When you take “Fuck Nazis” to literal.

In international relation rhetoric is policy. Just saying.

Dugin does want to give Estonia to Germany though. Yes he is weird.

They can move to Estonia, which would be in the German sphere of influence.

It has its positives though. The Euro is the second most important currency in the world. If Trump succeeds in destroying trade, the EU might very well end up as the worlds reserve currency.

For a few months.

Usually those artist did get some recognition during their life, but never got into the main stream. That changed due to the main stream changing and the people who did like the art showing it again. That is actually rather easy to do with something like the Fediverse. It just requires a download option. Especially when everybody is aware, that the content will be deleted, that would be a decent option.

Also a lot of content on social media in general is very short term. Stuff like politcal discussions are fairly useless after a few months in most cases. So that can be deleted without much care and again, if somebody wants to preserve it, they easily can just download it.

The US spends 3.4% of GDP in defence. Israel is at 5.3%. Also the US only spends a bit more then 3x what China spends and well US products are more expensive. So the US can probably fund its military for quite some time, without too many problems and right wingers love to do it, to bomb the shit out of people.

Slovakia has a far right president too. So not too much of a surprise. Melania Trump is Slovenian, so that might be it. Bulgarian politics is just nuts.

The problem with Trump is that he is loud and slightly crazy. That just does not work well with German post WW2 culture. If somebody calmer would run, that would be a different story though.

Considering the number of high ranking older Republicans, who support Harris, that really does not mean that much. Seriously Dick Cheney supports Harris these days.

The laws have been passed, it is just that they will start 2026.

Exports also profit benefits to the country exporting. It is very much part of how a country operates. That is why China is calling the EU to stop the carbon tariff CBAM, as it would hurt Chinese exports.

Because production based emissions also have value. Countries can exports products, which have been made with cleaner or less energy and that in total reduces emissions. If they import products from other dirtier countries though, it can look like they are much worse.

Also it is much easier to calculate. You only need data from a single country and do not have to look at supply chains. For energy it is pretty much (fossil fuel production + fossil fuel imports - fossil fuel exports) * emissions factor. It also is a pretty decent proxy, as a lot of emissions are local. Electricity production, transport and most products are made within the country in most cases.

Food inflation jumped to 10.1%, with eggs up 37% year-over-year, vegetables by 17%, and meat by 13%. Since January, potato prices surged nearly 90%, carrots 54%, cabbage 50%, and apples 33%. A July survey found that 46% of Russians saw prices rise “very significantly” last month, with 63% expecting the trend to continue.

Holy crap

Great news! The less cars the better!

You can look at the thread. The initial one got a lot of replies from a “Vladimir Putin” saying “You should kill yourself NOW!”. The Git commit is even worse, with the a lot of insults. Not what usually happens on that kind of places, not that they are always kind and lovely.

Like not risking his lifelyhood to fight US and EU sanctions against a genocidal regime?

Because there are both US and EU laws preventing code from countries deemed a threat. Torvalds is paid by the Ameircan Linux Foundation, which has to work under US law and he himself is an EU citizen. Also a lot of other developers are from those countries and if they do not comply, they could get into some pretty bad legal trouble.

So it pretty much boils down to kick out the Russians or kick out all US and EU citizens and well we see Linus choice.

They are planning to buy or maybe just electricity from a new reactor type, which has never been built, starting 2030, when conventional nuclear power plants, with known technology take twice as long to built.

So if they stop the project in 18months, it has just been a waste of money.