Her party is really crashing out all around right now. And I wouldn‘t mind that at all if it didn‘t roll out the carpet for fascists.

Raw materials are not secret technology. China is simply sitting on rare earth mines that run on human exploitation and environmental destruction like a hoarding dragon. China couldn‘t build an electric battery in line with Sweden‘s regulations with Swedish resources either.

They bought the robots from Germany, a champion of automated manufacturing. That‘s not the secret sauce here.

The technology to make them this cheap are human exploitation and massive subsidies. It’s nothing that others haven’t figured out but most lack the resources or motivation to do that and that isn’t a bad thing.

The result of legalized corruption in plain sight.

I expect them to prepare a tariff bomb on not only goods but services too that they won‘t unveil unless Trump really follows up on his threats.

Why does the largest and arguably most resourceful country on earth put an entire generation into a meat grinder for some more land and resources? Dictators have their own reason for doing things and Xi is investing heavily into the military while threatening neighboring countries. He made it very clear he plans to expand China’s borders one way or another before his reign ends.

Out of all the reasons China needs Russia to win this is the most bullshit one they could serve us. They are sided with Putin, supply him with military equipment and help him get around sanctions for oil. They need Putin’s war economy to work so they can replicate it in South East Asia obviously.

Historically that doesn’t make sense for how well isolated our homes are and how rarely extreme heat still is in many parts of Europe. ACs and electricity aren’t exactly cheap either. However it’s getting more accessible. Slapping some solar panels on your roof or balcony and installing an AC to cool at least one room will become the norm quickly I think.

A classic Merz bend over flip-flop from the books. Remember when he acted all shocked am puzzled about this last week? Whatever is driving that pile of meat has no conscience.

Unfortunately those are insanely cheap to operate for how effective they are. If anything they’ll invest even more in hacker groups and the like to generate income similar to the North Korean model. Though the Russian economy looks extremely dire. They can only keep up appearances for so long until inflation spirals out of control. A war economy needs meaningful military accomplishments to function and so far they’ve had none to really speak of. At least not compared to what they have to give up for it.

I agree. So tell me, how many women are cardinals?

Mod logs aren‘t necessarily a good tool to keep track of bad actors either because you don‘t know the mods. I think someone would have to have a lot of entries from several communities for me to even raise an eyebrow. It‘s tough.

To me the chart makes little sense in that these nations do not exist nearly for that long so dividing these geographic spots by today‘s borders is arbitrary at best and deliberate framing at worst.

It’s what eroding the education system over decades, a pandemic, fake news and the rise of AI does to a generation.

He says a lot of nonsense. Frankly I don‘t think I‘ve ever heard him say anything smart or correct or not pathetically petty. This however takes the cake.

Italy is the host and she represents Italy. I guess she‘ll also aid her colleague when things get uncomfortable. Her colleague being Vance of course.

I read it more carefully and you are right. The title is actually wrong as I have mentioned in the edit. Thank you anyway.

Not being able to criticize leaders that the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants against is bonkers and simple censorship.

EDIT: After reading the official announcement thoroughly, I have to say the title seems… wrong? There are very specific things that are not allowed, some of which I can agree with. Others however, I do not.

Being the president of the EU commission is a direct consequence of being caught the last time. This time they might promote her to empress or something.