How nuclear reactor pressure vessels should be made - on an assembly line.

Out of all the drama from Brazil is another banger of a production report from the best oil company in the world - Petrobras. $PBR $PBR.A

Ok. So - this really isn’t surprising.

Canadians: "We're joining the EU! Take THAT, Trump!" EU: "Yeah, take THAT, Trump!" *EU looks at Canada's complete mess of regulations, interprovincial trade barriers, and business-hostile environment* EU: "Yeah Canada, uhhhhh, don't call us, we'll call you."

Kemi for PM!

I don’t know about you but I am about fed up with the bullshit.

Every time this topic/map drops, the comments do that exact melodrama HAHAHAHAHAHA

Someone turned the AI CEO drama into a Spanish soap opera!

The classic dilemma of the leftist - if I truly raise people out of poverty, they might not vote for me anymore. Lula won because he promised massive handouts and increased benefit payments the government cannot afford. Full stop - the way things are is NOT WORKING - Brazil is notorious for regulations and bureaucracy as thick as the Amazon. Never-mind complicated taxation. And it has resulted in economic stagnation nationwide and nothing gained for the bottom 50% of Brazil. In fact without welfare benefits, the income of the bottom 50% would have in fact declined over the last 30 years. PT has created a population of people utterly dependent on welfare benefits for any increase income. Cut the bureaucracy. Cut the red tape. Allow capital to work.

Yeah, Brazilians, for some reason would rather have the market capitalization of their entire economy drop by 20% in one day thanks to the the the Brazilian Real dropped 8% in the usd over night. Like, dear poor Brazilians, you just lost literally 8% of your purchasing power against the global reserve currency. Are you happy???

If Brazil had an instant runoff, the entire chaos of last night could have easily been avoided. There is literally no reason for holding runoff elections when ranked choice solves this problem and allows for an instant runoff.

More votes in the second round of voting than the first in Brazil? Whn has that ever happened anywhere?? A country that elected an even stronger conservative Congress and then turned around and elected Lula? Wild.

Imagine the Supreme Court stopping the count after polls close and ordering polls reopen for two hours ONLY in Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Atlanta, and you sort of get the scope of what's currently happening in Brazil.

How many Americans actually just straight-up starve to death? In the latest data, from 2024, there were 22 cases. And not even one of them was about poverty making it unaffordable to obtain food.

“It’s about students upset with library hours”

There's a large Vietnamese community in France 🇫🇷. Vietnam was a French colony that was ruled more directly and for longer than Algeria in many respects. Vietnamese kids top the French education rankings, have some of the lowest unemployment of any immigrant group, and somehow managed not to set Paris on fire. Weird how some use “colonial trauma” as a reason to succeed and others treat it as a reason to riot

French students frantically search Christian Dior for school uniforms after their school reportedly ran out of blazers ahead of parents evening

Lend me your energy!

Aux armes, citoyens Formez vos bataillons Marchons, marchons! Qu'un sang impur Abreuve nos sillons!

Here’s the problem I have with people who look at what’s happening in France and fail to realize that it’s partly due to this new attitude where we pretend like Israel committed genocide, slaughtered babies, and controls the world for sport. You can’t look at what’s happening in France, and not connect it to the greater civilization battle that Israel has been fighting since its inception. The inversion of morality as it relates to the only Jewish state will continue to carry over into society and culture because there’s a reason that you keep seeing Palestinian flags being flown in France next to the fire and brimstone. You have a culture that does not value human life, and that thinks barbarism is the way to 40 virgins and a mule or whatever I don’t know. Whereas you have another culture that has the upmost respect for human life. That’s why they didn’t nuke the people who tried to commit another Holocaust against them on October 7th.

So this all started in the 1980s. This was when the birth rate across the OECD plummeted. This creates a lot of issues but for the government, the primary concern becomes how pay-as-you-go welfare systems get funded: which rely on increasing population to overcome the effects of inflation and people living longer. This can gets kicked down road until the mid 2000’s when you have a very radical change in European immigration - Their welfare state is even more generous than ours so they need even more people. So suddenly a continent that was very hard to immigrate to becomes very easy to immigrate into. Show up at the border with a sob-story and for years you get a rubber stamp of a refugee. It was hoped that these people would work.. these people barely spoke the language and in a case of what they fuck were they thinking: some Syrian or north africa knew exactly jack shit about operating a high tech cnc machine in Germany, or about aerodynamics and composite materials to get a job in Toulouse.. Even operating a sewing machine in Italy.. forgeabout it. So these people do nothing but go welfare rolls.. there is no good solution for them other than giving them 10k in euros and deporting them back to where they came from.