Trump.
War's coming. (Score:5, Interesting)
If you think the US is going to fail gracefully, I have a bridge to sell you.
Trump - and his successors - don't care if they're destroying the world as long as they personally feel they get some kind of immediate personal advantage every step of the way.
At some point, the US is going to exploit Amazon, Google, Meta, or Microsoft to cause another country economic pain... and the government won't care that doing so will mean everyone starts disconnecting from the US' newly displayed threat and ultimately hurt the US more than anybody else.
There's a reason Canada and multiple EU nations are seriously pursuing 'sovereign clouds'. They're anticipating an attack and trying to mitigate the risk.
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The obvious way out of this, the bad timeline is just don't vote for Trump's successors and that means any and all Republicans.
I know that's apparently asking a lot from folks but yes, that means voting for the Democrats, not voting third party, not staying home, it means voting down the ballot D and doing it for the next 5 cycles. You don't have to tell anyone, just swallow your pride and do it. Give up thinking "Republicans good for economy" because that is solely a media narrative and hasn't been true
Re:War's coming. (Score:4)
You seriously think the will of the voters will be obeyed in future presidential elections? The GOP is working furiously to prevent that. If you have any doubt, see this week's presidential address.
Re:War's coming. (Score:5)
That's one way to read the situation. Another is: he's laying the groundwork to justify taking action to intimidate and suppress voters.
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Trump has been telling his voters the elections are rigged since 2016 and they still always, always go out and goddamned vote for the guy anyways. ALso at the end of the day they are incompetent and it's almost August, clock is ticking and if that address is what they have it isn't quite working.
Yeah they'll be some ICE intimidation at polling places I bet because that's the best they'll muster and the admin couldn't even invade Minneapolis much les Tehran, they got pushed out by wine moms.
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Voting in federal or local elections? You kids are so predictable, thats why you dont link anything.
Re:War's coming. (Score:4, Informative)
Nevermind I actually read the story because I am not a hack.
It was 400 ballots cast and it was a software glitch and it was found and reported by the current Democrat state government who disclosed it.
What was your point again fucko?
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Congresswoman in Iowa, and you bring up NJ. Do you have evidence of anything in Iowa?
You people are a fucking joke and your just begged to have your brains turned into pudding.
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The underlying problem, surely, is not so much the current leadership, but the fact that a good half the US population thought he would make a good president. They thought it at the start, when his reputation was already known, and they have thought it since then, through all he has done.
I don't think calling them disgruntled is a sufficient excuse. That leaves either an intellectual or a moral deficiency.
Re:War's coming. (Score:4, Insightful)
Half of the population likes the message he feeds them that all their problems in life are the fault of somebody else, preferably somebody who doesn’t look like them. An analysis of whether he is capable of governing a nation never entered into their voting decisions.
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Half of the population likes the message he feeds them that all their problems in life are the fault of somebody else, preferably somebody who doesn’t look like them. An analysis of whether he is capable of governing a nation never entered into their voting decisions.
Be that as it may, I think the concern still stands. You might expect a small percentage of any populus to be so cavalier with their vote, but the fact that it is half the population in the US indicates some sort of serious deficiency.
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Don't forget, the vast majority of them get all their feedback and news from a corrupt source. They have been told for so long that anything not Fox News is fake news and to ignore it. They refuse to even view the BBC or CBC news reports because they don't reinforce the narrative that DJT has been feeding them.
"We are doing great! The economy is doing great! Egg prices are down 90%! Prescription prices will soon be down 1200%! All the bad things are still the fault of Biden! The war is over and we wo
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Mod parent +1 insightful. It is definitely not a troll. It's the absolute truth. Life kind of sucks for a lot of lower middle class Americans, and it has for some time. And it's not really their fault. They've done everything "right" to fulfill the American dream but they can't ever get ahead for very real, structural reasons. Naturally they are looking for someone to blame and since Obama presided over much of the years since the great collapse, he makes a convenient scapegoat for the GOP and for Trump i
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That leaves either an intellectual or a moral deficiency.
From observable evidence, I would suspect it is both in most cases.
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And clearly some of these people of significant negative worth to society are here and have mod points. The future of the human race does not depend on getting climate change under control or war or hunger or disease. It depends on getting these people under control.
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Moral or intellectual for me it boils down to "it's the media environment stupid". Conservatives have actually controlled the media narrative for 20-30 years and have convinced the country they don't. The "liberal media" is as much responsible for Trump's rise with these people as Fox News is, particularly with Trump, they all fell for the "TDS" canard.
That said as we saw in 2020 that only goes so far, and for a recent example you see those gains he made with hispanic and minority voters evaporate becaus
Less than 1/3, not half the population (Score:2, Informative)
You repeated "half the US population" but this ignores voter turnout and how the Electoral College helps the rural party. Less than 1/3 of eligible voters voted for him each time:
Turnout Popular-Vote vs. Opponent
2016:
60.1% * 46.1% = 27.7% vs. 29.0%
2020:
66.6% * 46.8% = 31.2% vs. 34.2%
2024:
64.3% * 49.8% = 32.0% vs. 31.1%
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The obvious way out of this, the bad timeline is just don't vote for Trump's successors and that means any and all Republicans.
More importantly, vote for any and all Democrats. But that's only a temporary solution because they will simply become the Republicans if we only ever do that...
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Speaking as a Californian, nothing good comes from continual one party voting. I'm assuming someone in a completely Red state would also agree with that assessment. Here's a hint: you want a mix between the two. Sure there's gridlock, but gridlock is better than one party rampant corruption. It's only minor corruption then.
American exports (Score:3)
I wonder what the effect of Trump has been on American exports in general. Yale Budget Lab suggests a reduction in GDP of 0.4% - a drag on the domestic economy from tariffs alone. But I suspect there are aspects of the Trump administration other than its use of tariffs which encourage consumers in other countries to steer away from US goods.
Re:American exports (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't think many people appreciate how we've sullied our reputation across the globe, irrevocably in some ways. And before anyone gets all cynical with some "but America bad" this admin is crossing a line, lot's of lines and doing it recklessly. You all know deep down our position in the alternate world with Harris as President is a lot better than here in 2026, she would have been better, everyones fragile little souls will have to deal with that reality eventually.
Re:American exports (Score:5, Insightful)
And it's sullied irrevocably. For the sake of argument, let's say the GOP loses control of the house and the presidency in the next couple of years. What difference would that make? If you're Canada, would you trust the US ever again? The US will always be just a couple of years away from potentially electing another Trump-like president.
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It's a start at least and at least a generic Democrat compared to Republicans will be better suited to lead the country through these new challenges, particularly if the Democrats can enact some structural changes that will severely lessen the chance for another Trump like as well as punishing all the lawbreaking taking place.
Biden's big mistake was Garland who did not take those first steps nearly fast enough which would have been getting the ball rolling on the indictments of Trump and his cronies. The i
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Link the court case
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As long as you do not establish a better voting system, it does not really matter which party is ruling^H^H^H^H^H^H ruining the country.
Re:American exports (Score:5, Insightful)
Yes it does matter, this is cope people say to make themselves feel better than and you are not.
Alex Pretti I'm sure felt like it matters. People kicked off snap and medicare feel.like it matters. Soldiers dead in Oran might feel like it matters. Just because you are insulated from the effects by circumstances doesn't mean you get to make reality for everyone else.
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Yes it does matter,
No, it doesn't. It doesn't because this voting system is how we got this shit president, and as long as we don't get a real voting system, it will only happen again. Therefore it is literally insane for anyone to trust us until we fix the constitution. We need to 1) fix the voting system so we can get a real president and frankly even more importantly 2) fix the government so that a malicious president can't fuck everything up, because impeachment and removal are REQUIRED and not merely an option under cert
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Yeah and to do those things you need to elect Democrats who are willing to make those structural changes so it in fact does still matter, quite a bit.
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Would be funny if it was not so close to the truth.
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That was always the case. And it's always the case in every representative country that allows voters to elects leaders.
You can have stability and continuity or you can have elections in which voters can make large policy changes.
Obviously a lot of that policy is unwise, but people were fooling themselves if they somehow believe that any representative system is immune from "population elects person with unwise policy platform".
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If you're Canada, would you trust the US ever again?
Your question answers itself. If they trusted in the past they can trust again in the future. The concept that trust changes over time is baked right into the premise of your question. It'll take time, but important it can happen. Trust is built and lost over time between all parties in all interactions.
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100 years of democratic governments and we would trust the US again.
That would be foolish. Don't trust the USA until we fix this too-strong executive branch problem with major constitutional changes.
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You all know deep down our position in the alternate world with Harris as President is a lot better than here in 2026, she would have been better
Yeah, but we also all know that the Democrats fucked the whole thing up. Biden promised to step aside and then didn't until the very last second, when it was too late for a primary. Simply assigning Harris as the candidate was an epic faux pas. Also, she was frankly a shitty candidate, and not only because maggots won't vote for a black woman. She's a hard authoritarian who refused to condemn genocide, so she was definitely going to continue down the path leading to the end of days.
Go back a little further,
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She's a hard authoritarian who refused to condemn genocide
Ah yes, the omnicause, who could forget that. I'm sure the Palestinians are appreciating having Trump instead of Harris since she didn't say the magic spell word.
Go back a little further, the DNC sabotaged Sanders so that they could run Clinton
If by sabotaged you mean Clinton got more votes then sure but fact is Sanders (who even then got the DNC to adopt rule changes even when the super-delegates didn't even play a role in 2016), who I voted for twice in the 2016 and 2020 primaries, did himself no favors since while I do like the man himself he has godawful taste in allies and staffers
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You all know deep down our position in the alternate world with Harris as President is a lot better than here in 2026, she would have been better, everyones fragile little souls will have to deal with that reality eventually.
Only the faithful disagree; however, electing Harris would not have cleansed the Republican party, so the delay would have been just that, a delay to what is occurring right now. Better to go through it earlier rather than later. All of this was inevitable since at least the 1970s.
Re:American exports (Score:4)
I didn't say jack shit about Harris 2028. Just saying right now she would have been better than. Your ego and pride can't override reality.
Re:American exports (Score:5, Informative)
There are grassroots boycotts for sure. Canadian tourism to the USA is way down, costing an estimated 300,000 American jobs. [theglobeandmail.com]. Canada has more-or-less stopped buying US alcohol [www.cbc.ca].
And when I and most people I know buy groceries, we avoid anything coming from the USA, even if the alternatives are a little more expensive. Canadians aren't only doing this because of tariffs; we're also fucking furious at Trump's threats to our sovereignty and insults to our country.
And the thing is, once we get used to staying in Canada or going to Mexico or Europe for holidays, and once we get used to not buying American products... it'll be a hard sell to get us to return. And I suspect this will happen worldwide.
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Yes, a loss of 300,000 jobs is certainly good for USA workers, Einstein.
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Mebby GDP doesn't measure what you think it does. When foreign products are excluded from American markets more production of American products will occur ... or needless products will not be used or made. Good for USA workers and screws pure-play USA GLOBALIST investor class in azzwhole.
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The strong do as they will. The weak do as they must. 5-th Century BC Athenian commons vs Militians
Your sig. is a good summary of the change in moral direction in the US.
A sort of swing from New back to Old Testament.
Semantics? (Score:3)
I may be nitpicking here, but I'm so allergic to PR-speak and HR-speak that this made me itch:
In addition, Scaleway is committed to involving Airbus in the definition of its future product roadmap.
For me that "is committed" speaks merely of attitude - rhymes with "platitude" - and lands the same way as "hopes and prayers" and other social boilerplate.
I'd take it more seriously if she had used the phrase "has committed". Then there would be at least a suggestion that maybe someone said "yes, we'll do that", and maybe even that it was in a contract.
I really hate the mealy-mouthed, wishy-washy, non-committal verbiage that businesses and governments use these days. It's the language of avoiding accountability.
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True, but even Airbus can't get a lot of sway from Amazon, Google, etc. They're going to be Scaleway's biggest customer, and so inevitably, they're going to use that position to get precisely what they want out of Scaleway. I'd imagine at first it'll just be support, but on-going you can expect "airbus private zones" and features and whatnot.
Honestly, if it makes Scaleway actually turn into an AWS competitor in a half decent sort of way, then it sounds like good news for everyone. Love 'em or hate 'em, but
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"has committed" is worse, not better, because it can refer to earlier acts which didn't in fact do the thing, and evades all responsibility. Seems like your allergy is psychosomatic.
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Thanks - it's always good to get a laugh from a comment that points out a flaw, even when the flaw is in my own argument...
"Better late than never" security model. (Score:3)
Storing your data on an economic competitors computers is fucking stupid, yet it takes a public scandal to make it a matter of real concern.
Why only now? (Score:2)
But why only now? France and Europe have had cloud infrastructure for years...
Entrusting sensitive data to the United States has always carried risks, given that Airbus is Boeing's largest competitor.
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But why only now?
This is due to the Cloud Act from 2018 that enables the US to get their hands on data stored in data centers located outside of the US for non US companies as long as the provider is American. That it took 8 years for a large company like Airbus to move is simply that these things takes a long time in large companies.
Great job America (Score:2)
Bullies (Score:2)
translation (Score:2)
A better translation from the French would be "We are willing to pay a little extra by moving a bit of our load, just to get the politicians off our backs."