best kind of teamwork!

"A major significant issue is debt financing. Since the wars launched after 11 September 2001, the United States has relied heavily on borrowing rather than taxation to finance military operations. For this reason, some refer to the post-2001 wars as ‘credit card wars’".

Imagine conducting wars against other countries by borrowing money from other countries to conduct them. Its gonna be fun when the debt comes due...

Idiocracy. started as a comedy, evolved through time in a documentary.

too little, too late

If you don't own what you pay for, then pirating is not unethical. Period.

If anyone wants privacy while maintaing a smart home, then Home Assistant is the solution. Its not adopted widely because it has a learning curve and it needs a bit (or a lot) poking around to make it work. It also has a voice assistant that is not AI powered ( but it could be supplemented by a local LLM if you really want to). A big rabit hole if anyone is interested to go to.

When the glass is broken and trust is gone, it takes a lot if time, if any to heal. Europe should just go for strategic autonomy, in energy, defence, tech, anywhere. Then deal with whomever as equal and not as a subservient. I'm sure Democrats would not object that kind of relationship

You're doing the lords work my dude. There are not enough ways to thank you for your work

As a European,

It will take a lot more than these, along with plenty of time and pain, to regain the trust of the rest if the world.

Mostly it will require a turn, in behalf of the USA, to a functioning democracy, with checks and balances, a functioning senate and house of representatives, a functioning justice, a functioning administration, a working economy, fair trade and so on.

I m not very optimistic that the USA will do it in my lifetime if ever.

If they can tax your house based on its current valuation, they can sure tax their stocks based on their current fucking valuations.

Excuse my French, they are not my native language.

Nor are English.

Mastodon

I would like to say, how the tables have turned. But I would wish for any country to have the fate of Greece after the GFC. Whatever the headlines and the numbers may say, Greeks havent recovered financially since 2008.

Working conditions are completely shit, the lowest collective bargaining, worst housing crisis in EU, 6 days weeks, 13 hours of work per day, pension at 67, highest tax burden in the EU, 2and to last in PPP and many more.

I can't understand why would anyone take Greece as an example to adapt fir their workers

This should happen every time, a dictator, an authoritarian or an orange moron dies.

This. Either UK joins with the same rules as everyone else. No opt outs, no sterilng, or they should stay as they are and not join at all.
I wouldn't want my grandchildren face the same shitshow I did.

FAFO

It does. Source: using boost rn

Oil Refineries in the US can only refine heavy crude. The light crude coming from US fracking is exported. Building new refineries would cost billions and take years to complete.

A straight jacket might help him with an allover compression!

Something something Jewish space lasers, once upon a time.