History indeed remembers. No coincidence half the world has an “independence from the English” day.

That is as likely as a cartel hit in New York because it’s so close to Mexico.

Actually, metros in Eastern Europe tend to be safer for tourists by statistics for some reason.

A lot of the big European metros are outside the 3 countries listed in the meme though.

IDK, it’s better that they spend money on this rather than offensive weaponry, as it has been shown that it is practically impossible to intercept hypersonic missiles in their terminal flight stage. At least it’s good for a jobs program.

The problem is that the plan is obviously to make sure that US wars of conquest can be waged also against nuclear powers without fear of retaliation.

War.

From what I hear the ESA is also an old boys club, no wonder Europe has much to catch up on.

they will be a spoiler candidate if they have to be

I’d rather phrase it as “and they better not run a neolib spoiler candidate”. It’s not the progressives with popular support who are spoilers, but the neoliberals who are only propped up by corpo lobbies.

I’m saying this as someone who did work for a mid sized company manufacturing medical equipment.

US drug prices are not higher because of R&D costs or whatever. They are higher because when we sold stuff in Europe, the big deal was whether we can sell one treatment for 3 or 4 EUR in a particular country as we were negotiating with the government, when we sold to the US, the megacorp buying it (the only entity we could sell to realistically, as they own 75% of the relevant US market segment) said they will not buy it under 100 USD, and then they also acquired the company I was working at and 3 others like it in a single year.

This was under Biden BTW.

Also, FDA approvals are anecdotally very different from EU approvals. Here, you do the relevant trials, fill the requisite forms, the standards are high, but objective. With the FDA, it’s all up to an expert panel, and it can be often hard to understand their subjective requirements.

An optimistic take would be that the US oligarchy will eventually collapse under this chaos and something better might emerge. The pessimistic take is that something worse might also emerge. Or the elite might just carry on despite the collapse, like in 1990 Russia.

Hungarian

Granted, the right-to-left thing is not used anymore outside of enthusiast circles, and is kind of an anachronism and part of a movement to revive it as part of national heritage. That said, you can find a whole bunch of town limit marker signs in both scripts around the country.

The Hungarians settled the Carpathian Basin in 895. After the establishment of the Christian Hungarian kingdom, the old writing system was partly forced out of use during the rule of King Stephen, and the Latin alphabet was adopted. However, among some professions (e.g. shepherds who used a “rovás-stick” to officially track the number of animals) and in Transylvania, the script has remained in use by the Székely Magyars, giving its Hungarian name (székely) rovásírás. The writing could also be found in churches, such as that in the commune of Atid.

From Wikipedia

I know a language which kinda-sorta has two writing systems, one of which is left-to-right, the other one right-to-left.

Why is there an example of cruelty beyond human comprehension unearthed every few months in France? Why always France?

So what the US does is effectively making it harder to develop vaccines by creating additional trial burden without supporting said trials, and also I guess removing insurance coverage for non-at-risk groups.

In the meantime, the EU invested 3 billion EUR as part of Horizon 2020 into specifically COVID research, is both working to increase vaccination rates both domestically and abroad around the world, is funding almost 500 trial sites to accelerate the development of new vaccines against COVID. It has created a new agency, HERA to boost pandemic preparedness in the future. Finally, it invested significant money and resources into specifically researching and treating long COVID.

As this moves forward, it might be EU aid groups become a better source of COVID treatment and prevention in the US than anything domestic there. Of course that won’t happen, Trump and co won’t want to lose face over this, so people will just die.

The better question is why is his opinion headlining everywhere every time?

I know they are doing very well, trust me, I’ve seen the inside of the beast. It’s not Microsoft either, any megacorp will talk to you in terms of how much they lost by not fully monopolising a market segment.

And that is my point, not that they don’t make insane amounts of money, but that it will never be enough.

Yeah, but Epic broke the contract. Union has to sue or it’s not worth anything. Simple as.

That said, the union could have gotten something else out of this if Epic did the lawful thing. Even the fact that Epic acknowledged they need to follow the contract would have been valuable.

I usually only get this when I’m overworked, a few days of staring at a wall usually fixes it until the next overtime wave.

Yeah but imagine if they could collect licence fees after every AWS server as well.

The world is not enough for these companies.

The center between Hitler and Mussolini

2002, when Gyurcsány mopped the floor with him in that debate would be my guess.

I guess you’re right, what I meant is that HIP is good enough for everything I’m doing, and CUDA-based libraries are happily chigging along on my AMD card without actually running CUDA.