EVs are a stepping stone towards getting rid of fossil fuels, which is another stepping stone towards “saving the Earth”. Going back, puts us farther away from the goal.

That wouldn’t protect him. Only 25% of world gold production has a practical use, the rest is turned into jewelry and bullion at a speculative value. Buying some is also not that straightforward, most is sold as an IOU, with the physical stuff remaining in the original owner’s vault.

We live in a world where fiat/credit rules everything; the moment trust is lost, there is no difference between Tesla shares, Zimbabwean dollars, $Trump, USD… or bullion IOUs.

For reference:

President Donald Trump signed an executive order supporting digital assets and vowed to create a national stockpile of cryptocurrency

PS: this is also another step towards Network States.

Like every good billionaire, he’s been playing the stock game by taking on loans and exchanging stock, based on valuation (aka: hype). If the valuation plummets, then depending on his exposure, he could default on those loans and end up penniless.

We don’t know his exposure level, he’s been avoiding anything that would require disclosing all his assets and liabilities, so we’ll have to wait and see.

Dunno, seeing how DOGE/Musk have been shutting stuff down and firing people in bulk, then scrambling to restore those that/who turn out to be necessary, it seems like par for the course.

Relaxation of anti-cyberatrack measures, could also play a role.

This seems to be an interesting take on the interaction:

This was an AMBUSH at The White House

The mere presence of Vance, the TASS reporter who got expelled at the last moment, the stupid question about not wearing a suit, the comments about discussing stuff “behind closed doors” instead of “in front of the cameras”… they all make the interpretation plausible. It gets compounded by the latest draft of the agreement being nothing like what Trump had been screaming about.

IMHO, it looks like Trump wanted to reenact his interpretation of the negotiation process in front of the cameras to make himself look great, but Zelensky didn’t want to take part in the charade.

I’ve seen the technical discussions, it isn’t clear whether someone was:

• Messing with the routing, poorly
• Made a boo-boo while updating the NIH parent nameservers
• Tried to take down all NIH and its subdomains in a single sweep, but alternate DNS servers still had them in cache

When you become a citizen of a Network State, the dApp will automatically tax you on-chain according to what a majority of stakeholders agree to.

What? Not yet a citizen? Well… here’s a reason to pick one and give it everything you own. 👹

This article from before the elections, has some more graphics and information:

What’s at Stake in Germany’s Elections

It gets more interesting with a map of the votes:

East Germany, vs. West Germany.

It’s been somewhat of a theme in countries that endured USSR influence, to run a “commie scare” and fall straight into the arms of a neo-lib alt-right.

He also met Spanish party leader Santiago Abascal. They all congratulated each other.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGa-FMAot00/?igsh=MW9zcDAydG9xenp2Nw==

Just putting on the jacket, could be seen the same way as a party costume, or a movie prop.
Wearing it with the express intent of instilling fear in people, could be seen as terrorism.
Wearing it to a mall and shouting “ICE is here!” so people run in fear, would be instant impersonation and terrorism.

…or it used to be.

If that’s the US… keep in mind that the distance between the US and Russia is… 53 miles. Excluding Alaska, the distance between Chukotka and Washington, is under 1100 miles.

a fifth of the population of Germany

A 20% of 84% eligible voters, or about 17% eligible voters, or about 15% of the population.

Keep in mind that if the turnout had been like the US2024’s 64%, that result could have been anywhere between 0% and 26%, depending on who decided not to vote.

That’s after all the manipulation from Musk and Russia. A lot of those people would act as surprised and betrayed as some in the US have over the past month. For starters, the AfD co-leader, an anti-immigrant pro-Nazi eurosceptic anti-democratic fascist Musky party that’s pushing traditional family values… has herself an immigrant same-sex partner with whom she’s raising two kids. Makes me think of a Serena Waterford case. 🤦

Have they changed the title?

Trump fires top US general CQ Brown in shake-up at Pentagon

People who might be inclined to challenge this, are being replaced as we speak:

Trump fires top US general CQ Brown in shake-up at Pentagon

Hegseth fires Navy’s top officer, Air Force No. 2

Testing the waters for Constitutional changes, precedent for the next one, for example Vance 2036.

Below-average gross wages (expense for employer), with above-average net wage purchasing power (how much employees can buy).

Meaning: can pay less, without people protesting more.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_average_wage

For comparison: Denmark has 309% gross wages, with only 167% net purchasing power… so for the same employee’s purchasing power/satisfaction, an employer can pay only 54% wages in Poland.

Nice. May I ask, how did you do that? AI summary? I don’t see that content in the page source. 😯

I’ve seen a LinkedIn comment calling it an “untapped opportunity in the west”, wonder what’s that about.

You’re right. However, we learn slurs as a shortcut to express sentiment. For educational purposes: what would be some acceptable ways of expressing the same sentiment?

“Charlie Chaplin’s”… “roman salute”? 🤬

For context: PiS representatives keep getting invited to, and attending, all European neofascist alt-right meetings.