The new electric SUV market under battery supply constraints: Might they increase CO2 emissions? Two trends have shaped the European car market over the past decade: electrification and SUVisation. Recently, they have merged in a new product: the …

IMPORTANT: Study finds electrifying SUVs/pick-ups could actually INCREASE emissions by using up scarce battery material that could otherwise be used to electrify a lot MORE smaller cars (and e-bikes). Via @sciencedirect.bsky.social

SUVs are too big. #CarBloat
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Trump asks aides if they think Musk’s behavior could be related to alleged drug use, source says | CNN Politics Trump has asked aides and advisers if they believe Musk’s recent behavior could be related to his alleged drug use.

Interesting, I had similar initial thoughts.
#Trump #Musk

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Don’t let Trump, MAGA and Elon win in Canada.

Billionaire Ray Dalio: 'I'm worried about something worse than a recession' Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio said he is worried about a breakdown of the global monetary order.

Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio said Sunday that he’s concerned that the global monetary system will break down.
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/13/b...

I just want to tip my hat to the crack team of White House economists who were able to discover--in just a few short days--that the U.S. is dependent on China for smartphones, computers and semiconductors.

Allow someone in your life and let them be your companion, you cant watch and share reels for the rest of your life.

🍹🤕🍿

Retaliatory pain is justified if calculated accurately.
But no room for #TrumpTarrifs formula

Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure

“At 3C of global heating, climate damage cannot be insured against, covered by governments, or adapted to. That means no more mortgages or new real estate devt, no long-term investment, no financial stability. The financial sector as we know it ceases to function and capitalism ceases to be viable.”

Insurance sector is the true ‘canary in the capitalist coal mine’ - it knows that 3C heating breaks society and the economy that’s meant to serve it

Reagan's 1988 speech is in sharp contrast to Trump’s stance with the use of tariffs. "Beware of demagogues who are ready to declare trade wars against our friends".

www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/rona...

youtu.be/v-pjybRvmv8

youtu.be/7zMEH3VMPFY

پٹواری کدھر ہیں؟ بلیو سکائی پر نظر ہی نہیں آ رہے۔
باقی لوگ بھی چند دن کی محبت کے بعد چھوڑ چلے بلیو سکائی کو

EU launches push to boost defence as Trump pivots away from Europe The EU on Wednesday will look to launch plans to help member states bolster their defences as Europe grapples with Russian aggression and the potential loss of the US security umbrella.

A key part of the #EU's proposals is to not just equip its forces to face the menace from Russia but also to make sure investments bolster European defence firms.
Brussels wants to use the 150bn euro programme to do more joint procurement/buy more European.
#Trump

www.france24.com/en/live-news...

دل بہت اداس ہے۔
اسلئے گجریلہ بنانے کا فیصلہ کیا ہے

French lawmakers back bill to bring back village bars France's rural areas have seen the number of its cafés drop in the last few decades. The lower house of Parliament passed a bill that would make it easier for café owners to be granted a permit to sell alcohol.

French lawmakers back bill to bring back village bars

New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.

Cartoon noting the irony that car infrastructure is commonly considered a public investment, and public transit infrastructure is often attacked as a wasteful subsidy, when the opposite is actually true.

"Public investment" vs "Wasteful Subsidy." The only problem with this clever Singer cartoon is that some people might actually not get that it’s sarcastically illustrating the incorrect perception problem, NOT telling the truth.

Just in case it actually needs to be said, the truth is the opposite.

In 1996, Utrecht NL transformed a 6-lane car street thru the heart of the city into a car-free street that easily carries 40k people on bikes a day plus a LOT of public transit riders — far more people now than ever moved on it in cars. And with so much less pollution/emissions, noise & public cost.

Ukraine and Europe, alone against Russia EDITORIAL. The violent exchange between Donald Trump, JD Vance and Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Friday, February 28, illustrates the hostility of the Trump administration toward Ukraine an...

"We need to stand together, speed up the timetable for the organization of a strong European defense, and prepare public opinion for the brutal shift toward a different world."
#France #UK #Starmer #Macron #Ukraine #Russia #Trump #NATO
www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

Ukraine and Europe, alone against Russia EDITORIAL. The violent exchange between Donald Trump, JD Vance and Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Friday, February 28, illustrates the hostility of the Trump administration toward Ukraine an...

"For both #Starmer and #Macron, this is no longer the time for a charm offensive to woo Washington, which has hardly produced any results."
#France #UK #Ukraine #Russia #Trump #EU #NATO
www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

French nuclear shield could extend across Europe Jet fighters armed with nuclear weapons could be posted to Germany as Emmanuel Macron discusses Ukraine’s defence with Donald Trump

ایک اکیلا فرانس ٹرمپ کو چیلنج کرنے کیلئے تیار۔ کیا انگریزی بولنے والا برطانیہ اسکا ساتھ دے گا؟
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Unelected billionaire breaks laws to "restore" democracy This is NOT what democracy looks like.

Unelected billionaire breaks laws to "restore" democracy

"What #Musk is up to is #illegal. Most egregiously, his deletion of entire depts and Trump’s refusal to spend as directed by Congress is unconstitutional. That’s why courts enjoined them." www.publicnotice.co/p/elon-musk-...

‏صبر و قناعت اور معافی کا سبق اتنا رٹایا جاتا ہے کہ ذہنی غلامی واحد مقصد بن جاتی ہے، سماجی تبدیلی کی راہیں بند ہو جاتی ہیں۔

‏ہم نے صبر اور معافی کے تصورات کو حالات سے سمجھوتے اور طاقتور کے سامنے سر تسلیم خم کرنے کا جواز بنا لیا ہے۔
نتیجہ صرف و صرف استحصال ہے ہر سطح پر۔ خاندان و معاشرے سے لیکر ریاست تک

‏بات دراصل یہ ہے کہ صبر اور قناعت کا جو تصور ہمیں جس شکل میں پڑھایا جاتا ہے بلکہ مسلط کیا جاتا ہے وہ صرف و صرف استحصال کا آلہ ہے، سب سے بہترین آلہ۔
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Headline: Trump administration wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers but can’t figure out how to reach them.

Far right-wing forces have long argued that government doesn’t work. They routinely provide irrefutable evidence that government doesn’t work when we foolishly give THEM control over it.

I really wish Americans would stop treating the continued existence of Canada as the sort of thing they can do amusing thought experiments about.

اتنی طویل خشک سالی 🤕

اللہ تعالیٰ ہم سے ناراض ہے۔ ابھی بھی توبہ کرلو اور بند کردو گناہوں کی زندگی گزارنا۔

خان صاحب کو جیل میں رکھ کر ککڑ اور دیسی گھی کھلا رہے ہو۔
پھانسی چڑھاؤ خان صاحب تاکہ بارانٕ رحمت برسے۔

‏یہ مت بھولیں کہ این جی او مافیا کا سارا دھندہ اس نکتے کے گرد گھومتا ہے کہ دیہاتیوں کو گاؤں میں ہی رہنا چاہیئے۔
اب ظاہر جب وہ گاؤں میں ہی رہیں گے تو ان کی فرسودہ روایات کا حصہ بنے رہیں گے۔
یعنی ان سے شخصی آزادی کے بنیادی اصول جیسے روزگار اور نقل و حرکت چھین لینا چاہتے ہیں

‏اور اگر لڑکوں نے زبردستی کی شادی قبول کرنی ہے تو لڑکیاں بھی کرلیں۔
بات صرف اتنی ہے کہ لڑکیوں کی زبردستی کی شادی کے خلاف تقاریر منافع بخش کاروبار ہے۔
گھریلو تشدد اور غیرت کے نام پر جیسی رسومات کو جاری رکھنا ہے تاکہ این جی او مافیا کا کاروبار پھلتا پھولتا رہے