Dope. Not the call center gangs, but the internet getting places where people try to stop it.

“A state cannot be held to act in a way that is incompatible with its obligations in terms of international law with regards to immunities granted to states which are not party to the ICC,” the French statement said.

Anyone want to take a guess what percentage of ICC warrants are issued for people from countries like that? I suppose, this being France, that they actually will protect some random African warlord as well.

Did they? I thought they were pretty particular about the bull dying as much as possible.

Which is exactly why he’s not going to, and everyone knows it. This is to look strong for his own domestic audience.

The threat that’s actually for us is the one about arming it’s own anti-Western proxies, and it did indeed make us think twice for a few months.

Just keep rattlin’ that sabre, buddy.

They can do whatever they want. They’re still going to get undercut.

Honestly, as long as fossil fuels are more expensive nobody’s going to stop the transition, anyway.

Lobbyists having an argument is one thing - and inevitable, they can make up one no matter what - infighting is quite another.

Almost exclusively? No. Nuclear produces predictable energy and a lot of it in a small area, which is why things like data centers are being built on them. As another example, if you’re above the arctic circle renewables straight up aren’t a thing in the winter (unless you count geothermal, maybe).

Overall it’s still probably the better choice, just because nuclear is hard, but it’s not like it doesn’t have a few remaining drawbacks.

Nuclear plants are far from the only public hazard if he’s actually going to go into places and derail them personally.

I don’t use almond milk mostly for that reason. (Oat is also just better)

It’s kind of a funny thing to say, because as the tagline itself mentions demand isn’t (totally) fixed. It also doesn’t give the source of that exact statement, annoyingly.

What’s actually going to happen is that people some places are going to have scarcity and have to cut back or import more at a cost. Either gradually, the way it seems to be shaping up where I live, or suddenly, like whenever California’s aquifers finally bite it.

Well, and people will keep buying said things. Billionaires shouldn’t exist, and they’re easy to blame, but there’s not that many of them. They definitely aren’t personally eating that much meat, at least.

I suppose that means capital gains tax is lower in your jurisdiction than normal income tax?

For what it’s worth, I’m poor as shit, and my investment account is there but pretty empty, haha.

I don’t think there’s any weaseling here. Clinton wasn’t about to start a nuclear war over Ukraine, and very deliberately didn’t enter a treaty that said that. Diplomats are famous for arguing endlessly over exact choice of words, even.

Nobody ever claimed international law was strong and inviolable.

It doesn’t say the signatories will help, though, it just says they won’t hurt. To “respect” is a passive activity.

Is there something more specific in CSCE?

Yeah, Russia definitely broke their word here. I just don’t see anything that says the US has to intervene.

Well, if it violates the Budapest memorandum of 1994, of course Trump will change his mind. /s

That aside, it only would kick in if Russia used nuclear weapons, anyway. Link to the text. The present effort is all about trying to keep Europe safe through deterrence, and to a lesser degree supporting a democracy that’s under attack.

That’s sure not how I think about my own investing. I don’t really care what happens inside an index fund, all I care about is how much money I can get out when I reach my horizon.

Yeah, but like, the value of the stock (for a billionaire) itself drops if you can’t get dividends out of it as easily, so he’s actually choosing between investing an effective $900 or getting $900 after tax.

Taxing billionares is the same as subsidising all non-billionares, from an investment viewpoint. Money isn’t real, you can’t make “the fundamentals” work better than optimally by moving it around like that.