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Post by bladeacidic » Sun, Aug 09, 2026, 2:30 AM UTC

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Why do you think Americans don't grasp it? There are really two groups here: - MAGA who doesn't care what Europe thinks - not-MAGA who are just as shocked and disappointed as everyone else on the planet

I don't think the first group understands how important Europe is to America's status as superpower, while the second group operates under the delusion that the world will go back to business as usual after the next presidential election.

Post by vrganj » Sun, Aug 09, 2026, 4:36 AM UTC

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> The natives in Europe are white. This is such a silly way to out yourself as absolutely clueless. I would invite you to go to Croatia and explain to them how they're the same ethnicity as Serbians and they even speak the same goddamn language . Please stop making grand proclamations about how our continent should act when it's obvious you don't understand even the most basic conditions.

If we went to Croatia and Serbia both wouldn't concern themselves white or they wouldn't consider the other as white? What would they call themselves? I think they would consider themselves white from a different nations. Many north american natives come from different tribes but they are still Indian. Same thing.

Post by sleight42 » Sun, Aug 09, 2026, 6:15 AM UTC

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Look to Australia if you want to see how these energy policies work out in the long run. Energy is big money. Anything that disrupts the status quo is immediately vilified. It got to the point that our major party at the time lead a “gas fired” green energy policy. They got voted out, the new guys implemented a subsidised home battery policy. In the space of a year it has destroyed the economics of a carbon fuelled g…

> Except big gas, who cannot turn a profit on a renewable success story. If only. Chevron’s Gorgon project will be ongoing for decades and making money hand over fist flogging LNG out of Australia to overseas customers. It'll be a massive source of previously sequestered CO2 and claimed to be "the largest CO2 sequestration project on the planet* .. with the minor catch of (re-) stashing away a very very tiny portion…

Post by davkan » Sun, Aug 09, 2026, 9:27 AM UTC

vrganj wrote: post #270

StilesCrisis wrote: post #134

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Why do you think Americans don't grasp it? There are really two groups here: - MAGA who doesn't care what Europe thinks - not-MAGA who are just as shocked and disappointed as everyone else on the planet

I don't think the first group understands how important Europe is to America's status as superpower, while the second group operates under the delusion that the world will go back to business as usual after the next presidential election.

Post by ZeroGravitas » Sun, Aug 09, 2026, 12:20 PM UTC

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-26/power-prices-fall-in-... > Power prices to fall for most customers, with bigger drops for businesses > What is driving [lower prices] is a reduction in the cost of producing electricity. We've seen a lot more batteries and solar systems come into the electricity market in the last 12 months. They've been making the market much less volatile," Ms Savage said. > "We've not needed…

That is an article about a prediction, not actual data about a drop in price. An article from a month and a half in the past. Still waiting.