And yet, folks keep saying that things will bounce back. One thing is sure; if you have a way to cut the oil and gas industry out of your life, be it by removing plastics from products you buy, eliminating a gas furnace by buying a heat pump or buying an EV, please do so.

The oil and gas industry is a threat to our society, has been for the past 100 years, but it should be absolutely clear since the 1990s to everyone.

Buy organic produce from a local supplier.

As of 18:00 CEST the stock was 3.8 percent down, I’m fully convinced the stock is driven by gamers only.

My wife’s HP Spectre something laptop became twice as fast when I reinstalled it and removed all the cruft.

Why are Anglo-Saxon ‘conservative’ governments hell-bent on punishing the poor to the fullest extent. They no longer hide the strategy that cruelty is the point! And the general public seems to like it, and votes for it in ever greater numbers, until it happens to themselves, of course.

Can someone explain this to a person who grew up in a Rhineland model based society that is now fast adopting the Anglo Saxon model (the Netherlands).

Indeed, exactly this. They are, just like the nazis did, using the small window of opportunity (where most folks still don’t realise what’s going on) to disable the basic checks and balances our modern system of governance provides.

However, as most of us in the West have such little understanding of how it would be to live under autocratic or even fascist rule, it’s just hard to grasp that we’re mere months away from precisely that happening.

I get where Grue is coming from.

Which sort of sums this whole regime’s work up, doesn’t it?

Don’t call it an ‘administration’, that normalises the situation. There’s a regime that installed itself via a coup, disguised as a ‘normal’ presidential election that was ‘won’.

Bernie is what we in Europe would call in the 1980s a social democrat. Definitely the sort of politician you’d like to have if you’re trying to keep the fabric of your society in one piece.

With hate high on the menu these days, I’m pretty sure that when given a real chance in 2015, he would have beaten Donold.

Ah, hydrogen. The wet dream of the fossil fuel industry. I’d say, good riddance and don’t let the door hit you on the way out.