It's telling that nowhere in this thread there's mention of the US demolishing it's relationship with its most important ally, Europe.

The US is a lost cause, nationally and globally. It might save it's state, but repairing a (already wobbly) international reputation will take decades.

I am 100% on board with hating Data Centres. But for those who don't know: a unevenly distributed variable load on the grid (EV charging) is a much bigger challenge than a localised somewhat constant load on the grid (Data Centres).

Still: should we build Data Centres with the power use comparable to that of small countries? Fuck no.

Zizek said it quite eloquently: "[China] adopts the basic idea of fascism, which is conservative modernisation: 'we need capitalist dynamics, but we need to control it, and to control it we turn to our own national tradition'. [...] This is the problem with Chinese communism: there is a direct link with the fascist tradition."

I love France and all, but let's not pretend they have good coffee culture. What passes for cappuccino there... The horrors I've seen.

Now I don't agree with it (in fact, I am strongly opposed to the tax exemption), but the reasoning is that this way you create an 'even playing field' for aviators all across the globe. In other words: it's doesn't become more attractive to tank in Arab Gulf states, making their airlines out-compete European airlines.

Mate, the only thing you have to say is that Ukraine is getting fucked over left and right. Instead you find the strangest ways to twist that into apologizing for Russian imperialist interests.

Yes, to both.

It ain't hard.

You're making a joke but people in the Byzantine empire called themselves Roman. Greeks living in 1920s Turkey still called themselves Roman.

It's also a way to support two stellar devs

The amount of people here using EXACTLY the same disgusting reasoning that 19th century Europeans used for genocide is... well disgusting.

Pretty sure they didn't have to "break the news" on that.

Easy to say to starving children. (Which is what happened in op's article)

I would add a third option there: the aviation lobby is too strong, sufficiently suppressing the urge to find solutions. ;)

I'll explain. People get annoyed because you are proudly ignorant of 2000 years of history and tons of cultural differences.

A conspiracy theory popular amongst delusional Marxists-Leninists, and that's an important difference.

Still it's funny to see these (often) so called anti colonial thinkers struggle with the idea of self determination of other nations. Nothing can happen without American involvement, obvs.

And I am talking about the very same period. You seem unaware that Russia has been flooding the Donbass with weapons since 2014. Provided military assistance with intelligence, material and even personnel.

Tell me: who shot down MH17 in 2014? With what weapon?

I take great offense in you saying that tankies and socdems infight, lol. (I mean, I get it, they are both statists, but I feel on a emotional level most socdems feel more for anarchism than for leninism.)

What do you think these mortars are going to be used for?

A Ukrainian civil war, fought with Russian weapons and Russian military personnel?

People hit on .ML for repeating the propaganda of an Imperialist war machine. Just as much as most sane (non US) people hit on idiots repeating the propaganda of the US Imperialist war machine. Or Israels, or whatever.

You mean a CO^2 ^tax? Yes please!