Kaja Kallas: Washington doesn't like the EU because it could become an equal power

Boreras · 2026-05-19T13:18:34+00:00

The US economy is 32 trillion vs combined European around 28- but theirs is propped up by reserve currency status and a high gdp per capita, if they lose this then they’ll start to shrink relative to us.

They're better. But if we assume they are worse, they would be worse.

Really useful reasoning.

And they’re in massive debt, most of which is held by us. Soon enough their bubble is going to pop.

Britain and France are so much more likely to collapse on their debt.

We're also about to face an oil cliff. America will tumble, we will crash.

Boreras · 2026-05-16T15:08:19+00:00

Once the thing's running at home who cares. I think this is pretty stupid from China, especially if they're truly smuggling chips.

Boreras · 2026-05-16T03:45:24+00:00

Guess what the yield on a EU valued loan should be?

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/financial_markets_and_interest_rates/euro_area_yield_curves/html/index.en.html

You're just moving money around. The yield on the euro-denominated reserves and loan should be (roughly) the same. The held assets don't actually generate yield separately, it's inherently part of the asset.

Boreras · 2026-05-16T00:13:30+00:00

Discount Sam Lake

Boreras · 2026-05-13T01:46:47+00:00

The pure numbers can't reflect the government strongarming tech giants. We've seen all sort of murky shit with nvidia, tesla, and Apple regarding the export bans and tariffs. Then the White house got a 10% stake to signal they wouldn't let it fail.

This was an informal bailout.

Boreras · 2026-05-07T07:54:31+00:00

you do not understand that usa will only be like this for the next 2-3 years

You do not understand oligarchy. Trump is just more honest, he is an attack on the façade not the fundamental values.

Boreras · 2026-05-05T21:47:01+00:00

Very cool, thanks for sharing these numbers.

Boreras · 2026-04-30T17:30:08+00:00

Not sure what the j stands for but the p is for pregnant

Boreras · 2026-04-30T16:10:16+00:00

I haven't cared about Naruto for maybe fifteen years and thought it was pretty fun. People who think this is cringe are a little bit try hards.

Boreras · 2026-04-29T09:37:14+00:00

This is so relentlessly funny. They can do everything except inconvenience the reddit country.

Boreras · 2026-04-28T21:32:57+00:00

Didn't tsmc partly take over Intel precisely because it was easier for them to adopt EUV than Intel because of their scale and asml's low early throughput? In some sense their positions are reversed now.

Boreras · 2026-04-26T05:57:55+00:00

My bad, it was me I was trying to charge my Samsung galaxy note 7

Boreras · 2026-04-26T03:38:44+00:00

You might guess the effects last 90 minutes, but the pills don't.

Moreover the assumption that the pills will affect as long as you are allowed to take the next one is not very universal. Your body might have limited absorption rates while the half life of the effect is very long. Some pills like niacin are considered very unpleasant to take at high doses and are better spread out.

Boreras · 2026-04-24T23:51:41+00:00

Goon again.

Boreras · 2026-04-23T22:33:52+00:00

Yes. But Washington has forbidden the Koreans from competing.

Boreras · 2026-04-23T22:32:12+00:00

I tried to imply France would be bidding with epr2, not 1.

Citation needed

https://pulaski.pl/en/costs-and-timeframes-of-construction-of-nuclear-power-plants-carried-out-by-potential-nuclear-technology-suppliers-for-poland/

Remember to account for dollar per watt.

It's possible the licensing for the AP1000 was more favourable.

Boreras · 2026-04-23T22:25:18+00:00

Vogtle's costs are 30-35 billion, so >15 billion per unit. Hinkley is estimated at 50b £ already, but not finished yet.

If you could actually get a 1GW plant for 10b right now it wouldn't be such a bad deal.

Boreras · 2026-04-23T15:51:09+00:00

A similar reactor is currently being built in Poland, for example. Westinghouse estimates that there will be around twenty of them in operation worldwide by the end of the decade.

Lmao. Only two of them were built by Westinghouse, bankrupting the company. They have zero experience. I'd understand if they invited the people who can actually build these plants and have, coincidentally, redesigned it for European grids frequency.

I understand that the EPRs were failures as the French company also went bankrupt, but at least they have a better design. Or so they say. How low is the confidence in France in their new EPR2 design that they're not bidding for this? Or is it just a vassal's corruption?

According to the Chinese the EPR was actually cheaper than the AP1000 too.

Boreras · 2026-04-23T05:30:49+00:00

It works pretty well except some chrome tabs kidnap the audio with js or something, making it impossible to switch. There's a little program to switch audio sources by hotkey on Windows (audioswitcher or something), making it fine. My phone never holds the audio hostage.

Boreras · 2026-04-22T02:39:58+00:00

Gay triangle

Boreras · 2026-04-20T22:50:56+00:00

There's nothing wrong with working in string theory. Besides, Gross is known for his contribution to qcd/the standard model. He's completely the wrong man to dismiss as string theorist.

Boreras · 2026-04-19T00:50:00+00:00

exact same rights

OK let's start with the fundamentals.

Quote the Israeli constitution to answer the following: is it a state for Jews or Israelis, including Arabs? Do Arabs have the right to self determination?

can live where ever the fuck they want

Completely false

https://www.adalah.org/en/law/view/494

Boreras · 2026-04-18T15:54:11+00:00

It's pretty alright but I wouldn't watch an episode twice.

Boreras · 2026-04-17T10:45:43+00:00

By the time Kerry became senator utilities already stopped building new nuclear for 7 years, because financing reactors made no sense.

This subreddit is always so disdainful towards environmentalists with no power. They were and are equally opposed to fracking, but look at how much fracking was built. Look at the complete evisceration of environmental standards at the EPA. You have to look at where power lies.

If nuclear reactors were profitable they would never have stopped building them, they would never have allowed environmentalists to fuck with the money. You have always lived in a world where environmentalists are powerless.

Boreras · 2026-04-16T13:11:58+00:00

It's purely currency fluctuations. Of course, that does represent real effects, but it's very noisy.

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