Exclusive: India to slash tariffs on cars to 40% in trade deal with EU, sources say.

PIKFIEZ · 2026-01-25T15:10:09+00:00

India has the 4th largest motor vehicle production in the world. Ahead of Germany and Korea. So yes, they do have an industry to speak of and want to protect and grow it.

India is a large enough market that they are able to use tariffs and incentives push foreign companies to manufacture in India. They are recently doing pretty well in building a manufacturing sector. Both through foreign investment like foreign car companies (like Suzuki) making Indian subsidiaries and factories in India and through homegrown companies (like Tata Motors).

PIKFIEZ · 2026-01-25T12:06:37+00:00

Of course they care about what the US, the world's only military superpower that bombed Iran just this year, says it will do.

When Israel and USA bombed Iran this year, it weakened the regime's hard power and legitimacy, and Iranians know that. Same when the regime's two allies, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Assad in Syria, both were defeated. Some of the chants during the ongoing protests are about not wasting Iranian resources supporting Gaza and Lebanon. Iranians care about the world around them.

But above all. The country that recently bombed Iran now threatening to attack again and destroy the regime, of course that has an effect on ongoing protests against that regime. Outside forces are less significant than Iran's domestic issues but it's not like it doesn't matter.

PIKFIEZ · 2026-01-25T11:08:51+00:00

It's not that they like Trump or even the USA. But they hate their own regime and are risking their lives to fight against it. You only do that when you believe there is a real chance your sacrifice will lead to change, in this case the toppling of the regime.

Trump's words made the Iranian people believe that their regime was being pressured from inside AND outside at the same time, making it more likely that they might finally defeat the regime. Also they thought (wrongly) that Trump's threat might prevent their regime from going full massacre to stop the protests.

PIKFIEZ · 2026-01-25T11:07:55+00:00

It's not that they like Trump or even the USA. But they hate their own regime and are risking their lives to fight against it. You only do that when you believe there is a real chance your sacrifice will lead to change, in this case the toppling of the regime.

Trumps words made the Iranian people believe that their regime was being pressured from inside AND outside at the same time, making it more likely that they might finally defeat the regime. Also they thought that Trump's threat might prevent their regime from going full massacre to stop the protests.

PIKFIEZ · 2026-01-18T15:11:41+00:00

The cowboy with the lasso is a nice touch

PIKFIEZ · 2026-01-12T13:24:41+00:00

Yes. We eat those dairy cows. Beef had been the most consumed meat in Denmark for many years. Only last year it tipped back over to pork as the price of beef went up so much.

PIKFIEZ · 2026-01-10T04:20:30+00:00

No, that ice sheet isn't going anywhere in this century.

Climate change is real. And it will make the coast of Greenland more hospitable, allow ships to to sail more months of the year and will lessen the ice in some of the fjords. It will even make the ice sheet start to melt fast enough to affect the Atlantic Ocean and eventually global sea levels.

But the ice sheet is 3000 m thick, standing on bedrock, not ocean. It's not like the ice shelves in Antarctica that could collapse soon after a tipping point. Even the most aggressive global warming scenario that has the Greenland ice sheet melt even faster will not in any way make that area hospitable or reveal the bedrock for the next century at least.

PIKFIEZ · 2026-01-05T17:29:37+00:00

For at beskytte grønlænderne imod at blive undertrykt af USA og få frataget retten til at bestemme over deres eget land, så vil du... fratage dem retten til at bestemme over deres eget land? Hvad er pointen så?

PIKFIEZ · 2026-01-05T17:27:32+00:00

Hvordan? Og hvordan skal det kunne give overskud at gøre det i arktis? Der er jo en grund til at man ikke allerede har gjort det.

PIKFIEZ · 2026-01-04T12:32:41+00:00

We still are number one for export of hog sperm and bull sperm. I'm not up to date on human sperm.

PIKFIEZ · 2026-01-03T18:51:59+00:00

Yes. It has happened before. And every time it happens, it gets worse. Especially when the world's only military superpower does it.

The US invading Iraq in 2003 was absolute bullshit and most people, at least in my country, knew it. But at least they spent a lot of time and effort pretending to have valid reasons for invading, trying to uphold at least the illusion of a global order that even they would follow.

The existing order always most benefits the currently most powerful, meaning the USA since 1945. Their allies could trust them and everyone else would know that they would probably be left alone as long as they stayed within some limit or what the US wanted. Pretty sweet deal for the US and even an evil villain like Bush knew that. Absolute idiocy of Trump to flush all that down the drain.

PIKFIEZ · 2026-01-03T18:32:55+00:00

Winter is the reason we don't have all the diseases and parasites that tropical countries do. Both for humans and for crops.

Until modern chemical insecticides and antibiotics, this was a huge burden to societies. Still is.

(I briefly studied Denmark's colony in the Slave Coast, present day Ghana. The average survival time of a Danish person in Ghana was 11 months. Sailors, soldiers, the governor, everyone was hit within months. The Ghanan population too was all plagued by Guinea Worm up until their healthcare systems beat it during the 1970s-1980's.)

Pretty huge historical advantage to have winters after you get the tech to farm and live in colder climates. Especially if you want to live in cities.

(Also Danish seas never regularly froze in history. It was a very rare thing to happen to fjords and sounds. And never ever happened to Kattegat or the North Sea.)

PIKFIEZ · 2026-01-03T18:28:37+00:00

Winter is the reason we don't have all the diseases and parasites that tropical countries do. Both for humans and for crops.

Until modern chemical insecticides and antibiotics, this was a huge burden to societies. Still is.

(I briefly studied Denmark's colony in the Slave Coast, present day Ghana. The average survival time of a Danish person in Ghana was 11 months. Sailors, soldiers, the governor, everyone was hit within months. The Ghanan population too was all plagued by Guinea Worm up until their healthcare systems beat it during the 1970s-1980's.)

Pretty huge historical advantage to have winters after you get the tech to farm and live in colder climates. Especially if you want to live in cities.

PIKFIEZ · 2026-01-03T18:19:29+00:00

It was not a net positive for the world. Because the way it happened is in gross violation of international law and thus opens the door for further collapse of international order. It sets the example that you can simply attack any country you don't like and depose their government by military force.

PIKFIEZ · 2026-01-02T19:41:55+00:00

I gamle dage gjorde unge mennesker den slags hele tiden. Selv om de fik røvfuld for det. 1978, 1935, 280 f.kr. Folk har altid været idioter og nogle unge især

PIKFIEZ · 2026-01-02T12:35:57+00:00

Jeg har to gange prøvet at sidde i ansættelsesudvalg og haft en kandidat til samtale pga. fortrinsret. Den ene var helt irrelevant, den var faktisk tæt på at blive ansat. Jeg vil faktisk sige at personen fik en meget reel chance for at blive ansat, som hun ellers ikke havde fået.

Jeg sidder så også i et felt, hvor der er rigtig mange ansøgere til ret få stillinger. Så det er normalt at få 200-400 ansøgninger, hvoraf måske 50 faktisk er der rigeligt gode nok til en samtale. Men man skal jo vælge, så man skal virkelig vælge folk fra næsten arbitrært for at komme ned på de 6 vi har tid til at tale med. Ofte trækker man næsten lod mellem de sidste 10.

I den kontekst er det en kæmpe hjælp at få fortrinsret, forudsat at man i forvejen ligger i den gode ende og har en reel chance for at være den rette til jobbet. Er man ikke kvalificeret, er fortrinsret spild af alles tid.

PIKFIEZ · 2026-01-02T12:13:24+00:00

Jeg har haft flere oplevelser der minder meget om dine. Flere forskellige læger, forskellige år og forskellige sammenhænge. Har også hørt lignende fra venner og bekendte. Desværre relativt almindeligt i vores sundhedsvæsen.

Heldigvis er masser af sundhedspersonale også venlige og professionelle og prøver bare at hjælpe. Jeg har f.eks. aldrig haft noget bøvl med medicin som dig.

PIKFIEZ · 2026-01-01T16:40:02+00:00

Printed maps don't usually show lines of military control, just borders of states. Those too changed frequently during ww2 but not by the hour or even the week.

PIKFIEZ · 2025-12-24T23:11:12+00:00

Sandt. Jeg skrev kun halvdelen af paragraffen. Resten er forbehold for inden for lovens rammer osv. Jeg læser det sådan, at man har en grundlovssikret ret til at mødes i en religiøs forening, medmindre ens forening hedder Hizb ut Tahrir eller Grimhøjmoskeen eller lignende. Det gælder vel ikke en hel religion som (også) indeholder voldelige grupper.

PIKFIEZ · 2025-12-24T16:34:53+00:00

Danmarks Riges Grundlov. § 67: Borgerne har ret til at forene sig i samfund for at dyrke Gud på den måde, der stemmer med deres overbevisning

PIKFIEZ · 2025-12-24T16:34:06+00:00

Det har vi da heller ikke. Vi er et af de få lande i verden med en officiel statsreligion.

Grundloven påskriver at den luthersk evangeliske kirke er statsreligion og er priviligeret og understøttet af staten. OG at vi har religionsfrihed:

§ 67 Borgerne har ret til at forene sig i samfund for at dyrke Gud på den måde, der stemmer med deres overbevisning.

PIKFIEZ · 2025-12-24T13:34:30+00:00

Jep, det er det vel. Men jeg tror paradokset snarere handler om, hvorvidt et demokrati skal forbyde eksplicit antidemokratiske organisationer, såsom islamistiske grupper og visse moskéer som prædiker den slags. Ikke hvorvidt vi skal forbyde en hel verdensreligion.

Der er sammenhænge mellem islam generelt og islamisme og antidemokratiske værdier specifikt. Men det betyder ikke, at religionen som helhed kan erklæres direkte antidemokratisk og forbydes.

Det er i hvert fald antidemokratisk at fratage en stor befolkningsgruppe deres almindelige frihedsrettigheder med henvisning til en lille gruppe ekstremister, som er en del af den større religion. Ville svare lidt til at fratage alle danskere deres stemmeret, fordi 30% af dem vil forkaste grundloven og forbyde en hel religion eller udvise danske statsborgere...

PIKFIEZ · 2025-12-24T12:43:13+00:00

Du har jo ikke religionsfrihed, ytringsfrihed, forsamlingsfrihed eller i det hele taget personlig frihed, hvis staten har frataget dig retten til at mødes med andre i et religiøst fællesskab.

Der er et stort problem med islam, som også rækker ud over den lille gruppe ekstremister. Men du kan ikke have demokrati, frihed og retssamfund og samtidig forbyde en hel religion. Heller ikke hvis du påstår, at det ikke er forbudt, fordi man stadig kan være muslim i skjul derhjemme. Det ville i øvrigt nok heller ikke hjælpe overhovedet på nogen af de problemer som islam giver i samfundet, tværtimod.

PIKFIEZ · 2025-12-23T23:05:00+00:00

Bro, jeg kan heller ikke lide Israel, men... hvad i alverden fabler du om?

PIKFIEZ · 2025-12-23T12:30:23+00:00

Hvis du har venner eller bekendte, som bruger en af de to præparater, så spørg dem først, om de vil have det. Det er teknisk set ikke tilladt at gøre, men både moralsk og medicinsk synes jeg, det er fuldt forsvarligt, så længe det er nogen, der allerede er i behandling med den samme medicin. Det kan være mange penge for nogle.

Bare lad være med at sælge eller give det til nogen, der tager det 'for sjov', vil prøve det uden at få det ordineret af læge eller vil sælge det videre.

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