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Why the EU is Making a Mistake by Imposing Tariffs on Chinese Clean Technology

14 Jun 2024 1 minute read 5 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR The EU's tariffs on Chinese clean technology products are a mistake. It will lead to higher consumer costs, slowed energy transition, economic inefficiency, strained resources, and potential geopolitical tensions. These tariffs risk undermining...

Copying the far-right is a bigger problem than the far-right

14 Jun 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR: The major issue is not just the rise of far-right political parties in the EU but also mainstream parties copying their ideas and rhetoric. This normalization of extreme views threatens the EU's values, undermines its unity, and weakens its rol...

Indians' pain echoed on Twitter as they whined about Nirmala Sitaraman again becoming India's Finance Minister

14 Jun 2024 7 minute read 0 comments Greenchic

  Source As things settled in India with Modi as India's Prime Minister this year, other important Ministers were also finalized into the PM's Cabinet, forming the Council of Ministers. Recently, allocation of Ministry Portfolios took place with part...

Walks around open-air museum

14 Jun 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  Today's trip around the Silesian Park led me to Skansen. The weather is perfect for walking, and on Monday you can enter the open-air museum for free. Of course, this is a limited version of sightseeing, because you can't enter the rooms....

Visiting Ousdale Broch - an Iron Age fort in Northern Scotland dating from around 2000-3000 years ago

13 Jun 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Hoosie

This is a copy of a post that I first made on the Hive Blockchain on 11/06/24 (link here to original post). I went back to the North of Scotland a few weeks ago, to take my Dad home, after he had been visiting us for a few days. I was born on the Nor...

Fallaste Corazón

13 Jun 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"And you who thought you were the king of the whole worldAnd you were never able to forgiveAnd cruel and merciless you laughed at everythingToday you beg for love, even if it is out of pity"Fallaste Corazón   "Fallaste Corazón" is a song written in 1...

Day Eight - We needed a day like today.....

13 Jun 2024 6 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead

I don't have any exact cycling stats because we still hadn't figured out the app yet. My explanation from the previous day's post was learned after we completed day eight's ride from Niederranna 3 to Linz, Austria. It was roughly 40 miles with a s...

Day Seven - Off down the Danube (If we'd only had that meeting.....)

11 Jun 2024 8 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead

I have no exact mileage information for this day because we used the tour company's GPS routing in their phone app and that information is no longer available to us.  Whatever the mileage was, we rode more than that.... and then some.  This post is r...

Koo - how the Hindu nationalist government in India tried to create a politically biased alternative to Twitter

11 Jun 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

Koo was an Indian microblogging platform launched as a homegrown alternative to Twitter (now X). Initially, Koo garnered significant support from Indian celebrities and politicians, benefiting from a nationalistic push to create local alternatives to...

We look at history through the window of a country house

11 Jun 2024 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

  The House of the Mayor of Katowice from 1820, yes, that's not a mistake. Today's city of Katowice in 1820 was still a village whose sheriff was the village head. Katowice was granted city rights only in 1865. The oldest district of Katowi...