Jean 🍌 Leon

this garbage app seems to have fully deleted visible likes from old tweets? as in not just can you not see if you liked it or not, they're all at 0. I understand no improvements but how is it continually getting *worse*

Germany is in panic over Chinese companies taking over its markets at home, abroad and in China. Having spent quite some time in China in the 2010s, I can’t help but thinking back to the arrogance and quite frankly racism of German expat businesses people. Chinese engineers with Ivy League degrees speaking fluent English and German looked down upon by German engineers with a degree from some German university, unimpressive English and less than two sentences of Chinese. The Germans didn’t see it coming because they couldn’t imagine Chinese people becoming better at what they are doing than themselves. An industry insider told me at the time how keen Chinese entrepreneurs were to collaborate with German car companies on EV development. But all the Germans worried about was they are going to steal our IP. Well, here we are.

While failure to replace European sales is an obvious Russian FP failure I think in more general terms China has also failed to really exploit Russia's isolation to draw it deep into its sphere. It had an unusual window to radically Sinicize the Russian economy and even culture which it failed to take due to OBOR of the brain. Anything that was done was on the private initiative of Chinese companies, nothing state-directed or subsidized. This is not the behavior of a rational power maximizer, I will leave it at that.

Government now calculates HS2's benefit cost ratio to be 0.3-0.4 The original 2013 business case said there was a ZERO per cent chance the BCR would be below 0.75

A fire alarm is going off and everyone is ignoring it.

- Markus Haupt, CEO of Seat/Cupra - both VW brands - said early May his sales team in Germany reported that EVs made up nearly 60% of orders, well above their quota of 25% "We have a production budget for this year," Haupt said "Maybe we'll need to increase the amount of EVs" -

Simon Lüchinger und ich haben uns den Effekt der Abschaffung des obligatorischen Gesetzesreferendums in den Kantonen angeschaut. Ohne das potenzielle Veto der Wählerschaft steigt die Regulierungsaktivität um fast 50 Prozent. (2/3)

German autism makes them natural extremists. Whatever 'the thing' is in any given historical era - Protestant Christianity, imperialism, nationalism, national socialism, environmentalism, multiculturalism - they always conclude that if a thing is good, they must goodthingmax until the blood flows. Deep in the German volkgeist is an urge to turn every ideology into a war crime.

about the only thing left would be export restrictions- something that would be absolutely chilling to future refining output and U.S. oil production growth. the long-term damage from that would be significant.

The British gov will put the blame on the White House. And sure, US President Trump's Iran war is the problem. But the UK wouldn't be in its current predicament if sucessive Labour and Conservative govs have not ignored the closure of multiple oil refineries over 20 years.