Nej virkelig? Det hele var bare baseret på tal der ikke helt holdt i virkeligheden?
Jamen de sagde jo nærmest landet ville gå bankerot hvis ikke vi sløjfede store bededag!
Synd der ikke var nogen der fortalte Mette at de der tal var lidt besynderlige, og måske man ikke skulle basere alt for meget på dem.

Jeg undrer mig over om de mon snart forlanger at 70 årige skal have 2 jobs, så de kan spare op til pensionen?
Fordi 74 års pensions alder er ikke nok.

You are absolutely right, there is so much USA could do to improve society.
But the only thing that really counts for half the population, is to ease taxes on the 1%.
IDK why, but that’s apparently a very popular thing for both average and poor people in USA?

I used to have hope for USA, thinking they always turn in the right direction eventually, but since George W Bush was elected for a 2nd term, that hope has been chipped away. Obama did provide a glimmer of hope, but followed by horrible to mediocre to horrible again, so shortly after Bush. That’s a very bad average, and the tendency has been tracking towards worse for a long time now. Hopefully USA is at the bottom right now, but my hopes for that are near zero.

Probably because total amount of CO2 is what matters

Although that’s true it’s still a BULLSHIT argument.
The a target can be measured as a global average per capita, and then the countries can be compared on how close they are to that average.
That would CLEARLY show that Americans are behaving like pigs regarding CO". While both EU and China are way ahead of USA.
The above graph is worthless and a very misleading representation of reality.

Yea tbh. I’m in agreement as someone from the US.

I’ve been arguing this point for more than 20 years now, but the world is apparently still not serious enough to draw the necessary consequences.

Fuck that graph! Make it per capita, why compare 300 million Americans directly to 1.3 BILLION Chinese?
Same with EU, EU is also way more people than USA, yet we pollute less.
We need CO2 Tariffs on USA NOW!!!

Americans claiming it doesn’t help for them to reduce CO2 because of China are disgusting!
USA abandoning the Paris agreement is disgusting!
The richest country in the world refusing to do their part is disgusting!

Victory for Putin, the whole point was to make Trump step down on the threats of sanctions against Russia, and it worked.
Maybe it’s time we (EU) tell Trump that if he isn’t with us he is against us, just like Bush did to us regarding Iraq, when he wanted us to support USA based on false intelligence!!

Obviously and also pickuptruck, I didn’t think it was necessary to repeat that.

Meanwhile China still works on improving infrastructure and education.

Insane it’s still the 2nd most sold in USA, when the Heil gestures were January 20th.
I bet many Americans don’t even care about it, the failing sales are as much a result of how flawed Tesla cars are, both by design and in manufacturing.

Of course we don’t have the stupid Cybertruck in Europe, but here Tesla sales are down 50% compared to last year. While USA only has managed a measly 13%!

Not many in USA are willing to do a lot to protect democracy?! 🙄

Yes yes, but in their defense Israel is a democracy, and Gaza is inhabited mostly by Muslims. So it’s all good.
/s

Doesn’t make much difference for Texans, because their brains are fried already, and their only response is: “Global warming is a hoax.” Which they repeat as maybe a mantra. Hard to tell by now whether it may be some sort of prayer?

Common Scottie, just dial it up a few notches.
Yes Satan but that will take HOURS!!
Dammit Scottie do it NOW! That’s an ORDER!
Aaahhlright, dialing it up now…

Absolutely, either this story is made up, or that woman is insane.

If you don’t complain we may allow you to live a little longer.

Of course Putin blames it on NATO aggressively doing nothing, and Ukraine wanting to join EU.
So Russia had to defend itself against all that! Now NATO has borders right up to Russia through Sweden and Finland as a result of Putins idiocy.

And In fact Putin recently announced that the Russians should prepare for war, as in things are getting tough now.
And who the fuck else is to blame for that? If you have 2 brain-cells to add 2 and 2 together?

Russia:

Keen to show Western sanctions are pointless, Russia says its gross domestic product grew 4.3% in 2024 after 3.6% expansion in 2023.

Report:

Russian GDP numbers could not be trusted because Moscow was most likely strongly understating inflation which affected real GDP calculations.

They acknowledge 9% inflation, but real inflation is probably twice that. And now you have about -6% GDP.
Add to that the vast increase in War costs, probably taking up 10% more of the economy, and suddenly you Have about -16% real GDP.
But even that is probably not the whole picture, because Russia is using every trick in the book to hide how bad the economy really is.
This is somewhat covered by cannibalizing everywhere they can, and cutting on maintenance and repair everywhere.
They are also cutting on social services and benefits, so it is very hard now for pensioners to survive without help from family etc.

Decreasing oil incomes will make it even worse this year, and the Russian government is running at a deficit it is getting more an more difficult to cover.

In short the Russian society is deteriorating FAST now! And Allegedly Putin has been out recently to warn the population to prepare for war. Probably not because they can do much more than they already do, but because the population needs to prepare for a really rough time economically, and for public services that don’t functions as they should.

I think you mean independent.

Magnetism is always blamed as the factor causing these negative health effects

Better get rid of all loudspeakers then.
Even a stupid lightbulb has a magnetic field that influence you more than a solar flare.

Most of the papers I read on this mention “Schumann resonances”, and sometimes “pineal gland” crystals.

Probably to dupe the gullible and uninformed with technical terms.
These people are probably either con-men or mentally ill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schumann_resonances

Schumann resonances are the principal background in the part of the electromagnetic spectrum[2] from 3 Hz through 60 Hz

These frequenceies are very close to many other everyday phenomena, occurring in music (loudspeakers) and light-bulbs as previously mentioned.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/23334-pineal-gland

secretes the hormone melatonin. Your pineal gland’s main job is to help control the circadian cycle of sleep and wakefulness by secreting melatonin.

So why is the main function of the gland unaffected? Also there is very little reason to believe these alleged “crystals” would be magnetic.

It consists of small crystals that are less than 20 µm in length

20 µm is very small, and from the above link about Schumann resonance:

These correspond to wavelengths of 38000, 21000, 14000, 11000 and 9000 km.

So the affected parts in the body are in µm but the magnetic waves are in kilometers!. There is NO WAY these 2 can resonate together, simply NADA possibility. There is a factor of 1 billion distance between them being able to resonate!

Clearly you have thought more bout this than I have, which makes sense since you lived there for a decade.
But to the defense of UK, I think very many considered non western countries primitive and uncivilized, so they needed to be treated as such.
Which is of course sick and immoral as hell, but it wasn’t something exclusive to UK. Also UK did give voting rights to women pretty early, only shortly after the Scandinavian countries, and way earlier than USA, which was founded on being a democracy!
But I was thinking mostly about the time after WW2, where as you say they made many improvements. There’s a HUGE difference in the culture of our societies in the west from before and after WW2.

Cambridge Analytica

What a shitshow! But it was British, so the bigger scandal here is probably that they helped Trump win against Hillary. But clearly an example of underhanded upper class controlling the masses.

You make a lot of good points, and I’m reminded that I learned in school that they consider there are 4 classes. UK Royalty, UK upper class and UK lower class and last is all foreigners. This was always a very strange concept to me, and I admit I didn’t really believe it. I thought it was some sort of tongue in cheek saying. This seems to be a lot like American exceptionalism.

If the trend continues the next UK Government will be led by Farage

What? Really? That guy is so stupid and disgusting I can’t fathom how he has even a single follower.

it now seems the post-War period of worker rights and a more egalitarian society was the exception, not the rule

Shit, I hope you are wrong, because that’s one of the things I was counting on to prevent UK from falling too deep.