We just need to create that one single ultimate community for good linux jokes.

Sure… green hydrogen which is actually a requirement for decarbonisation of many industry processes is a total scam. Just like solar was a scam not worth supporting in Europe until China had build up a near monopoly. And instead of leveraging that already needed tech for long term storage, too, we should buy more batteries from China…

… until China controls most green hydrogen production that is. Then the people making up your opinion for you will magically change their minds and argue how we totally need to buy green hydrogen from China to save our industry from leaving… to China probably.

And somehow I knew all this before reading your comment just based on the “widespread European deindustrialisation” comment…

It’s an impressive attestation to human stupidity that the most obvious propaganda still seems successful.

Let me guess… DMG Mori Seiki Co. is once again presented as a “German” company supplying Russia because who cares about facts when there is a narrative to push?

because they’re offering more prosperity to the people of their respective countries

No, they don’t. They just lie. And they do so very obviously. Which then brings us back to sovereignity and independence… in the form of media and social media that is either highly corrupt or incompetent (in reality probably different amounts of both) and totally failing in informing us about actual facts over cheap clicks.

They played a decisive role in the past… as a liberal party, or at least while still pretending to be something else than unchecked neoliberals exclusively.

Yet they have turned their backs one every single liberal idea they once represented, to the point that I would argue they have long crossed the line from (more or less corrupt…) party working mainly on behalf of their rich donors to a pure lobbying organisation for just a a few ultra-rich that tries to cosplay as a real party.

And as such they simple don’t deserve anything above ~1%. That’s already much more than the fraction of voters they represent.

What Germany actually needs is a liberal party. But the FDP just isn’t it. Not after the last time in government where they finally betrayed even the last shreds of their former political position and decided to sell out privacy for the usual AI bullshit and to even shit on their beloved free-market for idiotic subsidies that were nothing more than thinly disguised donations for their fossil fuel buddies.

What Germany does not need at all are even more neoliberals.

It was a documentary all along…

Seems like “Leopards Ate My Face” is becoming obsolete.

But nobody sane could have anticipated these morons to devolve even further and now even keep cheering while getting their faces gnawed off.

Volkswagen the brand btw…

The whole company with all its different car brands is a totally different beast for quite some time.

German economy minister fossil fuel lobbyist seeks energy oil and gas deal in Saudi Arabia

Fixed that headline…

Germany doesn’t have an actual economy minister (or any other government positions for that matter), just a bunch of corrupt conservatives running the usual tax breaks for the rich and subsidies for their biggest donors scam.

What’s the point of a Google Android product build in the EU?

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.

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.

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. 🤡