Zuckerberg finally got tired of the METAverse being useless and going nowhere.
But he still thinks he is some sort of visionary tech genius. And he wants to capture the next big thing before anybody else.
If he were smart he would have realized the metaverse was a stupid idea years ago. But unfortunately for him he is not very smart, he was just lucky and ruthless with facebook, and now he has become a megalomaniac drunk with the power of his billions.
It is only months ago he thought he could create strong AI by building a massive LLM thinking strong AI would be an emerging property of massively concentrated stupidity. I think he at least has realized that is not the case.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/30/zuckerberg-superintelligence-meta-ai

Even if this ends the riots, it will likely not be for long. Maybe 6 months maybe a year. It’s impossible to know.
But what is almost certain is that next time, the rioters will know the stakes, and they will riot with a lot more violence against the regime and any authorities that stand with the regime.
For many conditions are now unlivable in Iran, and unless the regime can solve that, people will riot even when risking to get killed.

Link #1 doesn’t support your claim:

However, most EU nations had increases in labour costs greater than Germany’s.[33] Those nations that allowed “wages to grow faster than productivity” lost competitiveness.

So the problem was not Germany, but that other countries INCREASED their wages above what was sustainable, Germany is in no way to blame for that.

In Your german link the only appearance of wage when translated to english is VolksWagen. I also checked salary, and that only appears as part of how a fine was calculated.
I see nothing at all relating to your claim. Also I read German fine, but I read English faster, but feel free to post German sources.

Regarding the Harz guy, I have no idea why you find him relevant, apart from being part of the corruption at VW so what?

No. The EU would simply take a credit or cut the budget.

Now you are contradicting yourself from your previous comments.

Are you an AI in beta? Or what the fuck is your argument? So far you have shown NOTHING!
I’m considering simply blocking you, because you make absolutely no sense?!?!

I can throw you links too without explanation:
Here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Mermaid

https://www.andersenstories.com/language.php?andersen=037&l=en&r=da (includes original text in Danish)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorvald_Stauning

The last link in particular is very informative.

Bullshit.

The 10 industries are: Beverages (3.6%), Construction Machinery (5.6%), Electrical Components (7.7%), Food (13.8%), Household Appliances (2.2%), Industrial Chemicals (11.4%), Nonferrous Metals (5.8%), Rubber (3.6%), Scientific Instruments (35.7%), and Semiconductors (10.6%).

There is nothing in that link that shows that patents increase innovation, are you claiming beer is better because of patents?
If you are, that would be like claiming cookies you buy are better than home baked, because bought cookies make use of many patents.
I hope you can see the idiocy of the claim.

No “innovations” happened because they were patentable. But patents happen because they can prevent competition.
And on the other hand evidence that patents stifle competition is pretty clear, and stifled competition decreases innovation.

Steve Balmer expressed it very well IMO, when he claimed Microsoft was a very innovative company because they had created several new types of licenses!

Patents are a disease not a solution.

Point 13 explains this to some degree:

As Murmann’s (2003) study of the synthetic dye industry in Germany during the 19th century shows, the appropriateness of patent strength depends on the circumstances, including timing. The patent law of 1877 was successful because it ‘came after the industry had already developed strong firms and science was providing the tools to do systematic R&D on new dyes … Had the German patent law arrived in 1858, it is doubtful that as many German firms would have developed into strong competitors. Fewer firms would have entered the industry, and inefficient firms would have been more likely to survive’ (p: 33).

Clearly showing the authors are aware that patents harm competition, and if patents had been introduced earlier, a few companies could have taken over the market and kept competition out.

They are however completely wrong about the “timing” of patents, there is no good timing of patents. Patents will always be harmful after the fact.

which, in my eyes, promoted innovation

There is no evidence of that.

China has copied every peace of technology

Same as every other country since farming was invented.

That’s how it should be. Innovate and create new jobs

Nonono you can’t just explain it away with more platitudes. How do you define that the wages were to low after the job reform?
If they are to ow, why don’t the unions fight to make them higher?

Technically correct but I didn’t specify next year’s budget. The EU will decide differently when the income declines.

That simply doesn’t make any sense, are you saying other countries pay more on a budget already decided? Because what you wrote before was wrong, but this is crazy!

Oh no the Chinese economy is crashing to grow only 4.8%. 😱
/s

To those who constantly claim the Chinese economy is crashing.

Or high wages unfairly shifted jobs away from Germany previously. There is nothing to substantiate your point, it is merely a biased opinion.
By the same logic all previous eastern European countries, and Portugal and Greece and Italy and France are unfairly shifting jobs to their countries by having lower wages than Germany.
And Denmark is shifting jobs away from Denmark by having some of the highest wages in EU. Yet we have the lowest unemployment rate in EU.

Somebody has to pay the EU budget. If Germany is in a recession then other countries have to increase taxes to compensate.

No that is not how things work, this is such an extreme oversimplification to the point that it is decidedly wrong. (just as your previous claim).
Budgets are negotiated, and obviously the state of the economy is a significant part of those negotiations. But when making the budgets a certain percentage is decided for each country to pay of their GDP or a fixed amount is decided, depending on which program. One country paying slightly more or slightly less because of variations in GDP has no impact on how much the other countries pay. All countries can pay the same percentage on next years budget if that is what is decided.

Your economic thinking is wrong, you need to educate yourself more if you want to have valid opinions on economic issues. As it is now, you have controversial opinions but without the required understanding to validate them. If you had the understanding, you wouldn’t make these claims.

When Japan entered the Western car market in the 60’s and 70’s, it was disruptive too. Especially in USA where it was made worse by the oil crisis, because American cars were giant gas guzzlers, and Japanese cars were the most fuel efficient.

Now China is entering the market, but compared to Japan, China has a 10 times bigger home market to draw from, which is a huge benefit for Chinese manufacturers in several ways.
First it helps manufacturers build large scale production for higher efficiency. Second it helps pay development of new models as cost is distributed on more cars, making it cheaper per car.
Third it allows China to experiment more, as new models that would be minor niche cars in other countries, can sell at scale.
Combined this has resulted in a development pace in China which is about three times faster than what we see in the rest of the world!

So it is no wonder that Chinese cars are gaining market share in the world outside China too. And we can expect the disruption to be bigger than when the Japanese cars arrived in the west.

But there are also a factor of diminishing returns, where scale and development speed will not yield as much benefits beyond a certain threshold.
So the Chinese advantage is probably at its peak right now, and manufacturers that can keep up with the Chinese competition for the next few years will have a good chance of making it in the future.

Germany is the biggest economy in Europe, and especially before East and West Germany were reunited, Germany did contribute the most as the biggest economy, but Germany also reaped the biggest benefits.
And yes EU will keep existing because it remains beneficial for all member countries. And calling it silencing problems with money is a weirdly skewed way to put it. Conflicts were not “silenced”, problems were solved, and the distribution of how to pay for it settled.

I too am annoyed that I’m not allowed to keep slaves and beat them to death when I like as is described in the Bible.
It’s a God given right that God gave to the rich white man. It clearly says so in the Bible. Why is my faith being oppressed?
Why are Christians persecuted like this? We just want to keep slaves, and kill LGBT people, and discriminate everybody who isn’t a white Christian. And to be left alone to live in peace and love of Jesus and the Lord, with our slaves and religious bigotry. 💘

/s
Fuck religion and fuck racism, and fuck Republican voters for voting for it.

That makes it a fact, it’s right there in black on white!

Russia and China are democracies

No they are not, they are authoritarian regimes that oppress any political competition through censorship, imprisonment and even death. Just like we’ve seen with Navalny and Jack Ma. Try to look up tiananmen square in China. Or just ask a Chinese AI about it, it won’t tell you anything.
You are a complete idiot, and I really mean literal idiot for calling those 2 countries democracies, there are clearly standards for what constitute a democracy, and Russia and China are not in any way within those standards. Free press and freedom of expression without threat of persecution by the government is a requirement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index
Democracy is not just about being allowed to vote for the dear leader, there has to be ability to participate in the whole political process without being oppressed.

But human rights? You’re joking, right? Guantanamo Bay.

Now you are just being stupid again, I said it shout be EXTENDED to human rights if we make a NATO replacement without USA, which we obviously can’t do now while USA is a member, because USA nolonger even pretend to observe human rights.

Don’t bother responding. I have blocked you, your points are moronic, and I don’t want to ever read anything from you again.
Get off the meth for christ sake.

I just realized I can just declare anything, declaring it makes it serious. 💡
There now I’m also president of Venezuela! Thumbs up to myself. 👍 😀
I am such a genius the world must be in awe. 😎

-Trump
Clown of the world 🤡 🤣

I see just about every video he releases, good info on the Ukrainian war.
I can tell the political situation in USA is exhausting him a lot. It is really getting to him now, where he was more calm about it in the beginning after Trump was elected.
He basically hopes for Europe to save the rule of law in the world now!

so that Trump has an excuse to cancel midterm elections. They know that if the elections happen,

Goddam the debates I have had, where people claim that is impossible, because the elections are run by the states.
I suspect we may see if it’s possible or not, because Trump and the administration are completely unhinged.

A civil war here wouldn’t be a war at all. More like a slaughter.

Unless enough of the people that voted for Trump switch sides or stay at home because they can see things have gone to far.
Nazi Germany only fell because they were defeated from the outside, that is not possible with USA. So it’s 100% up to the American people.
I hope you will have more political allies soon. At least the popularity of Trump has declined a lot since the election.
Even taking Maduro didn’t help on that, and such things traditionally gains the administration and president a lot of support at least for a while. But for Trump it failed completely to gain him any popularity.

OK I honestly didn’t think of that.
Ah well jokes on them, we don’t use the TV for porn.

The standard for NATO has always been to only accept democracies.
I see no reason why we would change that requirement for a new alliance.
I’d even go so far as to make respect of human rights a demand too like we have in EU, so we for instance exclude countries with death penalty.

There needs to be common values that we want to protect, with NATO it was democracy, based on our experience with USA, we need to extend that to include respect for international law and human rights as well as protecting democracy.

I stopped using reddit years before Lemmy became a thing. I became a redditor back when Digg was still a thing, but reddit became worse and worse, and rediquette was basically unknown and never followed when I left.
Rediquette was actually one of the things that made reddit great, unfortunately we don’t have that here, but things haven’t devolved as bad here as they did on reddit.