That is what Russia is doing, however the West is sanctioning entities involved in this all the time. That increases risk and means extra work. So Russia can not make as much money selling oil like this and if customers have a choice, it is easier to deal with legal oil. So if oil prices fall, then Russia is going to sell less oil.
That is somewhat true for all sanctions. Russia is going to find ways around them, but even then it hurts Russia.
Secondary sanctions. If a Chinese company trades with Russia, it can not trade with the US. That includes things like financing, handling US cargo and so forth. The US is the bigger market. Also the EU has also sanctioned Chinese companies for trading with China. Obviously if there are US sanctions, EU sanctions are much more likely as well.
There are ways around it, like link shorteners and so forth, but the main point is that Meta is afraid.
It also shows how incredible the impact of the wealth gap on climate issues is even in rich countries like the US. The 1% having per capita emissions of 76t, whereas US average is at 17.6t. It is even starker in Europe with a lot of rich people, but lower per capita emissions.
Not needed. The better target are the ports. Novorossiysk is pretty close to Ukraine and handles 30% of Russias oil exports. The ports around Primorsk and Ust-Luga are also within drone range, but they need longer range ones for those.
Just because a soldier ist dead, does not mean he does not recieve pay…
Because Saudi Arabia wants to show the world that it is more then an oil state and having EV production is a good way of doing that.
China isn’t the biggest emitter per capita. Why would you suddenly shift the goalposts between sentences?
Why do you have a problem with multiple facts? It is rather simple: People look at China, because it is the largest emitter in the world. Then you claimed that countries like India and Indonesia are dirtier then China, which is looking at emissions per capita, just plain and simply wrong.
The big difference being that Chinese emissions per capita have finally started falling,
Again problems with facts. China has had a slight growth in emissions this year and the population is falling. There have been some months and quarters with emissions dropping, but it is still probably stable.
Even when you look at consumption China is by far the largest emitter in the world. In 2022 the OECDs combined emissions were only 30% higher then those of China, when looking at consumption. When you look at per capita emissions, those are close to EU level and the data is from 2022, so it might have crossed by now.
https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2
Also China had insane emissions growth for decades from a low level due to producing for the West. Interesting that you seem to want to deny countries like India and Indonesia that opportunity. The main reason production is leaving China is high cost, due to high wages.
China is the biggest emitter. India and Indonesia have about a quarter of Chinas per capita emissions. Malaysia is about as bad as China in terms of per capita emissions. It however is also about as rich as China in per capita terms, so not a place for truely cheap workers.
Putin has been running massive propaganda about Russia being strong. 800,000 is 1 in 200 Russians. So most Russians will personally know somebody who has died or been badly injured in Putins war. Just imagine what happens when Putin has to explain to them, that the war is lost. Even worse an end of the war, means the military industry being slowed down, which will cause an economic crisis. In other words it is doubtful if Putin can survive loosing the war.
The US military has a 1.328million soldiers. So no European country will build up such a force, if they are not at war. France or Turkey would be next in line with 270000 or 355000 soldiers. I am pretty sure that Ukraine will still have a larger force for some time after the war, just to make sure Russia does not do something stupid.
They dropped as car manufacturers forfilled their fleet targets. EU targets have been raised, so it should go up again.
Somebody is lobbying for an EU Army I see.
Just set up a proper government owned rail company.
Trump has a record of changing his mind within a phone call. Also he is often making threats and then not followed through on them.
We also already saw the US not sending weapons to Ukraine and although there were problems Ukraine did not collapse. In the mean time Ukraines and Europes arms industry has improved. So if that happens again it probably will be survivable.
Yes, but when you show the face of them being dead, then they might have to pay the family compensation.
You can run servers on Android as well. Kodi is a dedicated media server app for streaming and the like, which is available for Android as well. It might also be an interesting interface for Home Assistant, if you are into that kind of stuff. As in put it on a stand or something permanently plugged in. Something like an old school radio might also be an idea. As in connect it to some good loud speakers and just play music from it.
I know some German unions have managed to have it as part of the agreements they have with some companies and also the German government(as in people working for the German government). However it is rarely used.
There are some models for sabaticals, like lower pay and then basically a year of paid vacation. It also includes insurance policies, as there is an obvious incentive to just fire you before you take the time off.
Also especially for long timeframes, consider FIRE. With a 50% savings rate it takes something like 16.6 years to retire. The idea is to invest into index funds and then live of the income they make aka become a capitalist. However I get why some people might not like that, but especially if you have some wealth from other source that might be a pretty great option. Also the 16.6 years use 4% save withdrawal rate, which has historically worked well, but if you are willing to return to work and take some risk higher withdrawal rates can work as well.
However companies do not like employees having wealth. It makes them independent and that means negotiating power. So most options probably do not work.
They are also the main developers of the Mastodon software. It is not just hosting the service. The software needs to be able to compete with Bluesky and right now it quite simply does not. The only way to get the quality needed is to have some full time lead developers. Also they need some proper admins to run the websites. Mastodon social is at 250,000 active users right now, but it is also fairly likely to grow fast with what Elon is up to with Twitter. Just to compare Twitter used to have 7500 employees, with a 1000 today.