Pretty much sums it up, yep. Sorry it's hard for you to accept.

* The US hosts over 700 unicorn startups (companies valued above $1 billion), compared with roughly between 30 to 36 in France, and also leads in commercial tech patenting and R&D intensity (around 3.5% of GDP versus France’s ~2.2%).
* France’s nominal GDP per capita is roughly half that of the United States (about $49,000 versus $85,000 to $95,000 in recent years).
* French labor productivity (GDP per hour worked) is about 10 to 14% lower than in the US, with the gap widening since 2000 and driven almost entirely by weaker performance in digitally intensive sectors.

The truth hurts sometimes, but shamelessly lying about it doesn't change the facts.

*YAWN* I lived in Europe for 14 months and was in France 3-4 times, including Paris, but nice try.

Ah, so your argument is that "rioting is French" and the natives should just shut up and get behind the arabs and north africans burning their monuments, historic buildings, and churches to the ground? Nah, I'd argue they probably should prefer remigration of those folks before the natives decide to kill them, which is a much more realistic read on what's happening now and how these things tend to play out, historically.

I read this one. Checks out 100% like a fucking prophecy.

Thinking isn't your strong suit. You've always been a moron who believes anything the media tells you. If you had looked into it you'd realize that's about 1-3% of data centers. However, you just quoted a bunch of lefty journalists. So, yeah, you get that kind of tripe. How about an actual study ? Sorry fresh out of socialist aparachiks for you, though. They don't bother with studies.

France, like a lot of EU countries, cannot really produce jack shit comparatively with the US or even with other EU peers. They are too busy trying to put out the fires started by letting in a metric shitton of Arabs and North Africans. They aren't riots by students, they are riots by foreigners who hate western values France abandoned long go. That's why the French haven't really invented shit since Louis Pasture was alive. They are too busy trying to not-work so they don't have to bear the burden of their social welfare programs that have been growing for 50 years.

What France needs is another Charles the Hammer Martel to run the scummy "immigrants" back to Africa who want to mug the productive citizens with ultra-high-taxes, terrorize their train depots, and rape the white girls who happen to walk by their shitty hotels. All while demanding money from the few actually still working. Youth unemployement is sky-high in France. Would you want to work for a bunch of Communist-minded assholes who hate you? Deport them before they cause a civil war and you have to kill them. Do what the Moroccans did and just dump them in a big load back on their host countries. "Here ya go!". If those countries won't take them back, too bad! Remember Ceuta? You just drop them off and let them wreck havoc in their own countries.

France is the poster child for Socialism and those chickens are coming home to roost. It wasn't free markets and free speech that got them here. It's the instinct to tax anything that moves and embrace any white guilt they could muster.

Yeah, heaven forbid Americans vote to butt out of foreign wars, GTFO of EU politics, and keep their own money. THE HORROR. Bro, FUCK YOU and shove the crayon up your ass with the gerbils. Voting doesn't do shit. The fact that you think it matters shows what a dumb fuck you already were before you started writing nonsense.

Did you even read my post or are you as illiterate as you are stupid? I already said Trump was the idiot who said he'd end the war in 24 hours, but you just skipped that part and tried to make me out as a Foxnews Trump guy. If people don't conform to your world view you just stuff them in a convenient box no matter how wrong the label, I guess. What else should I expect from a "You gotta keep sending your tax dollars to a foreign war" moron. No, I still dont' give a fuck and your "reasons to support Ukraine" are nowhere near good enough. They are pathetic and you were talking yourself in circles. If anyone needs natgas it's the EU, not the USA. As you yourself said, the US has plenty. Now, there is no doubt global markets push the price up but that's not a reason to send billions to Ukraine, not even close. FUCK UKRAINE. FUCK RUSSIA. FUCK YOU.

I wouldn't be surprised if folks tried to just replace their iPhone with one of these. I'm guessing Apple does something to fuck you out of doing that, though.

See that's the fucked up thing. I'm an American. I can actually speak whatever I want and whenever I want (in theory and for now). However, I'm certainly not going to be cowed by "Nadir" on /. because he says so. Fuck your mother, bro. Fuck Ukraine && Russia and all you EU faggots in France, too.

More proof the government is just a bunch of lawless gangsters. The highest law in the land (the Constitution) doesn't apply and that's fucked up. Courts go out of their way not to have to rule on Constitutional issues so they can avoid having to actually enforce the law. Presidents never get congress to declare war, despite being legally bound to do so. No law supercedes the Constitution, but that's exactly how the courts work in reality. Same with apportionment and other critical issues. They just ignore the law: completely.

That tells me the form of government we have. We elect folks based off who ran the most TV commercials to scare the plebs with bullshit that doesn't matter. Then those officials ignore everything they promised and do the opposite. Then we get fleeced to fight foreign wars that are completely irrelevant to our interests and ruinously expensive. The corporations who own/run the government get fabulously rich, everyone else gets fucked, but those same morons are screaming "Give me more government!"

It's so fucked up, but them's the breaks.

Lol, you trust the media? Goddamn, that's like admitting you eat boogers and sniff your own farts like a fine wine. Are you some kind of administration official? What's wrong with you?

Pathetic and ridiculous. If anyone needs to learn the lessons of 1984, it's you. You're like one of the top-3 foremost clueless idiots on the site. You're constantly fighting for bigger government, more authoritarianism, greater room for censorship, and other heinous anti-freedom shit-causes. You're not even self-aware enough to realize that 1A protects batshit-stupid left wing communists such as yourself most of all. If you actually got what you're always fighting for, you wouldn't even be posting on Slashdot. You'd be standing in a bread line hoping they don't find any of your old posts and identify you as a political activist. You see, once The Terror starts, the guillotine (or whatever they use next time) doesn't discriminate much. They start chopping off heads of anyone who is willing to speak up on anything. You and Robespierre would have been best buds... until he killed you.

I don't care one bit. I'd like Uncle Sam to stop spending my goddamn US tax dollars on pointless foreign wars. PERIOD. Yeah, I know "you're a russian trollbot!" *DOUBLE YAWN*. You guys always have the same tired and always-suspect response "Everyone I don't like is a russian agent." I mean you sound less realistic than Joseph McCarthy or like some preacher in Salem. "Witches everywhere!" It's really pathetic.

I'm an American from Colorado and don't speak a word of Russian or give one goddamn about Putin, Zelensky, or any of your fucking "problems". I don't give a single fuck about Ukraine. All either Russia or Ukraine exports is strippers and scammers. Fuck them. Fuck Russia and all the virtue signaling idiots in the EU, too. You're fucking countries are burning down around you as leftists "demonstrate" (riot) in the streets over their entitlements and protection of foreign rapists and Muslims.... and you're worried about Ukraine. Bwahahahaha!

My hope is that Russia, Ukraine, and all their pals in the EU get burned/bombed into the fucking ground and shut the fuck up at last. That'd result in fewer assholes calling the US and running scams on people's grandma. They are both slavers who's murder machine (government) conscripts people to die on the front lines for basically nothing. The EU sounds ready to send it's own into that pointless meat grinder. Fuck Trump for not "ending it in 24 hours" as he ridiculously promised (moron). I'd rather see his thieving corrupt family (or Biden's ... doesn't matter) get the money over Ukraine. At least maybe they'd spend most of the ill-gotten gains in the US. Giving money to Ukraine is worse than useless. Those people SUCK. Let them solve their own problems and if they cannot, let them kill each other without my tax money.

They do not have a First Amendment and probably won't respond at all. That'd be awfully cringy and uncomfortable akin to explaining to your wife who just came home early from a trip why there are panties on the floor next to the bed that aren't hers. "We uhh, don't like people saying things we don't like. Wait! I mean, I mean, I mean, WE HATE THE TERRORISTS and YOU ARE A TERRORIST."

I hate everything about the Apple Watch. It's not even the privacy violations and link-to-big-brother shit that's the worst. Even the basics of the device are sub-everything. It has shit battery life (barely over two days in the best case). The case is way too thick and looks like shit as it overpowers your wrist. The case shape is abhorrent and looks like a lump of shit on the end of your arm you cannot shake off. The crown is huge and fugly and most of the bands they come with look like TPU plastic dog collars. You can gold plate them, put luxury brand logos on them, try organic materials for the bands, etc... It's still a hideously ugly little device.

Are the shoes you tapdance in red or blue? Do they have those little metal tips to make them louder? Inquiring minds want to know!