Maybe they already did just to screw with Sierra Leone?

Aye. Kommentar heute früh im dlf war, dass Wissing “der Architekt der Ampel” war. Kann mir gut vorstellen, dass er selbst extrem angepisst war davon wie sich die FDP verhalten hat. Siehe dazu auch seinen Kommentar in der FAZ von letzter Woche: https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/mehr-wirtschaft/fdp-minister-volker-wissing-rueckzug-aus-koalition-waere-respektlos-110083319.html (ja, ich weiß, Paywall, kriege ich gerade nicht weg).

Hindsight is always 20/20 but I still think it could have worked. Greens and liberals aren’t natural enemies, climate reforms can be done via methods from the free market. A proper carbon certificate trade is still something I think could work wonders if done right and redistributing the acquired money to all citizens would have been in line with the social considerations of the SPD. This should have been the project of the traffic light coalition. Now we all now the liberals are a bunch of lying, opportunistic fucks, okay, but it could have worked if only they had tried.

That was my point, pretty much. The issue is that money that’s kept is useless for society, but if its value increases it gains potential usefulness for its owner. I’m not saying that ordinary people will stop buying food and I’m not saying that corporations are doing community work right now, but the world in which the rich get even richer without even spending their money on something will be problematic at best. The economy will crash while everybody will hold on to whatever moves they have.

Deflation is actually bad because it would be an incentive to keep rather than spend money as its value would just increase by itself.

And on top of that they are generally much more expensive than American houses to begin with.

That very much depends on the area and the house itself.

Have you read the article you linked? The memorandum contains several obligations, including respecting Ukraine’s borders.

You couldn’t. It was hidden underneath ie flag.

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I can be a backpack while you run

Eine Neurowissenschaftlerin erklärt, warum das so ist und wie sich die Menschen dennoch aus der “kollektiven Selbstzerstörung” befreien können.

Gleichwohl bleibt Urner optimistisch, was die Chancen angeht, von dieser “kollektiven Selbstzerstörung” wegzukommen. “Wenn ich davon nicht überzeugt wäre, dann könnte ich mich nicht motivieren, morgens aufzustehen”, sagt sie. Zentral sei, “sich aktiv hoffend dafür einzusetzen, dass es besser wird”. Dies bedeute, “nicht zu wissen, dass es gut ausgeht, sondern davon überzeugt zu sein, dass das, was man tut, sinnvoll ist und dazu beitragen kann, dass es besser wird”.

Die Antwort ist also “aktiv hoffen”? Na viel Glück damit.

This makes me wonder so hard why people don’t switch to Mastodon instead. Like… You have literally seen this before! Why are you doing it again?

The archive link is right there in the submission text.

or all the credit Elon Musk takes for the startup he bought his way into

Nice

it still has a long way to go before it starts replacing LCDs and OLEDs.

I really don’t think it’s even trying to fill the same niche. No eReader is attempting to sell you Netflix. It’s just an entirely different device.

Aw fuck l, I knew I remembered that shit from childhood The Wizard of Oz.

Ich bin 40. Meine Eltern sind wahrscheinlich so sein Alter. Ich wurde nicht geschlagen, der Typ ist einfach damals schon ein aus der Zeit gefallener Widerling gewesen.

I love it.

Yeah, that’s a much better point of view. I’ll just make that my own. Ignore what I said before.

Russian soldiers sings: Just don’t tell mom that I’m going to Bakhmut

Well, just don’t fucking go there, then?