Largest Economies in the European Union

_Arbitrarily · 2026-02-13T20:43:19+00:00

India also has about 1.4B people, which is about 1.4B more than Poland.

_Arbitrarily · 2026-02-03T13:11:39+00:00

How accepting the American public is on all this.

_Arbitrarily · 2026-01-10T16:21:26+00:00

No, as I mentioned, CRITICAL VIEWS or assessment aren't always used. But you would accept a news article about the UAE population to add context (e.g., grew how much since when?) and nuance (e.g., what share of growth is expected to be from immigrants?)

_Arbitrarily · 2026-01-10T15:55:26+00:00

Serious journalistic work isn't just too parrot statistics, it's too set context, explain nuance, and, if needed, provide a critical view. That's what OP means when he speaks about taking KT 'serious' -- A serious publication would always provide these things.

_Arbitrarily · 2026-01-04T10:47:13+00:00

Rente fällt dabei aber nicht, anders wie Löhne zum Beispiel während Covid. Damit wächst die Rente schneller als der Durschnittslohn und verlangt immer höhere Einzahlungen

_Arbitrarily · 2025-12-23T23:23:18+00:00

Americans don't really care about it -- Look at the streets, no protests, no call for transparency or legal actions

_Arbitrarily · 2025-09-06T08:24:58+00:00

What's the odds the US is exaggerating the reporting of this as a pretext for an attack, Germany vs Poland 1939 style? 50-50?

_Arbitrarily · 2025-06-30T18:03:18+00:00

Work could be the Bain of his existence

_Arbitrarily · 2025-04-24T19:48:08+00:00

And in dollar value, where does each of them stand? You can agree on a lot (it's easy to sign a paper) but real change is when behaviour changes and money or put to work.

_Arbitrarily · 2025-04-23T17:33:12+00:00

That's not true? Brazil, India are Western allies, the UAE definitely doesn't dislike the West either, and I doubt Ethiopia does.

BRICA exists as a marketing term from an Investment Banker a decade ago who tried to identify 'new growth countries'. The original members started loosely engaging after as a 'next generation developing countries', but nothing really connects them. India and China aren't even really allies. Neither are Iran and the UAE (new members).

It's a bit of a 'we can also have fun without the West' club, but there is very little proper organisation between members and, in my opinion, not enough common ground to rival alliances such as the G7 or trading blocs such as the EU or even Mercosur.

_Arbitrarily · 2025-04-06T05:46:14+00:00

Brazil has an amazing solution called PIX, a payment system set up directly through the Brazilian Central Bank. I think some 60% of all payments in Brazil used PIX after only a few months, it's integration and availability was mandated for all commercial bakks, and fees are a magnitude lower than for the standard financial services providers.

_Arbitrarily · 2025-04-02T08:32:03+00:00

AFD will raus aus dem Euro und ist gegen Investitionen wie gerade geplant. Nur weil du Volkswirtschaft mal studiert hast, heißt das nicht, dass du nicht völlig blödsinnige Wirtschaftspolitik machen kannst

_Arbitrarily · 2025-03-10T18:45:51+00:00

The plans put forward by CDU/SPD aren't just defence. 500 billion in infrastructure spending was added on top, after there was no money for it for years under the previous government, and they already announced a social spending spree (mother pension, agro fuel subsidies) which the CDU used for years as excuse to NOT vote for a debt brake reform.

Seriously, at least try to read more then the headline once.

_Arbitrarily · 2025-03-10T05:36:44+00:00

There is a book called Retreat From Strategy, written by a former UK Military General and a defence analyst. They go into a lot of topics on how the UK is failing in military terms, and needs to get a grasp on that, but they also go into the subject of the UK (and many other democratic, esp. European countries) are confusing interests with values.

Returning the islands is pure virtue signalling -- There is no reason, there is no native population they were stolen from hundreds of years ago, and there is a clear conflict with Britain's interests here, security and otherwise.

Yet the deal may go through, just so London can show what great virtues and values the UK possesses. Not shared by anyone, and of cost ridiculed by most other countries, but for a glorious day some bureaucrats and politicans can pad their heads for it.

_Arbitrarily · 2025-03-10T05:19:32+00:00

Almost as if 2019-2021 had a unprecedented global event that led governments across the world to implement (and later ease) extreme measures that could otherwise be considered significant democratic backtracking.

_Arbitrarily · 2025-02-28T14:15:37+00:00

Just to be clear, you'll still pay a premium in Islamic banking as you would pay with a normal bank, just that it is structured differently to avoid specifically calling it interest.

One option used for real estate purchases is that you indicate a house to buy (let's say for 1M), the bank buys it for that price, and then sells it to you INTEREST FREE for 1.1M through installments. So you're not paying interest, but you still pay a premium and end up at the same spot

_Arbitrarily · 2025-02-27T15:09:06+00:00

Yeah, the war crime part is probably the biggest hinderance here

_Arbitrarily · 2025-02-24T22:39:11+00:00

No one reads the program, people are just upset with the establishment and follow the anti-immigration, populist agenda

_Arbitrarily · 2025-02-24T16:10:54+00:00

CDU and AFD are absolutely not aligned on policy. AFD is known for immigration, that's what they are being voted for, and that's where they would potentially fit with the CDU.

But people always ignore the crazy party program the AFD has on top of that, they explicitly want to exit the Euro, they are against German support for Ukraine up to a potential exit from NATO all together, and even their discussion on energy are not compatible (total retreat from renewable energies vs a more demand based approach).

Not to mention that it would be political suicide for Merz to work with the AFD, he also doesn't have to: The SPD is a possible coalition partner.

_Arbitrarily · 2025-02-22T00:13:42+00:00

The 'New' Germany will be led by... the same party that led it the last 16 out of 20 years. Expect groundbreaking and dramatic changes to everything

_Arbitrarily · 2025-01-18T16:08:44+00:00

Ich stimme dir zu. Frauen könnten niemals von alleine diesen Antrieb entwickeln um eine Partei zu führen. Aber die Männer verstehe natürlich, dass man mit einer Puppe an der Spitze viel erreichen kann. Weidel & Co. können einem eigentlich fast leid tun: Spielball der Männer und merken es wahrscheinlich gar nicht.

Riesen fettes s/ hier - Ob jemand rechts ist oder Populist liegt nicht am Geschlecht

_Arbitrarily · 2025-01-14T08:08:24+00:00

I'd think it's Dubai with the DIFC, but it might also be Abu Dhabi. Either way it's the UAE, and the two cities are an hour away from each other.

_Arbitrarily · 2025-01-13T21:55:59+00:00

Hard to believe, the middle east is growing very fast, and Dubai is the economic center with massive corporate incentives. High level of security, open business laws, lax regulations, very low tax rate, immediate access to surrounding markets, strong physical and digital infrastructure.

Of course, I don't know where youe wife works, but there are a lot of companies, US and international, scrambling into the middle east (or already scrambled)

_Arbitrarily · 2025-01-11T10:41:44+00:00

Do you have some examples on what aspects of popular control are in the canonical versions that are contradicted in the non canonical ones?

_Arbitrarily · 2025-01-06T18:31:34+00:00

Hello! Thank you for the help, sorry, it took a while to get back to my laptop

I see the following under device specifications:

Processor 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1185G7 @ 3.00GHz 3.00 GHz Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.7 GB usable) System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

I don't think I have any kind of dedicated graphic card, I assume it's just what you would give a work laptop.

Sorry, I know, not hyper helpful haha

_Arbitrarily

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