💀 Manjarno

Calling the choice to get children in a country that officially guarantees access to childcare yet refuses to actually provide it a “life-style” is some intresting framing.

I wonder who is mainly responsible for that constant government failure…

Also: If you look at properly adjusted numbers productivity has massively increase (~+250% GDP per capita) in the last decades, while government spending, social spending, healthcare costs (equally adjusted) mostly stagnated or even went down.

So what’s the problem? Oh, yeah. Taxes and other contributions are tied to stagnating wages, while all that additional money is funneled to the top <1% (and barely taxed of course).

And so they lie: about the lazy workers not doing their part anymore, about imaginary hordes of lazy unemployed refusing to work, about masses of immigrants stealing our tax money, about the greedy pensioneers (adjusted those pensions are -no wonder as they are linked to wages- stagnating, too… but generational wars are just as well as a diversion as culture wars)…

What Merz actually want to say is: We worked very hard for decades to shift all the burden to the working class and constantly reduce taxes for rich people and corporations. But now that those taxes are basically non-existent and can’t be reduced anymore we need another source for “our” constant growth. So the stupid serfs should start to work harder, to pay for everything and make us more money, too.

PS: Oh, and Merz and his party took on a trillion (literally…) in new debt for “investments” into infrastructure and to support the economy. Who wants to take a guess where they spend that money instead?

Because technology is already utilised to constantly increase productivity and growth. Then that growth/productivity flows directly into the pocket of the sub 1%, barely taxed at all. But that’s not something they would ever talk about.

What they want to talk about instead is how workes with their stagnating wages, who also have to finance everything as wages is basically the only thing taxed properly, need to do more to keep the system they intentionally broke to enrich themselves alive.

I did not mention the US (who are just now trying very hard to become a failed state anyway) but was talking about other power production. No one but lobbyists still riding the dead horse that is nuclear power is caring for who dominates in construction of new reactors when that’s a very small fraction of added production capacity, globally as well as in China.

Making yet another story about some “big push for nuclear” when it’s actually just varying levels of stagnation and decline while renewables show exponential growth is either colossally stupid of bullshit propaganda.

Not that those fairy tales about a nuclear future with renewable upbuild collapsing any day now are new as we all should know by now:

Yeah, that’s a very popular story. Interestingly the voices of actual NATO allies working with German soldiers are usually the exact opposite of the media and political narratives.

No, proper storage amounts and planable long-term contracts are needed, so there is enough to sustain while existing manufacturing capacities are upscaled.

Instead we get bullshit actionism.

And in a few years we probably have replaced a lot of soldiers with barely enough ammunition for a few weeks with much more soldiers and ammunition for 2 days. Because actually sane decisions are not flashy enough to impress stupid voters or the media they consume.

All while having wasted billions on shiny new stuff in irrelevant numbers, infrastructure for conscripts not actually needed, and big symbolic projects, simply because idiots are prioritising short-term bullshit to impress morons to get their votes in a few years again.

But loudly talking about building a massive army is so much easier (and more effective to get approval) than actually managing the logistics needed to make the existing army work properly. The old saying that there is no glory in prevention is sadly true for military deterrence, too.

Funny story.

And now give us numbers how those “dominance in nuclear upbuild” compares to power production in general…

Oh no, big country at war has more active soldiers than small countries at peace! Who would have thought?

Oh, and those small EU countries combined already have a bigger army than Russia, massive reserves obviously not counted because … again … they are not at war. And yes, we are also speaking about actually well trained and equiped soldiers, not Russian standards.

Everything starts with political will and vision

… and usually ends with those vision being ignored because someone got paid to.

Because corruption.

So they are already running out of ressources to keep pumping that insane bubble and now need Europe to subscribe to their mass delusion, too?

Maybe provide AI-based solution for actual problems instead of trying to invent and reframe problems your AI can solve, all just because you are dependent on AI being the one and only future of tech and somehow magically being able to do all the things you hallucinate soon™.

Just once I would like to see actual numbers in one of those bullshit articles.

Last month we had “400% increased sales of Chinese EVs” when in reality that increase was from next to nothing to barely above 1% marketshare (all combined that is…) all while several European EVs with actual marketshare saw comparable growth.

Now we have “Europe folding in the face China’s EV dominance”. Still while European EVs actually dominate the European market and the EU is not doing anything but imposing tariffs -fine tuned per producer even- to fit real Chinese subsidies.

(PS: And I don’t even want to mention the idiocy of pretending that hybrids are an actual thing for future car production and not just a fever dream out of the minds of anti-EV and pro-fossil fuel lobbyists trying to keep their failing business model on life support for a few more years…)

Edit: Wow… just wanting to find out more about unheard.com I browsed through some of their other articles. I think I have to correct my earlier assessment. This article is peak professional journalism compared to some of the other shit they produce: “Starmer can’t win his war on Musk”, “Why Trump will get Greenland”, “Why you should eat the RFK diet”, “The Green Party’s war on women”. And the worst part is that some of those are even worse than the titles already suggest. 🤡

Only 8 countries? C’mon Europe, you can do much better!

The ‘O’ stands for manipulation…

rolling release (for gaming)

Seriously… after all these years without some pesky version upgrade screwing things up I couldn’t bring myself to install a non-rolling distro on any device I actively use.

Yeah, but -again- that’s not the reality.

We barely see production of standardised equipment by domestic industry (usually under license).

What we see instead is France loving to quit every common project once it’s clear that they don’t have 100% control over every detail (remember that APACHE shitshow that brought us two conceptionally identical cruise missiles, produced by different parts of the same company? Just because Germany’s idea about a bunker-busting warhead was totally stupid… until France could continue development alone and suddenly came to the same conclusion).

Or Norway developing their own anti-air system based on German IRIS-T SL missiles. Because we totally need a second system that does the exact same thing with the same ammunition but developed and build by Kongsberg instead of Diehl.

Or Poland buying two different tanks from outside of Europe. Because it’s all about the tech transfer for the domestic industry while not giving money to that pesky in-Europe competition… so South Korea and US it is.

Or Germany, Netherlands and Belgium actively screwing up their plans for a new frigate class right now. Because they all want something different …build by the same shipyard even, that seems totally unable to manage those different projects on a sane time frame.

(And I could probably continue like this for quite some time…)

Oh, and when countries manage to cooperate while all getting work shares for their domestic industry we get logistical bullshit like the Eurofighter. As in: the exact opposite of independent domestic production of a standard product but everyone producing another part for the same end product for maximised dependency on each project member.

Yeah, sure… Europe is occupied by the US… 🤣

there is even a term for this, “Staaträson,” which refers to unconditional support for Israel

No it doesn’t. “Staatsräson” is just the classic term for national interest.

And there is no unconditional support for Israel. That’s the fairy tale of the same conservative propagandists that convinced you do vote for them or don’t vote at all because tHeY aRe AlL tHe SaMe anyway… The “we unconditionally support Israel” bullshit comes from the same despicable people who spend years learning from their MAGA buddies how to campaign on bullshit and culture wars and who constantly sane-wash every Trumpian brain- (and other) fart. Coincidence?

In reality the only unconditional thing is Israel’s right to exist as a country. Germany, just like the EU, favors a two-state solution (yet both sides are too insane and genocidal to ever agree on anything that could achieve peace…).

And guess what the population thinks about the “Israel has a right to exist” version. It’s not controversial at all. Neither is the opinion that they are all equally insane and not interested in peace…

Then it will never happen because every single country will for economical and political reasons chose domestic producers over alternatives every single time.

How will we replace the 100,000-strong American standing military force, which is the back-bone military force in Europe?

Always this popular fairy tale. In reality they are the backbone of US logistics for operations in Africa and Asia.