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Also interested in how you can do this.

called it 3 months ago https://lemmy.world/comment/15443605

3 months ago https://lemmy.world/comment/15443605

Sure, and if we’re dragging out historical wins to score points, we can sit here all day trading inventions like baseball cards.

Automobiles? Germany. Jet engines and the WWW? UK. Radio? Italy (and yes, Tesla gets a nod too). Satellites and the first man in space? Soviet Union. Solid-state theory that made electronics possible? Mostly European physics.

China gave us the compass, paper, and gunpowder. India gave us the number zero and early surgery. Japan revolutionized consumer electronics and manufacturing efficiency. France had photography and hot air balloons before the Wright brothers ever left the ground.

Point is: past contributions are global. No one country owns progress. So unless you’re planning to live off 1950s prestige, maybe let’s not pretend history is a scoreboard that settles today’s reality.

Past glory doesn’t pay for today’s bill. If you want to compare what other countries have done in the past we can be sitting here for a long time.

I’m going to look into it. Thank you.

I never would have thought that a random post would chance my world view. I am genuinely stumped.

Could somebody please explain to me how somebody can not think like this? I always thought this is the normal way to think. There are people who don’t think like this?

This is just pure delusional. They wouldn’t crash Air Force Gold with him on it. They would do it without him on it, as a warning. He’s too easy to use, why would anybody with money exchange him for a potential ‘difficult’ president?

They found the new Josef Mengele?

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Direct as in personal. As in being in the room.

Direct source.

Beginning of 2024 volvo managers from EU had a planned visit to volvo US that they were not looking forward to. The reason was that volvo US was very vocal about how pro trump they were because he was “good for business”.

But not a blanket tarrif, they just targeted some specific products.

NATO-Europe without the U.S. still outmatches Russia militarily and economically by a wide margin, but the real issue isn’t brute strength—it’s readiness and political will. Russia can’t beat Ukraine, let alone all of NATO, but a surprise move in the Baltics or Suwałki Gap could be disastrous if Europe doesn’t act fast. It’s not that Russia is strong—it’s that Europe can’t afford to be slow or divided.

one thing that i keep needing to bring up as well, with what troops? Russia has been losing a lot of people in Ukraine. Even if we ignore all the numbers being thrown about how many they really lost, they have lost troops. Invading Europe? Even if they would make start churning out vehicles at a breakneck speed now, where do they get the people to operate them? How will they hold the regions they would get?

Loved them. Only thing he did that I did not like that much was his cyberpunk review.

Installed mint on an older computer I had so my oldest daughter could have a pc for school. She has had zero problems using it.