Thread: Rants and WTF are you talking about and Coronavirus!
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09-26-22 22:05 #10856
Posts: 6686Originally Posted by PaulInZurich [View Original Post]
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09-25-22 17:57 #10855
Posts: 1329Originally Posted by DrPoon [View Original Post]
In arguments of USA versus most world nations, given the choice between a ship on fire and ship with a leak, I can choose to stay on the ship with a leak whole cursing the engineers at the same time.
Whatever approach one may choose, it's probably better than being a hopelessly nihilistic and racist poser.
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09-25-22 05:45 #10854
Posts: 806Originally Posted by EscapeArtist [View Original Post]
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09-24-22 13:39 #10853
Posts: 1329Originally Posted by DrPoon [View Original Post]
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09-24-22 13:31 #10852
Posts: 1329Originally Posted by PaulInZurich [View Original Post]
Several other individual stories of white collar friends working for smaller companies as consultants and engineers also seem to generate favorable accounts. Cynically, a common statement I hear from them when working on multi-national teams are comments about how their European branch counterparts are only putting in 35 hours work so they're not going to overextend themselves here state-side.
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09-24-22 11:15 #10851
Posts: 6686It is all a setup in order to crush the fiat currency and start anew with central bank digital currencies. And soon we in europe will get basic income paid out directly from the central bank. Because the current interest rate increases will force the central banks to pull the rates far far down below zero 2 years after the rates got hiked. Or leave them where they are and also start with basic income payouts. Just wait 18 months or something like that. Maybe 24.
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09-24-22 08:17 #10850
Posts: 22242Originally Posted by DrPoon [View Original Post]
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09-24-22 07:21 #10849
Posts: 2365Originally Posted by EscapeArtist [View Original Post]
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09-24-22 00:42 #10848
Posts: 806Originally Posted by EscapeArtist [View Original Post]
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09-23-22 23:14 #10847
Posts: 806I can't see why Germany is going along with this. Germany should delete its sanctions so it can get gas ASAP or demand that same reduced prices and volume from gas delivered from the Loisiana gas terminal from the USA.
Originally Posted by McAdonis [View Original Post]
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09-23-22 17:34 #10846
Posts: 1329Originally Posted by McAdonis [View Original Post]
If European companies come over and maintain their general philosophy of respecting work-life balance, those companies may attract American workers who are already shifting their mentality of being a slave to your job.
Once again, America stands to be the big winner during times of European chaos.
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09-23-22 17:21 #10845
Posts: 1329Originally Posted by McAdonis [View Original Post]
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09-23-22 14:05 #10844
Posts: 2073Originally Posted by EscapeArtist [View Original Post]
Governments have gone all out: from capping gas and electricity prices to rescuing struggling energy companies and providing direct aid to households to fill up their cars.
The public spending has continued, even though European Union countries had accumulated mountains of new debt to save their economies during the Covid pandemic in 2020.
https://www.thelocal.at/20220922/how-european-countries-are-spending-billions-on-avoiding-energy-crisis/
The questions that executives across the country find themselves faced with are of an existential nature: For how long can we continue to withstand high energy prices? How can we save? Is production in Germany even still worth it any longer? Or is it time to move away to a place where energy prices aren’t as high?
https://www.spiegel.de/international/business/growing-energy-crisis-a-grave-threat-to-industry-in-germany-a-9152547c-a31d-483e-a70c-242c280cab23
Germany’s economy hasn’t grown for nearly five years. Its recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic has been weaker than any major advanced economy. Its ability to fill its energy needs is in question. And now the country once known as the economic engine of Europe is teetering on the brink of a recession.
It’s a sharp turn of fortunes for Germany’s large manufacturing sector, which flourished over the past two decades just as other Western nations saw industrial jobs migrate to Asia.
Germany’s big and long-successful bet on manufacturing relied on four engines: Free and open global trade, surging demand from China, an efficient domestic workforce and cheap Russian energy.
Each of those is now sputtering.
Siltronic AG , a Munich-based company that produces silicon wafers for the semiconductor industry, recently chose Singapore over Germany as the location of a new €2 billion factory, the biggest investment in the company’s history.
That reflected lower running costs in Singapore, including for energy and staff, said Christoph von Plotho, the company’s CEO.
“Cost always matters, even where you have a product with relatively limited competition,” Mr. von Plotho said. His competitors produce similar wafers, so price, not quality, provides the edge, he said. In Germany, “we don’t have competitive energy costs, which is one of the major cost drivers in an industry like ours,” he said. Singapore currently produces about 60% of the company’s total output, and output there is expected to double again with the new factory, he said.
Kostal Automobil Elektrik, a century-old auto supplier based in western Germany, said in June it would end production in Germany by the end of 2024, closing its three German plants. About 900 jobs will be relocated or cut, according to labor unions. That includes about 100 service-center jobs that will be moved to Budapest.
The family-owned company, whose products are found in roughly half of all cars worldwide, blamed high costs in Germany, aggravated by the pandemic and the war in Ukraine. It said it also needed to invest heavily in new technologies as the auto industry switches to battery power.
Labor unions warned that Kostal’s move could create a domino effect. “There is a risk of a loss of competence and, as a result, the loss of further jobs for the entire German automotive industry as well as the creeping de-industrialization” of the region, said Fabian Ferber, the IG Metall union representative at Kostal.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-german-economy-broke-down-exports-
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09-23-22 12:25 #10843
Posts: 806Ukraine Votes Sept 27 - Nuclear Attack Predicted
On September 27 Ukraine will have completed an election to have the East Side area between Russia through Crimea to join Russian territory.
This of course is in line with Russian nuclear doctrine which because then the territory legally belongs to Russia and then allowed to defend with nuclear weaopons, will then allow a nuclear attack on probably Lyiv first, and if Ukraine doesn't quit fighting then Kyiv. Similar to the USA nuclear attack which took two nuclear attacks to force a surrender.
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09-23-22 07:44 #10842
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