Even in the past 3 years there has been a noticeable decline. We moved 4 years ago to where we now live. The first spring and summer the place was buzzing with insects. We actually made the entire garden much more insect friendly but last year there were noticeably less than the previous year and this year it’s just dire. In april I walked around our back garden which was full with flowers and I had to stay in one spot for several minutes before I spotted the first bee. I am incredibly worried and depressed from this. It’s horrifying.

No wonder that cop in Parks & Recreation moved to San Diego.

Maybe transitioning to female would get you the acceptance you crave. Surviving a lettuce is optional.

Good luck finding a trillion dollars. This tool is also used by the EU, South Korea, Canada and China. Good luck finding 7 trillion dollars.

Apparently not

What kind of moronic idea is this? How does giving away the most coveted technology help Europe in any way?

In order to forget, one must first have remembered something, so probably no.

Yeah, for the EU, China will have to open up its economy for open and fair competition, get rid of its IP sharing requirements and stop manipulating the Renminbi to keep it artificially low. Even then it should be quota based to stop them from dumping practices to take out local competitors.

Not expulsion, there is no mechanism for that. Voting right suspension and no cohesion funds are the maximum punishment possible under the EU constitution. That would require ratification by all other members though, so as long as there is one government (Slovakia being the most likely) blocking that, not much happens. That wouldn’t make the point moot to take those steps. Governments change and the groundwork can already be laid for it, or pressure piled on the blocking countries.

There is no way that will happen. Zuck bet large on Trump precisely for stuff like this. The FTC will be disbanded if they try to force this. More likely is that whoever doesn’t do Trumps bidding will be fired until they find someone who does.

And then what? He will just ignore them, then stack the courts if not simply replace the SC judges. Who is going to stop him at this point? He got away with every single crime in his life, of which there are too many to count. He’s ignoring court orders and ruling by illegal executive orders. Nothing but an armed insurrection is going to stop him now.

This ship has sailed and won’t change course without a mutiny.

This graph probably not, but it’s one of the reasons why south east asian countries like Vietnam also got slapped with hefty tariffs. Not to mention the nefarious Penguin Kingdom.

Trump can raise them to 1000% and China won’t care too much. It will hurt, sure, but China has all the cards. They’ve been preparing for this since Trump v1.0 and know exactly where to hit the US. And they have already proceeded with a surgical strike you don’t read much about. It’s not a tariff increase, it’s more a bureaucratic measure. They sent all US buyers of certain rare earth metals required for high tech electronics to the back of the queue of buyers. Not an outright block, just “extra investigation” required before rubber-stamping the export, indefinitely if need be.

Given his tendency to just play with whichever golf ball has the best position, whether it’s his or not, I would say he probably won.

That’s not even a joke: https://uproxx.com/sports/donald-trump-course-golf-championship-stole-childs-ball/

That web page is asking for camera access for some reason…

Now look at what you did!! The time-space continuum is ruined and we have oompa loompas with long necties wrecking the geopolitical and economical landscape!

Well, she still committed financial fraud. It’s more the judiciary doing its job. Sarkozy was also convicted after his presidency.

He is, but special military operations are not off the table.

“Technical” analysis is bullshit. There are enough value based indicators that show why the US stock market is going to have a rough time in the coming years without this hocus pocus speak.

E.g. the combined P/E of all stocks on the NYSE is over 25 while that of Nasdaq is over 29. That indicates a massive bubble as this ratio historically averages around 20.

This was already under Biden, Trump is just triggering the correction with his ineptitude instead of some outside factor. The fact he, unlike Biden, is not even trying to resolve the underlying causes will just make it worse.

Thinking about why the US is so keen on Greenland: It’s only relevant for them if they intend to make enemies out of the EU, because they already have all the access they need. But only as long as they are allied with Europe.

It’s clear where this is headed. Russia is not the only reason why Europe is rearming.