Comparing per GDP is misleading because switzerland’s GDP is massively artificially inflated by being a tax haven.

If you look at spending per capita, switzerland spends 738 USD equivalent per person per year on military spending. That’s actually higher than most european countries.

https://www.helgilibrary.com/charts/military-expenditure-per-capita-usd-fell-177-to-usd-700-in-switzerland-in-2022/

Switzerland has armed neutrality.

Military service is mandatory for all men. We have a really high military budget. etc.

This is so weird. In all of the Swiss news everyone is saying Pfister is more conservative than expected and all leftists are angry. It’s weird that this article is trying to paint him as an outsider… He’s very much a figure of the conservative wing of the centrist party.

Medical malpractice comparatively doesn’t often make news for single cases. People like believing the medical system will take good care of you. It’s scary to admit that might not be the case.

Also, there are very little safeguards so cases of medical malpractice are more likely to be swept under the rug.

Banger instance btw

hahhaahh.

The CCR argued that her public discourse, including opposition to Romania’s European Union and NATO memberships, made her unfit to uphold the constitutional obligations of the presidency.

https://apnews.com/article/romania-presidency-candidates-simion-sosoaca-2a52240b31506ee3a4df29166eeb020c

She had been excluded from last years election for the same reason. So this isn’t new.

Interesting. Thanks for the background.

oh never seen feddit.nu instance before? What region is it for?

I think pixelfed communities would be a big boon to non-computer science/engineering type hobby communities. Which is a place in which lemmy majorly lacks. So good news imo.

Holding means they can be in a defensive position where even if they slowly lose land, Putin’s army has to sacrifice way more materials and soldiers to advance than Ukraine has to defend. And they aren’t even losing land in their country. So they can really focus on attrition.

From what I can tell, the culture on pixelfed is more chill, whimsical, artsy.

While lemmy is more technical, politicsy, confrontational etc?

I haven’t been much on PixelFed since the massive explosion in users though.

The architecture is very different.

I don’t know if it was originally a fork, but if it was, you’d hardly realise comparing the code.

It’s kind of like Bluesky’s version of ActivityPub.

Though it’s built quite differently, which comes with some major advantages and disadvantages.

(Look at the other side, by far the worst is France, Switzerland isn’t so bad compared to France)

Idk if this has anything to do with the Article focusing on France, but I recently learnt Gizmodo was bought by a French-Swiss company.

A community is only federated if someone on your instance subscribes to it.

Thanks for sharing uBlacklist

I like lemm.ee is as close as you can get. AFAIK it’s federated with pretty much everyone and it’s got a very large userbase so nearly every conmunity is federated.

I’ll donate so much to research I won’t have money to eat?