What were they being arrested for though?
nivenkos
joined 4 years ago
How many refugees are you currently putting up in your home?
Same, I thought it was an April Fools' joke at first.
may have targeted the brains of US diplomats with "directed energy" weapons
Some evidence would be nice... extraordinary claims.
GDP isn't state-owned - we aren't a Communist state (thankfully) - and any attempt to get close to that would destroy the GDP.
That 19 trillion isn't spendable money at all though. Learn the difference between GDP and a budget.
We're already at high inflation, high interest rates and little to no growth - the situation is extremely precarious in Europe. We could easily end up like Argentina or Turkey.
Europe has donated around ~$150 billion USD (including from member states). That's almost an entire year's EU budget, over 20x the ESA's annual budget (wtf), and over 20x the EU's 6-year contribution to ITER (double wtf).
The money comes from somewhere and Europe is broke.
The US needs to stop shirking their duty, and send the military in. They are making an absolute fortune off LNG and weapons exports, they should take the responsibility to help.
The issue is the physics. 60Hz doesn't give you much time to do everything that needs to be calculated in the interval. All the objects can interact with one another so it's not easily independent and parallelisable.
There's still optimisations that can be made - disable physics and have only certain actions enable them for nearby objects, smaller physics range, fewer physics-enabled objects, etc. - but those all have drawbacks for the gameplay and realism too.
A 33% difference isn't exactly "very close".
Your first article just shows the EU growing at 1% and the US growing above 2%
This means that the gap between our economies is growing. And a lot of countries are in recession (or bouncing in and out) - like Sweden, Germany and the UK.
Median wealth and income are arguably worse:
Income: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_wage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita#Table
Wealth inequality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_wealth_inequality#List
Sweden is far worse than the US for example - with much higher wealth inequality and much lower median purchasing power.
I don't think you can find a single area where the EU is performing better economically.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68203820
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?end=2022&locations=US-EU&start=1990&view=chart
We were already a lot poorer than the US, and now the gap is really opening up. At this rate China will overtake Europe by 2040 or so.
It's really the combination of the energy crisis (we are dependent on Russian gas or US LNG - we don't have enough nuclear), demographics crisis (the public pensions are unsustainable, and yet it continues to be forced upon workers having their income stolen by governments who almost certainly won't provide a pension for them in the future), and just a general lack of investment in the future infrastructure and technology (it's been over a decade, and we're still not ready for full electric vehicle switchover, nor is international high-speed rail competitive with airlines, etc.).
It's sad, this could eventually be automated.
Now people have to waste their lives just manning checkouts.