Totally!

And probably a multi-tier EU would be great too! Imagine Ukraine being able to join it’s next tier already next year instead of waiting for 3-5 ears to get the full membership.

The fact that power of speakers matter is very valid while those speakers are centered on the ethnocentric level of care, or lower (see eg Integral theory by Ken Wilber: Loevinger; Spiral Dynamics etc). But when society as a whole develops, they care more about other groups and humankind as a whole. Then it is much easier to do adopt a lingua franca than serves them all rather than just forcing smaller nations to use language of the hegemon of the time.

While it is definitely true that in such case English would be quite fair inside of EU, it also puts EU in worse position in outside world where USA have those advantages…

Beside that there is a viable alternative. Remember that Izrael has revived its ancient language, and Indonesia created a new one based on language of one of their small islands. That language united nation of hundreds of millions!

We can use Esperanto. It is artificial in origin, so no one nation speaks it natively (native individuals do, but not nations). It is designed to be easy to learn and use (I personally confirm it - 2 years of autodidacticly learning Esperanto was equivalent of 15 years of school learning of English). So even people who never heard about it can very quickly get to very usable level.

And possibly the best part is that it can serve as a language that units humankind as a whole. We all can preserve our national language for national communication and use Esperanto for international communication. This will not happen tomorrow, but with political support it can happen quickly. Until then, many people, as me, use it daily and support it’s spread.

Yes.

Sounds like Elon Musk who tries to buy old Russian ICBM, but without the nuke 😅

From what I know NC is strong in storing files.

I have also checked it’s project management tool and it was rather simple. It is clear that NC does not focus on that. And that is OK. For project management I am using OpenProject, and if I would want to, I could integrate it with NextCloud.

Ah, again some lobby based on their (intentional?) ignorance 🤦🏻‍♂️

Eliminating privacy in order to “protect children”. The old discussion and misuse 😬

Well, UK is half way to US… On the continent we are more aware and supportive for sovereign free / open source / FLOSS software.

I am still amazed by the English thing in EU. Only 2 EU nations, and even quite small ones, speaks English natively, and not even as their only one language. In the same time, who speaks English natively? One country that left our club, one country that wages economic war against us, couple of great partner countries outside of Europe, and couple of others.

When we wanted to unite more, we promised to abandon our national currencies and adopt euro. But we still play small when it comes to language…

I personally also stopped buying F-35s.

It is hard to imagine just from those photos. And that is probably a good thing 😬