If you check the polls, nothing changed in Australia to justify the rapid drop of the right wing, except Trump.

The american obsession with melanin levels is insane. Why cant they be normal and be racist to people who live over the next hill, like us enlightened europeans.

I think homosexuality has reached a level of societal acceptance(at least in the west), that it is ok to be ironically homophobic again.

Then again, some might argue that being against nazis was a societal norm, so being ironically nazi was fine too. Yet here we are now, where being unironically nazi is somewhat acceptable by a large part of the society.

Tha Taliban are fighting against ISIS-K. ISIS-K is the terrorist organisation behind the terrorist attacks in Russia. I am pretty sure that even the US had some backchannel communication with the Taliban, in order to drone strike ISIS-K targets in Afghanistan(after the US had left Afghanistan).

NA engines, ie “NA v8”, doesnt mean “north american v8”, but “naturally aspirated v8”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_the_Iraq_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_reactions_to_the_prelude_to_the_Iraq_War

“On January 29, 2003, the European Parliament passed a nonbinding resolution opposing unilateral military action against Iraq by the United States. According to the resolution, “a pre-emptive strike would not be in accordance with international law and the UN Charter and would lead to a deeper crisis involving other countries in the region””

“France, Germany and Russia were from the very outset publicly opposed to a US-led war”

“Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Greece, Austria and Liechtenstein also condemned the war. The Czech Republic, Croatia, and Slovenia were already mentioned above”

Most european governments opposed the invasion, and most people, even from the european countries that sent troops, opposed it. The invasion of Iraq significantly deteriorated the relations between the european states and america.

For tracking to be useful, it needs data from multiple sources. If it is a brand new incognito session, then it will only have the data you create from that search. If you disable Fingerprinting, it wont have much data and wont be able to reliably and accurately attach or combine that data with other data and accounts.

I just use ddg and for when i want to search something important, i just use Google(in incognito).

It is easy to say this when you are just a rando on the internet. But these politicians are responsible for the lives of hundreds of millions of people. Keeping the tariffs because a manchild is in charge of the most powerful country, would have had significant negative effects on those lives.

The only thing we can do is pivot the EU away from the US, slowly, while building its military/IT capabilities. Trump(and the US) will suffer eventually. Treating the global economy like a shitcoin has severe long term consequences, consequences that will not be reversible for decades, if not centuries.

But in order to do this while causing as little damage as possible to Europe, it will take time(at least a decade or two).

I mean he is a lawyer, who fought for the environment for decades. You dont become a successful lawyer by reading tweets, you need to actually read and put effort. He is not like most of trump’s cabinet, even though he is a conspiracy theorist and a flawed human(though with the upbringing he had, i cant imagine any human coming out as normal).

Literally 1984.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_by_country

Plenty of countries have fluoride in their water. Ultimately, if you brush your teeth, it is a useless policy but if you dont brush your teeth, it helps a little and with 0 negative side effects.

It is a policy that “my individual rights” crowd loves to shit on. Whether individual rights are more important than a minor effect to the health of a few individuals is debatable.

I actually had written a sentence about solar panels being closer to where the power consumption is, as an advantage. But that also implies that you are localizing other parts too, things like batteries. Which is feasible but it complicates things.

Yeah, maybe. I definitely think this is more useful than solar roads.

I dont understand all these “we should put solar panels in x”. Sure, we could but that would be less efficient than using proper conventional solar panels. It isnt as if we dont have enough land area for solar panels, that is not the bottleneck, there is plenty of land.

We had those stupid solar roads, now this. I dont understand. At least transparent solar panels might have some niche uses.

Crypto has shown us that valuation isnt connected in any way to reality, all you need is good vibes and belief. There are enough musk fanboys and musk has enough access to capital that if he wants, he can pump the stock to the moon.

We are at end game capitalism, capital is consolidated to such a degree that the market is no longer a market, it is a casino. And the people with the capital are no longer participants in the market, THEY ARE THE MARKET. And the house never loses.

Our only hope is them turning on each other but ultimately the endgame of capitalism is consolidation, not competition. Maybe if trump dies or becomes immensely unpopular, things will get interesting.

This dude explains(in a couple minutes) why boomers are how they are and why they are breaking down society

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=343V0eRmMak

Some countries have it, not all or even most. Sweden is not representative of the entirety of Europe.

In Greece you arent even allowed to camp outside of very limited designated camp sites(though laws in Greece are more like suggestions, so many people still go camping in forests).

Game of Thrones was the most popular series in the world, despite having multiple characters and parallel story arcs. People underestimate other people.

Marxism leninism, it’s a political ideology, subset of communism. Basically the communists that love USSR, China, Cuba, etc. They love running propaganda about how these authoritarian governments did nothing wrong and how all criticism of them is just negative propaganda by the West.