I agree, but this will require political will. I think on lemmy people would vote for a government that creates stuff like this, but there are a lot of people want their government to spend as little as possible, unfortunately. I find it more likely we end up with a non-profit like wikipedia provides basic knowledge to the public, free of charge.
People have sold weapons since shortly after the first weapon was made. Trade shows are a quite common way to sell stuff. Weapon shows aren't really something new.
Thanks for translating the us narrative into the metaphor, i get they're the us is the only pizza place in town but it's not getting good reviews. They've abandoned Ukraine and are screwing over their allies. Can't wait for some other guy to start selling pizza's.
If i order a pizza and get a call they can't deliver the pizza because they needed the cheese for the pasta, but also can't give me my money back because when there is enough cheese again they still want to deliver the pizza, you would call that justified?
If you get a castle for free you're not likely to be charged property tax, considering the value initially is €0. But obviously if it was such a great deal the free castles would have been sold out by now.
Easy way to discard the problem, those kind of things are never announced. European Union and Ukraine aren't concerned about deliveries just for the fun of it.
It might be out of the scope of this article, since the main message is that a simple system is good for attracting large companies. Maybe they did not write about it because those companies don't care, maybe it's because the author or the people behind the website don't care. But i suppose they have a reason. I surely would read about that
2020 corporation: BUY MY STRAWS! REALLY GOOD STRAWS! CHEAP TOO!
environment: better stop using those, people will not properly dispose them and animals will think it's food and die of starvation because their bellies are filled with undigestable garbage. Also they can easily get stuck in a turtle's nose,
2026 corporation: BUY MY AI! REALLY GOOD AI! CHEAP TOO!
environment: better not use it too much, nature and humans included need that water too. Also they use a lot of electricity and you need either dinosaur bones or rare earth to produce that electricity, both is bad for the climate you depend on to survive.
There is a bunch of charts in the article that might answer that question, but i honestly have no clue how they compare to each other. I wrote that based on what i read in the article:
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France raises a lot of tax: €1,321bn, equal to 45.3% of GDP, compared to 37% in the UK. […]
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Germany is different. It is not a low-tax country: in 2024 it raised €1,817bn, equal to 42.2% of GDP. […]
I agree, also a single photo doesn't show the trend either. But showing them scientific evidence also hasn't convince them so far, so they might be a lost cause anyway. I am happy to see the change newspapers are slowly making from "omg the weather is real nice today" to "this nice weather is the result of something not so nice".
I didn't mean to imply that you said you support all US's actions against those regimes, neither do am I implying you meant to say you support their crimes of war, i'm asking whether you support their war crimes because when you wrote that you "defend actions taken by the USA to fight against Isis, IRGC, Al-Assad, Hussein, etc, when we had competent leaders capable of positive change." you come across as someone who believes those things were only good things while imo those include some very bad things too. Also "competent leaders capable of positive change" can have blood on their hands. If the US would recognize the ICJ they could even try and convince someone like me that they did not in fact commit any war crimes, but them not wanting to be held accountable for their actions alone makes me wonder if there even was a capable leader in the US to begin with.
PixelUnion originates from the Netherlands as well, i guess that's why they felt like writing about it. The relevancy is there, but i agree the writer didn't really achieve to convey that.
So this is just Google punishing you?