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What does wiki say why Britishvolt collapse?

"profligate spending" included provision of expensive electric company cars, a hospitality suite at the Goodwood Festival of Speed motorsport event, "prolific" private jet use, video yoga lessons from a fitness instructor, and top-of-the-range curved 4K computer monitors.


Those guys weren't serious.
 

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lmao Freedom of burning religious books my ass. Christian radicalism at it again
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Torah burning in front of Israeli Embassy in Stockholm prevented, says Israeli envoy​

Torah burning planned to take place in front of Israeli Embassy in Stockholm prevented in coordination with Swedish authorities, says ambassador​

A week after a Quran burning in Stockholm, Israel's envoy to Sweden said Tel Aviv and the local Jewish community had prevented a burning of the Torah, in coordination with Swedish officials.
Ziv Nevo Kulman announced on Twitter that the Torah burning was planned to take place in front of Israeli Embassy in Stockholm but was prevented with the help of Swedish authorities.
This came after Rasmus Paludan, a far-right Swedish-Danish politician, burned a copy of the Quran last Saturday outside the Turkish Embassy in the Nordic country under police protection and with permission from the authorities.
 

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A Finland’s transgender national figure skater, who can’t skate?!

Minna-Maaria – Finland’s First Transgender National Figure Skater

At the start of the European Figure Skating Championships in Espoo, a unique performance took place. Former male skater, Markku-Pekka Antikainen, who is now a female skater, Minna-Maaria Antikainen, put on a striking show.

According to Finnish news reports, which used both he and she pronouns interchangeably to refer to him (he identifies as a gender neutral woman), he had absolutely no skating abilities but had a “childhood dream” to become a professional figure skater.

 

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A Finland’s transgender national figure skater, who can’t skate?!

Minna-Maaria – Finland’s First Transgender National Figure Skater

At the start of the European Figure Skating Championships in Espoo, a unique performance took place. Former male skater, Markku-Pekka Antikainen, who is now a female skater, Minna-Maaria Antikainen, put on a striking show.

According to Finnish news reports, which used both he and she pronouns interchangeably to refer to him (he identifies as a gender neutral woman), he had absolutely no skating abilities but had a “childhood dream” to become a professional figure skater.

WTF, is it a joke ?

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That performance was a mix-up of peoples with many competence levels... so it's still embarassing and I clearly don't know how you can make it work without facepalm and humiliation.
 
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China was able to remove foreign spies because they could hack various American databases. But why aren't new spies replacing the old ones? Today China is much less corrupt than Iran and importantly, more ideologically secure. In Iran a large minority of the population fundamentally disagrees with the political system and it's easy to recruit traitors from these people. In China only a tiny minority wants another revolution.
Iranian youth is also much more susceptible to foreign propaganda. China eliminated those concerns by introducing Great Firewall.
 

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A Finland’s transgender national figure skater, who can’t skate?!

Minna-Maaria – Finland’s First Transgender National Figure Skater

At the start of the European Figure Skating Championships in Espoo, a unique performance took place. Former male skater, Markku-Pekka Antikainen, who is now a female skater, Minna-Maaria Antikainen, put on a striking show.

According to Finnish news reports, which used both he and she pronouns interchangeably to refer to him (he identifies as a gender neutral woman), he had absolutely no skating abilities but had a “childhood dream” to become a professional figure skater.


Women's figure skating is harder than men's figure skating though. I actually applaud this effort instead of obvious attempts at gaming the system in sports like wrestling, swimming, or weightlifting.
 

ACuriousPLAFan

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Didn't take long for Israel to start stirring shit up again after Bibi came back into power. Still it always boggles the mind how Iran is one of the Middle-East's regional powers and yet Mossad can constantly hit the country like this without impunity. Contrast this with China, which succesfully wiped out several CIA cells back in 2011 when it was still very much a poor country.

Have you considered that Iran can do the exact same thing to Israel? Remember that oil tanker incident?

Here're two important questions stemming from the recent developments in Iran:

1. With the recent attacks on Iranian military facilities and industries, potentially by Israel (with possible Azerbaijan support) and the US, how likely do you guys think that this would escalate into a full-blown conflict in the Middle East region between Iran+Iran-backed militarized groups and Israel+USA? Could Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States be involved as well?

2. If a major war does break out in the Middle East, the global supply of oil and gas are definitely going to be seriously impacted. Does China have any other viable sources of oil and gas which she could switch to quickly and effectively in order to miminize oil and gas supply disruption? China is the largest oil and gas importer in the world, after all.
 
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Nicolas at the French Institute of International Relations said that the discovery of such a massive deposit of rare earth elements in Europe “may turn out to be a game changer” because it may help the EU further reduce its dependence on Chinese imports.

“It is worth stressing here that the point is not about decoupling from China, but simply about mitigating what is perceived as a situation of over-dependence and a source of vulnerability,” she said.
Echoing Nicholas, Natixis’ Garcia-Herrero said that “this is not decoupling, but successful diversification”, as the European Union is already reducing its dependence on China by reshuffling parts of its value chain.

However, Andersson’s perspective is that there is “clearly political will” in Europe for the selective or partial decoupling from China in the technology sector.

“The EU wants to maintain strong and healthy trade relations with China, but it is also concerned about the risks of over-reliance on Chinese technologies in some sectors, as well as about the lack of reciprocity in trade and investment practices,” he added.
But as Nicholas points out, it would take at least 10 to 15 years before the rare earths mined in Sweden hit the market.
“Exploration of the site will not start for years, even if permits are delivered very fast,” she explained. “Moreover, the whole project is likely to face resistance due to its potentially harmful environmental and social impact.”
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