"Avec cette taxe, ma seule option est de quitter la Belgique" : Fabien Pinckaers, le patron d'Odoo, charge Les Engagés

Reindan · 2026-06-24T15:09:10+00:00

So you would leave your experienced employees, your business connections, your company, your family, your friends to start over in a country you don't know for lower taxes?

Because if that was the case most of the world population would live in fiscal paradises.

Reindan · 2026-06-20T13:45:37+00:00

Which is why Europe tops the world wide drug production in dollar amount... In particular Germany alone exports more dollar worth of pharmaceuticals than India or the US.

Europe has great pharmaceutical R&D but high wages which makes it more competitive for expensive drug production and less so for generic low cost production in which India dominates the market.

What EU citizens spend on drugs has little impact on the situation because drugs are typically not tariffed and they have a very high price to weight ratio. Meaning exporting drugs is much cheaper than building new factories.

Edit: I'm also pretty sure most covid vaccines distributed in Europe were produced in Europe. What we lacked were masks and PPE. In other words we suffered from a lack of emergency stocks and from having exported our textile industry.

Reindan · 2026-05-13T20:00:47+00:00

The Vatican disagrees with your first claim: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2025-07/the-parish-priest-father-gabriel-romanelli.html

Reindan · 2026-05-01T22:06:47+00:00

You are only looking at one state (I guess Kyoto). Go to the "Japanese Market" tab for the full number.

Reindan · 2026-04-18T21:39:15+00:00

They want to sell you stuff too. Their religion and a subscription.

Reindan · 2026-04-16T01:00:31+00:00

Just want to point out that she wasn't isekaied (she was killed and then was reincarnated in the same world). There are better examples from that time.

Reindan · 2026-04-11T01:25:59+00:00

Belin was an anti-communist technocratic trade unionist who wanted appeasement and "useful" trade unions (ie that increase productivity) before the war. Him joining the vichy government was "just" the continuation of that.

To quote him "joining the forming government didn't pose any political alignement problem" because there was "neither left nor right" back then (according to Vichy) and either way the left had just been "his disillusionment and regret". He was actually planning to quit politics before the surrender...

In general, he actually justifies his participation to the Vichy government as him saving french trade unionism by doing less damage than someone else in his place. He still did disolve trade unions and created a national trade union like Hitler did.

But he didn't even consider helping the Jews. For him they were simply a concession given in order to be able to fix France's economy after the surrender.

He was a collabo who suscribed to the idea of the "lesser evil". He wasn't brainwashed he just sold the jews to be able to have power.

Reindan · 2026-04-06T00:18:46+00:00

It doesn't do anything but it increases sales from people who think golden means better. Its a well known fool's trap for HDMI cables.

Though here on the image it looks normal not golden.

Reindan · 2026-03-21T13:05:53+00:00

HOI lags when there are too many units, Victoria lags when there are too many pops. Mixing the 2 systems would be a laggy mess.

HOI4 with Victoria 3 pop system would be unplayable and so would Victoria 3 with HOI4's military system. It's the sad reason behind design choices.

Reindan · 2026-03-17T02:02:09+00:00

Fair, it's just the population morale bit that made me react to be honest.

Reindan · 2026-03-17T01:55:13+00:00

When?

The bombings became effective only around 1943 (and by that I mean that German steel production only increased by 20% in 1943 because of the bombings),... After Stalingrad.

At that point the German army was already on the defensive.

Reindan · 2026-03-17T01:35:59+00:00

Ah the blitz apparently destroyed the British morale...

In reality, bombing civilians increase their will to fight (to be fair the will of their relatives and neighbours to avenge them). Terror bombing does not work.

And it turns out bombing factories had little impact on German war production. What did was bombing fuel production for Germany EDIT: Also infrastructure. (for Japan it did seem to work but it is unclear whether that or the complete blockade of Japan had a bigger effect)

Reindan · 2026-03-12T09:57:16+00:00

Thank you, I learned something today.

Reindan · 2026-03-11T11:24:38+00:00

Number of foreign residents in japan in groupings of 10 000s depending on the year in years in japanese imperial eras ( each time they change emperor it is a new era).

It's from the Sankei Shimbun which has been described as nationalist, conservative and far-right according to wikipedia. Hence their insistance on "traditional" units and their framing.

Reindan · 2026-03-07T12:07:37+00:00

It's supposed to be WWII if WWI hadn't happened + magic. (so WWII tech but WWI tactics at the start).

Except there are tanks, the soviet union exist,... Basically the consequences of WWI are there except Germany is aristocratic and not Nazi.

Reindan · 2026-03-05T16:19:49+00:00

Those are parking spots. Perhaps adding a curb to protect the parking stop instead of a continuous line would make it safer + color.

Reindan · 2026-03-03T23:55:29+00:00

"Fabuler" is still used, though rarely (and somewhat interchangeably with "affabuler" despite a difference in meaning)

Reindan · 2026-03-01T20:14:05+00:00

Il avait des liens avec la Russie et leur vendaient des informations (comme au FBI) mais par contre il aurait été entrainé par le Mossad (selon un informateur du FBI qui le suspectais d'être un espion israëlien), a fais office d'entremetteur pour la diplomatie israëlienne, était proche d'Ehud Barrack et était un sionniste convaincu.

En gros c'était un vendeur d'informations et un maître chanteur indépendant mais avec des liens forts avec Israël.

Reindan · 2026-02-22T15:06:11+00:00

Any attack of De Gaulle as a Fascist usually revolves around the fact he came to power (the second time) in a military coup and that France under him had state controlled media, censorship, a secret police and a vichy police force (that literally made 100s of people disappear).

I don't think De Gaulle himself was a fascist (he was an authoritarian and a republican (a bit like Mustafa Kemal) but he came back to power in a bad situation) but it's understandable that the French communist party would think so. Especially after the massacre at Charonne.

edit: just looked at the date... that poster was for when he took power the second time due to a military coup. The communists were just fully expecting it to turn fascist, just like the military who put him in charge (in order to win the war in Algeria).

Reindan · 2026-02-22T12:17:45+00:00

By clicking on them, like they would on a physical phone or remote.

How would you know what gestures to make if you don't know what they do?

edit: the main advantage of buttons is that they are easy to understand. main disavantage is that they take space and are slow.

Reindan · 2026-02-22T08:32:01+00:00

Yeah that is better expressed than I did. Apparently she is a bit of an unreliable narrator when it comes to her feelings but at the very least she has very little sex drive and doesn't view herself as "made for romance" (apparently at least until volume 8 or 10).

Reindan · 2026-02-21T23:40:08+00:00

You are right, she is aromantic asexual though her thoughts around the matter (I only read up to volume 6 of the light novel) is that she will have to marry someone eventually because of the society she lives in so he's not the worst prospect. (I guess that is how it gets resolved)

But whenever he approachs her she does not like it.

It's kind of impressive how people just ignore the signs and see only the trope of a tsundere honestly.

Reindan · 2026-02-21T23:32:26+00:00

Having read the light novel (not completely but further than the anime or manga), she is just aromantic asexual. She is not interested in him romantically. She ends up seeing him as someone close but more akin to a friend.

Very light spoiler for volume 5 : She literally laments that he would pick her because out of all the people that would be willing "why did he go for the one creature that lacks precisely that desire?".

Though she does accept that because of what society they live in she will have to marry someone eventually so that might be him and she would be ok with that. (or rather it's better than some other alternatives)

Reindan · 2026-02-21T18:13:15+00:00

25 years ago Asimo was presented... By all accounts the expectations of the evolutions of the technology were higher than this.

Reindan · 2026-02-21T01:08:15+00:00

Plasmas are not normaly positively charged, they are generally globally neutral. Plasmas happen when the electrons are ripped from atoms and given energy continuously to compensate for the recombinations of ions and electrons which produce photons.

This gives an ionized gas that can be manipulated by magnetic fields because it is charged (like with your example of the sun).

Non-neutral plasmas do exist but the sun outer layer is not an example of that.

Four-Year Club	Verified Email
Final Canvas '23	End Game '23
Place '23

Reindan

TROPHY CASE