brennhill

World traveling entrepreneur, engineer, artist, and writer. Dedicated to helping people live their best life.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

French climate minister: People need to die from lack of air conditioning because global warming causes some crops to die.

This is sick stuff.

[brennhill @brennhill]

@MichaelAArouet You think these people want to work? Lol. Germany has free education, free language classes... if people are serious they can make it work.

[brennhill @brennhill]

@KyleMau I live in Berlin and it's VERY walkable. Three years here and no need or interest in a car. And that's despite the trains constantly breaking. America is horrible by comparison, and I say that as an American. Walkability is wonderful.

[brennhill @brennhill]

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[Mullvad.net @mullvadnet]

This is what the UK spyware proposal means.

There must be government spyware on every mobile device. It shall watch everything that happens, including always watching the screen, looking for things the government disapproves of.

When anything is flagged by the software as something the government doesn't like, the software must block it from being sent or displayed (in realtime).

The user of the device must not be able to shut this watching and blocking off. The only way to shut it off would be to ask the government or its proxies to do so for you, at their discretion.

Therefore the whole device must be locked down. Administrator rights and the decision of what software or operating system to run or not to run must be taken from the owner/user and handed to the government and its proxies.

Apple and Google are themselves working hard to lock down the devices they are involved in to shut out competition and establish a duopoly.

The UK government says it is "working closely" with Apple and Google and currently they synchronise and coordinate their communication on this subject.

The UK government is now proposing to mandate what would otherwise be illegal anti-competitive practices.

@GrapheneOS on the Apple and Google duopoly:
https://t.co/rbRmcUDTRu

Statement from @signalapp
https://t.co/vJILcSrs4s

@ReclaimTheNetHQ on the state spyware:
https://t.co/3FCi06bP77

The government announcement:
https://t.co/ynYjR3DIRo

[@levelsio @levelsio]

United States is probably the best example why every country should be trying to attract the best immigrants in the world

And at the same time be strict about keeping bad immigrants out or deporting them

What I hate most about European's fear to discriminate, is that we end up bringing in the wrong people, then really bad crime and ghettos happen, and now you force people to vote for right wing nationalists who actually are fully anti immigrant which isn't what we want at alll I think

The balanced view is in the middle

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

Germany is in panic over Chinese companies taking over its markets at home, abroad and in China. Having spent quite some time in China in the 2010s, I can’t help but thinking back to the arrogance and quite frankly racism of German expat businesses people. Chinese engineers with Ivy League degrees speaking fluent English and German looked down upon by German engineers with a degree from some German university, unimpressive English and less than two sentences of Chinese. The Germans didn’t see it coming because they couldn’t imagine Chinese people becoming better at what they are doing than themselves. An industry insider told me at the time how keen Chinese entrepreneurs were to collaborate with German car companies on EV development. But all the Germans worried about was they are going to steal our IP. Well, here we are.

[brennhill @brennhill]

@MichaelAArouet That's not the issue. It's where the money goes - freeloaders. If they still were building gorgeous buildings and everything was amazing and clean and there was tons of cheap high quality housing and so on, no issues.

[brennhill @brennhill]

@sosagamboa @derJamesJackson People like you are why you'll get the very people you hate in charge of the country.

[Marcos Agustín @marcosagusstinn]

The U.S. collects roughly ~27–28% of GDP in tax revenue, versus ~39–42% across the EU.

That lower-tax model partly explains why the U.S. generate faster nominal GDP growth and higher corporate profitability.

But it also helps explain why the U.S. performs worse across many social metrics, including poverty rates, inequality and universal healthcare coverage.

Europe does not need a massive rollback of the welfare state to remain competitive. What Europe needs is deeper integration:

→ Capital Markets Union
→ A truly unified Single Market for companies
→ Energy sovereignty and lower energetic costs
→ Strategic industrial nationalism in key sectors

That would significantly reduce the gap in capital markets depth, startup development, productivity and GDP growth while preserving strong European welfare states.

[brennhill @brennhill]

@eurofounder This is just false. I'm in Germany and nobody other than an intern would earn so little. The average income in Germany is nearly 60k. The best paid make double that or more.

[Бианка @BiankaB12]

The "europoor" discourse migrating from terminally online Twitter to the WSJ op-ed is actually a big tell. When a narrative stops being a meme and becomes establishment messaging, it means the establishment needs it. You simply don't reach for "but Europe is poor!" unless your domestic numbers have become very hard to spin for the citizenry.

Millennials and Gen Z have no memory of American prosperity - you can't revive the American dream, because they never lived it. And if they ever compare their median household situation to, say, Denmark or Belgium, the math is simply not mathing.

Just go with the truth (for once!) and admit the U.S. has been run as an economic extraction zone for a narrow class of people, and the bill is now coming due. Pointing at Europeans won't make average Americans grocery bill or insurance premiums go lower.

[brennhill @brennhill]

@MichaelAArouet Speaking as an American living in Germany, the average person would be worse off. Wealth is more than things. Almost everyone i know back home not working on tech or medicine would be better off being German

[Denis Yurchak @denisyurchak]

the more i built my business, the more right-wing economically i become

the thought of the state taking my money and redistributing it hurts physically

i would much rather invest and save for retirement myself and buy private insurance than trust some barely competent bureaucrats

incidentally, the left also seem more and more like cry-babies

they have built nothing useful in their lives and can only take what belongs to other people

politically, i stay fully liberal tho – freedom and democracy rules folks

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Yes. Germany can make plenty of tanks but who cares? Tanks are obsolete. How many drones can Germany make?

[@levelsio @levelsio]

My gf is banned from reviewing places in Europe on Google Maps after she gave one restaurant in Portugal a 1-star review

When she reviews inside EU it gets auto rejected, outside EU she can review any place

Free speech in Europe has sadly died a long time ago

[brennhill @brennhill]

@GlobalDiss The Germans want the impossible

[brennhill @brennhill]

@Noahpinion We care about riots in the street and property damage. That's reason enough

[brennhill @brennhill]

@AdamSinger What happens when most Americans discover that they are broke ass with big cars?