• @[email protected]
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    15 hours ago

    More competition will ensure the oligarchs to behave.

    I don’t trust the EU tech owners, but I recognize that they are at an disadvantage to the US counterpart (and nationalism is a useful tool to sell their product) so they won’t be making overt moves to dismantle European democracy.

    • @theUwUhugger
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      It’s really really really not up to trust! Imagine if bec of eu oligarchs thousands of folks died because said oligarchs refused to pay for peoples healthcare!

      The one remaining guillotine in France would go around!

      • @[email protected]
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        714 hours ago

        So there really is one still in existence? So, like, if a prototype were needed ( just hypothetically speaking, of course), to build more, that could be done?

        Asking for a friend. . . Of a friend.

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          413 hours ago

          I mean, the things aren’t arcane devices from a mythical age, they are pretty well documented if you wanted to build your own.

          • @[email protected]
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            111 hours ago

            But they are not that simple, I remember reading that long ago people wrote they were amazed about how they were built, especially the portable ones

          • @[email protected]
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            110 hours ago

            How about when Spain voted out their fascist Prime Minister and put him in the Spanish space program: