It is sad to watch, but what is sader is the belief by my fellow europeans that we can continue like we do, and all will be fine.
Less agriculture,less industry, less work. It's madness
And the germanics have higher price than France, which can benefit from importing cheap spanish power (when not in outage) and reselling it at 5x to germanic countries.
Reliable and cheap abundant electricity, big and strong cohort of STEM graduates, strongest army and arms industry in EU, worldwide influence culturally and diplomatically. More door will open when you to have the French Président by your side than any other EU country.
> I'm finding this isn't unique to AI, it's as if our entire society has become black and white, overly tribal. There's little room for shades of gray now.
I grew up in a small village, 300 people. There you learn to accept your neighbor political rant, otherwise you're socialy dead and that's a pretty bad place to be. I learned to dissociate the person from its opinions.
I'm living now in the city, where you don't need to listen to your neighbor because you can find a more fitting social circle. People are not able to listen and compromise, they'll just turn around and ignore you once they understand you are not on their side.
I was explaining this to a woman who was going to move in a village, and she said "how can you be friend with a person from the other end politicaly?".
It's a strange situation where the far right rural nut job are more open minded than city dwellers.
In EU, I don't think an underclass is what is wished. What we lack is being able to chose who is allowed to stay or not. Currently it's whoever manages to come illegaly is allowed to stay. It's madness
Everyone not agreeing with you is a fascist. It's the new trick to close any discussion.
Next step is to kill all fascists by the way, that's what Russia is doing right now as according to them Ukraine is fascist.
When you wait for green you start at the same time as cars. Cars seem incapable of staying behind a cyclist and feel the need to overtake them at all costs.
It feel much safer as a cyclist to start at red light when there is noone, you then have a head start with cars
How twisted as it sounds, I do believe that the outcome is beneficial to the US. China and EU are weakened by this mess big time.
The US will bear costs in the future.
EU does not expect to be paid back for Ukraine, they are paying with their lives and by being a lab for testing weapons and strategies. I'm just flabbedgasted by pro russian europeans thinking it'll be great to live under Putin. It's not like it hasn't been the case already.
They are not as common in Germany as in France in my experience. I would rather prefer to visit a german castle than waiting for the Stau to disappear.
They are shown on Michelin maps and atlas. We love to travel using the atlas and stopping on interesting sights or roads. Usually in France you can go from A to B the fast and boring way, or the slow and scenic way which is perfect for holiday time