What else woukd you expect from a Lib ? Heart and empathy removal is a pre-requisite to join the party.

For me this falls in the category of “sit back and eat popcorn”. Both sides are arseholes I don’t mind which loses, in fact it’s a shame they all can’t lose

Nothing. You can only invoke article 7 against a specific country, and with 2 there’s insufficient votes to invoke article 7 against either. You can’t do a “twofer”.

You have to remember this was considered an unthinkable nuclear option when the treaties were draw up. That two countries could both diverge so far from the EUs ethos would horrify the (possibly naive) original founders.

As that worn quip goes

" they did nazi this coming"

Ethernet over hdmi

https://thehometheaterdiy.com/hdmi-with-ethernet/

https://www.cmple.com/learn/learning-center-hdmi-cables-with-ethernet

They can also hijack the connection of a connected box (ethernet over hdmi) or via a connected phone (bluetooth & chromecast iirc)

Wtf ? On what planet is the BBC “left centre” it is as establishment as it gets

To suspend Hungary (your first point) legally requires unanimity of all EU countries aside from the one to be censured. (Article7)

Unfortunately Slovakia has recently elected a pro putin govt who will now block any attempt to deal with Orban.

There was a short window between the end of the Polish far right PiS being in power and Slovakia changing leadership when it could have been done. Unsurprisingly Orban was very compliant during that period and as soon as he regained an ally is back to his old tricks.

There is no legal way to _do what you suggest

Edit, missed a word

Disappointing tgat we arent when you put it that way

I can’t work out if this is well intentioned ignorance or trolling, so I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt and a serious answer.

The first point is there are a huge number of threats to privacy and your online and data security from connecting to the internet even in western countries.

VPNs are not just for protection from govt abuse, in fact their efficacy there is far lower than for several other use cases.

If you’re in the US (for example) and with one of the biggest ISPs then every DNS request being made is (was anyway, I assume still is) logged and your internet usage is then sold off to data brokers to profile you.

So yeah, dont trust your ISP, and if you’re dealing with a VPN that wants all that info then find a better one (proton or mullvad for exampke, you can pay with monero or bitcoin or even cash by snail mail)

Damn, that’s disappointing at a quick scan. Will read in properly and fact check later. Thanks.

Got any stats on coal increasing to share ? Last I saw they were decomming significant quantities of coal stations

They have also been installing solar powerplants at a lightning rate. They installed more solar in 2023 than the US has in total according to an article I read a few months ago.

It’s not about saving the planet though, they import the bulk of their fossil fuels, moving to renewables reduces their fuel import dependency

Article 7 suspends their voting rights. Requires unanimity of all other EU members.

It’s the closest EU charter allows to evicting a member state. It effectively suspends the state’s membership.

Quite frankly the should have. Orban is a blatantly corrupt Putin lapdog who has been siphoning EU funds for years into his own pocket and that of his cronies.

The counter argument to Putin being an imperial maximalist and genocidal boils down to

“he couldnt beat Ukraine straight away so he can’t have intended to invade more countries afterwards and/or wasn’t intending a genocide because he didnt succeed in wiping them out”

What utter utter illogical excrement.

The Turks didnt manage to completely wipe out the Armenians, that doesn’t mean it wasnt genocide. Ditto in Rwanda and former Yugoslavia. Genocide is in the intent not whether it actually is fully successful.

As for they didnt take Kyiv so they clearly didnt intend to keep going after if they’d succeeded…well just listen to actual Russian leaders: Lavrov, Medvedev Putin himself, not to mention Lukashenko in Belarus accidentally showing the map with invasion of Moldova marked out.

When people tell you who they are, best to listen, particularly when they’re psychopaths.

Estonia Finland Latvia Poland Lithuania. They’ve been listening.

If you don’t think Putin wants to return to the USSR days of an iron russian boot on central and eastern europe you’re not paying attention to his words and actions.

Context for those who are baffled (I was)

https://news.itsfoss.com/linus-torvalds-woke-communists/

No Linus hasn’t grabbed a red rag and isn’t off to foment revolution