Meta already has racked up nearly $2bn worth of fines

€1.2bn 2023 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65669839

This one €200m https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eu-fine-apple-meta-breach-digital-markets-act-dma/

€800m in 2024 https://apnews.com/article/meta-facebook-european-union-competition-fine-6886192353a344126a15886d6ca7c627

And Google got €5bn in 2018

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eu-fine-apple-meta-breach-digital-markets-act-dma/

While it is possibly true that pro nuclear weapon proliferation advocates (do they really exist ?) may be happy the sub headline of

“Weapons contractors could not be happier,” is certainly not true for the US MIC anyway. In the last week alone Portugal cancelled their F35s, and Trump refused to sell (not gift) hundreds of millions of $s worth of Patriot missiles they were happy to pay cash for. European MIC companies like Rheinmettal and Saab are happy because they’re now getting the orders that would have otherwise gone to the US.

I wonder what his definition of Transshipping would be

I think that’s when a fishing boat puts on some guns and radar and starts calling itself a battleship ?

Quite the opposite

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/03/31/top-10-most-american-cars/82739892007/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimgorzelany/2023/06/21/all-four-tesla-models-are-ranked-as-the-most-american-vehicles-for-2023/

“All cars source at least some parts internationally, but some are more “American” than others. Cars.com’s American-Made Index ranks the “most American” cars and one brand has topped the list consistently for the last several years: Tesla.”

Other posts make good points, I’d just add there’s also the risk associated with Mango Mussolini deciding to fix (lack of) popularity issues with a war, his 51st state rhetoric is enough to suspect that Canada (and Greenland) are top of that list

Yeah, that worked so well last time he tried it, sure, give it another go, why not ?

Good. It’s a start

If you’re making the group then your call, but the name sounds too sunny & positive to anyone who doesn’t have context to hear the irony.

Also housing crisis is what it’s referred to in many places internationally.

I’d suggest “housing crisis” if you want it to get subscribers. Too much subtlety and it’s just going to be ignored, imnsho.

What a fucking wanker. The journo who wrote this an utter knob.

To address the headline, incremental improvements create pressure, doesn’t have to be a purity test, just deliberate avoidance as much as practical.

Without even reading the article I’ll bet Betterridge’s law of headlines applies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge’s_law_of_headlines

Betteridge’s law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.

It was ICE detaining him not the judge. The authority for ICE to detain him over rode the judges ability to release him

What does asbestos taste like?

Blood

German president Paul von Hindenburg thought that he could “control” Hitler, and that he wouldn’t do the extreme things he promised in his election speeches, and thus brokered his move into the Chancellor’s position in a minority govt. I think we all know how that turned out.

Almost a century later the barons of Wall Street have just had the same “oh shit” moment the German conservatives had in 1933

I feel like hydrogen is little more than hope.

Pretty much. It doesn’t have a lot going for it at this point - maybe one day

The Scots wiki had the same problem. A teenage American who didn’t speak Scots edited and created 10s of thousands of entries

For those not aware Scots is a Germanic language that split from Old English back about 700-800 years ago - closely related to modern english like frisian is, but also retaining many words lost to english (some of which are retained in Swedish / Dutch etc). It is distinct from standard scottish english.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language

Edit

Articles on the fiasco

https://inews.co.uk/news/scotland/scots-wikipedia-language-articles-native-speaker-mistakes-610689

https://www.engadget.com/scots-wikipedia-230210674.html?_fsig=8ckIe_eK7juchNpKgsYQww--~A

https://www.thenational.scot/news/18679711.scots-wikipedia-us-teen-wrote-swathes-articles-devastated-reactions/

I think Putin can take credit for Mango’s efforts, no ?

Damn ! Beat me to it !

My dude ! That is from a decade and a half ago before the Tories slashed the hell out of everything and prices soared. AND it rates UK as most expensive AND had the highest % increase 2000 to 2010.

That paper is not making your point for you.

My youngest flatly refuses to use, or acknowledge the existence of the " half past, 10 to"etc system. I’ll get “yeah but what’s that not in stupid time” ? if I don’t say 715 or whatever. Annoying teenagers lol.