The ballroom will probably be built above an underground data / command center:

https://youtu.be/VbJ4ilDvGyc

Nah, the Antarctic penguins were already punished by tariffs, they don’t deserve another penalty.

No, we’re not all in it together. The poor 90% of the world will pay most of the bill as always, while the rich are quite well-off. And the ultra rich live in their own realms.

Excellent analysis by Jim Stewartson here:

Trump’s Colonized Mind: The Cognitive Dysfunction Destabilizing the Planet

The neurological, psychological, and political breakdown of the American president—and the people taking full advantage of it.

“Trump is experiencing a rapid decline in cognitive function. – He is alone and angry on a deserted mental island. – It’s impossible to watch him at this point and ignore his dysfunction. – It’s as if his shrinking mind has been colonized by his advisors and donors. – Donald Trump is less the leader of a nation and more of a glitchy, reprogrammable weapon of mass destruction—being wielded by a constellation of America’s enemies, foreign and domestic.”

https://www.mind-war.com/p/trumps-colonized-mind-the-cognitive

Plus: many people who can avoid travelling to the USA are actively avoiding that, given the new plans for entry requirements. If everyone wanting to enter on a tourist visa will have to figuratively undress completely regarding their online and communication activities, nobody sane will go there for fun anymore.

Mamdani frightens them. Good.

Sorry Don, DJ Vance is already scheduled to be the next on stage.

They already paid for Trump’s ballroom, so that has to be enough.

They’re part of the French crown jewels and had been acquired by the Louvre in 1985 so they were kept in (and stolen from) the owner’s house.

I think to dismiss the search for basic knowledge as a mere personal interest misses the point. If people don’t even know about such things like that chips are made from potatoes, that is a warning sign – it’s a matter of lacking general education and too many people not caring about their own actual ecosystem and dependencies.

Oh, yes? They also have ‘Paradeiser’! (Tomatoes)

I consider it important that if I am consuming a produce regularly to know what exactly I’m eating, what it is made from and where does it come from. Because the stuff I’m eating becomes a part of me. And also because I am regularly spending money for that so I will inform myself about the details of a product.

It’s not about those peanuts, that’s part of understanding one’s own life and the contexts of life in which one is involved. And I think it is a problem that many people are consumers who are very alienated from these life contexts and no longer understand how they are actually connected to the world. That’s one reason why illusions can thrive.

Oh, that I never heard. But I always lived in the North.

No no, onion rings are from the onion. We’re talking potato chips here.

I wonder what people guess what french fries are made from…

Yes, okay, guessing the origin from the name can be somewhat misleading. But the striking thing for me is that people do not know and do not bother to ask themselves where a product that they consume every day or every week comes from. That’s ignorance.

In German, potatoes are also called ‘Erdäpfel’ although that is considered as outdated and somewhat funny.

In German language they are called ‘Erdnüsse’ (Ground Nuts), so it is more obvious where they grow.

But since the climate doesn’t (yet) allow to grow them here, maybe many people don’t know much about their origins either.

Reminds me about the fact that a roughly equal proportion of the population does not know that peanuts, just like potatoes, grow underground.

The thing is that the worker’s salary is not in any means proportional to the money earned at the top. Disparity is the problem.