Also, the Dutch army has indicated it has no fucking clue where to spend all that additional money. They would quite literally drown in money. (NRC, mirror, both Dutch sources)

Edit: but yes, if the EU is to spend more money on defense, it should be spent in the EU, not sent to the American weapon lobby.

Whilst municipalities often (according to the article) use Microsoft services, a significant number of government agencies are using private clouds.

There are government operated datacenters that store the personal information, that are out of reach from US (or other fascist governments’) prying eyes.

If the secret service came knocking I’d call the police. They have no jurisdiction here.

Damn, I switched communities to have a local argument (and I remembered I had an account here), but after seeing how us-centric dotworld has become when the account view changed, I’m not switching back.