And you really think “the elites” are the ones buying and selling here?

Yes, they have a lot of wealth in stocks, but usually they simply own a large chunk of their (or their parents) company and the rest is managed by a fund manager. And if you have millions or billions, you don’t need to think quarter to quarter.

What happened to librem anyway? They used to be all the rage, now it’s nothing.

One part is a reverse game of chicken, buy the dippest dip to realize most profit from less dippy dip buyers.

The other part is the assumption that this means the tariffs will never actually come or at least in a much relaxed form.

Trump used to be rather transactional, though.

It’s an evil logic, but there was an internal logic behind what he did in his first term. He bullied you into submission, and agreed to a deal if he thought it benefits him (him, not the USA).

Now, he’s just on full autodestruct. There’s zero logic behind it. Not even chaotic franticness like before, just erratic randomness.

What are you even trying to express here? That’s just childish phrases glued together.

The fact that we’re discussing literal space heater output levels for a fucking graphics card is insane enough.

If you’re really careful, you might see that I qualified that statement above

it killed too few people for many to care

The emphasis is there for a reason.

And BTW, that statement is not a joke, but based on actual study results. You know why? Covid having a 2% mortality also means it has a 98% survival rate - much much higher in younger healthier people. Exactly that was the problem. For the vast majority of people covid did not feel like a real threat, because it wasn’t. Long covid and the other long term effects only really came to light in 2021 and later.

I didn’t shelter in 2020 for myself, but for others. If there is no such thing a society, individuals will act like selfish assholes and don’t wear masks, get vaccinated, etc. If Covid would have caused widespread erectile dysfunction, the entire world would have been shutdown in 5min and nobody would even doubt masks.

Can’t we just have a regular old plague that kills like 30% of the population and not that sigma “I don’t really want to kill you” bullshit?

Covid was so annoying, because it killed too few people for many to care. I don’t want that again.

That’ll show him!

In all of these countries the moderate parties failed the people.

Globally, there was a slow redistribution away from the middle and working class since the 70s. Moderate parties were complacent or compliant, they got a few vanity projects in place, but overall just administered the status quo.

Now we’re at a point where the theft of wealth reached a level that seriously threatens the livelihoods of ordinary people. I can’t speak for other countries, but Germany is simultaneously grinding to a halt and falling apart. It’s scary.

The left has no answers, unfortunately. They’re busy with identity politics and academic debates and nothing. Trans issues for example are in themselves important, but if you’re a worker who doesn’t know how to pay rent, a left party that puts trans issues at the top of their priorities isn’t exactly super appealing.

The moderates failed at preventing the downfall. The lefties are busy addressing niche issues and ignoring issues that don’t fit their view.

The alternative is a far right that doesn’t even hide behind nice words, just hate hate hate. And even though their program would fuck most of their voters, hate prevails.

change my mind!

It’s not social media, it’s media.

Social media are somewhat faster, but if you watch TV or read news here in Germany, the discussions there and reality on the have almost zero connection. We’re discussing completely absurd proposals to deport refugees, while most people are much more afraid of their landlords or can’t get a doctor’s appointment.

The media completely fails at questioning power. They’re just repeating what politicians say or demand, knowing that 90% of that is straight up against the constitution.

I don’t know if that was ever different, but I’m pretty sure that a lot of that is journalists taking themselves way too seriously.

Even the paid sites are often enough filled with tabloid level crap, fluffed up news agency printouts and those god awful “reports” that start with a 500 word description of the door of the interviewee. That’s not journalism and most people are not willing to pay for that.

I tried several subscriptions over the years and honestly, the articles that really added something can be counted on one or two hands. I’m sure I missed a lot of good and valuable articles, but I’m not ready to sift through tons of crap to find a few gems.

Exactly.

These protests are often enough extremely mild but get prosecuted like terrorist, while much more violent protests get a slap on the wrist at max.

Here in Germany, right wing farmers protested by illegally blocking entire cities with their tractors, much worse interruptions than the glued-to-the-street teenager, and they actually threatened violence. Yet, only a handful of them got any form of legal trouble, and that only for petty stuff.

Guess, which protesters threatened the status quo and which just wanted more money out of the system?

I myself enjoyed every single lecture I had

I didn’t like all lecturers

Haters might call that a contradiction.

I didn’t confirm your experience, therefore I must be lying.

No, you’re lying because you don’t confirm the almost universal constant that nothing of that magnitude can be all positive. Net positive, sure. Mostly positive, absolutely. But all positive? Bullshit. Especially, if you keep backtracking.

You’re lying to yourself, and you know it.

It is physically not possible to enjoy everything. You already backtracked, suddenly you were bored, but sitting through something boring is not bad for some reason?

And that is utter bullshit.

You can’t be that dense to seriously say you enjoyed every single lecture. That’s a lie, and you know it.

BTW, I’m from one of those “some countries”. And no, nobody, not a single person enjoyed everything. That’s not how reality works.

Who are you trying to impress here?

Sorry, but that’s just an absolutely snobbish way of looking at education.

Of course it’s an investment, you spent years of your life, took exams, wrote theses, sat in boring lectures because a person in their late teens and early 20s has nothing better to do than that? Yeah, sorry, that’s bullshit and you know it.

So, you fucked up and it’s postgres’ fault?

The scale needed is ridiculous. You’d probably need one of those plants for every 1000 people on the planet.

I’d much rather capture CO2 from waste incinerators or (bio) gas plants or any other “residual” CO2 emitter that’s not burning fossil fuels. At least it’s pretty simple to filter out of their exhausts.

And I’m 95% sure these plants will be used as an argument for running fossil fuel devices longer. It’s “not so bad” after all.

And given how much they tend to fuck themselves over, maybe not even themselves.