[Not So] Random Thoughts...

[MercFan]

Germany's natural gas dependency since 2021.

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BASF seeks 'permanent' cost cuts at European operations

BASF said costs at its European sites must be cut to a "permanently" smaller size because of a triple burden of sluggish growth, high energy costs and over-regulation, with the German industrial giant's boss throwing his weight behind a planned expansion in China.

www.reuters.com

"In the first nine months of 2022, natural gas costs at BASF's European sites - which include its largest complex at Ludwigshafen in southwest Germany, where it makes everything from vitamins, foam chemicals and engineering plastics to pesticides - were about 2.2 billion euros ($2.2 billion) higher than a year earlier."

 

[WBarnes]

Humanity May Reach Singularity Within Just 7 Years, Trend Shows

When will the singularity occur? According to new research, humanity may achieve singularity within just 7 years—much sooner than we originally thought.

us.yahoo.com

 

[WBarnes]

London Met still going strong.

Met Police officer David Carrick admits to being serial rapist

David Carrick admits 49 offences against 12 women, including multiple rapes, over two decades.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[WBarnes]

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[WBarnes]

Dogecoin jumps as Musk's Twitter flips logo to Shiba Inu dog

The token, born as a satire of a cryptocurrency frenzy in 2013 and has no fundamental use, on Tuesday surged to 10 cents around 1500 EST from 7 cents as Elon Musk indicated in a tweet he had delivered on his promise of changing the social media app's logo to dogecoin's dog. With a market...

us.yahoo.com

 

[SCOTT27]

Stunning and Brave?

 

[J.E]

All the money that Americans give to him and yet he chose to buy an F430 instead of a brand new 296 GTB. What a humble guy he is.

 

[WBarnes]

He was an actor/comedian beforehand, so he may have some money of his own you know.

 

[J.E]

Just replace Chernenko with Putin and Reagan with Zelensky.

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[WBarnes]

Replace the girl at 1:20 with Greta.

 

[WBarnes]

SNP treasurer arrested in party funding investigation

Colin Beattie is in custody and being questioned by detectives, says Police Scotland

www.theguardian.com

 

[J.E]

SNP treasurer arrested in party funding investigation

Colin Beattie is in custody and being questioned by detectives, says Police Scotland

www.theguardian.com

Gee and I thought corruption was a Brazilian thing only.

 

[J.E]

@WBarnes who do you think would win an actual fight: Vladimir Putin or Volodymyr Zelensky?

Because at this point I can only see one solution to end this war: an actual fight between Putin vs Zelensky. That'd be VERY entertaining to watch.

 

[WBarnes]

@WBarnes who do you think would win an actual fight: Vladimir Putin or Volodymyr Zelensky?

Because at this point I can only see one solution to end this war: an actual fight between Putin vs Zelensky. That'd be VERY entertaining to watch.

Zelensky is 45 and Putin is 70, so I'd go with Zelensky. Of course Putin has at least 4 body doubles, so it could depend on which one fights and how much steroids they've taken.

God how I miss Celebrity Deathmatch.

 

[J.E]

Zelensky is 45 and Putin is 70, so I'd go with Zelensky. Of course Putin has at least 4 body doubles, so it could depend on which one fights and how much steroids they've taken.

God how I miss Celebrity Deathmatch.

Don't forget that Putin is a black belt in Judo and used to be KGB agent and Zelensky doesn't have any martial arts training at all. The only way I see it for this ward to end once and for all is indeed Putin vs Zelensky in the octagon right now. No gi and no rules. Fight to death, you bastards!

 

[J.E]

Fatphobia is bullshit. The correct term is Cacomorphobia. Seriously, it is. Fatphobia is a BS term created by ignorant fat women. What? Are you gonna argue with Wikipedia now?

 

[J.E]

Speaking of obese people, that brings me to the USA. The second amendment grants Americans the right to own guns and therefore they don't need to build walls with electrified fences around their homes. But even so, I think they might start considering building walls with electrified fences around their homes, because there's always a video of an attempted home invasion popping-up on YouTube. This is latest one and it happened in Detroit, MI.

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[WBarnes]

Did they drop their iPhone too?

 

[dalab]

A man broke into a Mercedes plant in Germany and shot two people dead
The author of the shots is an external employee of a logistics company. The motive for the attack is still being investigated.
May 11, 2023

Some 35,000 people work at the Mercedes plant in Solingen, manufacturing the E-Class and S-Class luxury sedans, the CLS and GLC coupes and the Maybach models of the German car giant. It also houses planning, purchasing, development and design departments.

 

[WBarnes]

A letter to local MP read:

Dear Sir,

Recently I have found that I am required to own a mobile phone for more and more things, e.g. financial transactions, banking etc. I do not want/need a mobile phone and I am utterly appalled at being forced to purchase one just to exist.