Sad, and likely true. I can’t wait for the Hitler meme scene where someone has to point out Greenland is much smaller than Trump thought.

I remember reading that they get extra suspicious of you don’t have social media profiles active on your phone…

There is a history of following through with huge fines https://www.theneweconomy.com/business/top-5-largest-fines-levied-on-tech-companies-by-the-european-commission

Thank you! Neither the BBC nor the Flemish public tv seem to say this yet (they just repeat the statement Trump gave)

Github was bought in 2018. For all we know, OP could have been 10 at the time

Exactly. That’s what I heard from people who lived abroad a long time. While you’re away, the country of origin changes and after a while you’re homesick for a place that only exists as a memory.

They weren’t trying to convince you to come, they were trying to gently explain that it’s a little mean to judge 100% of the people for what is happening

As I said in the other place this article was posted: the source seems to be an online reader survey from t-online.be. That means the scientific value of this is pretty low. For decent surveys, you need a random sample. In this case, you need to be a visitor of t-online, and you decide for yourself that you want to participate. That’s already enough to skew results. Add to that that there’s a lot of online activism against Tesla (for obvious reasons), so the poll could have been partly hijacked. Such a low number of people who don’t care or haven’t heard about Tesla going rogue is not realistic anyway. There’s a lot of people who are weird, contrarian or simply avoid all news.

There’s a lot of outstanding orders for F35s from EU countries. No idea if it is possible to weasel out of them, and if the sunk cost wouldn’t be too high to make it politically viable…

Bush junior’s first term was a blip. His second one should have been enough to look for other partners.

What’s your point?

Because if ya ain’t white, you can’t be free!

It’s generous to call that an article. Just a bunch of “some folks said on X” quotes. Doesn’t really belong in this community IMHO

Unless of course our luck runs out and someone pushes the nuclear button

One of the things I read about that, is that people tend to take an “average position” between all the opinions they hear. It used to be that the opinions you’d hear would be based on serious media, and your close circles. But much of the media has gone to shit, and social media amplify crazy people because it’s good for engagement. So you end up hearing about the crazy position of lore as much as about the rational one. And that does influence a lot of people.

You know when we first started seeing growing populations and development of agriculture? When the climate started an exceptionally long stable period. Guess what’s going put of the window now? Planting for draught because that’s the “new normal” won’t get you far if the next year happens to be the wettest on record. Let alone that stronger storms than ever seen before aren’t exactly great for harvests either. And that’s just agriculture. Climate related disasters can wipe out key infrastructure, with unexpected consequences down the line (e.g. no car production because of a certain specific part of almost all cars comes from that one specific place). And then there’s the refugee problem on top of all that.

There’s millions of Venezuelans in Colombia, Ecuador and further South. But their options there are for more limited than in the US.

Didn’t he basically campaign with this?

Women are not even more dangerous than that they have to be

Eh sure, though only number 20 in the world when it comes to national legislation. But when it comes to quality of life or even life expectancy, the US could do so much better given its wealth. Mostly I’m just trying to point out the automatic patriotism you see so often in Americans, even the progressive ones.