They pivoted to EVs so hard they made billions and didn’t have to fire a bunch of people or lobby the German politicians to cancel the fossil engine phaseout. Please, teach us your fact-bending ways oh wise one. We want to know more of your Breitbart citations.
Yes, the armchair expert comes to teach the internet. Hallowed be thy armchair wisdom.
The fuck do I care about the US? The electricity in Germany is the most expensive in the EU and just because it’s close to 60% doesn’t mean it can’t get better.
Also, Germany is one of the major countries currently holding back the EU from reaching the 2050 climate neutral goal. They fucked the EU on the fossil engine phaseout. The government was sued because it wasn’t sticking to it and they lost. The current government is openly doubting whether they should stick to it.
Will they do anything to reduce the oil consumption and build renewables?
Now they just have to stick to it. The European Commission agreed to using ODF nearly a decade ago if memory serves and it has been very bad at it. Given that ODF is also maintained by Microslop in OASIS, I think they will continue to sabotage it so that they will generate incompatible versions with their shitty 360 crap.
The CDU’s worst nightmare. Not only were the greens right, but this town is also giving less money to their oil lobby. Such successes must be squashed at all costs!
I know that avatar from somewhere… isn’t it a porn comic, @throws_lemy@reddthat.com?
I sat down in a meeting with our CEO who announced the company was going to change fundamentally with AI, then told the developers to write something from his visions. I dunno what’s going to happen from here on out, but probably my CV has to be undusted soon. After talking to colleagues, they agreed it seemed like the CEO had stared down the LLM abyss too long and was far gone. He was convinced most jobs in the company could be automated away and that humans would have to be monitored to see if they can keep up with AI and be fired otherwise.
This can’t end well.
You’re assuming all immigrants are cheap labor. I know which political ideology you lean towards.
Hint: Expats are immigrants and so are foreign nationals from the US, Italy or Australia in any European country that isn’t Italy.
I see carrying the torch for the rich is your past time. Keep it up.
I think immigration is a distraction and a veil to protect the rich. With the wealth and infrastructure, Europe can take in millions of people. With the wealth it possesses, we can have a strong social security net, free education, and maintain our current lifestyle quite easily. We “just” have to distribute the wealth, money and power better.
Look around, every country in Europe is struggling with maintaining its population numbers. The cost of living crisis, the lack of prospects, the bleak outlook, and centralisation of wealth is hindering people from seeing themselves with children, much less affording them. The workforce is shrinking quickly and cannot provide neither manpower nor the money to pay for the pensions of the evergrowing group of retirees - that is mostly because the money is either flowing outside of the countries or into the pockets of the rich and wealthy.
The problem isn’t “the muzzies” nor “brown people are destroying our culture”. It’s that people who come to Europe are being treated like they don’t belong. Governments aren’t doubling down on integration but are instead ostracising them despite requiring them. It’s a formula that will bear its nasty fruit. You can fly in thousands of Indian nurses, treat them like shit, and expect them to be happy. Invest in their future, invest in them, and the neighborhoods they are in.
Happy, successful citizens do their best to see their country thrive. Poor, sidelined, citizens forced to survive might be easy to control and pit against each other, but they do not make for a stable society.
Pointing fingers at groups within the 99% doesn’t do anything but help the percenters or dot-percenters.
The pessimist in me wants to see what would happen if everybody, in all European countries, we “remigrated” outside of it. How would the European economy fare? What would happen to birthrates? What would happen to culture? What would Europe look like and would the left-over Europeans actually like it? What would happen to rest of the world and how many people would actually be “remigrated”?
You can eat avocados with salt and lemon. Also, look up the recipe for guacamole.
Tortillas and tacos are super easy to make yourself. They are actually poor people food. They taste very good with guacamole.
The biggest (and smallest) US vassal state in Europe. Be proud #dutchians!
Because many centrist parties in Europe are actually more centre right and neo-liberal and actively hold back progress. They invest little to nothing in public infrastructure, privatise public services, lower taxes on the rich, and weaken worker’s rights. They do it more slowly than right-wing parties and extreme right wing parties, but they do it nonetheless. Once in a while they decide to try and balance the scales but not enough.
This has lead to deteriorating public infrastructure, rising cost of living, dependence on private companies (especially foreign ones), more corruption, a frequent attack of workers and green parties, more brash public discourse, and loss of trust with major disdain of politics. Their approach to resolve it has been to adopt right-wing discourse to try and win back their voters who have drifted off to the right due to populism.
As I said, left wing, progressive, and green parties have responded very meekly towards other parties, but respond harshly to parties that share similar ideologies, which leave the right wing field wide open. It is a wide failing of all parties left of right, more progressive than conservative, and non-populist ones.
How many porn instances are there?
Fuck these far right parties and their voters. Fuck the centrist parties for not being progressive enough to not give people a reason to slip to the right. And fuck the left wing parties for fighting each other. But most of all, fuck the US for lobbying all these politician fucks to vote against European interests.
Indeed I was. My point does stand about their chancellor though.
It doesn’t matter what’s between their legs. What Germany needs is a party willing to tax the fucking rich and go HAM on Pooteen. If it’s just another 15 years of letting everything go to waste, it doesn’t matter if a man or a woman does it.
Watch how the anti-opensource crowd comes out of the woodwork.