@OrlovProvince@VictoriaYaml@Bluebearmonkey@teortaxesTex Yes, Norway has a lot of oil which is why they are wealthier than the rest of Scandinavia. Swedish economy is traditionally focused on precisely the areas where China has focused recently which is why the involution threatens us as well.
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@teortaxesTex You are right of course. I'm just hoping that as their labor accumulates, the great Chinese people will slow down and enjoy life a little instead of staying miserable while conquering the universe.
@teortaxesTex In what? This was typical for working/middle class families in the 50s and 60s, I don't think they worked more than us. In the 1800s, sure.
@teortaxesTex This really captures the 2026 zeitgeist. I think playing defense and stalling in the hope that US and China eventually join us in comfortable decadence is the right play. In a world where this doesn't happen there is no point of fighting to the death for a EU or Swedish identity.
@Bluebearmonkey@teortaxesTex It really sucks if we need to either become miserable like you or de-industrialized and helpless. How about you look at our superior way of living and realize you can also work less and have more? We did great before and will survive without being flooded with your cheap stuff.
@Bluebearmonkey@teortaxesTex I'll give you that in Sweden specifically school math is to easy. But I think you are quite lonely among Chinese if you recommend your way of rearing children to other countries.
@Bluebearmonkey@teortaxesTex Not sure what I was thinking responding to a guy who is not even serious and just looking for for excuses to spew hate on white people all over X. But I'm still curious why you think your countrymen should keep producing so much cheap stuff for us if you hate us so much.
@Bluebearmonkey@teortaxesTex My Chinese parents in law would prefer the valueable Chinese labor to go to stuff like indoor plumbing, sewage and insulated houses instead of being given away way to cheap to rich foreigners for gold, while the elite Chinese brag about not needing anything from the west.
@AngelicaOung I have no idea what I'm talking about but at first glance it makes sense to me. If there is more oil than refining capacity the refineries can charge higher prices, if oil supply is limiting they can chharge less. So a crude oil crunch should lead to lower crack spread?
@Apis_Bicornis@entity279@AngelicaOung@0dongfeng The political elites are fairly integrated but regular people have no idea about the front page news in their neighboring country. And EU parliament elections are a farce since noone knows what issues are being debated there and which party stands for what. Long way to go.
@AngelicaOung Yes, when it comes to critical and strategic capabilities. But investments made on EU level will be less efficient since everyone working there is still looking after their own country's interest rather than Europe as a whole.
@phl43@pranesh Datacenter buildout and frontier LLM development are separate things. The former could be done by AI labs as well as hyperscalers like Amazon and Microsoft with or without open source LLMs. But the latter obviously gets less lucrative if open source is closer to the frontier.
@FrancisAwartefe You could argue that Lamine wouldn't have turned away from Digne and hit the ball with his arm if not for the incoming kick. Otherwise I think it's clearly handball.