vimy
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Comment · 1 day ago
Politicians are very well compensated there. And part of their pay is linked to how well they perform.
Prime minister gets 3 million per year for example.
Comment · 6 months ago
Engie was lying. They just didn’t want to be in the nuclear business anymore.
Comment · 7 months ago
Export is only a small part of their emissions.
Comment · 8 months ago
They are boxing in China. Taking away China’s oil. First Venezuela. Now Iran.
Decoupling from China while taking out China’s allies is the overarching foreign policy.
Comment · 10 months ago
Seeking work | iOS / macOS developer | Worldwide | Remote
Location: Belgium - No problem to be available for US timezone if needed
Technologies: Swift | Objective-C | AppKit | UIKit | SwiftUI | MLX / CoreML
If you need a contractor to ship a macOS / iOS app, upgrade an older Objective-C/legacy UIKit project or integrate local AI (LLMs or Image gen) using MLX or CoreML into a real product, I’m a good fit.
Email: see profile
Comment · 10 months ago
ChatGPT has conversation branches. Or do I misunderstand?
Just edit a message and it’s a new branch.
Comment · 11 months ago
Interesting that most of the shows you like are +- 10 years old. From the early Netflix days.
Comment · 1 year ago
The US is in fact increasing support right now. Trump lost his patience with Putin.
You also underestimate the Chinese support. The war would have been over in 2023 if it wasn't for China.
> The discovery of a Russian decoy drone made up entirely of Chinese parts is another indication of the growing wartime relationship between Moscow and Beijing. ... Beyond components, China appears to have provided Russia with at least some complete weapons systems. In May, we reported that Russia was using a new Chinese laser system to shoot down Ukrainian drones. https://www.twz.com/news-features/new-russian-drone-made-com...
Comment · 1 year ago
China is actively supporting the Russian army. They don't want Russia to lose.
The Russians won't stop in Ukraine.
It can't be more clear than this which country is a greater danger to the West.
> Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the European Union’s top diplomat that Beijing can’t accept Russia losing its war against Ukraine as this could allow the United States to turn its full attention to China, an official briefed on the talks said, contradicting Beijing’s public position of neutrality in the conflict. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/04/europe/china-ukraine-eu-w...
Comment · 1 year ago
EU is building Wero to replace all the national payment systems.
It uses sepa under the hood.
Comment · 1 year ago
For standard credit cards in EU it’s mandatory to pay the full balance every month. And it doesn’t cost anything, there are no interest rates. Not sure how much banks profit on it, if there’s even a profit.
I think most banks only offer if because customers needed credit cards to order stuff on the internet. Before that they were very rare here.
Edit: I meant the credit is free but I pay like € 2 / month to have my card. So maybe that’s their profit.
Comment · 1 year ago
Lol, if you don’t understand we need jobs in Europe this debate has no point.
Wow…
> The European Union’s chemical sector is facing a series of headwinds that the European Chemical Industry Council, Cefic, says are pushing the industry to ‘breaking point.’
A joint study by Cefic and Advancy: The Competitiveness of the European Chemical Industry, paints a bleak picture, with the report saying that between 2023 and 2024 announcements were made indicating that 11 million tonnes of production capacity would be closed across 21 major European production sites
Comment · 1 year ago
It’s late, my brain has shut down but I can name 2 on top of my head:
Steel.
Anything chemical. We already lost half our production. :o
You should read some financial newspapers. Things are really bad.
Comment · 1 year ago
Gas price are still twice as high as four years ago. Whole industries are collapsing because electricity is too expensive for factories. Personally, just heating my home has become very expensive.
Europe is deindustrializing. Especially Germany, the EU economic engine, has been hit hard. So yes, the word crisis is used correctly here.
> For instance, BASF, a global chemical giant, recently announced plans to downsize its operations in the country with the reason being unbearably high energy prices in Germany. Now, the company is shifting its focus toward expanding its production efforts in China and the U.S. to access more stable energy costs. Germany’s prime power- the Automotive industry, is also struggling due to immense pressure caused by rising energy costs. A recent study revealed that energy costs for Germany’s automotive sector increased by 20% in 2022 and a similar trend followed in 2023. https://ceinterim.com/deindustrialization-in-germany/
Comment · 1 year ago
Well, we don't have that capacity.