The researchers conclude that the EU should use its strong bargaining power due to the single market to induce the Chinese government to abandon the most harmful subsidies.

This is their advice? Make the technology for the green transition more expensive rather than enact your own subsidies?

Capitalists are going to burn this planet.

Wow that all sounds awful. Biden should really try to win in order to prevent that.

I suggest he make himself more appealing by being anti-genocide.

There's also a huge misogynist backlash happening in South Korea right now. Men are getting more and more reactionary in response to perceived gains in rights that Korean women are experiencing.

That is to say that the unbelievably sexist country is getting more sexist, not less.

There absolutely is an excuse for Hamas's actions because their two options are to fight or to live forever in an open air prison.

Their actions are just as justified as MK's during Apartheid.

Think about how often you hear about this vs how often you hear about Xinjiang.

In my dreams, the NEC becomes the Eastern Seaboard Corridor and runs from Portland, Maine to Miami, Florida.

Hopefully electrification just keeps inching south to Richmond, Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta, ...

TIL

I don't know where people keep getting this story that the US is just sending over the old shit we had in a shed somewhere.

According to the DoD we've been sending over equipment that is part of our units' standard arsenal, and it has to be replaced to maintain readiness. We're getting defense contractors to increase production because of this: https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3154210/department-moves-quick-to-replenish-weapons-sent-to-ukraine/

And here's an independent think tank that lays out explicitly in which areas we are considered under-equipped (and this article is from 2022): https://www.csis.org/analysis/united-states-running-out-weapons-send-ukraine

It also includes this interesting line:

Even if declines in available inventories restrict transfers and new production cannot keep up with demand, the United States and allies could provide older equipment or equipment from third parties. Although these weapons can be effective, such an approach would be a change from the practice up to now of providing top-of-the-line equipment equivalent to what first-line U.S. and NATO forces use. That would likely engender concerns from those who advocate maximum support for Ukraine.

So idk why everyone keeps repeating that we're sending Ukraine old stuff we had no intention of using.

continue harassing me.

Nothing you've posted includes any of this supposed harassment. Are they sending you DMs telling you to kys or something? Are they sending you DMs to demand you take down your statements about their air purifier? If any of that happened you didn't include it. The only harassment mentioned in any of your posts was you circumventing a ban to continue to demand answers to your questions.

This is in the interest of public health so it’s not just some small issue to brush aside.

It's about consumer desktop air purifiers, my guy. The vast majority of people do not even own an air purifier. The consumer air purifier you buy or don't buy will not kill you. If you buy one and it doesn't work, you will have the opportunity to buy another one before you die. This is what I mean when I say you lack perspective.

It's also common knowledge that the more often you build something, the lower its price tends to go as that knowledge spreads. It's part of the reason it's so expensive to build trains in the US and so cheap in South Korea and Spain.

It was so obvious at the time and so transparent that it's truly shocking how well it worked.

So now we're stuck with this terrible city council that is actively sabotaging the city's efforts on homelessness and mental health until 2024.

His net worth has only gone up since he bought it, iirc. Tesla will continue to print money at least for a little while until other automakers catch up on EVs. SpaceX doesn't seem to have any viable competitors, and both sides of the aisle agree on privatizing space, so that's a big growth industry. This is the unfortunate fact of capitalism in general and late-stage capitalism in particular.