It’s Christmas, it doesn’t hurt to see a few cute animals. Not everything has to be doom and gloom.

Merry Christmas.

I mean, sure. No checks needed before.

The will of the Russian people.

Sadly there was no way…

They’re going to use AI to identify and block ads for me, right? Or let me set a cookie preference and automatically apply that to every page I visit?

That would be rather useful things to have AI for IMHO.

Not everything is unified sadly. I read somewhere that when it comes to services, the different rules within the EU is effectively a 40% tariff between EU countries.

There is much to be done, if only people could set aside national interests and understand that it’s EU27 vs World and not Finland vs Italy or Greece vs Luxembourg.

The UK needs to realise that brexit really was a bad idea and they only can stand up to the US as part of the EU.

The UK is a big economy and is still being kicked around. My country would be absolutely curb-stomped if outside the EU.

Most, if not all, that I post have an archive link if there’s a paywall.

Good that you got to read the article at least. 😀

Not sure why this is so downvoted. It’s not a bad article.

The economy adapts to the supply of workers, and as the UK found out after brexit, if you restrict the supply of workers the work generally goes away.

They had produce rotting in the fields because they couldn’t find workers and the locals weren’t interested in that kind of work. Raising salaries wasn’t an option because consumers weren’t interested in paying more. Economics is fun, isn’t it?

Thanks.

That’s some Trump maths right there. But if you find a service 110% cheaper let me know, because I’ll buy A LOT from them. 😁

I mean, it’s better than no internal market, but it sure can get a whole lot better.

It’s not missing, it’s just very VERY far down.

No idea what happened.

Doesn’t have to be mine, you can mail yours if you like. Or just pick a few at random.

I put the archive.is link there for you, if you want to read it.

I got the reference. 🫡

The guy in jail is a far right nutter. They’re attacking their own kind then.

Premise: Moon is cheese coloured.

Conclusion: Moon is made of cheese.

“Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur”

You’re absolutely right. It’s not dumb because of that. It’s a dumb take because obviously migration can be weaponised, it’s being done all over the world and has nothing to do with how racist a country is. Is there problems with racism in Europe? Sure. Is it worse than anywhere else? Hardly.

So you’re either very naive, pro-russian, or trolling. I hope it’s the first.