Though, honestly, the numbers are sick and it is probably a BS pledge. You can find a good breakdown of the infeasibility of the energy imports here: https://archive.ph/GBv9T

An idea for 600Bn€ investment in the US: Buy back the European subsidiaries of US companies. (At a lower price if we do not buy from them or invest in them in the meanwhile)

What happens when the inevitable failure is realised? Perhaps the EU is hoping for the same outcome as China did with the first trade war with Trump in 2019.

Can somebody brief me what happened in 2019, and what was the deal with China?

How will selling to China work now? I think we had decreasing exports to China for a while now, how will that change?

I got to know about this only from this article (I send Wikipedia’s take on the info, since it is more accurate):

Since 2009, Weidel has been in a lesbian relationship with Sarah Bossard, a Sri Lankan-born film producer who was adopted as a child by a Swiss couple. Since 2019 the pair have lived with their two adopted sons in Einsiedeln, Switzerland. Weidel works in Berlin and says her official residence is in her electoral district in Überlingen, on the German side of the German-Swiss border, allowing her to avoid Swiss taxation.[100][101][102][103]

In terms of religion, Weidel identifies herself as an agnostic.[104]

She represents so well many far-right voters who simply vote against themselves, thinking that they are “special” and even if they do the same things they despise, they will be spared from the prosecution.

Great comment. We can and should criticize the actions of the Irish government, and the German, Hungarian, Polish ones, etc. But boycotting Ireland is too far of a stretch.

There is a good point related to what OP is writing: Beware of “European” sidekicks of US companies. Many subsidiaries are a good European-washing examples, though might still be better than full-US companies when no alternative is available. But labeling the whole country of Ireland as a sidekick is too much.

Russia accounted for 39% of allegations

I wish…

We have 999 problems and migrants ain’t one

Yeah, that’s true. But their production seems to be almost fully for their internal market. Which shows how crazy the scale of the green energy transition within China.

China accounted for 65% of global wind capacity in 2023

So basically, China also installed twice as much wind power as the rest of the world in 2023

It’s similar with solar, but there China has a bit lower percentage of the demand, and more of manufacturing. -> It is a major exporter. See, e.g., https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/solar-pv-manufacturing-capacity-and-production-by-country-and-region-2021-2027

Great search, thank you!

When you make a CitizenWatch article into a meme (congrats OP):

https://citizenwatchreport.com/sp-500-just-hit-an-all-time-high-meanwhile-60-of-americans-use-afterpay-for-groceries-first-time-homebuyers-have-fallen-to-24-from-50/

One buttock XD

Smart! I use Joplin and Koofr for shorter notes. Switching to LibreOffice Writer from Word, and shared files, for longer texts. But all depends on how you like to write ¯_(ツ)_/¯

https://koofr.eu/blog/posts/how-to-backup-your-joplin-notes-to-koofr

I think the difference is that, while both Russia and Germany are federations on paper, Germany is much less centralized.

• to the best of my knowledge, 3.5% would be military spending, and 1.5% could be other “defence” spending (as others have already written).

Still, not fun with the 3.5%/5%. Overshooting, typical for “weapons as war repellent” strategy (and unfortunately, expanded military often does not want to stay idle…)

Nice, but still, use GOG when possible:

https://www.gog.com/

Money is increasingly needed by the federal treasury, which spends every third ruble on the war

Woah, 1/3rd of the budget is a lot.

LanguageTool as cloud storage?

So cool! I would also love to see a day train from Malmö/Stockholm to somewhere in Germany ^‿

BTW, Grammarly is a sad story. They started out in Kiev in 2009, and sometime in the 2010s, they moved their headquarters to San Francisco. Idk if they gave official reasons.