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Raider of the lost Ark

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  1. 5 hours ago, Junior said:

    Ouch but it’s probably just temporary 

     

    That company is heavily overvalued anyway. I have said it many times before, share prices today have nothing to do with real financial benchmarks anyway. It's all about speculation. Compared to other automotive companies, Teslas overall profits are rather low (the profit margin per car is higher). And a closer look will tell you that a large portion of the profit does not come from selling cars but from selling CO2 emission certificates. The problem, this source of income will slowly fade away once the majority of cars sold will be electric. At this point, other automotive companies are basically forced to buy the certificates from Tesla. I would like to think that in two to three years Tesla will get into trouble when the market will be flooded with new electric car models. Cars that are quality wise on a higher level, that have a more exciting design. Let's face it, Tesla cars design is very outdated and it has never been original in the first place. Now Tesla fanboys will claim, the Tesla software in so much more advanced, always referring to autonomous driving. The problem, this will not become a reality in the years to come. It is still too dangerous and it will take ages before governments will make that possible, especially in Europe. Until then, this USP is no longer a USP. 

  2. The whole thing is really confusing. None of the experts in the last 12 hours had any idea why exactly he wants to buy Twitter. Because from a financial point of view it doesn't make sense. Twitter is not profitable. Never has been. Of course, the board of Twitter has to recommend the sale for fiduciary reasons, especially at the sales price of approx. 54 dollars per share. People are assuming that the financial data that will be presented by Twitter this week will be rather bad and that a sales price of 54 dollars per share will be seen as very attractive to get rid of it. Other thing that are unusual here, shareholders have until the end of the year to agree with the sale. That is very long. 

    I don't know the legal situation. How binding is such offer? Is there a way he can withdraw the offer? If that was the case, isn't that basically an invitation to manipulate the share prices? And he has a history of doing things of some sorts. His Crypto dealings are interesting, to say the least. Is it possible that his "free speech" approach (whatever he wants to say with it) is merely gaslighting to distract from his real goals? Again, who pays 44 billion (money he doesn't even have because all his money is in Tesla and SpaceX shares) for a company that struggles to make any profits ever since it was founded and that has billions in debt?  

  3. This is all propaganda aimed at Russians. They still live in their glorious past of the Soviet Union defeating Nazi Germany. What they do is basically the Pavlov experiment. The moment they mention Nazis, the nation gets in line. They have been conditioned to do that over decades. (It's the same in the U.S. under a different pretext. Rallying around the flag when the U.S. go to war. Questions usually stop). 

  4. 43 minutes ago, luckystar90 said:

    The problem is that even if you wouldn't want to vote for Macron again, you'd feel inclined to do it because of all the reasons you mentioned and to stop the far-right, again. The election becomes rather unauthentic when people vote like this. I'm not sure Macron would be the best, but he's certainly the least bad choice when the rest is either useless, incompetent or dangerous. Yuck.

    In the end it has always been this way with direct elections. You almost always vote for the lesser of two evils. 

  5. The dems need to get their act together. They have a huge communication problem because they are not able to get the message about about Bidens achievements across. Biggest job growth in 40 years, a trillion dollar infrastructure bill ...

    They should stop trying to "unite" the country. At this point in time there is just no way. They (the dems) can't do anything about it as long as there are so many extremists on the republican side in power, that will do anything to tear apart this country even further. By lies and legislation. The dems need to start fighting tooth and nails. There is no time to lose. 

  6. I'm not quite clear where Russia wants to go. Let's assume they "win" this war, what will happen then? It is pretty clear that Russia has become a persona non grata of the so called west. The west will not do any business with Russia anymore. What does Russia has to offer anyway except for natural gas, oil and some minerals? And all western countries that import oil and gas from Russia are shifting to other producers and push for renewables. In a few years Russia will no longer have any income from those sources. Russia will be pretty f*cked considering that gas and oil sales make up for the biggest part of the Russian household. By far. Of course, there is still China. Well, only if Russia wants to become a Chinese "colony". Russia may take a closer look at Africa and some of its nations that are already "enjoying" investment and cooperation from China. At this very moment Putin is turning Russia in a 3rd World country. 

  7. 5 hours ago, CzarnaWisnia said:

    Russia is not asking for control over the whole country, not even much of the land, only the territories that have themselves proclaimed independence. But yes, I would rather leaders negotiate than getting the citizens to fight to the death and to see everything around them destroyed and end up with nothing. Yep. Take the damn land.

    Well, the situation you describe has happened before. 1938. Russia was Germany and Ukraine was Czechoslovakia. And the international community said "Take the damn land" in an attempt of appeasement. We all know how it ended. 

    And please, don`t say it is not the same. 

  8. The explanations from the Russian side to justify this war are getting more and more ridiculous. Now Lawrow is claiming it is meant to fight "Russiaphobia". They must be out of their minds. 

    And of course, the hospital bombing in Mariupol was done by Ukrainian nationalists, not the Russian army. Do they think the international community is stupid? 

  9. Talk about government overreach. But I forgot, it's just government overreach when it comes from democrats and when people are supposed to wear a mask during a pandemic to protect themselves and the people around them. 

    Quite frankly, this and that new election law shows that the republicans in Texas are fighting tooth and nail to stay in power because they know their time is up. With each election Texas is getting closer and closer turning blue. All big cities already are. And since those cities are in general more progressive (which applies to every big city, even in the most dark red states), they know it's a lost cause and therefore concentrate on the rural areas with a more conservative and christian background. For them everything LGBTQ+ is devils work and therefore this order just suits them fine. 

  10. 56 minutes ago, Gaudet said:

    Meanwhile cretins now regret their referendum voting choice made 6 years ago....

     

    It's amazing that they act surprised about the paperwork etc. when they have been warned about it loud and clear ever since Brexit was proposed. And this is just the beginning. While the UK may be out since 2021, there was still the transition period granted to them. That's why transporting goods to and from the UK wasn't a big issue until now. Again, all of this should not be news to anyone. All of this is the logical consequence of the Brexit. 

  11. 1 hour ago, lex92 said:

    Yes. There is still many people who lived in GDR and romanticise with it

    To be fair, people may romanticise certain things about the daily life in the former GDR but they certainly don't have a positive look onto the Soviet occupation. I would like to argue, most people back then, especially in the later years, were rather ambivalent because the East German citizens hardly ever had contact with the Soviet troups, unless you were on one of those school trips to one of their military camps as part of the "German-Soviet Friendship". Back in school you were supposed to write an essay about the impressions you made. :doh:

  12. 1 hour ago, dollhouse said:

    Blinken has cancelled meeting with Lavrov as Russia is invading eastern Ukraine

    People that met Russian foreign minister are doubting Lavrovs mental health as his statements are getting bizarre and rude

    This guy still owes the City of Berlin, citizens and authorities, a big apology for his behaviour in relation to a missing teenage girl a few years ago. Making some serrious claims that Berlin authorities were not looking for the girl that was allegedly kidnapped (by immigrants?) because her family came from the former Soviet Union. And Russia considers those people still the citizens of Russia and therefore have to intervene on their behalf. What happened was that large parts of that community started demonstrating against Berlin authorities on the basis of false claims. Even the Russian parliament passed some kind of resolution. In the end, the girl was found by Berlin police. She was hiding for a few days. She was with her Turkish boyfriend, a boyfriend she was hiding from her parents because it was pretty clear her family would not condone the relationship. Needless to say no one ever apologized. 

    In this regard, I am always shocked how immigrants so easily take the position of the country they came from. The country they left because they were allegedly treated badly for several reasons. In this case because of their heritage. It's an open secret here that the overwhelming majority of those so called Russia - Germans moved to Germany purely for economic reasons. Unfortunately back in the nineties they were all let in as a plot of the German chancellor Helmut Kohl to win elections. He knew those people are super conservative and will therefore vote for his party. Many people were under the impression that authorities were not even checking if those people really have German heritage. There was an evil joke back then that most of them probably had a German shepherd at one point, which was sufficient to prove heritage. 

  13. 54 minutes ago, lex92 said:

    When it comes to modern technologys Germany is very behind that can threat the economic growth in future. Also too less young people, so we need immigration and don't forget that our former stability garant Merkel is no chancellor anymore. 

    While Germany may not be a world leader in all this social media stuff, there are tons of modern technologies developed in Germany. The difference is that none of it is as in the face as Facebook, Tick Tock etc. and companies are rather quiet about their developments. There are hundreds of Mittelstand companies that are word leaders in what they do, especially in the field of mechanical engineering. There are other examples. Even the automotive industry. They may have had a late start but mark my words, within two to three years they (and Hyundai) will easily put Tesla in its place, unless Tesla comes up with new, more exciting models designwise and finally reaches a quality level that justifies their price. Tesla is so overvalued, it's not even funny. And what about the one and only quantum computer in Europe at Forschungszentrum Jülich. Again, there is much going on behind the scenes in Germany that hardly anyone ever talks about. If Germany plays its cards right they will be leader in all kinds of renewable energies. Development, not necessarily production. We all know how China ruined the German solar panel production a decade ago by selling their products at prices that were lower than their production costs. Just another example when the German government did believe in China as a fair business partner. When things became way too obvious to be denied, it was too late. 

    Absolutely agree with immigration. 

  14. 33 minutes ago, Cyber-Raga said:

    Time to go green and no, I am not a treehugger, but obviously what this hot mess is teaching us is that we have to finally diversify our energy sources and think ahead. Green technology needs to be mass produced so that it becomes more inexpensive. Then people like Putin and some regions in the Middle East can suck it. 

    In Germany 45% is coming from renewables (solar & wind). Was already at 55% the year before but decreased due to weather conditions. This is compensated by coal (20%) and nuclear (13%) and gas. In general, gas, nuclear and coal have decreased significantly over the last decade. 

    The biggest problem when it comes to renewables is to find ways to store the energy for longer times. And of course, the mindset of the people as well. As always, everyone is so open and in favor of renewables but the moment a wind turbine is supposed to be erected in vicinity of someones backyard or if above ground powerlines can be seen anywhere near, people start to cry foul and will try to block all construction. 

  15. 38 minutes ago, Nessie said:

    Let’s see how this economic suicide will turn out when very soon Germany and the rest of Europe will have to pay double the price, at least €2,000 per thousand cubic meters of gas, or even more. Germans are pragmatic and they will soon find out that being a client state of the US is pretty darn expensive.

    Economic suicide? How often did I hear that in the last 30 years, how often did "experts" anticipate the downfall of the German economy? Yet, Germany became stronger and stronger. It has one of the most, if not the most resilient economies on the planet. We can deal with that.

    And what is your proposal? Bowing down to Putin? Handing over Ukraine? And while we are at it, why not add Poland and the Baltic states? 

     

  16. 1 hour ago, dollhouse said:

    Putin and Lavrov are wiping their asses with these Western sanctions, as expected

    Only way to stop them is to put hard on hard with force

    No sanctions in relation to the current situation in Ukraine have been imposed yet. There are some minor sanctions still in place in regards to Russias invasion in Crimea.

    Putin and Lavrov personally could care less. They have enriched themselves over the years and certainly will not starve in the future. Well, as long as they stay in Russia. The new sanctions will basically cut off all financial relations of Russia to the rest of the World. No money will flow in or out of Russia. Russia will not be able to sell bonds to finance their household. Keep in mind, mighty Russia is only mighty on a military basis and this only because of nuclear weapons. In regards to everything else economically Russia is a midget. Their GDP is slightly higher than the GDP of Switzerland. Except for natural gas, oil and some mineral ressources, this country has nothing else that is competitive or needed around the globe. Russia can still work with China, I guess. Well, as a Chinese colony more or less. Russia may take a look at some African nations that "enjoy" a cooperation with China. Does Putin know that he will need to bow to Winnie Pooh at some point? This is going to be very interesting. 

  17. 2 hours ago, Nessie said:

    https://amp.dw.com/en/nord-stream-2-the-gas-pipelines-second-power-struggle/a-60613442

    The pipeline belongs to the Russian state-owned company Gazprom and was built with the backing of five European energy firms. ...

     

    I was talking about an investment by the German state/government. I could care less if there are German companies involved and will lose their investment in case Nord Stream 2 will never operate. The project itself was always under discussion and in result they should not act surprised now. They are free to send their complaints to Gerhard Schröder at Gazprom. 

  18. 25 minutes ago, Nessie said:

    Yes, they did suspend as expected, but I believe that Germany is doing this just for the sake of doing something amist this events, but in the long run Germany will eventually lift this suspension and the Nord Stream 2 will operate as planned. This gas pipeline was a huge investment on their part and for now they must get in line with the sanctions bandwagon from the west, but make no mistake Germany has made clear that it has its own interests and are not exactly in the same page with the US and UK.

    Germany did not pay anything. Nord Stream 2 is solely financed by Russia. 

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