Silver lining for Hormuz blockade?
Everyone wants green. And makers cash in. China's exports of batteries, EVs and solar products shot up in March to $21.9 billion
This is a 70% increase over March 2025.
🇪🇺🏳️🌈⚖️🇭🇺 A legal earthquake - CJEU finds Hungary to have violated EU law on multiple counts with its anti-LGBT+ legislation (as expected) but also for the first time in history, in an EU law-reshaping precedent, finds Hungary to violate Art 2 TEU in a self-standing manner.
"Ukraine has a theory of victory that looks plausible, while russia’s is crumbling. There is a path to Ukraine achieving drone dominance...russia bet that meat waves would overwhelm Ukraine while the US and Hungary blocked Western support, and failed."
www.thebulwark.com/p/ukraines-s...
not good
Oh wow, Hungary’s Peter Magyar has just invoked the Beneš Decrees in a call with Slovakia’s Robert Fico — a set of WWII-related decisions that imposed collective guilt on ethnic Nazi collaborators (mainly targeting Germans but heavily affecting Hungarians in Slovakia):🧵
Is someone going to tell him that the flu killed more US troops in WWI than any battle did (and that war had chemical weapons so horrific that they were banned afterwards)?
A disgraceful reality of our era is the lack of anger and condemnation towards Moscow for the enormous massacres of Ukrainian civilians it perpetrated especially in Mariupol. Nobody knows the death toll, but it is clearly in the tens of thousands. And the criminal state is destroying the evidence.
The subsidies are slowly going away, and suddenly asking your LLM to rename a file will start costing you real money.
This is why I think it's naive to build a workflow *now* around this subsidized technology.
Better to wait until they stabilize on real prices and THEN let's evaluate the tech.
Many European politicians and journalists are essentially on Russia's payroll.
Helping an enemy attack your own continent should result in a prison sentence.
We are currently failing at enforcement, and our security is paying the price
Looks like the prosecutors couldn’t make it stand up in court
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The deal will encourage other countries to agree similar arrangements with Ukraine. It's a brilliant strategy to integrate influential global economies with Ukraine's and make its national integrity beneficial to them, thereby incentivising more assistance for Ukrainian defence against Russia.
This is a remarkable and important step.
Ukraine, a country under full scale invasion for 4+ years, is signing deals to co-develop/produce weapons with other countries.
Saudi, UAE and Qatar are not only confident of but also banking on Ukraine being a functional nation state over the next decade.
Even if many were left behind, the majority were doing quite well by the late 90s. Tony had to fuck it up by doing war, killing new Labour in the process, and getting the disastrous Tory machine back in power doing their worst to kill that vibrant country. Brexit was it for me, we left after that.
Also I’m not a Tory, and did not live in the UK during Thatcherism, but did move there a few years later, and it was a great place to live back then. She couldn’t have been all wrong if she took it from desperate 70s to amazing late 90s. A female scientist getting into power is also unique.
Agreed. I genuinely like to discuss issues to see if I can see a new point of view to learn something from it. Not here to attack anyone. Appreciate the sentiment.
I know what the response would be, so there’s no point 😂
I’m interested in learning, finding truth where possible, not in being popular. Not winning any popularity contests by challenging entrenched points of view with decades of investment behind them. But that’s where interesting things are found.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Politics shouldn’t be like sports, where you have a favourite team and then always support them no matter what. If you are really non partisan, you can find that even your opponent can do the occasional good deed 😄
I dislike Boris and Tony, but broken ⏰
It’s pointless I guess, as not once have you commented on either the health aspect of mining to the miners or environmental impact of it. I spent a couple of decades in the UK, so I’ve heard it all. Just giving you the point of view of someone who moves for work, and cares about workers wellbeing.
And I think Thatcher hatred being so prevalent, even if she’s far from being the worst Tory PM in history, might be down to her sex. I can’t recall any non Tory female PMs. She’s despised more than PMs that killed millions through manufactured famines. Universally hated by all non Tory.
Millions have moved to the UK for work over the past decades and centuries before that too. The English are immigrants to the Isles. Hundreds of whaling towns where abandoned after that industry died, why would coal mining be any different? Why is it a sacred pursuit? I’m baffled.
I find it extremely xenophobic to say that moving for work is somehow always a negative. Gives National Socialist vibes. Only local people are good, moving means not being local, so it’s bad, as you are “the other”. Farmers moved to mining towns, and they can move away once the mines are closed.
I am simply stating facts about this particular issue, not Thatcherism in general. You can’t spin away the facts that mining coal is really unhealthy for the miners, that coal is terrible for the environment, and that even Thatcher could get some thing right. Migration is also not demeaning, is it?
"Sweden agreed with the BND, Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, that Russia was understating its budget deficit by $30bn, and had also noticed some financial indicators that could point to a future banking crisis" www.ft.com/content/04a9...
Arguably the politics did not take into consideration the health of the people or the long term health of our shared planet. It was politics before people. You can try to spin this differently but it’s just spin. Champagne socialist spin.
Anyone who lived there was max 2-3 generation. These were not historical communities.These towns did not exist 200 years earlier. They only existed for what is a finite resource. The arguments for these communities having to be preserved are just political in the end.
You are still glossing over the fact that coal mining is terrible for the health of the miners. This is non controversial and just fact. Then there’s the environmental damage.
I have personally moved thousands of km to find work, they could do the same. These were recent communities, transient.
The EU has to find a way to change the unanimity rule for defence, security, foreign policy, & accession voting. Otherwise, it will be paralyzed in the never-ending Kremlin veto.
Preliminary results of Bulgaria's elections show a landslide victory of the pro-russia #Radev's Progressive Bulgaria
Many Ukrainian refugees abroad have fallen victim to brutal crimes driven by hate speech and anti-migrant sentiment espoused by right-wing parties in the EU and US. However, left-wing parties are also propagating anti-Ukrainian sentiment, endangering the well-being of Ukrainians abroad.