The art of Pysanky: traditional egg decorating from Europe
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Robots in China are doing it all now, even dancing on stage like pros.
Here Unitree robots doing Webster flips and are performing at Chinese-American singer Wang Leehomâs concert in Chengdu.pic.twitter.com/2BNWdok0bf
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Imagine that the situation reaches a child to say âOh God, take usâ
These are the most difficult chapters of silent extermination, leaving people drowning and dying in torn tents. pic.twitter.com/oUmKsZpHxW
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Trump 2.0
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Musk Matters
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Mr. Market Is Moody
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AI
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Guillotine Watch
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Antidote du jour (via)
See yesterdayâs Links and Antidote du Jour here
“India will surpass Germany to become third-largest economy by 2027: Scindia”
I don’t mean to rain on India’s parade but it should be remembered that German is being rapidly deindustrialized as well as taking on colossal amounts of debt so it may not be so much a case of India rising here as Germany sinking. Here are the guys at The Duran talking about Merz and the German economy-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWCUgu_hzM4 (20:41 mins)
I think part of the German decline is because they are paying dearly to India as a middle-man for Russian energy. The final phase of the decolonization of Europe – the idea being that a colonial system consist of the colonized and the colonizers, not really dipping into the idea that EU has been a colony of/exploited by US (that’s another discussion).