President of Campania Vincenzo De Luca calls Senior Advisor Elon Musk a "cokehead" who had "15 kids around the globe" and "should be subjected to involuntary psychiatric hold."
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Apr 6, 2025
Germany is turning into Italy: the right is large, gets into government and, when it doesn't, dictates the agenda. But hey the left sings Bella Ciao isn't that pretty!?
Europe is already quite great. Just look at these figures (most from 2023):
Car production (units):
🇪🇺EU - 12 million
🇺🇸US - 10.6 million
Steel production (tons):
🇪🇺EU - 126 million
🇺🇸US - 80.7 million
Export value (2024):
🇪🇺EU -> 🇺🇸US - €502 billion
🇺🇸US -> 🇪🇺EU - €344 billion
Share of emission-free sources in the energy mix:
🇪🇺EU - 68%
🇺🇸US - 40%
Life expectancy at birth:
🇪🇺EU - 81.5
🇺🇸US - 78.4
Infant mortality rate:
🇪🇺EU - 3.3
🇺🇸US - 5.6
So let’s keep Europe great - and make it even greater!
The far-right, claiming to fight the fight against the elites, backed by the richest man around.
This is literally what Berlusconism was about. Welcome to Italy, world.
At Amazon, Jeff Bezos told us to "not compromise for the sake of social cohesion." I saw him tolerate lengthy, exhausting arguments as a result.
When I was a director, my VP constantly argued with Jeff and refused to back down.
In 1997, Walmart tried to enter the German market, and became a case study in failure.
My favourite story from this period was that staff were trained to be friendly to customers, which freaked out some shoppers, but made others think staff were hitting on them.
@lufthansa i called your customer support (phone and online chat), as my seats have been changed an we lost our reservation which includes a baby bassinet for a 12h flight. Customer sevice did not get to the bottom of the issue.