I do not I just can’t believe these neolibs are that fucking bold faced about it. Like I get sacrificing one manufacturing industry for another. That’s industrial policy, even if it’s often corrupt. But this is sacrificing a manufacturing industry for its owners. It’s just… stupid. The British crown subsidizing East India company adventuring level stupid.
Germany’s need to support the car industry, one of the country’s biggest employers, has made its approach to barriers to Chinese imports less black and white.
It voted against an EU decision to introduce tariffs on Chinese EVs in 2024 and this month was spared EU tariffs on imports of the Chinese-built Volkswagen Cupra Tavascan SUV in exchange for undertakings on the minimum price of the vehicle.
I’m having a hard time parsing this. It’s supporting the car industry offshoring as an economic boon for one of its biggest employers?
To your cat, these actions are as incomprehensible as putting on pants.
Fucking dp world. They self describe as end to end and are tied up with a sex pest. I couldn’t make this shit up.
And even that hasn’t been too quiet since it’s election campaign season.
I don’t think anybody had air superiority in that conflict, but Pakistan was more effective in standoff strikes than India anticipated. Defeated implies that Pakistan could’ve run sorties into Indian territory and that really was not the case. And if it was the case, the likelihood of it suddenly going nuclear was high because it threatens second strike capability.
Well you’d have to become an apprentice mason to find out.
I need to get me a molasses service set like that.
Be a puppet state either way, she just wants to signal that she’d be an enthusiastic puppet.
Her entire legitimacy at this point consists of being recognized by Western organizations and now grovelling to a hostile foreign power. She’d be the worst type of puppet.
How about you review the thread there hoss and think about who started getting defensive, reflexively downvoting, and pitched folks as holding a position they didn’t have.
No, but it’s baffling to me that folks don’t seem to understand that timeshares with recurring maintenance costs that can only be discharged by paying someone to take them or bankruptcy aren’t worse. If people aren’t careful you can die and the damn things might get inherited, continuing the extraction misery. They’re a whole different class of financial mistake.
Yeah but see, I’ve only commented on how bad timeshares are and how you don’t actually own anything. They’re both equally awful, as the op stated. You’re the one trying to carry water for their actual value which is largely none or worse negative.
You’re not sure why lifetime debt traps are worse than one time bad investments? Are you just trying to win an Internet argument at this point thinking I’m defending NFTs? Because yeah, a lifetime liability is generally worse for your average person.
Honestly at least NFTs don’t have recurrent maintenance costs that literally make their value go negative.
But you sure don’t own it.
They’re still tax deductable in the US. Surprising it wouldn’t be in aus really. It is just an expense like payroll. I guess they’re trying to recover the fact that they can’t get payroll taxes from the employees if they’re fringe benefits so they really want to recoup it from the employer.
Hilariously still very common in small blue collar outfits. Construction workers and the like.
It was a shit system in the first place, designed to consolidate power.
I wish LNG was that simple. Most of qatar LNG production comes from dedicated natural gas fields(the North field) but they also have quite a bit co-extracted with oil. That requires big facilities to compress it. Without them they’ll just flare it like they did in the past and dump the CO2 right into the atmosphere with no gain.