The moment one rocket even thinks about starting its engines, a gazillion heavily subsidized environmental concerned organizations will do everything to stop it. You can't have both space flight and this green deal at the same time, as the latter one kills the first before it even began.

Disclaimer: Dutch here. First, I might not've been completely up to date, but this startup, I've never heard of them (while I work for national government and plenty of medium or bigger companies), so I guess that big of a startup they're not. Second, if you process data which can be linked to a person, company or a combination of both, and if you're working for any governmental entity, you are required to enlist your actions at the newly formed national register for algorithms, AI and machine learning initiatives and be subject to regular audits.This register can be found here: https://algoritmes.overheid.nl... So if they think this is restrictive, it could be, but for all we know their AI is halucinating again :P

The Putin price is a lot better than the alternatives it seems...

How many couldn't afford the energy anymore for airconditioning and other measures?

This is NOT something you also want...

With the tax subsidies ending for electric vehicles, and used EV's are being exported at massive rates to countries which still have these subsidies, I don't expect electric to sustain this growth, but I even expect a decline when the current lease contracts end. Rougly 80% of the population cannot afford a new car, let alone a new EV when they have to buy it with their own money. t I'd like to see all ambitions in 5-10 years, knowing de-industrialization set is massively in western Europe and time will tell if those green deals survive reality when energy prices keep increasing increasingly. Idealism only carries you as far as your wallet goes.

Getting screwed over by preferential treatment, court rulings and what not, men to go their own way. I saw a podcast recently that by 2030 there will be less than 6 grandkids per 1000 grandparents. Ladies nights are now only visited by only females, because the men hate the treatment they have gotten since #MeToo and other feminist movements. I'm not so sure if this can be turned around anytime soon tbh.

...until they figure out that you also need skilled employees to operate the plant. I'm wondering if they can pull that one off.

That's one thing the IPO is going to solve; Reddit will be enshittified to oblivion ;) Anyone heard anything from Tumblr these days?

You mean the single parent household where the mother earns her money using OnlyFans?

I think they're just gambling that this one just flies over ;-)

Office work is not the majority of people. You can't work from home in a factory or restaurant. and when your company is closed, you're not earning money to replace these things.

You can build the high end factories, but you need an educational system able to deliver them skilled workers, which it seems it cannot anymore: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/0...

This is one about the plastic soup which appears much less than what is being reported (albeit plastic in oceans are still not okay): https://nltimes.nl/2023/08/07/...

It's becoming more and more apparent that organizations screaming about climate change and environmental are getting more and more debunked. No, it's not all fine and there's still a lot of work to be done, but the alarmist reports show (in some cases mighty) exaggeration of numbers. This year, we're doing pretty good in Europe actually in regard to wild fires and such, but the news is making it look like the world is collapsing. Play with data for yourself: https://gwis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/...