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Trying to understand

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@puigtobella

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@albertcuesta @Spotify I la manca de crèdits de qualitat per saber qui toca què

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

I don't know if people understand just how insanely egregious this is.

First of all, 1) not only are NATO spending targets NOT legally binding (nothing in any NATO-related legal text mandates a specific GDP-based threshold for defense spending), but on top of this 2) Spain requested AND RECEIVED an exemption from the 5% target at the 2025 Hague Summit - NATO changed the declaration's language specifically to allow Spain to sign while publicly declaring it would not comply (https://t.co/q3VE2Je3TS)

This means that, legally speaking and according to NATO's own rules, Spain is doubly within its rights: there is no binding obligation to begin with, and Spain was excused from even this non-binding obligation.

That's the first point: Germany's chancellor just endorsed - from the Oval Office - the U.S. punishing a fellow EU nation for refusing to comply with an obligation that doesn't exist in law, under a political pledge Spain was excused from at a NATO summit.

The second point is that this 5% target has nothing to do with "defense", quite the contrary in fact: it is pretty explicitly an imperial tribute to the U.S. that will actually **weaken** European defense.

That was Spain's main argument for refusing to comply: Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said that "committing to 5% would not make us any safer" because it "would only reinforce our dependence" on the U.S. (https://t.co/QUMDyfvWDP)

That's the insane thing about EU defense spending: in recent years, the more it has spent on defense, the more that spending has flowed to American contractors as opposed to European ones, making the EU defense industry weaker (https://t.co/XHGLW71tX0). Increasing spending to 5% doesn't strengthen European defense: it accelerates exactly this transfer.

All the more insane given the well-documented production backlogs in the U.S. defense industry and its inability to produce at scale: US defense analysts - including from Trump-adjacent think tanks like AEI (https://t.co/c3DobMYpru) - openly acknowledge that European customers would be deprioritized behind U.S. ones in any real conflict.

AND, critically, a defense industry from a country that's increasingly hostile to Europe - explicitly so in its National Security Strategy - and whose weaponry has "kill switches" that allows for remote disabling.

I mean, the sheer madness of it: anyone with an ounce of common sense can see that DOUBLING your defense spending to enrich a foreign arms industry that has kill switches on your weapons, can't meet its own military's needs, and increasingly treats you as an adversary, is not even remotely a defense strategy - it's suicide.

That's why having Merz - in the oval office, sitting next to Trump - endorse economic coercion against the one EU country that's still sane enough to see through this madness is so egregious, and frankly straight-up traitorous.

For those who know Asterix and Obelix, Spain is the "one small village still holding out against the invaders" and Merz is Cassius Ceramix, the self-described "gallo-roman" Gaul village chief who's the incarnation of all sycophants after his tribe were conquered by the Romans.

I'm with Asterix, and all Europeans should be too.

[Josep M. Lozano @JosepMLozano]

Hi ha una estupidesa molt extesa entre gent que es pensa que ésun directiu eficient i resolutiu. És aquella frase ximple que diu: no em portis problemes, porta’m solucions. Però si avui, més que mai, la solució depèn de la definició del problema!

[Pau Llonch Méndez @paullonch]

Convertir l'extinció en un negoci fa que les empreses tinguin incentius en no fer la feina. @juanrallo mou la porteria parlant de IRPF i despesa pública quan el tema és veure què passa amb els serveis quan manen privatitzadors. El mercat apaga millor incendis?

[joan cortés @joancortes]

@adakleinFortuny Quina columna més encertada i ben escrita

[joan cortés @joancortes]

@VIAEmpresa @ganyet Molt bona ressenya. Un parell de notes:
- si hem controlat les armes nuclears ho farem amb la IA
- abans més dades volia dir menys eficiència i amb la IA és al contrari
Ara toca llegir-lo (en català)

[Carme Fenoll @CarmeFenoll]

📰 L'entrevista al @GregorioLuri (via @cfdeh #LV) i l'article d'en Pol Guasch (@diariARA) traslladen la mateixa essència: cal que els docents posin més l'accent en l'escriptura i la conversa #Lectura #Escriptura #Oralitat

[joan cortés @joancortes]

@Lluis_Calvo @adakleinFortuny @miqueldepalol Ho claves

[Antoni J.Verger @antoniverger]

Accident #CalaBona, com a metàfora
Com a mallorquí intentes ocupar el teu petit espai, humilment, complidor, fidel al que ets, i en això arriba gent de fóra, potent econòmicament, irresponsable, a qui no li importa en absolut el lloc on és, i literalment t'atropella #EPDGuillem

[Anthony Costello @globalhlthtwit]

I asked Elon Musk's GrokAI whether Elon Musk was a danger to democracy and, if so, to give reasons why. This is what it said:

[joan cortés @joancortes]

@Somiatwiter @IllasEdgar @mnlolle @JoanMagrane @CatedraPla @FoixJV @Editorial_3i4 @MinusculaCat @MinusculaEd Un gran llibre

[joan cortés @joancortes]

@javr_sanchez @PoliticaProsa Un article molt interessant per si sol, però encara més pels que estàvem més o menys ficats en el moviment federalista en aquella època

[Simon Kuper @KuperSimon]

When your AI isn't working

[joan cortés @joancortes]

Cal gent compromesa amb el clima com tu, Tomàs!

[Tomàs Molina @TomasMolinaB]

@joancortes @gencat https://t.co/Ptmfjftptr

[joan cortés @joancortes]

Estat ara mateix:

[Tomàs Molina @TomasMolinaB]

@joancortes @gencat https://t.co/Ptmfjftptr

[joan cortés @joancortes]

@TomasMolinaB @gencat Teniu dades que no sabem els ciutadans? Us preneu seriosament el canvi climàtic? Perdreu vots per aquesta mesura més que no pas guanyar-ne

[RAC1 @rac1]

🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA: El Govern aixeca l'emergència per sequera a Barcelona i Girona
https://t.co/k5yS27UsbY

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

yulya navalnaya, widow of alexei navalny, account is suspended.

elon owns the platform.
elon decides the rules.

[Gorka Orive @gorka_orive]

Los casos de sarampión en Europa aumentaron casi 45 veces durante el 2023 según la OMS. Unas 42.200 personas se infectaron en 2023, frente a 941 en 2022. La falta de vacunación de menores como responsable. Autoridades piden "medidas urgentes" para evitar una mayor propagación.

[joan cortés @joancortes]

Hi ha sistemes que funcionen perfectament, n'hi ha de correctes i després hi ha la web de @T_mobilitat.
Per què no es pot fer una recàrrega mai?