Typical Spain. Making the country less productive so the football billionaires can get richer.

We could save a lot of money and emissions if we brought the continents back together! Imagine Paris to New York by high speed train.

Ew no, not with the Americans behaving the way they are now. The Atlantic is fine where it is thank you very much.

As an American...I concur. The rest of the world doesn't deserve that.

Americans behaving the way they are now and Parisians mixed together? Hell on Earth

Hello, you are going against the internet narrative of "america bad" please stop doing that.

Look for reports from the Iranian team. I bet those weren’t as widely publicized as the rosy positive ones.

Iran isn't usually described as European and I did qualify my statement with mostly.

I know it’s not European. Great job missing my point entirely.

If you thought I was claiming everybody had a great time, then you are a missing my point.

Nice on a personal level in real life but not when dealing with a population in the abstract? Say it ain’t so!

Yes, I have very positive interactions with people outside of the US, and (hopefully!) most of them would say the same about me. That doesn't mean that what my government is doing isn't really shitty though, or that I would expect the other 350 million people around me to be uniformly positive to interact with. For starters, a lot of them voted for the government that's being like this, and although that doesn't necessarily mean that they would interact poorly with people from countries that are having to deal with the fallout, I wouldn't blame someone for not wanting to give them the benefit of the doubt, or even not wanting to give me the benefit of the doubt (I can't prove how I voted, and even if I could, it wouldn't be unreasonable for that to be considered insufficient for exculpability).

My honest impression is that most of the time when governments are at odds, the people living in the countries will often not share those sentiments when interacting at an individual level. During the brief period when TikTok was unavailable in the US (before the ban kept repeatedly getting pushed until they finalized Ellison et. al. acquiring the US rights for it), a lot of people apparently went onto a Chinese social media app as a silly form of rebellion, with both sides basically agreeing the whole thing was silly and that even they their governments thought they were enemies, the citizens didn't have to.

Fair.

Perhaps we can extend the Black Sea to keep those dirty Russians out of Europe

Would have been fun if the NTP server would return dates in the futures for requests from Netgear equipment, making certificates invalid and giving people an awful experience.

Since when is Tesla software great? Every time I get into a Tesla I have to spend five minutes to pair my iPhone over Bluetooth like it’s 2010. I then have to place my phone on the wireless charging pad and enjoy navigation on the small screen of my phone since it doesn’t support CarPlay. I have to make a playlist of my music before the trip since I can’t control my music safely.

Where I am from most farmers are millionaires. They are all corporations. 200 per machine per year is nothing to them.

In the US, according to USDA, the median total family income for a farming family is ca $108k

Which is a huge amount over the median all family income in the US of 83k. So in that sense farmers are richer than average Americans.

I would not say $1-$2k/mo extra income counts as a huge amount richer. It’s like 58th percentile by family income. I don’t really think it makes sense to call solidly middle class income rich in any sense…

It’s 25% richer. That’s huge amount. Most people, if given a 25% income boost, could make a lot of quality of life changes.

Well this is the problem with farming and politics.

You have a long tail of poor farmers, and a few very large powerful farmers.

Thus you have the politics of the small family farm barely making a living, and large industrial monocultures at the same time, and people picking and choosing which, as and when it suits.

That is how they know the subscription is a bad idea. They are afraid of being squeezed like they squeeze their own labor. That 200 dollar fee will go up any time the CEO needs to juice the stock price.

They’re asset millionaires and maybe gross revenue millionaires, but not typically net income millionaires.

Most millionaires are asset millionaires. Almost nobody has a million in their savings account.

Farms are some of the least liquid assets. Not because it's that hard to sell them but when your whole income depends on owning something you can't just decide to give it up. And the social networks you depend on for things like finding seasonal workers or helping out after a natural disaster break down if you move.

Then most of the world has some explaining to do.

So you are OK with it if I paint a big mural on your car, home, laptop, phone?

That’s not what happened here. Your strawman is showing.

Art is cool.

Painting your art on someone else's private property is not.

Pushing your political agenda in public spaces is especially not cool. I just want to walk outside and enjoy the world, don't want your political agenda pushed on me.

imagine telling people not to bring their politics to "the world" so you can enjoy it. the world isn't a product you ordered.

i mean a modicum of reflection shows you that what you are suggesting would in fact be imposing your own political agenda on everyone else.

Is it morally or socially acceptable to paint over someone else's private property?

The murals are painted on private property.

No. I will not make apolitical art.

That is fine. Just don't use private property in the public space for it. Put it in an art gallery somewhere.

Hero.

Pushing your personal agenda in public spaces on people by using someone's private property makes you a hero?

Yes. Otherwise, only those with money get to choose what messages are shown to the public.