What do you mean?

Official development assistance (ODA) is government aid that promotes and specifically targets the economic development and welfare of developing countries.

DAC member countries’ bilateral ODA to Ukraine fell by 16.7% in 2024 compared to 2023 and amounted to USD 15.5 billion, representing 7.4% of total net ODA (a decline from 8.0% in 2023). Contributions from EU Institutions outpaced those from DAC member countries combined.

The part that is not given in the form of weapons is counted, but looking at the data I don’t think the aid offered to Ukraine is a factor in the overall decline.

Edit: I quoted this from https://www.oecd.org/en/topics/official-development-assistance-oda.html not from the article

I consider it more of a spectrum, those who are rich enough to own Disneyland on the one hand and those who are fucked the most by the system that benefits the people who are rich enough to own Disneyland on the other. Not everyone is equally fucked by the system that benefits the people who are rich enough to own Disneyland. But you’re right about the shit sandwich.

He can spin anything he wants to the people voting for him, because he has a whole media apparatus to influence them. But he also has to deal with people outside of his cult in the real world. Maybe those people don’t have much influence in what happens inside of the US, but ‘tricks’ like force him to show his cards to the rest of the world. Also history is written by the victor and I think that at the end of the day century that isn’t gonna be trump.

I was just about to ask is this ai lol

No way Elon will be remembered longer than Nikola. Yes Leon tainted the Tesla name but I refuse to accept this will be forever

Nice. My french isn’t that good, but if I understand correctly they are constructing it right now :))

En quelques dates Investigation 15 mars 2024

Construction 1er septembre 2024

On behalf of almost everyone almost everywhere, no thanks.

Hope they’ll do a spreadsheet app too eventually

Too bad, i’d be in favor as well. Even if two of them consolidate that would be a step in the right direction.

Yes, but it turns out you can do a lot of ‘switching’ even if you can give up on android or iOS straight away. I follesdd this guide for degoogling my Samsung, not done yet but feels like I made some good changes: https://androides.nl/degoogle-guide/

Though large part is already covered by switching services / apps

Try Here We Go (https://wego.here.com/), it is owned by a bunch of car companies.

Thanks, I was surprised when I searched for it online. Just saw it mentioned a bunch of times and that website wasn’t very convincing me to try it. But now I now so thanks, and @[email protected] as well

This community ([email protected]) isn’t really used for anything else so the previous posts about specific topics are easy to see. They don’t necessarily have many comments but it might help you find other places these images posted to.

It’s too bad there are so many communities where this stuff is posted to, real downside of federated content if you ask me because it’s so easy to miss content added in the comment of a duplicate post you never see.

So i guess this week is about office suits, I barely use it personally (markdown notes work fine) and just open whatever is send to me (most part is Google and Microsoft), but I will download and check the alternatives. Have tried LibreOffice in the past, but some years have passed son will definitely check them out.

Last few weeks i heard a few times about OpenOffice, but it’s not on this list. Guess this the official website Anyone here willing to argue why I should or shouldn’t try it?

The data the article writes about can be found here: https://www.oecd.org/en/topics/official-development-assistance-oda.html

😂 would be good marketing tbh

Nice, good range of topics too beyond this specific article. Seems like they’re working on a series:

• https://www.ecuradio.eu/2025/04/buy-european-n2-ecosia/
• https://www.ecuradio.eu/2025/04/buy-european-n3-arte/
• https://www.ecuradio.eu/2025/04/buy-european-no-4-read-european-challenge/

They should definitely keep a safe distance from the dumpster fire the US is now, but the EU still very much needs the US: America has the command and intel structure needed to deter and maybe even fight back Russia, almost all governments work with American tech (Windows, Office, iPhones, AWS and cyber security tech like from Crowd strike), financial systems are based on us techs and the big corpos are very intertwined, also big law firms operate on both sides of the Atlantic, same goes for (social) media. European governments just can’t switch to a different brand of coke like individual consumers do. Same goes for china, they basically produce everything more complex than a patato and if it’s made in Vietnam or Cambodja or whatever, China might still be involved.

Long story short, EU can’t pick a side and sit out the storm. If things went different I totally would have seen EU siding with their American ally, but that bridge has obviously been burned.

Can definitely recommend reading the article if you want to better understand why the US will not be able to ‘win over’ the EU. It’s a good read.

[…] the notion that Europe would be forced to choose between the two countries “doesn’t allow much room for the idea of European Union agency or any recognition of its major significance as a commercial bloc.”

Exactly this, Europe will not ditch either anytime soon.