No, he is not “angry with Europe”. He’s instructed to weaken Europe for his Russian handlers.

Are we seriously supposed to avoid talking about that simple truth for the next 4 years now somehow?

It’s not just the packaging but the bar itself that is completely different.

The US Milky Way would be the equivalent to your Mars bar and the 3 Musketeers is very close to what you know as Milky Way.

If you need to order Amazon three times to hold a proper vote on unionizing the actual word is not “ordering” but “asking nicely”…

Not that I […] want to minimize the experience.

But isn’t that something that happens at pretty much all companies

Pick one…

Sure… let’s keep hallucinating how a Trump win is some isolated result and how other countries will cope with it.

They won’t. They will follow the same route.

The exact same propaganda that fried US citizen’s brains is working everywhere and it’s completely irrelevant if the current German government is united for another year or disbands in 5 minutes. The next election will see the same kind of right-wing lying populist morons, just in a slightly different flavor, win in Germany (it’s no coincidence they spend the last years in communication with MAGA idiots for pointers how to campaign).

Yeah… encouraging people to vote side by side with the morons pretending the moon landing didn’t happen.

After massively increasing dividends to their shareholders to new records of 4.5Billion € in June.

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Die Antwort ist offensichtlich aber mit noch ein wenig mehr täglicher Schwarzmalerei, die so schön Klicks produziert, schaffen wir es sicherlich trotzdem den ökonomischen Schaden zumindest zu maximieren.

The answer is obvious, but with a little more daily doomerism, which produces so many nice clicks, we will certainly still manage to at least maximize the economic damage.

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It’s been years since I took a look at this but I vaguely remember a handy kioskrc config file under xfce4…

found it…

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/597

That sounds like the non-techies would be able to fix it themselves on Windows without you being around, which in my experince isn’t the case.

It might be different for you with a lot of tech-affine people in your family. But for those of us being forced to be the tech support anyway, it can really make a difference if you have to fix a Linux issue once in a while or have to reinstall Windows for the 5th time this year…

This is propaganda: […]

FTFY

That’s a moronic idea anway.

Yes we can perfectly well ban an anti-democratic party even when 20% or more are voting for them. Why wouldn’t we? Just like we can perfectly well prosecute 20%+ of the population when they actually commit crimes.

Sorry, but democracy DOES NOT mean that illegal actions are permitted because enough people agree (and a minority is also far from “enough”), just like democracy -contrary to what populism wants us to believe nowadays- DOES NOT mean lies (nicely called "alternative facts as an euphemism) become truths now just because enough people believe in them.

They don’t hate them. They just want to cut all support for citizens to have more money available to finance more tax cuts for rich people.

But to do this you need to somehow convince the masses that money spend on them is a bad thing. For decades trickle-down fairy tales of how spending money on the already rich ones will help the economy and then be beneficial for all worked. But not anymore. So the next phase in desinforming gullible voters is much more dystopian and involves straight out brain-washing to decouple them from reality and make them believe that people actually helping them are evil and need to be fought.

With nuclear, you’ve got a raging anti-nuclear crowd.

No. With nuclear you have very real unmitigatable risks and very real insanely high costs. Which also don’t solve anything as nuclear production isn’t fitting demand fluctuations either, so you still need mass storage (or waste overproduction 90% of the time, combined with already insane costs).

The raging crowd is the pro-nuclear cult on social media that ignores reality and sputters sci-fi fairy tales all day long in the name of their savior.

You could…

But then one is an open system where you can disable the UI put on top and have a working linux system, while the other is a closed blob destroying compatibility and trying hard to lock you out from accessing the underlying linux system.

Am I supposed to acually watch that video or can I just use the most basic common sense?

Separating car traffic from bike traffic from pedestrian traffic adds a lot of layers between cars and buildings, while measures to calm down traffic -to protect those bikers and pedestrians- also reduces severe crashes (and you would need a lot of force to actually damage a building).

In that fairy tale reality were European industry actually is lagging behind and needs protection you would be right. But that’s a lie. Those chinese electric motors are European designs. Their battery design was (and still is) researched in European labs.

Also those cheap Chinese EVs aren’t real. Prices are alwas adapted to market, its buying power and -more importantly- the bare bones versions will not be allowed on European streets anywhere. So in the end we get “cheap” cars for 10% less than domestic producers. When the fuck has 10% higher prices for solid quality ever been a problem. But instead we get flooded with stories of how European production can’t compete anymore… as if wages, energy, raw materials hasn’t been more expensive in Europe since basically forever. Really sad how our industry decayed nearly a century ago… oh, wait. It didn’t because there is an actual global market for high quality production with high standards.

The only actual difference is that China is actually producing stuff on scale while European companies spend decades on rejecting any innovation because lobbying politicians was cheaper and brought more short-term gains for shareholders and CEOs.

And they do exactly the same thing now. Sure, protect them from competition for another few years so they can keep worshipping the allmighty diesel. If we are at let’s scrap all environmental goals because they are obviously not doable with an industry refusing to even try. Then that industry will be soon dead indeed and rightfully so as they decided -totally voluntarily- to die off.