@leonmwc.bsky.social
Economist, rambler, cinephile, Wagnerite, chess aficionado
James A. Lovell Jr., Commander of Apollo 13, Is Dead at 97 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/s...
08.08.2025 22:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“So what makes a good childhood?
And what can other countries learn from the Netherlands?
So much starts with the bike.”
www.ft.com/content/7a66...
8/ The argument for appeasement is that a rate of 10-15% with a lot of carveouts is unpleasant but manegable and isn't likely to lead to a flood of recalibrated supply chains.
Moreover, a deal offers predictability at a time when that's what investors and business is craving.
7/ There's also the non-trade counterargument, which is that the US is important in a bunch of ways like in the context of Ukraine, or Pacific security, and alienating them too badly may endanger that engagement.
28.07.2025 11:43 — 👍 87 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
Gödel, Escher, Bach van Douglas R. Hofstadter heeft de reputatie een ondoorgrondelijk boek te zijn, maar zelfs als je het meeste niet begrijpt, is het een geestverruimend boek dat vele deuren opent.
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Playing Hide-and-Seek With #Cézanne in His Hometown www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/a...
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For Janeites www.nytimes.com/article/jane...
19.07.2025 07:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Disaster-proof capitalism”
“Call it the teflon economy”
economist.com/finance-and-...
#BookSky
14.07.2025 11:13 — 👍 10975 🔁 1869 💬 259 📌 111Zeno’s Conscience, Italo Svevo
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“It is a geological fact that Iceland is being torn apart as Europe and America drift away from each other.
Volcanoes testify to this.
Now Icelanders worry it could become a political reality too.
That is rekindling debate over whether to join the European Union.”
economist.com/europe/2025/...
Germany's Subcontracting Ban in the Meat Industry www.socialeurope.eu/germanys-sub...
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”As for food, Dedman points to the ‘rule of threes’ to prioritise what is needed: ‘Three minutes without air, three hours without shelter, three days without water and three weeks without food.’”
Daar gaan de noodpakketten 😀
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
„Recalling #Srebrenica, contemplating #Ukraine, it is clear that a central challenge of our times is to ensure that one terrible century is not followed by another, for the embers of murderous nationalism still burn.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/u...
We are truly in an era where *anything* can happen!
Next thing you know, the French will be praising the gourmet values of Yorkshire Pudding.
„Mr Trump is no Teddy Roosevelt.
If he were a master of Rooseveltian statecraft that tempered spheres-of-influence policies with balance-of-power realism, he would fear a Ukraine armistice that dangerously strengthens Russia.”
www.economist.com/internationa...
„In exchange (…) the 12th Century Lewis chess pieces will travel to museums in Normandy”
Of course
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Tering…
08.07.2025 16:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Die categorie hebben die teringlijers over het hoofd gezien 😀
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“Wie had dat gedacht, een autonoom rijdende VW?”
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Baltics should catch up here at least with that rail thing…
06.07.2025 07:57 — 👍 52 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0
“Wat verbaast aan Yesilgöz’ tweet en filmpje is niet zozeer het schaamteloze gestook en gelieg (dat zijn we gewend), maar vooral de strategische misser.
Steeds minder kiezers zijn vatbaar voor morele chantage met het antisemitismeverwijt.”
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Deutsche Bank arguing making banks safer is bad for security as it makes it harder to finance arms-makers.
This is an incredibly tendentious point really.
I'll tell you what *really* weakens a country: an economic meltdown caused by banks blowing up the system (again)
www.ft.com/content/4ead...
“Yesilgöz lijkt zelfs wat verDukt: zonder blikken of blozen sprak ze op X van ‘Jodenhaat’.
Duk serieus nemen als bron is net zo geloofwaardig als Sywert van Lienden geloven op feitelijkheid over mondkapjesfinanciën.”
www.parool.nl/columns-opin...
“Peter Somuah (29), jazztrompettist met Ghanese roots en Rotterdamse vleugels, is dit jaar ‘artist in focus’ bij North Sea Round Town, het bruisende fringefestival van North Sea Jazz dat #Rotterdam traditioneel wekenlang opwarmt.”
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Dalai Lama Says He Will Reincarnate, but China Has No Say in Successor
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/w...
Quote of the day: “These days the streets of Berlin run red with the blood of sacred cows.”
economist.com/europe/2025/...
“History has shown that once voters obtain government aid under a program, they are not happy to see those benefits threatened, particularly if they are told that it is being done to underwrite tax cuts for affluent Americans.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...
“Met zijn cynische humor had hij weinig aanpassingsproblemen in Rotterdam-Zuid.”
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
